On February 26, Indiana Governor Mike Bruan signed House Enrolled Act 1389 (full text) which prohibits governmental discrimination in adoption and foster care matters. It provides that a governmental entity may not discriminate against a person who provides, or declines to provide, foster care or parenting of an adoptive child consistent with that person's sincerely held religious belief, unless required to advance a compelling governmental interest. It similarly protects religious organizations involved in adoption or foster care from governmental discrimination. In making placements, however, it does allow consideration of whether an adopting or fostering family shares the same religious or faith tradition as the child or the child's parents.
Daily Citizen reporting on the new law says it is particularly aimed at policies requiring foster and adoptive parents to affirm a child’s sexual orientation or gender identity in order to be approved.