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+type: "Bill"
+title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education."
+description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 198"
+citation: "Indiana SB 198 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HIGHER EDUCATION", "Adult Education", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Work Training", "SCHOOLS", "Vocational Education", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Douglas Eckerty", "Ryan Mishler", "Todd Huston"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-04"
+last_action: "2017-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29124df2-81dd-462b-8297-2d54d13c0e7d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/198"
+source_hash: "aa2a3b8049da332898ea3c98397f646198177aca2cd607a3d3250cc41fae2838"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
+---
+
+# Indiana SB 198 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0198/versions/sb0198.05.engh)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0198/versions/sb0198.06.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0198/versions/sb0198.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0198/versions/sb0198.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0198/versions/sb0198.03.coms)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0198/versions/sb0198.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 198 - Eckerty - 3rd Reading — **43–6** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 198 - Huston - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Douglas Eckerty — primary (person)
+- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
+- Todd Huston — primary (person)
+- Chip Perfect — coauthor (person)
+- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
+- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
+- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
+- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
+- Jeffrey Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Mike Braun — cosponsor (person)
+- Randall Head — coauthor (person)
+- Rick Niemeyer — coauthor (person)
+- Timothy Brown — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Long
+- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-16** Senator Long removed as author
+- **2017-02-16** Senator Mishler added as author
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Mishler removed as author
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Eckerty added as author
+- **2017-02-21** Senator Mishler added as second author
+- **2017-02-21** Senators Bassler and Head added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-23** Senators Niezgodski and Raatz added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-23** Senator Perfect added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-23** Senators Houchin and Niemeyer added as coauthors
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #1 (Tallian) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #2 (Tallian) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 218: yeas 43, nays 6 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Huston
+- **2017-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Brown, T. and Thompson
+- **2017-02-28** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
+- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-03** Representative Braun added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-04** Amendment #1 (Huston) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-05** Rule 105.1 suspended
+- **2017-04-05** Representative Harris added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 409: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-17** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2017-04-17** Senate conferees appointed: Eckerty and Niezgodski
+- **2017-04-17** Senate advisors appointed: Mishler, Melton, Bassler and Perfect
+- **2017-04-17** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-17** House conferees appointed: Huston and Harris
+- **2017-04-17** House advisors appointed: Braun, Clere and Goodin
+- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 524: yeas 50, nays 0
+- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 542: yeas 98, nays 0
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-28** Public Law 230
+- **2017-04-28** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29124df2-81dd-462b-8297-2d54d13c0e7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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