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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 337"
+citation: "Indiana SB 337 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Greg Taylor", "Robert Behning"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 33
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-09"
+last_action: "2017-04-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85e82aca-7881-41a3-ba1d-dd9931f9955a"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/337"
+source_hash: "65ba22d0d834e39ae71c4f72579f035dbe7ffc74cd11f528389eb682ed15d35c"
+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 337 (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 (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 337 - Taylor G - 3rd Reading — **35–15** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 337 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
+- Robert Behning — primary (person)
+- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
+- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
+- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Taylor G
+- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-17** Senator Kruse added as second author
+- **2017-02-06** Senator Melton added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-13** Amendment #1 (Taylor G) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 117: yeas 35, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Behning
+- **2017-02-14** Cosponsors: Representatives Smith, V. and Porter
+- **2017-02-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-16** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-30** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
+- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 414: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-12** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2017-04-13** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Taylor G
+- **2017-04-13** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz and Melton
+- **2017-04-13** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-13** House conferees appointed: Behning and Porter
+- **2017-04-13** House advisors appointed: Cook, Jordan, Candelaria Reardon and Smith V
+- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 495: yeas 43, nays 7
+- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 532: yeas 94, nays 0
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-28** Public Law 231
+- **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/85e82aca-7881-41a3-ba1d-dd9931f9955a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+