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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 407"
+citation: "Indiana SB 407 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Work Environment", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Erin Houchin", "Jerry Torr"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-10"
+last_action: "2017-04-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a593228-3937-4e78-afb3-c91bae3d7bda"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/407"
+source_hash: "cdab9f86d3cc89f8d6328a4cb09fa8b034d7b7a3bbbbec87700134958dccabab"
+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 407 (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/sb0407/versions/sb0407.03.engs)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.02.coms)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.04.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 407 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **60–38** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 407 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **32–18** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
+- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
+- Todd Huston — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Houchin
+- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Senator Kruse added as second author
+- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #3 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 189: yeas 13, nays 36 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Amendment #2 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 190: yeas 11, nays 38 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 232: yeas 32, nays 18 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Torr
+- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Huston
+- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 60, nays 38 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-27** Public Law 212
+- **2017-04-27** 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/9a593228-3937-4e78-afb3-c91bae3d7bda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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