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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 475"
+citation: "Indiana SB 475 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["MENTAL HEALTH", "Mentally Ill or Impaired Persons", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Special Education and Special Programs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Melton", "Luke Kenley", "Timothy Brown"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-12"
+last_action: "2017-04-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d81da48-0ee3-46ba-bd5f-c8325b91d53d"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/475"
+source_hash: "8c9a1f561c5d65f8123577d932ca617605bd67c85dce6f3573f9984ecee5c0a8"
+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 475 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.06.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.03.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.04.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.02.coms)
+6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.05.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 475 - Brown, T. - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 475 - Melton - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Eddie Melton — primary (person)
+- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
+- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
+- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
+- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
+- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Melton
+- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Kruse added as second author
+- **2017-01-26** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Kruse removed as second author
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Kenley added as second author
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Brown T
+- **2017-02-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Brown, C. and Clere
+- **2017-02-24** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-14** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 322: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-13** Public Law 75
+- **2017-04-13** 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/8d81da48-0ee3-46ba-bd5f-c8325b91d53d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+