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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 498"
+citation: "Indiana SB 498 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Timothy Wesco"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-04-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfa282f2-55fd-43bc-aee9-b537110c83b9"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/498"
+source_hash: "1862a270d1234a49a09830a16a1e102ba296425c761e510bfe36d69377dd4e58"
+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 498 (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/sb0498/versions/sb0498.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0498/versions/sb0498.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0498/versions/sb0498.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0498/versions/sb0498.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 498 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 498 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
+- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
+- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Greg Beumer — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard Hamm — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Raatz
+- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-02** Senator Zay added as coauthor
+- **2017-02-14** Senator Kruse added as second author
+- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 239: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
+- **2017-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Beumer and Hamm
+- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
+- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-27** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
+- **2017-03-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-04-03** Amendment #3 (Smith V) motion withdrawn voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
+- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 385: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2017-04-10** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-27** Public Law 216
+- **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/dfa282f2-55fd-43bc-aee9-b537110c83b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+