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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 504"
+citation: "Indiana SB 504 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Charter Schools", "EDUCATION generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jean Leising", "Robert Behning"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-04-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/984e6448-ea1c-447c-9604-bb4fa00aafa4"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/504"
+source_hash: "b0eed0b86e5d07bfab6d8e3341deaa1f520edcf42a50e087f4601fd3f8dadbb3"
+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 504 (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/sb0504/versions/sb0504.04.engh)
+2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.05.enrh)
+3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.01.intr)
+4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.03.comh)
+5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.02.coms)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 504 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 504 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **87–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Robert Behning — primary (person)
+- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
+- Thomas Saunders — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Leising
+- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Senator Kruse added as second author
+- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Behning
+- **2017-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Saunders
+- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
+- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2017-03-21** Amendment #1 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2017-03-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 300: yeas 87, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
+- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 441: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
+- **2017-04-10** Senator Melton added as coauthor
+- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2017-04-21** Public Law 126
+- **2017-04-21** 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/984e6448-ea1c-447c-9604-bb4fa00aafa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+