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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: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 1426"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1426 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Pupils (other than disciplinary matters)", "SCHOOLS", "Academic Achievement"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-16"
+last_action: "2018-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ceded254-d560-4f05-9cdd-fafde3dfd382"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1426"
+source_hash: "00754f42f40a010736f8d8bbd81dca1361906800dac519b68c9978a381195f09"
+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 HB 1426 (2018) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.07.engs)
+2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.04.engh)
+3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.08.enrs)
+4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.02.comh)
+5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.03.comh)
+6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.06.coms)
+7. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.05.coms)
+8. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.01.intr)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1426 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+- HB 1426 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **84–5** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
+- Robert Behning — primary (person)
+- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
+- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
+- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
+- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Behning
+- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Representative Clere added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-23** Representative Cook added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-29** Representative Austin added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-01** Amendment #5 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-01** Amendment #4 (Brown T) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-01** Amendment #3 (DeVon) prevailed; Roll Call 142: yeas 73, nays 12 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-01** Amendment #2 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 143: yeas 21, nays 62 `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 147: yeas 84, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse and Raatz
+- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
+- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-22** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
+- **2018-03-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-05** Amendment #3 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-05** Amendment #4 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 336: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
+- **2018-03-07** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Behning and Austin
+- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Cook, Clere and Smith V
+- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Melton
+- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Mrvan, Zay and Spartz
+- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
+- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
+- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 421: yeas 44, nays 4
+- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 415: yeas 71, nays 25
+- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-21** Public Law 192
+- **2018-03-21** 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/ceded254-d560-4f05-9cdd-fafde3dfd382`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+