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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: "SB 354"
+citation: "Indiana SB 354 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["PRIVATE SCHOOLS", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-04"
+last_action: "2018-03-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/459b89a0-a990-4c59-9de4-6989a5574c02"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/354"
+source_hash: "470bbb77ee74d52dd93dc62776b2dded638ef9324cbd2c6682d53b78131152a7"
+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 354 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.04.enrh)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.01.intr)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.02.coms)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.03.comh)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 354 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
+- SB 354 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **91–5** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
+- Robert Behning — primary (person)
+- Jeffrey Thompson — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
+- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Kruse
+- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-08** Senator Raatz added as second author
+- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-22** Senator Melton added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 63: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Behning
+- **2018-01-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Burton, Wesco and Thompson
+- **2018-01-23** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
+- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
+- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 208: yeas 91, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-02-28** Motion to concur filed
+- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 279: yeas 46, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2018-03-01** Senators Melton and Stoops removed as coauthors
+- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2018-03-15** Public Law 108
+- **2018-03-15** 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/459b89a0-a990-4c59-9de4-6989a5574c02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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