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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "School accountability."
+description: "Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2017-2018 school year. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2019-2020 school year is the higher of the school's or school corporation's: (1) category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned for the 2018-2019 school year; or (2) category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2019-2020 school year. Provides that consequences for school improvement do not apply for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school years. Provides that ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement would improve the particular certificated employee's annual performance rating."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 2"
+citation: "Indiana SB 2 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Academic Achievement", "SCHOOLS", "ILEARN (formerly ISTEP) and Testing Programs", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Rodric Bray"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-02-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96bfe609-e74d-4511-99ad-995091d54c63"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/2"
+source_hash: "7e0310e2d8385825459f08efa2bc1bc06fc383c8f7134bc5b9fa10a9de31deb1"
+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 2 (2020) — School accountability.
+
+Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2017-2018 school year. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2019-2020 school year is the higher of the school's or school corporation's: (1) category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned for the 2018-2019 school year; or (2) category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2019-2020 school year. Provides that consequences for school improvement do not apply for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school years. Provides that ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement would improve the particular certificated employee's annual performance rating.
+
+## 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/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.02.COMS)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.03.COMH)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 2 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 2 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
+- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
+- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
+- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
+- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
+- Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
+- John Ruckelshaus — coauthor (person)
+- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
+- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
+- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Authored by Senator Raatz
+- **2020-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-07** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-07** Senator Bray added as second author
+- **2020-01-07** Senator Kruse added as third author
+- **2020-01-07** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
+- **2020-01-09** Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 6: yeas 8, nays 37 `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-01-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-09** Senator Melton added as coauthor
+- **2020-01-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 8: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-01-13** House sponsor: Representative DeVon
+- **2020-01-13** Referred to the House
+- **2020-01-13** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
+- **2020-01-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-30** Representatives Carbaugh, Kirchhofer, Smith, V. added as cosponsors
+- **2020-02-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 151: yeas 90, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
+- **2020-02-04** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
+- **2020-02-04** Signed by the Speaker
+- **2020-02-04** Returned to the Senate without amendments
+- **2020-02-04** Senator Ruckelshaus added as coauthor
+- **2020-02-05** Signed by the President of the Senate
+- **2020-02-12** Public Law 2
+- **2020-02-12** 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/96bfe609-e74d-4511-99ad-995091d54c63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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