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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Access to transcripts."
+description: "Provides that a state educational institution or private postsecondary educational institution operated for profit (institution) in Indiana may not: (1) refuse to provide a transcript for a current or former student of the institution on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; (2) charge a higher fee for obtaining a transcript or provide less favorable treatment of a request for a transcript of a current or former student who owes a debt to the institution; or (3) withhold from a current or former student's transcript any degrees earned on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; if the student has paid certain amounts in the past year on the debt owed. Provides that a current or former student may bring a civil action against an institution for a violation of these provisions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 404"
+citation: "Indiana SB 404 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CIVIL ACTIONS generally", "EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Julie McGuire", "Kyle Walker", "Spencer Deery"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-19"
+last_action: "2023-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8f483a8-aa6f-4704-a9e5-f64aed6c8e74"
+source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/404"
+source_hash: "6af19b7658a6c1f246ffc7e3bfdeb88defea0adff776a3f326f4c2bf2ef7b27f"
+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 404 (2023) — Access to transcripts.
+
+Provides that a state educational institution or private postsecondary educational institution operated for profit (institution) in Indiana may not: (1) refuse to provide a transcript for a current or former student of the institution on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; (2) charge a higher fee for obtaining a transcript or provide less favorable treatment of a request for a transcript of a current or former student who owes a debt to the institution; or (3) withhold from a current or former student's transcript any degrees earned on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; if the student has paid certain amounts in the past year on the debt owed. Provides that a current or former student may bring a civil action against an institution for a violation of these provisions.
+
+## 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/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.04.ENRH)
+2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.01.INTR)
+3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.03.COMH)
+4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.02.COMS)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 404 - McGuire J - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
+- Julie McGuire — primary (person)
+- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
+- Spencer Deery — primary (person)
+- Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
+- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
+- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
+- Ragen Hatcher — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Deery
+- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-23** Senator Walker K added as second author
+- **2023-01-26** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
+- **2023-01-26** Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
+- **2023-02-02** Senator Buchanan added as third author
+- **2023-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 119: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-14** House sponsor: Representative McGuire
+- **2023-02-15** Referred to the House `referral`
+- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-20** Representatives Cash B, Hatcher, Klinker added as cosponsors
+- **2023-03-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-22** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
+- **2023-04-03** Motion to concur filed `filing`
+- **2023-04-04** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 328: yeas 48, nays 0
+- **2023-04-06** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-04-18** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2023-04-20** Public Law 51 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8f483a8-aa6f-4704-a9e5-f64aed6c8e74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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