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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Excused absence from school."
+description: "Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system shall authorize the absence and excuse of a school student if the student participates in certain events offered by the National FFA Organization, the Indiana FFA Association, or a 4-H club. Provides that a student's excused absences may not exceed six days in a school year. Provides that the student must be in good academic standing."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
+legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1660"
+citation: "Indiana HB 1660 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION; Generally", "SCHOOLS; Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Brian Buchanan", "Jean Leising"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-21"
+last_action: "2025-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/affc6662-7297-491a-8209-a3a546890e0e"
+source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1660"
+source_hash: "413aa527a1650de60a231f12bd8d67c01d5651753e19a01bd1ae28a7b4f7cdfe"
+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 1660 (2025) — Excused absence from school.
+
+Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system shall authorize the absence and excuse of a school student if the student participates in certain events offered by the National FFA Organization, the Indiana FFA Association, or a 4-H club. Provides that a student's excused absences may not exceed six days in a school year. Provides that the student must be in good academic standing.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.04.ENRS.pdf)
+2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.03.COMS.pdf)
+3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.02.COMH.pdf)
+4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.01.INTR.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- HB 1660 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
+- HB 1660 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beau Baird — primary (person)
+- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
+- Jean Leising — primary (person)
+- Becky Cash — coauthor (person)
+- J.D. Prescott — coauthor (person)
+- Kendell Culp — coauthor (person)
+- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Baird
+- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-06** Representative Prescott added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-10** Representative Cash added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-10** Representative Culp added as coauthor
+- **2025-02-12** Referred to the Senate `referral`
+- **2025-02-11** Senate sponsor: Senators Buchanan and Leising
+- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 146: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-02** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
+- **2025-04-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
+- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 330: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
+- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-16** Public Law 97 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/affc6662-7297-491a-8209-a3a546890e0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
+