---
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: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1003"
citation: "Indiana HB 1003 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "ISTEP and Testing Programs", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Eric Bassler", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5963116-4b9f-4fa3-80c7-d3de740720e3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1003"
source_hash: "cc5d29ddd70015983aec7ee718c073eef53d87e71a2a2c8c284e3a18f07c9bbe"
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 1003 (2017) — 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/2017/bills/hb1003/versions/hb1003.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1003/versions/hb1003.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1003/versions/hb1003.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1003/versions/hb1003.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1003/versions/hb1003.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1003/versions/hb1003.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1003 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **32–16** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1003 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **67–31** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Representative Brown, T. added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #5 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 128: yeas 30, nays 59 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #9 (Cook) prevailed; Roll Call 129: yeas 87, nays 2 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 158: yeas 67, nays 31 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-20** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse and Bassler
- **2017-02-21** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #3 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #4 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #2 (Melton) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Raatz added as third sponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Leising added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 361: yeas 32, nays 16 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Melton
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Stoops, Bassler and Zay
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Cook, Brown T, DeLaney and Errington
- **2017-04-10** Senator Leising added as advisor
- **2017-04-11** Representative McNamara added as advisor
- **2017-04-21** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Raatz removed as advisor
- **2017-04-21** Representative Cook added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Representatives Cook and Brown T removed as advisors
- **2017-04-21** Representative Smith V removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 559: yeas 68, nays 29
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 538: yeas 39, nays 11
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 242
- **2017-04-28** 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/f5963116-4b9f-4fa3-80c7-d3de740720e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).