---
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 1007"
citation: "Indiana HB 1007 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Special Education and Special Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Dennis Kruse", "Erin Houchin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/353a53ef-7ca7-4edc-918f-5ae5b9b3315e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1007"
source_hash: "b89269cde546742f9b031642df9be9bd2a9ec0758f993e2520bf0ce44567187a"
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 1007 (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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1007/versions/hb1007.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1007/versions/hb1007.06.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1007/versions/hb1007.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1007/versions/hb1007.05.coms)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1007/versions/hb1007.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1007/versions/hb1007.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1007 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **40–8** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1007 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **69–27** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Bassler — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Coauthored by Representative Brown T
- **2017-01-12** Authored by Representative Cook
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Representative Klinker added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-16** Amendment #3 (Cook) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse and Houchin
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 165: yeas 69, nays 27 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-23** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Bassler added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 364: yeas 40, nays 8 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 473: yeas 61, nays 11 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Public Law 80
- **2017-04-20** 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/353a53ef-7ca7-4edc-918f-5ae5b9b3315e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).