---
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 1024"
citation: "Indiana HB 1024 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "CHURCHES AND RELIGIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Greg Taylor", "John Bartlett", "Lonnie Randolph"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51b73518-3a06-481e-b86c-d94d16cc1380"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1024"
source_hash: "85270194e0eb533b26eb360b549f664df9ad663252ec7138b17c427c9dc9f432"
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 1024 (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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.05.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.02.comh)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.03.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1024 - Bartlett - 3rd Reading — **83–12** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1024 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **44–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- John Bartlett — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — primary (person)
- Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
- Eric Koch — cosponsor (person)
- James Merritt — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Lloyd Arnold — coauthor (person)
- Woody Burton — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Bartlett
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Representatives Arnold and Borders added as coauthors
- **2017-02-20** Representative Burton added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse, Randolph Lonnie M and Taylor G
- **2017-02-27** Cosponsor: Senator Merritt
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 238: yeas 83, nays 12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-03-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 325: yeas 44, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Senator Koch added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-31** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-13** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 482: yeas 79, nays 7 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-17** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-18** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 220
- **2017-04-27** 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/51b73518-3a06-481e-b86c-d94d16cc1380`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).