---
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 1384"
citation: "Indiana HB 1384 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Academic Achievement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3f93e4c-77e7-40ba-a69e-f46d2d49a5bb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1384"
source_hash: "0b094aef13f53dfbc23e6268f154bf1e9151401c2f64be546060cea75b769763"
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 1384 (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/hb1384/versions/hb1384.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1384/versions/hb1384.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1384/versions/hb1384.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1384/versions/hb1384.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1384/versions/hb1384.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1384/versions/hb1384.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1384 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **36–12** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1384 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **60–32** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Eric Bassler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Amendment #1 (Pryor) prevailed; Roll Call 191: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-22** Amendment #2 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 192: yeas 30, nays 63 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-22** Amendment #5 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 193: yeas 31, nays 60 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-22** Amendment #4 (DeLaney) prevailed; Roll Call 194: yeas 91, nays 2 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Raatz and Kruse
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 222: yeas 60, nays 32 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Bassler added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 336: yeas 9, nays 37 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #2 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 373: yeas 36, nays 12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-11** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Cook, DeVon, DeLaney, Errington and Pryor
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Stoops, Bassler, Crane and Zay
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Melton
- **2017-04-21** Senator Kruse added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Kruse removed as advisor
- **2017-04-21** Representative DeVon added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Representative DeVon removed as advisor
- **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 Senate; Roll Call 529: yeas 38, nays 12
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 549: yeas 68, nays 30
- **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 251
- **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/f3f93e4c-77e7-40ba-a69e-f46d2d49a5bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).