---
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 1507"
citation: "Indiana HB 1507 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Buses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Charbonneau", "Edmond Soliday", "Karen Tallian"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a597cdc-6ed8-40e4-a52e-50bedceef672"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1507"
source_hash: "de74be12b9ecc8150f64ceb8e33bc4e1109ce6fccd5783bc8269b557b0b9b431"
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 1507 (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/hb1507/versions/hb1507.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1507/versions/hb1507.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1507/versions/hb1507.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1507/versions/hb1507.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1507 - Charbonneau - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1507 - Soliday - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Edmond Soliday — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Jim Pressel — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Crider — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Coauthored by Representative Pressel
- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative Soliday
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Representative Harris added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 40: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** Senate sponsors: Senators Charbonneau and Tallian
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Senators Crider and Kruse added as cosponsors
- **2017-02-14** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-02-16** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-02-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 126: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-16** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2017-02-16** Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
- **2017-02-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-02-21** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-02-23** Public Law 2
- **2017-02-23** 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/9a597cdc-6ed8-40e4-a52e-50bedceef672`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).