---
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: "SB 108"
citation: "Indiana SB 108 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c353230e-9116-41fd-b8df-ad616a1b11f6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/108"
source_hash: "5936f1ea68f1f05493ddccd0ee1d8b9289b1c2eda1d34de37a25bc8b04954f31"
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 SB 108 (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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0108/versions/sb0108.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0108/versions/sb0108.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0108/versions/sb0108.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0108/versions/sb0108.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0108/versions/sb0108.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 108 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **79–15** (pass) · legislature
- SB 108 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **46–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Senator Kruse
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 148: yeas 46, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2017-02-21** Cosponsors: Representatives Cook, Smith, V. and Wesco
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #3 (Klinker) failed; Roll Call 372: yeas 31, nays 68 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #4 (Cook) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Amendment #2 (Goodin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 423: yeas 79, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-12** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 461: yeas 34, nays 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-21** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2017-04-21** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2017-04-25** 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 228
- **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/c353230e-9116-41fd-b8df-ad616a1b11f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).