---
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 182"
citation: "Indiana SB 182 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Officers and Employees (other than teachers)", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Erin Houchin", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9e40a2b-93f6-48c4-9b57-111a87c3dd2f"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/182"
source_hash: "b220aa799e55a1d9d87a0a44a13bb97f5ff5d55fbdef52e711982d9539f1855b"
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 182 (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 Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0182/versions/sb0182.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 182 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **42–8** (pass) · legislature
- SB 182 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **89–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Steven Davisson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-01-31** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 76: yeas 42, nays 8 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2017-02-07** Cosponsors: Representatives Davisson and DeVon
- **2017-02-08** 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`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 351: yeas 89, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 432: yeas 43, nays 6 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 208
- **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/d9e40a2b-93f6-48c4-9b57-111a87c3dd2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).