---
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 248"
citation: "Indiana SB 248 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS", "Buildings and Grounds", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE", "DEPARTMENT OF (DLGF)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Luke Kenley", "Todd Huston"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66a5f035-1910-4c80-9c53-b3b7b2fd421a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/248"
source_hash: "a2361870d19e883cfd55325b74a47d0ee781f9b9687be9a662a144d63e24e212"
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 248 (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/sb0248/versions/sb0248.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0248/versions/sb0248.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0248/versions/sb0248.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0248/versions/sb0248.03.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0248/versions/sb0248.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 248 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **30–18** (pass) · legislature
- SB 248 - Huston - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
- Todd Huston — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senators Raatz and Kenley
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Kruse added as third author
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 154: yeas 30, nays 18 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Huston
- **2017-02-21** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-16** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) prevailed; Roll Call 257: yeas 89, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 264: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-21** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-05** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Kenley, and Mrvan
- **2017-04-05** Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Melton
- **2017-04-05** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** House advisors appointed: Cook, Jordan and Smith V
- **2017-04-06** House conferees appointed: Huston and DeLaney
- **2017-04-10** Senator Zay added as advisor
- **2017-04-18** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-18** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-19** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 501: yeas 85, nays 6
- **2017-04-19** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 483: yeas 48, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 169
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66a5f035-1910-4c80-9c53-b3b7b2fd421a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).