---
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 29"
citation: "Indiana SB 29 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Dennis Kruse", "Eric Koch", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb357486-8b0f-4c06-8bbc-52eb3732a0b3"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/29"
source_hash: "b91a370a3d3e86a48ed32c25c8ad5d9c24420c132ef3ddc64582406e69aaf64a"
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 29 (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/sb0029/versions/sb0029.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0029/versions/sb0029.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0029/versions/sb0029.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0029/versions/sb0029.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 29 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 29 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **47–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- James Smith — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Rodric Bray — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-04** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-01-12** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-17** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 11: yeas 47, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Cook
- **2017-01-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-01-24** Senator Smith added as coauthor
- **2017-01-24** Senator Bray added as coauthor
- **2017-01-25** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 404: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Koch and Mrvan
- **2017-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse and Melton
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Burton, Jordan and Candelaria Reardon
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Cook and Klinker
- **2017-04-19** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-19** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 509: yeas 89, nays 1
- **2017-04-20** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 489: yeas 41, nays 5
- **2017-04-20** Senator Leising added as third author
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 162
- **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/eb357486-8b0f-4c06-8bbc-52eb3732a0b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).