---
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 30"
citation: "Indiana SB 30 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Charter Schools", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "SCHOOLS", "Choice Scholarships"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Dennis Kruse", "Eric Koch"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cdf53bb-c74d-445c-b820-563b9c9c4231"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/30"
source_hash: "494b75a9519d557648e49b2f6dfa4e28fc02fc12ba97dbde1817c387288749df"
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 30 (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/sb0030/versions/sb0030.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0030/versions/sb0030.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0030/versions/sb0030.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0030/versions/sb0030.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 30 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 30 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (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
- **2017-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Cook
- **2017-02-01** 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 DeLaney 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 405: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-11** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 444: yeas 46, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Public Law 94
- **2017-04-21** 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/6cdf53bb-c74d-445c-b820-563b9c9c4231`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).