---
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 337"
citation: "Indiana SB 337 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Greg Taylor", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85e82aca-7881-41a3-ba1d-dd9931f9955a"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/337"
source_hash: "65ba22d0d834e39ae71c4f72579f035dbe7ffc74cd11f528389eb682ed15d35c"
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 337 (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 (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0337/versions/sb0337.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 337 - Taylor G - 3rd Reading — **35–15** (pass) · legislature
- SB 337 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Greg Taylor — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Authored by Senator Taylor G
- **2017-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-02-06** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2017-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-13** Amendment #1 (Taylor G) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-13** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 117: yeas 35, nays 15 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2017-02-14** Cosponsors: Representatives Smith, V. and Porter
- **2017-02-14** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-30** 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 414: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-07** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-13** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Taylor G
- **2017-04-13** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz and Melton
- **2017-04-13** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** House conferees appointed: Behning and Porter
- **2017-04-13** House advisors appointed: Cook, Jordan, Candelaria Reardon and Smith V
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 495: yeas 43, nays 7
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 532: yeas 94, nays 0
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 231
- **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/85e82aca-7881-41a3-ba1d-dd9931f9955a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).