---
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 355"
citation: "Indiana SB 355 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ABUSE generally", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "SCHOOLS", "Health and Safety Issues", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frank Mrvan", "Julie Olthoff", "Mark Messmer", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/022a5548-28f1-4c7f-ab59-f6781e9481b0"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/355"
source_hash: "f77f779ff0c8119c649bf99ea5292167df7e14424f19317c6c1e9a509191fa32"
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 355 (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/sb0355/versions/sb0355.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0355/versions/sb0355.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0355/versions/sb0355.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0355/versions/sb0355.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 355 - Olthoff - 3rd Reading — **93–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 355 - Messmer - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frank Mrvan — primary (person)
- Julie Olthoff — primary (person)
- Mark Messmer — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — cosponsor (person)
- Dan Forestal — cosponsor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — cosponsor (person)
- Earl Harris — cosponsor (person)
- Edmond Soliday — cosponsor (person)
- Erin Houchin — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Karickhoff — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Braun — cosponsor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — cosponsor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Sue Errington — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Messmer
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Grooms added as second author
- **2017-01-24** Senator Mrvan added as third author
- **2017-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Senators Breaux and Ford added as coauthors
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 92: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Olthoff
- **2017-02-13** Cosponsor: Representative Braun
- **2017-02-13** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-13** Senator Houchin added as coauthor
- **2017-02-15** 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`
- **2017-03-28** Representatives Schaibley and Klinker added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 355: yeas 93, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-03** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-04-03** Representative Carbaugh added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Representative McNamara added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Representatives Karickhoff, Soliday, Ziemke, Siegrist, Jordan added as cosponsors
- **2017-04-03** Representatives Forestal, Errington, Harris, Porter added as cosponsors
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-04-04** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Representatives Taylor J, Hatfield, Hamilton added as cosponsors
- **2017-04-04** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 438: yeas 49, 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 115
- **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/022a5548-28f1-4c7f-ab59-f6781e9481b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).