---
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 409"
citation: "Indiana SB 409 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Wages", "Arbitration", "and Benefits", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Erin Houchin", "Jerry Torr", "Philip Boots"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b9417ed-6f89-4490-a324-d133baa4c234"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/409"
source_hash: "c5a085d386a019311490f8e300361e37015ee6d1e61f24d762de591ed883042a"
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 409 (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/sb0409/versions/sb0409.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0409/versions/sb0409.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0409/versions/sb0409.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0409/versions/sb0409.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0409/versions/sb0409.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 409 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 409 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **99–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Philip Boots — primary (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Boots added as second author
- **2017-01-24** Senator Kruse added as third author
- **2017-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 51: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Torr
- **2017-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #5 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 379: yeas 99, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** 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 452: yeas 48, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-13** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 214
- **2017-04-27** 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/0b9417ed-6f89-4490-a324-d133baa4c234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).