---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education and human services."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education and human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 412"
citation: "Indiana SB 412 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUDGETS AND APPROPRIATIONS", "WELFARE generally", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "Colleges and Universities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Koch", "Holli Sullivan", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1855dfd8-9d4c-47aa-8cc7-2b954c84b13b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/412"
source_hash: "3aaceb5ddf74eac7eb23d7e88b37bba3347df3f4759073fe936d7fb90aca86b2"
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 412 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education and human services.

## 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/sb0412/versions/sb0412.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0412/versions/sb0412.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0412/versions/sb0412.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0412/versions/sb0412.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0412/versions/sb0412.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 412 - Sullivan - 3rd Reading — **93–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 412 - Koch - 3rd Reading — **47–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Koch — primary (person)
- Holli Sullivan — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)
- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Breaux — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Sue Errington — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Koch
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Senator Holdman added as second author
- **2017-01-26** Senator Breaux added as coauthor
- **2017-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Amendment #1 (Koch) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 70: yeas 47, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Sullivan
- **2017-02-07** Senator Leising added as coauthor
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-07** Representatives Wesco, Errington, Jordan added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-13** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-14** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2017-03-14** Representatives Behning, Klinker, Smith, V., DeVon, Burton added as cosponsors
- **2017-03-16** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 259: yeas 93, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-20** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-12** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-13** Public Law 70
- **2017-04-13** 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/1855dfd8-9d4c-47aa-8cc7-2b954c84b13b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).