---
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 475"
citation: "Indiana SB 475 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MENTAL HEALTH", "Mentally Ill or Impaired Persons", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Special Education and Special Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eddie Melton", "Luke Kenley", "Timothy Brown"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d81da48-0ee3-46ba-bd5f-c8325b91d53d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/475"
source_hash: "8c9a1f561c5d65f8123577d932ca617605bd67c85dce6f3573f9984ecee5c0a8"
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 475 (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/sb0475/versions/sb0475.06.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.02.coms)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0475/versions/sb0475.05.comh)

## Votes

- SB 475 - Brown, T. - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 475 - Melton - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eddie Melton — primary (person)
- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
- Timothy Brown — primary (person)
- Charlie Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Authored by Senator Melton
- **2017-01-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-01-26** Senator Mrvan added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Kruse removed as second author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Kenley added as second author
- **2017-02-02** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Brown T
- **2017-02-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Brown, C. and Clere
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-14** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Representative Klinker added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 322: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** 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 75
- **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/8d81da48-0ee3-46ba-bd5f-c8325b91d53d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).