---
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 498"
citation: "Indiana SB 498 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Timothy Wesco"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfa282f2-55fd-43bc-aee9-b537110c83b9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/498"
source_hash: "1862a270d1234a49a09830a16a1e102ba296425c761e510bfe36d69377dd4e58"
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 498 (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/sb0498/versions/sb0498.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0498/versions/sb0498.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0498/versions/sb0498.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0498/versions/sb0498.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 498 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 498 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Greg Beumer — cosponsor (person)
- Richard Hamm — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Senator Zay added as coauthor
- **2017-02-14** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 239: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Wesco
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Beumer and Hamm
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Representative Cook added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-28** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #3 (Smith V) motion withdrawn voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 385: yeas 98, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-04-10** 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 216
- **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/dfa282f2-55fd-43bc-aee9-b537110c83b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).