---
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 504"
citation: "Indiana SB 504 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Charter Schools", "EDUCATION generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jean Leising", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/984e6448-ea1c-447c-9604-bb4fa00aafa4"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/504"
source_hash: "b0eed0b86e5d07bfab6d8e3341deaa1f520edcf42a50e087f4601fd3f8dadbb3"
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 504 (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/sb0504/versions/sb0504.04.engh)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.03.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0504/versions/sb0504.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 504 - Leising - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- SB 504 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **87–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Thomas Saunders — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-02-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-20** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-21** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2017-02-21** Cosponsor: Representative Saunders
- **2017-02-22** Referred to the House
- **2017-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Amendment #1 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-21** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 300: yeas 87, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-23** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 441: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **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 126
- **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/984e6448-ea1c-447c-9604-bb4fa00aafa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).