---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1024"
citation: "Indiana HB 1024 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SPORTS", "ATHLETIC TRAINERS", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Ronald Bacon", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff930f16-8e70-4ba3-bdd1-7494a639ffd5"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1024"
source_hash: "53d7f2d67e7a22f848a4177a62c9648a9cfb44af1aee97abb16e00e66bc657c3"
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 HB 1024 (2018) — 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 House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1024/versions/hb1024.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1024 - Bacon - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1024 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **40–10** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Ronald Bacon — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Heaton — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Bacon
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Representatives Cook, Heaton, Klinker added as coauthors
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-23** Amendment #1 (Bacon) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 49: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-25** Senate sponsor: Senator Kruse
- **2018-01-25** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** Senator Raatz added as second sponsor
- **2018-02-15** Senator Grooms added as third sponsor
- **2018-02-15** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 244: yeas 40, nays 10 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Senator Holdman added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-05** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-08** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08** Public Law 19

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff930f16-8e70-4ba3-bdd1-7494a639ffd5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).