---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1074"
citation: "Indiana HB 1074 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HIGHER EDUCATION", "Colleges and Universities", "SCHOOLS", "Special Education and Special Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Holli Sullivan", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/121725ea-c697-4ed7-ba7a-bb82e3adc6bd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1074"
source_hash: "f81043012e2d5a6944c882844546cac64dc07aecf35390d9e4a6f7990ecbd576"
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 1074 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher 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/hb1074/versions/hb1074.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1074/versions/hb1074.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1074/versions/hb1074.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1074/versions/hb1074.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1074/versions/hb1074.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1074 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1074 - Sullivan - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Holli Sullivan — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Chris May — coauthor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Coauthored by Representatives Austin, May and Schaibley
- **2018-01-03** Authored by Representative Sullivan
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Amendment #1 (Sullivan) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-16** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-18** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 17: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senate sponsor: Senator Raatz
- **2018-01-22** 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 Kruse added as second sponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend 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 247: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-01** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** House conferees appointed: Sullivan and Austin
- **2018-03-05** House advisors appointed: May, Schaibley, Smith V and Moseley
- **2018-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Stoops
- **2018-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Melton, Zay and Buchanan
- **2018-03-12** Senator Melton removed as advisor
- **2018-03-12** Senator Stoops removed as conferee
- **2018-03-12** Senator Melton added as conferee
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 398: yeas 99, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 407: yeas 47, nays 1
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 178
- **2018-03-21** 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/121725ea-c697-4ed7-ba7a-bb82e3adc6bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).