---
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 1314"
citation: "Indiana HB 1314 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Foster Care", "CHILDREN AND MINORS", "Department of Child Services", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Pupils (other than disciplinary matters)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Dale DeVon", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0eaeebcb-22dc-47d2-aeb2-309e874c93bc"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1314"
source_hash: "fd84dc4fb2b92565cd96573d18066a94fff27938c835017e8319fd5566a762bf"
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 1314 (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 (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1314/versions/hb1314.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1314/versions/hb1314.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1314/versions/hb1314.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1314/versions/hb1314.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1314/versions/hb1314.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1314/versions/hb1314.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1314 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1314 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- David Frizzell — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Behning — coauthor (person)
- Vanessa Summers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Coauthored by Representatives Behning and Frizzell
- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative DeVon
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Representative Summers added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Amendment #7 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-25** Amendment #3 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 55: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-25** Amendment #4 (Smith V) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-25** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 56: yeas 28, nays 65 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Senate sponsors: Senators Zay and Raatz
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 65: yeas 97, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** 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 cosponsor
- **2018-02-19** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Amendment #1 (Zay) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 260: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Behning, Wesco and Errington
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: DeVon and Summers
- **2018-03-12** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Stoops, Kruse and Ruckelshaus
- **2018-03-12** Senate conferees appointed: Zay and Melton
- **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 400: yeas 98, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 410: 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 186
- **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/0eaeebcb-22dc-47d2-aeb2-309e874c93bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).