---
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: "SB 172"
citation: "Indiana SB 172 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Curricula", "STUDENT ASSISTANCE", "LOANS", "AND GRANTS", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Holli Sullivan", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2389d264-f2f2-4181-978c-2622de745487"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/172"
source_hash: "34da7d33a17c753834aa3582302b700e9903e218aa35d4f831e14eee0f6f0384"
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 172 (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. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.06.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.04.comh)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.03.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0172/versions/sb0172.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 172 - Sullivan - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 172 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Holli Sullivan — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Robin Shackleford — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-18** Senators Leising and Freeman added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 100: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Sullivan
- **2018-02-01** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-05** Representative Shackleford added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Representatives Cook and Burton added as cosponsors
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Amendment #2 (DeLaney) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Amendment #3 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 263: yeas 23, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 306: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-08** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 367: yeas 35, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 132
- **2018-03-19** 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/2389d264-f2f2-4181-978c-2622de745487`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).