---
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 217"
citation: "Indiana SB 217 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Special Education and Special Programs", "EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Erin Houchin", "Jon Ford", "Rodric Bray", "Woody Burton"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/160c09a3-bcee-4f36-be72-c10647bab531"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/217"
source_hash: "687667d573cdb807f2465230898ad1c45dcf4af29e81d558b7344dba3ff8cc2a"
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 217 (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 Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0217/versions/sb0217.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0217/versions/sb0217.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0217/versions/sb0217.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0217/versions/sb0217.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0217/versions/sb0217.02.coms)

## Votes

- SB 217 - Burton - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 217 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jon Ford — primary (person)
- Rodric Bray — primary (person)
- Woody Burton — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Chip Perfect — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Douglas Eckerty — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
- Sue Errington — cosponsor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senators Houchin, Bray and Ford
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-04** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2018-01-09** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Senators Freeman and Crane added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Senators Perfect, Bassler, Walker added as coauthors
- **2018-01-23** Senator Raatz added as coauthor
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Senators Holdman and Sandlin added as coauthors
- **2018-01-29** Senator Tomes added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Amendment #2 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 120: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Burton
- **2018-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Behning and Macer
- **2018-02-01** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Senator Eckerty added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Senators Stoops and Doriot added as coauthors
- **2018-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-20** Representative Errington added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 234: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 341: yeas 49, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-15** Public Law 95
- **2018-03-15** 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/160c09a3-bcee-4f36-be72-c10647bab531`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).