---
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 24"
citation: "Indiana SB 24 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DRUGS AND MEDICINES", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cindy Kirchhofer", "Dennis Kruse", "Liz Brown"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0822d251-557a-4c45-abf9-549e5ed130fd"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/24"
source_hash: "4ef85341eb0946c92176305037eaef023625bf2ee210c6b87822a0f45d362ab1"
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 24 (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/sb0024/versions/sb0024.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0024/versions/sb0024.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0024/versions/sb0024.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0024/versions/sb0024.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 24 - Kirchhofer - 3rd Reading — **94–2** (pass) · legislature
- SB 24 - Brown L - 3rd Reading — **45–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Cindy Kirchhofer — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Carey Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Brown L
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 46: yeas 45, nays 4 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Kirchhofer
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsor: Representative GiaQuinta
- **2018-01-23** Senator Stoops added as coauthor
- **2018-01-26** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-15** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 181: yeas 94, nays 2 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-20** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2018-02-20** Representative Hamilton added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-06** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-07** Public Law 5

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0822d251-557a-4c45-abf9-549e5ed130fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).