---
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 354"
citation: "Indiana SB 354 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PRIVATE SCHOOLS", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/459b89a0-a990-4c59-9de4-6989a5574c02"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/354"
source_hash: "470bbb77ee74d52dd93dc62776b2dded638ef9324cbd2c6682d53b78131152a7"
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 354 (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/sb0354/versions/sb0354.04.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.02.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0354/versions/sb0354.03.comh)

## Votes

- SB 354 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 354 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **91–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Wesco — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senator Kruse
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2018-01-18** Committee report: amend 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 63: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-23** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2018-01-23** Cosponsors: Representatives Burton, Wesco and Thompson
- **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`
- **2018-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 208: yeas 91, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-01** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 279: yeas 46, nays 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Senators Melton and Stoops removed as coauthors
- **2018-03-06** 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 108
- **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/459b89a0-a990-4c59-9de4-6989a5574c02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).