---
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 387"
citation: "Indiana SB 387 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Teachers", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "LICENSES AND LICENSING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25703c83-0b24-4db8-9a76-c1684c084982"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/387"
source_hash: "07c64f9edcdac569ebe867d313481b77dfb078194a35a37a15d23da17fdb7bc1"
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 387 (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/sb0387/versions/sb0387.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0387/versions/sb0387.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 387 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **66–29** (pass) · legislature
- SB 387 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **35–12** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Frank Mrvan — coauthor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Victoria Spartz — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Authored by Senator Zay
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2018-01-30** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Senator Crane added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Senator Freeman added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Senator Spartz added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Senator Bassler added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Senators Melton and Mrvan added as coauthors
- **2018-02-01** Senator Leising added as coauthor
- **2018-02-05** Amendment #1 (Zay) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 186: yeas 35, nays 12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative McNamara
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 318: yeas 66, nays 29 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate conferees appointed: Zay and Melton
- **2018-03-06** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Stoops and Raatz
- **2018-03-06** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: McNamara, Jordan and Errington
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
- **2018-03-08** Senator Leising added as advisor
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 401: yeas 77, nays 22
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 404: yeas 45, nays 3
- **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 170
- **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/25703c83-0b24-4db8-9a76-c1684c084982`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).