---
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 43"
citation: "Indiana SB 43 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Funds and Budgets"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Andy Zay", "Liz Brown", "Philip GiaQuinta"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbbf2429-0b15-4455-81a5-2878ba4ddb93"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/43"
source_hash: "8894fe243778e4c50064389ea661c4171089dfbeb9e0b209c257f7bb402c3fd4"
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 43 (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/sb0043/versions/sb0043.05.enrh)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.01.intr)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.03.coms)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0043/versions/sb0043.04.comh)

## Votes

- SB 43 - GiaQuinta - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- SB 43 - Zay - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Andy Zay — primary (person)
- Liz Brown — primary (person)
- Philip GiaQuinta — primary (person)
- Dave Heine — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Authored by Senator Long
- **2018-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Education and Career Development `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Long removed as author
- **2018-01-25** Senator Zay added as author
- **2018-01-25** Senator Brown L added as second author
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative GiaQuinta
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2018-02-06** Senator Kruse added as coauthor
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-27** Representative Heine added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 91, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **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 88
- **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/cbbf2429-0b15-4455-81a5-2878ba4ddb93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).