---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter school study committee."
description: "Establishes a panel to study charter school funding and methods for improving school building utilization by a school corporation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 413"
citation: "Indiana SB 413 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS AND BOARD MEMBERSHIP", "SCHOOLS", "Buildings and Grounds", "SCHOOLS", "Charter Schools", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-04-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0adf4087-676c-4b9d-ae5b-0ab94f9e8695"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/413"
source_hash: "750e0c7f850f9d4e4919132e086e35acf5eb951d09434f8123ecfe4d2e01abdc"
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 413 (2021) — Charter school study committee.

Establishes a panel to study charter school funding and methods for improving school building utilization by a school corporation.

## 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/2021/bills/SB0413/versions/SB0413.05.ENGH)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0413/versions/SB0413.06.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0413/versions/SB0413.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0413/versions/SB0413.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0413/versions/SB0413.02.COMS)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0413/versions/SB0413.03.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 413 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **32–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Edward Clere — cosponsor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — cosponsor (person)
- Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2021-01-25** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Senator Rogers added as coauthor
- **2021-02-11** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2021-02-18** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-23** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2021-02-23** Cosponsor: Representative Prescott
- **2021-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 203: yeas 32, nays 15 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-24** Referred to the House
- **2021-03-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #3 (DeLaney) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #9 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #8 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #2 (Clere) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #1 (Porter) failed; Roll Call 408: yeas 29, nays 67 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-12** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-04-12** Amendment #7 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 407: yeas 30, nays 59 `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 431: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-13** Representative Clere added as cosponsor
- **2021-04-14** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-14** Motion to dissent filed
- **2021-04-15** House conferees appointed: Behning and DeLaney
- **2021-04-15** House advisors appointed: Clere, Goodrich, Pfaff and Smith V
- **2021-04-15** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2021-04-15** Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Melton
- **2021-04-15** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Ford J.D. and Rogers
- **2021-04-20** Senator Kruse removed as advisor
- **2021-04-20** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2021-04-20** Senator Kruse added as conferee
- **2021-04-21** Representative DeLaney removed as conferee
- **2021-04-21** Representative Davis added as conferee
- **2021-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2021-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2021-04-22** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 506: yeas 74, nays 23
- **2021-04-22** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 491: yeas 30, nays 19
- **2021-04-23** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the Speaker
- **2021-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2021-04-29** Public Law 163
- **2021-04-29** 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/0adf4087-676c-4b9d-ae5b-0ab94f9e8695`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).