---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education and to make an appropriation."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education and to make an appropriation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1004"
citation: "Indiana HB 1004 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Kindergarten"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning", "Travis Holdman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb61a0c5-7739-412f-b350-060fcaddd2e7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1004"
source_hash: "7ac0015c6b270cbe368fb86b150fdbdb0d49784d7699e286a32cf2976d54af90"
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 HB 1004 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education and to make an appropriation.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.06.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.07.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.04.coms)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.05.coms)
7. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1004/versions/hb1004.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1004 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **61–34** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1004 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **38–11** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Travis Holdman — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Holli Sullivan — coauthor (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representative Sullivan
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Representative Moed added as coauthor
- **2017-02-02** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #6 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #1 (Smith V) failed; Roll Call 62: yeas 36, nays 57 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #3 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 63: yeas 28, nays 63 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 82: yeas 61, nays 34 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsor: Senator Raatz
- **2017-02-08** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Senator Holdman added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-14** Senator Kruse added as third sponsor
- **2017-03-16** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-20** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-27** Amendment #1 (Leising) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 323: yeas 38, nays 11 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-31** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Mrvan, Kruse and Kenley
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Holdman and Melton
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Sullivan, DeVon and DeLaney
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
- **2017-04-12** Senator Leising added as advisor
- **2017-04-19** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2017-04-19** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2017-04-19** Senator Raatz removed as advisor
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 515: yeas 82, nays 16
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 504: yeas 31, nays 19
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-26** Public Law 184
- **2017-04-26** 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/cb61a0c5-7739-412f-b350-060fcaddd2e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).