---
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: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1382"
citation: "Indiana HB 1382 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Charter Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ff81437-ade3-40b4-86e1-efd65777ece7"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1382"
source_hash: "699dbe38e1bc9ba50ffe9d03b49ac5f8190b8604c5c0a65ff678480d2cdad8f1"
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 1382 (2017) — 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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1382/versions/hb1382.03.engh)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1382/versions/hb1382.04.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1382/versions/hb1382.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1382/versions/hb1382.05.coms)
5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1382/versions/hb1382.02.comh)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1382/versions/hb1382.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1382 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **37–11** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1382 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **77–20** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Justin Moed — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-17** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2017-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-02** Amendment #2 (DeLaney) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-02** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** Placed back on second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #11 (Smith V) failed; Roll Call 47: yeas 27, nays 67 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #12 (Smith V) failed; Roll Call 48: yeas 27, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #13 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 49: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #9 (Smith V) failed; Roll Call 50: yeas 26, nays 67 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Amendment #10 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 51: yeas 94, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-06** Reread second time: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Representative Moed added as coauthor
- **2017-02-07** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 74: yeas 77, nays 20 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-07** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse and 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`
- **2017-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 372: yeas 37, nays 11 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-11** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-11** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Cook, Jordan, DeLaney and Smith V
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Behning and Moed
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Mrvan, Bassler and Brown L
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Melton
- **2017-04-20** Representative Cook removed as advisor
- **2017-04-20** Representative Cook added as conferee
- **2017-04-20** Representative Moed removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2017-04-21** Senator Raatz removed as advisor
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 518: yeas 37, nays 12
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 535: yeas 72, nays 27
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 250
- **2017-04-28** 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/9ff81437-ade3-40b4-86e1-efd65777ece7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).