---
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 1449"
citation: "Indiana HB 1449 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Teachers", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89ddc064-9e2d-4192-ae49-5337625c5b1b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1449"
source_hash: "684e702c5be15cc3a53d0b73f5ae91d204fde49558d97d2fb4de02a06735e3c4"
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 1449 (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 (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1449/versions/hb1449.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1449/versions/hb1449.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1449/versions/hb1449.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1449/versions/hb1449.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1449/versions/hb1449.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1449 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1449 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dale DeVon — primary (person)
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Delph — cosponsor (person)
- Woody Burton — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-18** Authored by Representative DeVon
- **2017-01-18** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Representatives Burton and Harris added as coauthors
- **2017-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-22** Amendment #1 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-22** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senate sponsor: Senator Kruse
- **2017-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 207: yeas 94, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-24** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-27** 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`
- **2017-03-30** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 379: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Senator Raatz added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-04** Senator Delph added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to concur filed
- **2017-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 438: yeas 94, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-20** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Public Law 155
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89ddc064-9e2d-4192-ae49-5337625c5b1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).