---
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: "HB 1356"
citation: "Indiana HB 1356 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Bullying", "SCHOOLS", "Discipline", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Eddie Melton", "Eric Bassler", "Gregory Porter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dde157dc-c05b-4b5e-a5ae-a4197026bc77"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1356"
source_hash: "e20de8edf9e1355d3a46ad6609a2e17ae06df07fa291f763a526bbf380e73e65"
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 1356 (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 House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1356/versions/hb1356.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1356/versions/hb1356.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1356/versions/hb1356.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1356/versions/hb1356.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1356 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1356 - Porter - 3rd Reading — **87–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — primary (person)
- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — primary (person)
- John Crane — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Behning — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Porter
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-30** Representatives Behning and Klinker added as coauthors
- **2018-01-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse, Bassler and Melton
- **2018-02-05** Cosponsor: Senator Stoops
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 87, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 329: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Senator Crane added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-07** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Public Law 83
- **2018-03-14** 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/dde157dc-c05b-4b5e-a5ae-a4197026bc77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).