---
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 1399"
citation: "Indiana HB 1399 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Bassler", "Erin Houchin", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13d824d6-dc62-4552-aeb4-780404d5d32d"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1399"
source_hash: "4acab0f93f23f17032b30de396e10d8978ccf59c22da5bc79b101e88f8e6ed4c"
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 1399 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1399/versions/hb1399.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1399/versions/hb1399.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1399/versions/hb1399.02.comh)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1399/versions/hb1399.04.coms)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1399/versions/hb1399.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1399 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1399 - Bassler - 3rd Reading — **48–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — cosponsor (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — cosponsor (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Smith — coauthor (person)
- Woody Burton — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Representatives Cook, Burton, Smith, V. added as coauthors
- **2018-01-29** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** Amendment #2 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 124: yeas 84, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Zay, Raatz and Houchin
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 152: yeas 91, nays 0 `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`
- **2018-02-12** Senator Zay removed as sponsor
- **2018-02-12** Senator Bassler added as sponsor
- **2018-02-19** Senator Zay added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-22** Senator Kruse added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 332: yeas 48, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 361: yeas 71, nays 11 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 148
- **2018-03-19** 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/13d824d6-dc62-4552-aeb4-780404d5d32d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).