---
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 1426"
citation: "Indiana HB 1426 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Pupils (other than disciplinary matters)", "SCHOOLS", "Academic Achievement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ceded254-d560-4f05-9cdd-fafde3dfd382"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1426"
source_hash: "00754f42f40a010736f8d8bbd81dca1361906800dac519b68c9978a381195f09"
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 1426 (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 (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.07.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.04.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.08.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.03.comh)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.06.coms)
7. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.05.coms)
8. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1426/versions/hb1426.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1426 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **49–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1426 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **84–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Terri Jo Austin — 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`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Clere added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Representative Cook added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** Representative Austin added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #5 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #4 (Brown T) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #3 (DeVon) prevailed; Roll Call 142: yeas 73, nays 12 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #2 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 143: yeas 21, nays 62 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 147: yeas 84, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse and Raatz
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-02-22** Senator Melton added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #3 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #4 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 336: yeas 49, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-07** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Behning and Austin
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Cook, Clere and Smith V
- **2018-03-07** Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Melton
- **2018-03-07** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Mrvan, Zay and Spartz
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 421: yeas 44, nays 4
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 415: yeas 71, nays 25
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 192
- **2018-03-21** 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/ceded254-d560-4f05-9cdd-fafde3dfd382`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).