---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education matters."
description: "Requires that the Indiana family friendly school designation program of the department of education (department) establish a procedure under which the department must conduct an assessment for the purpose of evaluating and improving parent involvement in the school if the parents of at least 10% of the students currently included in the average daily membership (ADM) at a particular school request an assessment. Requires that the department determine the manner in which requests may be submitted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1223"
citation: "Indiana HB 1223 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "SCHOOLS", "Funds and Budgets"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Davisson", "Kyle Walker", "Scott Baldwin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-06"
last_action: "2022-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fee88bc-ba9c-47b8-8ebb-4ccbb9c71c18"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/house/1223"
source_hash: "aae28fb30c11b01d00a3cd6e67726b53fc0c0343c8d395a67df5c020b851cbb2"
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 1223 (2022) — Education matters.

Requires that the Indiana family friendly school designation program of the department of education (department) establish a procedure under which the department must conduct an assessment for the purpose of evaluating and improving parent involvement in the school if the parents of at least 10% of the students currently included in the average daily membership (ADM) at a particular school request an assessment. Requires that the department determine the manner in which requests may be submitted.

## 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/2022/bills/HB1223/versions/HB1223.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1223/versions/HB1223.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1223/versions/HB1223.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/HB1223/versions/HB1223.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1223 - Walker K - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J. Davisson — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Scott Baldwin — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-06** Coauthored by Representatives Cook, Clere, DeLaney
- **2022-01-06** Authored by Representative Davisson J.
- **2022-01-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Senate sponsor: Senator Walker K
- **2022-01-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 123: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-28** Referred to the Senate
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 236: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Senator Baldwin added as second sponsor
- **2022-02-23** Returned to the House without amendments
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-01** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-10** Public Law 75

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9fee88bc-ba9c-47b8-8ebb-4ccbb9c71c18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).