---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial literacy."
description: "Provides that, beginning with the cohort of students who are expected to graduate from a public school, a charter school, or a state accredited nonpublic school in 2028, an individual must successfully complete a personal financial responsibility course (course) before the individual may graduate. Creates requirements for content that must be covered in a course. Provides that a public school, a charter school, or a state accredited nonpublic school must offer instruction on a course as a separate subject. Provides that the state board may allow a course to satisfy one or more diploma course requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 35"
citation: "Indiana SB 35 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Raatz", "Joanna King", "Linda Rogers", "Mike Gaskill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97787a18-dba3-420b-9c06-1f600f21c503"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/35"
source_hash: "1db6a8c2e84ae7253c1a4bbb5a695f43819645da27ca2672474149640885beb2"
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 SB 35 (2023) — Financial literacy.

Provides that, beginning with the cohort of students who are expected to graduate from a public school, a charter school, or a state accredited nonpublic school in 2028, an individual must successfully complete a personal financial responsibility course (course) before the individual may graduate. Creates requirements for content that must be covered in a course. Provides that a public school, a charter school, or a state accredited nonpublic school must offer instruction on a course as a separate subject. Provides that the state board may allow a course to satisfy one or more diploma course requirements.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.05.ENGH)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.03.ENGS)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.06.ENRH)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.01.INTR)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.04.COMH)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0035/versions/SB0035.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 35 - Gaskill - 3rd Reading — **47–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Joanna King — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Mike Gaskill — primary (person)
- Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
- David Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth Rowray — cosponsor (person)
- Eric Koch — coauthor (person)
- Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
- Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Jon Ford — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
- Susan Glick — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Gaskill
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2023-01-17** Senator Rogers added as third author
- **2023-01-17** Senators Deery, Alexander, Byrne, Freeman, Koch, Donato, Sandlin, Holdman added as coauthors
- **2023-01-24** Senators Johnson, Crane, Ford J.D. added as coauthors
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Senator Ford Jon added as coauthor
- **2023-01-30** Amendment #1 (Gaskill) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
- **2023-01-30** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 41: yeas 47, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative King
- **2023-01-31** Cosponsors: Representatives Davis M and Hall D
- **2023-01-31** Senator Glick added as coauthor
- **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-27** Representative Rowray E added as cosponsor
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Amendment #4 (McGuire) prevailed; Roll Call 346: yeas 95, nays 0 `amendment-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Amendment #1 (Moseley) failed; Roll Call 347: yeas 31, nays 64 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-04-04** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 366: yeas 88, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-12** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2023-04-14** House conferees appointed: King and Smith V
- **2023-04-14** House advisors appointed: Davis, Hall, Behning and Pfaff
- **2023-04-18** Senate conferees appointed: Gaskill and Ford J.D.
- **2023-04-18** Senate advisors appointed: Yoder, Raatz and Rogers
- **2023-04-19** Senator Deery added as advisor
- **2023-04-24** Senator Raatz removed as advisor
- **2023-04-24** Senator Ford J.D. removed as conferee
- **2023-04-24** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2023-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-25** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 495: yeas 85, nays 0
- **2023-04-25** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 475: yeas 45, nays 0
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 168 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97787a18-dba3-420b-9c06-1f600f21c503`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).