---
type: "Bill"
title: "School transfers."
description: "Removes language prohibiting certain students from enrolling into a school corporation primarily for athletic reasons."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1064"
citation: "Indiana HB 1064 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS; Athletics"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cory Criswell", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f59969e-0194-485d-8919-1bfaec827743"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1064"
source_hash: "952bb5c2e56a992f25cee8e583b34fdcd2ebb6bdf234918bd0a740f9c7bf921b"
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 1064 (2025) — School transfers.

Removes language prohibiting certain students from enrolling into a school corporation primarily for athletic reasons.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1064/HB1064.05.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1064/HB1064.04.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1064/HB1064.03.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1064/HB1064.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1064 - Criswell — **64–24** (pass) · lower
- HB 1064 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- HB 1064 - Criswell - 3rd Reading — **67–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cory Criswell — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Kyle Pierce — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Davis — coauthor (person)
- Robert Morris — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Authored by Representative Criswell
- **2025-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Pierce K
- **2025-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Recommitted to Committee on Education pursuant to House Rule 126.2
- **2025-01-27** Representatives Davis and Morris added as coauthors
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-11** Senate sponsor: Senator Raatz
- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 127: yeas 67, nays 25 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 426: yeas 30, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-16** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-17** House concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 480: yeas 64, nays 24
- **2025-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 153 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f59969e-0194-485d-8919-1bfaec827743`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).