---
type: "Bill"
title: "Excused absence from school."
description: "Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system shall authorize the absence and excuse of a school student if the student participates in certain events offered by the National FFA Organization, the Indiana FFA Association, or a 4-H club. Provides that a student's excused absences may not exceed six days in a school year. Provides that the student must be in good academic standing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1660"
citation: "Indiana HB 1660 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION; Generally", "SCHOOLS; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beau Baird", "Brian Buchanan", "Jean Leising"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/affc6662-7297-491a-8209-a3a546890e0e"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1660"
source_hash: "413aa527a1650de60a231f12bd8d67c01d5651753e19a01bd1ae28a7b4f7cdfe"
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 1660 (2025) — Excused absence from school.

Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or the chief administrative officer of a nonpublic school system shall authorize the absence and excuse of a school student if the student participates in certain events offered by the National FFA Organization, the Indiana FFA Association, or a 4-H club. Provides that a student's excused absences may not exceed six days in a school year. Provides that the student must be in good academic standing.

## 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/HB1660/HB1660.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1660/HB1660.01.INTR.pdf)

## Votes

- HB 1660 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- HB 1660 - Buchanan - 3rd Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Beau Baird — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Prescott — coauthor (person)
- Kendell Culp — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Baird
- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06** Representative Prescott added as coauthor
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-10** Representative Cash added as coauthor
- **2025-02-10** Representative Culp added as coauthor
- **2025-02-12** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-11** Senate sponsor: Senators Buchanan and Leising
- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 146: yeas 90, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-31** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** Returned to the House without amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-01** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 330: yeas 45, nays 2 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-03** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-16** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-16** Public Law 97 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/affc6662-7297-491a-8209-a3a546890e0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).