---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher compensation."
description: "Amends provisions that allow school corporations to provide a supplemental payment to teachers in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. Makes corresponding changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "Indiana SB 249 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining", "Benefits", "and Wages", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Unions", "SCHOOLS; Funds and Budgets", "SCHOOLS; Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jake Teshka", "Jeff Raatz", "Linda Rogers", "Spencer Deery"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d905bcb-3319-495a-9b5f-664308b0e156"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0249"
source_hash: "b0f27b18e42e29b4c71d0252e78cff78110804dd20238bc6585b007b8a838bfd"
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 249 (2025) — Teacher compensation.

Amends provisions that allow school corporations to provide a supplemental payment to teachers in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. Makes corresponding changes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0249/SB0249.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0249/SB0249.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0249/SB0249.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0249/SB0249.03.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 249 - Deery - 3rd Reading — **39–10** (pass) · upper
- SB 249 - Deery — **34–13** (pass) · upper
- SB 249 - Teshka - 3rd Reading — **65–29** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jake Teshka — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Spencer Deery — primary (person)
- Randy Maxwell — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Deery
- **2025-01-30** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2025-02-04** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-11** House sponsor: Representative Teshka
- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 101: yeas 39, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-11** Senator Maxwell added as coauthor
- **2025-02-12** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 65, nays 29 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-03-31** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 311: yeas 34, nays 13
- **2025-04-01** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-01** 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 75 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d905bcb-3319-495a-9b5f-664308b0e156`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).