---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1009"
citation: "Indiana HB 1009 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Funds and Budgets"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Luke Kenley", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70af45c3-f8d1-4919-a38b-38624597e321"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1009"
source_hash: "aa5dbda75b43cfceef9d16fe98b16b72c3c1e67ac867320ff1c7b47c6057e9f3"
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 1009 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.06.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.04.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.07.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.03.comh)
5. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.02.comh)
6. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.05.coms)
7. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1009/versions/hb1009.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1009 - Kenley - 3rd Reading — **47–1** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1009 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **92–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Luke Kenley — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)
- Todd Huston — coauthor (person)
- Vernon Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Coauthored by Representative Brown T
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Representative Cook
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Representative Huston added as coauthor
- **2017-01-26** Representative Smith, V. added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-31** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-09** Amendment #4 (Pryor) prevailed; Roll Call 86: yeas 93, nays 1 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-09** Amendment #9 (Pelath) failed; Roll Call 87: yeas 29, nays 66 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-09** Amendment #7 (Smith V) failed; Roll Call 88: yeas 26, nays 68 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-09** Amendment #3 (Errington) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-09** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-13** Senate sponsor: Senator Kenley
- **2017-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 96: yeas 92, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-14** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #3 (Kenley) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Amendment #1 (Tallian) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-03** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Senator Tallian added as cosponsor
- **2017-04-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 365: yeas 47, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Senator Mishler added as second sponsor
- **2017-04-05** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-12** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-12** House conferees appointed: Cook and Smith V
- **2017-04-12** House advisors appointed: Brown T, Huston, DeLaney and Errington
- **2017-04-12** Senate conferees appointed: Kenley and Tallian
- **2017-04-12** Senate advisors appointed: Mishler, Niezgodski, Eckerty and Bassler
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-20** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 516: yeas 96, nays 2
- **2017-04-21** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 505: yeas 47, nays 3
- **2017-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-27** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 244
- **2017-04-28** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70af45c3-f8d1-4919-a38b-38624597e321`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).