---
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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1167"
citation: "Indiana HB 1167 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Funds and Budgets", "SCHOOLS", "Textbooks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Eric Bassler", "Ryan Mishler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a02cac6a-b342-46f6-8193-77fbf3d5bc86"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1167"
source_hash: "a22fe69b588770cf2806ffcb724873ff37783940cff9dd494b6da9bb2372861e"
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 1167 (2018) — 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. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1167/versions/hb1167.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1167/versions/hb1167.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1167/versions/hb1167.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1167/versions/hb1167.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1167 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1167 - Mishler - 3rd Reading — **48–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Anthony Cook — primary (person)
- Eric Bassler — primary (person)
- Ryan Mishler — primary (person)
- Karen Tallian — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Mara Candelaria Reardon — coauthor (person)
- Timothy Brown — coauthor (person)
- Todd Huston — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Coauthored by Representative Brown T
- **2018-01-08** Authored by Representative Cook
- **2018-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-09** Representative Huston added as coauthor
- **2018-01-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Representative Candelaria Reardon added as coauthor
- **2018-01-29** Senate sponsors: Senators Mishler and Bassler
- **2018-01-29** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 61: yeas 95, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-30** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Senator Tallian added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-20** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-02-26** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 231: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-27** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 332: yeas 92, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the House
- **2018-03-12** Joint Rule 20 technical correction adopted by the Senate
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 140
- **2018-03-19** 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/a02cac6a-b342-46f6-8193-77fbf3d5bc86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).