---
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 1421"
citation: "Indiana HB 1421 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Discipline", "SCHOOLS", "Officers and Employees (other than teachers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f80adc1f-9646-4d64-acdb-7febb32dea29"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1421"
source_hash: "23af1fd96711477b93532cae0c54fb1787819e285b68e779f1176cb45a63726c"
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 1421 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1421/versions/hb1421.05.engs)
2. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1421/versions/hb1421.03.engh)
3. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1421/versions/hb1421.06.enrs)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1421/versions/hb1421.02.comh)
5. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1421/versions/hb1421.04.coms)
6. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1421/versions/hb1421.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1421 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1421 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — **46–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Representative Porter added as coauthor
- **2018-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #2 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Amendment #1 (Smith V) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 148: yeas 92, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-05** Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse and Raatz
- **2018-02-06** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Senator Stoops added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #2 (Kruse) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 335: yeas 46, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 363: yeas 80, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **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 151
- **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/f80adc1f-9646-4d64-acdb-7febb32dea29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).