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Bill A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education. A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2017 HB 1079 Indiana HB 1079 (2017)
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4 36 2 2017-01-05 2017-04-26 openstates ocd-bill/159a2670-90aa-4979-a13f-35b7f7934233 http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1079 e25a9754bd82a5958485739948205172d247043da70b84cbbc59a9e2605b0d6f 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Indiana HB 1079 (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. Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • HB 1079 - Merritt - 3rd Reading — 500 (pass) · legislature
  • HB 1079 - Thompson - 3rd Reading — 990 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
  • James Merritt — primary (person)
  • Jeffrey Thompson — primary (person)
  • John Crane — primary (person)
  • Eddie Melton — cosponsor (person)
  • John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
  • Joseph Zakas — cosponsor (person)
  • Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
  • Michael Delph — cosponsor (person)
  • Milo Smith — coauthor (person)
  • Terri Jo Austin — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-05 Authored by Representative Thompson
  • 2017-01-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2017-01-24 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2017-01-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-01-30 Representative Smith, M. added as coauthor
  • 2017-01-30 Senate sponsors: Senators Merritt and Crane
  • 2017-01-30 Representative Austin added as coauthor
  • 2017-01-30 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 27: yeas 99, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2017-02-01 Referred to the Senate
  • 2017-02-02 Representative Bartlett added as coauthor
  • 2017-02-20 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2017-03-13 Senator Kruse added as third sponsor
  • 2017-03-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2017-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-03-21 Placed back on second reading reading-2
  • 2017-03-21 Senator Melton added as cosponsor
  • 2017-03-21 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
  • 2017-03-27 Reread second time: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-03-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 302: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
  • 2017-03-28 Senators Zakas and Delph added as cosponsors
  • 2017-03-29 Returned to the House with amendments amendment-failure
  • 2017-04-06 Motion to dissent filed
  • 2017-04-06 House dissented from Senate amendments amendment-failure
  • 2017-04-10 Senate conferees appointed: Merritt and Mrvan
  • 2017-04-10 Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Melton and Bray
  • 2017-04-10 House conferees appointed: Thompson and Austin
  • 2017-04-10 House advisors appointed: Wesco, Cook and Smith V
  • 2017-04-20 CCR # 1 filed in the House
  • 2017-04-20 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
  • 2017-04-21 Signed by the Speaker
  • 2017-04-21 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
  • 2017-04-21 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 518: yeas 99, nays 0
  • 2017-04-21 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 507: yeas 50, nays 0
  • 2017-04-24 Signed by the President of the Senate
  • 2017-04-26 Public Law 185
  • 2017-04-26 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/159a2670-90aa-4979-a13f-35b7f7934233. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).