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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: "SB 407"
citation: "Indiana SB 407 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT", "Work Environment", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "STUDY COMMITTEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Erin Houchin", "Jerry Torr"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a593228-3937-4e78-afb3-c91bae3d7bda"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/407"
source_hash: "cdab9f86d3cc89f8d6328a4cb09fa8b034d7b7a3bbbbec87700134958dccabab"
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 407 (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 Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.02.coms)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0407/versions/sb0407.04.comh)
## Votes
- SB 407 - Torr - 3rd Reading — **6038** (pass) · legislature
- SB 407 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — **3218** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Erin Houchin — primary (person)
- Jerry Torr — primary (person)
- Todd Huston — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Authored by Senator Houchin
- **2017-01-10** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senator Kruse added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-27** Amendment #3 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-27** Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 189: yeas 13, nays 36 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-27** Amendment #2 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 190: yeas 11, nays 38 `amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-27** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 232: yeas 32, nays 18 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Torr
- **2017-02-28** Cosponsor: Representative Huston
- **2017-03-01** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-07** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 311: yeas 60, nays 38 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Returned to the Senate without amendments
- **2017-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-10** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-27** Public Law 212
- **2017-04-27** 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/9a593228-3937-4e78-afb3-c91bae3d7bda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).