republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-498.md

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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	SB 498	Indiana SB 498 (2017)	bill	SCHOOLS Teachers	enacted	Dennis Kruse Jeff Raatz Timothy Wesco	4	22	2	2017-01-17	2017-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/dfa282f2-55fd-43bc-aee9-b537110c83b9	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/498	1862a270d1234a49a09830a16a1e102ba296425c761e510bfe36d69377dd4e58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 498 (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 Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 498 - Wesco - 3rd Reading — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 498 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• Timothy Wesco — primary (person)
• Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
• Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Greg Beumer — cosponsor (person)
• Richard Hamm — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-17 Authored by Senator Raatz
• 2017-01-17 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-02 Senator Zay added as coauthor
• 2017-02-14 Senator Kruse added as second author
• 2017-02-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 239: yeas 50, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-28 House sponsor: Representative Wesco
• 2017-02-28 Cosponsors: Representatives Beumer and Hamm
• 2017-03-01 Referred to the House
• 2017-03-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 Representative Cook added as cosponsor
• 2017-03-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-04-03 Amendment #3 (Smith V) motion withdrawn voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-withdrawal
• 2017-04-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-04-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 385: yeas 98, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-04-05 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2017-04-10 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-19 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-25 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-27 Public Law 216
• 2017-04-27 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfa282f2-55fd-43bc-aee9-b537110c83b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).