republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2017/sb-504.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 504	Indiana SB 504 (2017)	bill	SCHOOLS Charter Schools EDUCATION generally	enacted	Dennis Kruse Jean Leising Robert Behning	5	23	2	2017-01-17	2017-04-21	openstates	ocd-bill/984e6448-ea1c-447c-9604-bb4fa00aafa4	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/504	b0eed0b86e5d07bfab6d8e3341deaa1f520edcf42a50e087f4601fd3f8dadbb3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 504 (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 (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 504 - Leising - 3rd Reading — 47–1 (pass) · legislature
• SB 504 - Behning - 3rd Reading — 87–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
• Jean Leising — primary (person)
• Robert Behning — primary (person)
• Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
• Thomas Saunders — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-17 Authored by Senator Leising
• 2017-01-17 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-02-13 Senator Kruse added as second author
• 2017-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-02-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 167: yeas 47, nays 1 reading-3, passage
• 2017-02-21 House sponsor: Representative Behning
• 2017-02-21 Cosponsor: Representative Saunders
• 2017-02-22 Referred to the House
• 2017-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2017-03-16 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2017-03-21 Amendment #1 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2017-03-21 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2017-03-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 300: yeas 87, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2017-03-23 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2017-04-06 Motion to concur filed
• 2017-04-10 Senate concurred in House Amendments; Roll Call 441: yeas 49, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2017-04-10 Senator Melton added as coauthor
• 2017-04-13 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2017-04-19 Signed by the Speaker
• 2017-04-20 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2017-04-21 Public Law 126
• 2017-04-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/984e6448-ea1c-447c-9604-bb4fa00aafa4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).