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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 61"
citation: "Indiana SB 61 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS", "Discipline", "SCHOOLS", "Health and Safety Issues", "EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edward Clere", "Jeff Raatz", "Randall Head"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-04-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbf06b5d-86ad-467e-b744-ac5b6782952b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/61"
source_hash: "a132c852d7f1bcfe382139ee9dc6ed696981d4151c66ba1b7d16a10ea6dad183"
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 61 (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/sb0061/versions/sb0061.03.engs)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0061/versions/sb0061.05.enrh)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0061/versions/sb0061.01.intr)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0061/versions/sb0061.04.comh)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/sb0061/versions/sb0061.02.coms)
## Votes
- SB 61 - Clere - 3rd Reading — **931** (pass) · legislature
- SB 61 - Head - 3rd Reading — **480** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Edward Clere — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Randall Head — primary (person)
- Anthony Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Authored by Senator Head
- **2017-01-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Civil Law `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-02-23** Amendment #1 (Head) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2017-02-23** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-23** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2017-02-23** Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
- **2017-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2017-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 48, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-27** House sponsor: Representative Clere
- **2017-02-28** Referred to the House
- **2017-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-28** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-30** Representatives Klinker, Cook, DeLaney added as cosponsors
- **2017-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 347: yeas 93, nays 1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-04-04** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Head and Taylor G
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Raatz, Randolph Lonnie M and Crider
- **2017-04-10** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Clere and DeLaney
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Cook, Washburne, Errington and Smith V
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-21** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 521: yeas 50, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 541: yeas 96, nays 0
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-28** Public Law 227
- **2017-04-28** 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/cbf06b5d-86ad-467e-b744-ac5b6782952b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).