republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/hb-1356.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	2018	HB 1356	Indiana HB 1356 (2018)	bill	SCHOOLS Bullying SCHOOLS Discipline EDUCATION State Superintendent State Department and Boards	enacted	Dennis Kruse Eddie Melton Eric Bassler Gregory Porter	4	22	2	2018-01-16	2018-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/dde157dc-c05b-4b5e-a5ae-a4197026bc77	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1356	e20de8edf9e1355d3a46ad6609a2e17ae06df07fa291f763a526bbf380e73e65	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1356 (2018) — 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 1356 - Kruse - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · legislature
• HB 1356 - Porter - 3rd Reading — 87–3 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
• Eddie Melton — primary (person)
• Eric Bassler — primary (person)
• Gregory Porter — primary (person)
• John Crane — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Stoops — cosponsor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — cosponsor (person)
• Robert Behning — coauthor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-16 Authored by Representative Porter
• 2018-01-16 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-29 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-01-30 Representatives Behning and Klinker added as coauthors
• 2018-01-31 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-05 Senate sponsors: Senators Kruse, Bassler and Melton
• 2018-02-05 Cosponsor: Senator Stoops
• 2018-02-05 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 156: yeas 87, nays 3 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-06 Referred to the Senate
• 2018-02-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-03-01 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-03-05 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-03-05 Senator Bohacek added as cosponsor
• 2018-03-05 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
• 2018-03-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 329: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-06 Senator Crane added as cosponsor
• 2018-03-06 Returned to the House without amendments
• 2018-03-07 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-07 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-13 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-14 Public Law 83
• 2018-03-14 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dde157dc-c05b-4b5e-a5ae-a4197026bc77. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).