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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: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1398"
citation: "Indiana HB 1398 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Officers and Employees (other than teachers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jean Leising", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6eb2bed-ae3f-421e-92b8-5907c6e64e2b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1398"
source_hash: "84149b44562f955f47f04ebcdb616d2ae9a34050e829ad3a632b0fe39c7bdbe7"
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 HB 1398 (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. **Engrossed House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1398/versions/hb1398.03.engh)
2. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1398/versions/hb1398.05.enrs)
3. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1398/versions/hb1398.04.coms)
4. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1398/versions/hb1398.02.comh)
5. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1398/versions/hb1398.01.intr)
## Votes
- HB 1398 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **865** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1398 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **419** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Cindy Ziemke — coauthor (person)
- Terry Goodin — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-16** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2018-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Representative Goodin added as coauthor
- **2018-01-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #1 (Thompson) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #2 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 71: yeas 93, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Amendment #5 (DeLaney) prevailed; Roll Call 72: yeas 91, nays 0 `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-01-29** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-31** Senate sponsors: Senators Raatz, Kruse and Leising
- **2018-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 112: yeas 86, nays 5 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-31** Representative Ziemke added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 264: yeas 41, nays 9 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-28** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-28** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-01** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
- **2018-03-05** House advisors appointed: Cook, Jordan and Errington
- **2018-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Melton
- **2018-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Stoops and Zay
- **2018-03-14** Senator Kruse removed as advisor
- **2018-03-14** Senator Melton removed as conferee
- **2018-03-14** Senator Kruse added as conferee
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 414: yeas 36, nays 11
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 407: yeas 73, nays 25
- **2018-03-15** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-20** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-21** Public Law 190
- **2018-03-21** 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/d6eb2bed-ae3f-421e-92b8-5907c6e64e2b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).