republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/sb-217.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	SB 217	Indiana SB 217 (2018)	bill	SCHOOLS Special Education and Special Programs EDUCATION generally SCHOOLS generally (K-12)	enacted	Erin Houchin Jon Ford Rodric Bray Woody Burton	5	33	2	2018-01-03	2018-03-15	openstates	ocd-bill/160c09a3-bcee-4f36-be72-c10647bab531	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/217	687667d573cdb807f2465230898ad1c45dcf4af29e81d558b7344dba3ff8cc2a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 217 (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 Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 217 - Burton - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
• SB 217 - Houchin - 3rd Reading — 48–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Erin Houchin — primary (person)
• Jon Ford — primary (person)
• Rodric Bray — primary (person)
• Woody Burton — primary (person)
• Aaron Freeman — coauthor (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• Chip Perfect — coauthor (person)
• Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
• Douglas Eckerty — coauthor (person)
• Ed Charbonneau — coauthor (person)
• Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
• Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
• Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
• Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
• James Tomes — coauthor (person)
• Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
• John Crane — coauthor (person)
• Karlee Macer — cosponsor (person)
• Mark Stoops — coauthor (person)
• Mike Bohacek — coauthor (person)
• Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
• Sue Errington — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-03 Authored by Senators Houchin, Bray and Ford
• 2018-01-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-01-04 Senator Bohacek added as coauthor
• 2018-01-09 Senator Kruse added as coauthor
• 2018-01-22 Senators Freeman and Crane added as coauthors
• 2018-01-22 Senators Perfect, Bassler, Walker added as coauthors
• 2018-01-23 Senator Raatz added as coauthor
• 2018-01-25 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-01-25 Senator Melton added as coauthor
• 2018-01-29 Senators Holdman and Sandlin added as coauthors
• 2018-01-29 Senator Tomes added as coauthor
• 2018-01-30 Amendment #2 (Houchin) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage, amendment-failure
• 2018-01-30 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-01 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 120: yeas 48, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-01 House sponsor: Representative Burton
• 2018-02-01 Cosponsors: Representatives Behning and Macer
• 2018-02-01 Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
• 2018-02-01 Senator Eckerty added as coauthor
• 2018-02-01 Senators Stoops and Doriot added as coauthors
• 2018-02-02 Referred to the House
• 2018-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2018-02-20 Representative Errington added as cosponsor
• 2018-02-26 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2018-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 234: yeas 95, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-02-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2018-03-05 Motion to concur filed
• 2018-03-06 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 341: yeas 49, nays 0 amendment-failure
• 2018-03-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2018-03-13 Signed by the Speaker
• 2018-03-14 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2018-03-15 Public Law 95
• 2018-03-15 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/160c09a3-bcee-4f36-be72-c10647bab531. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).