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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: "SB 303"
citation: "Indiana SB 303 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50f0b780-37f6-4868-96e3-09e6305030eb"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/303"
source_hash: "62b67005c0c4393fe4e09b5efb1b7d6f1886e4925a3f83554a6b738333914a24"
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 303 (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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.04.engs)
2. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.06.engh)
3. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.07.enrh)
4. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.01.intr)
5. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.05.comh)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.03.coms)
7. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/sb0303/versions/sb0303.02.coms)
## Votes
- SB 303 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **453** (pass) · legislature
- SB 303 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **960** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-04** Authored by Senators Raatz and Kruse
- **2018-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2018-01-25** Senator Melton added as coauthor
- **2018-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-05** Amendment #1 (Tallian) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-02-05** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 178: yeas 45, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2018-02-06** Cosponsor: Representative Thompson
- **2018-02-07** Referred to the House
- **2018-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-01** Amendment #2 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Amendment #1 (Frye R) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage, amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Amendment #5 (Errington) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-01** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 315: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2018-03-06** Senate advisors appointed: Kruse, Stoops, Zay and Brown L
- **2018-03-06** Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Melton
- **2018-03-06** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-07** House advisors appointed: Thompson, Frye R and Smith V
- **2018-03-07** House conferees appointed: Behning and Klinker
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2018-03-14** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 403: yeas 47, nays 0
- **2018-03-14** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 403: yeas 86, nays 0
- **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 167
- **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/50f0b780-37f6-4868-96e3-09e6305030eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).