republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2020/sb-2.md

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Bill	School accountability.	Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2017-2018 school year. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2019-2020 school year is the higher of the school's or school corporation's: (1) category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned for the 2018-2019 school year; or (2) category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2019-2020 school year. Provides that consequences for school improvement do not apply for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school years. Provides that ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement would improve the particular certificated employee's annual performance rating.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2020	SB 2	Indiana SB 2 (2020)	bill	EDUCATION State Superintendent State Department and Boards SCHOOLS Academic Achievement SCHOOLS ILEARN (formerly ISTEP) and Testing Programs SCHOOLS Teachers	enacted	Dale DeVon Dennis Kruse Jeff Raatz Rodric Bray	4	25	2	2020-01-06	2020-02-12	openstates	ocd-bill/96bfe609-e74d-4511-99ad-995091d54c63	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/2	7e0310e2d8385825459f08efa2bc1bc06fc383c8f7134bc5b9fa10a9de31deb1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 2 (2020) — School accountability.

Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2017-2018 school year. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned by the state board of education for the 2019-2020 school year is the higher of the school's or school corporation's: (1) category or designation of school or school corporation performance assigned for the 2018-2019 school year; or (2) category or designation of school or school corporation performance for the 2019-2020 school year. Provides that consequences for school improvement do not apply for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school years. Provides that ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement for the 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ILEARN program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement would improve the particular certificated employee's annual performance rating.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SB 2 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 2 - DeVon - 3rd Reading — 90–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dale DeVon — primary (person)
• Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• Rodric Bray — primary (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• Cindy Kirchhofer — cosponsor (person)
• Eddie Melton — coauthor (person)
• John Ruckelshaus — coauthor (person)
• Linda Rogers — coauthor (person)
• Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
• Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Authored by Senator Raatz
• 2020-01-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-07 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-07 Senator Bray added as second author
• 2020-01-07 Senator Kruse added as third author
• 2020-01-07 Senator Rogers added as coauthor
• 2020-01-09 Amendment #1 (Melton) failed; Roll Call 6: yeas 8, nays 37 amendment-failure
• 2020-01-09 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-09 Senator Melton added as coauthor
• 2020-01-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 8: yeas 49, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-01-13 House sponsor: Representative DeVon
• 2020-01-13 Referred to the House
• 2020-01-13 Senator Doriot added as coauthor
• 2020-01-27 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2020-01-28 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2020-01-30 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Representatives Carbaugh, Kirchhofer, Smith, V. added as cosponsors
• 2020-02-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 151: yeas 90, nays 0 reading-3, passage
• 2020-02-04 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2020-02-04 Signed by the Speaker
• 2020-02-04 Returned to the Senate without amendments
• 2020-02-04 Senator Ruckelshaus added as coauthor
• 2020-02-05 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2020-02-12 Public Law 2
• 2020-02-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96bfe609-e74d-4511-99ad-995091d54c63. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).