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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School accountability."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "Indiana SB 2 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Academic Achievement", "SCHOOLS", "ILEARN (formerly ISTEP) and Testing Programs", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dale DeVon", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz", "Rodric Bray"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-06"
last_action: "2020-02-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96bfe609-e74d-4511-99ad-995091d54c63"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2020/bills/senate/2"
source_hash: "7e0310e2d8385825459f08efa2bc1bc06fc383c8f7134bc5b9fa10a9de31deb1"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.02.COMS)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2020/bills/SB0002/versions/SB0002.03.COMH)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96bfe609-e74d-4511-99ad-995091d54c63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).