republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-196.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Education matters.	Requires the state board of education (state board) to adopt administrative rules to allow an organization to provide credit under a Core 40 curriculum model for alternative programs in which students obtain credit counting toward the student's graduation requirements from nonschool educational experience that applies or incorporates content area knowledge in lieu of a required or elective course in the Core 40 curriculum model.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 196	Indiana SB 196 (2021)	bill	EDUCATION State Superintendent State Department and Boards SCHOOLS Curricula	enacted	Anthony Cook Dennis Kruse Jeff Raatz	4	22	1	2021-01-05	2021-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/e1e22c24-81ce-4fc5-a415-d7e441c96c60	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/196	578645c51d74d2a01b62b460c1b6e461b036a568773b97ed630e880d8dab2304	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 196 (2021) — Education matters.

Requires the state board of education (state board) to adopt administrative rules to allow an organization to provide credit under a Core 40 curriculum model for alternative programs in which students obtain credit counting toward the student's graduation requirements from nonschool educational experience that applies or incorporates content area knowledge in lieu of a required or elective course in the Core 40 curriculum model.

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 196 - Cook - 3rd Reading — 92–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Anthony Cook — primary (person)
• Dennis Kruse — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• Dale DeVon — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-05 Authored by Senator Raatz
• 2021-01-05 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-01-14 Senator Kruse added as second author
• 2021-02-18 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-22 Amendment #1 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 143: yeas 13, nays 34 amendment-failure
• 2021-02-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-23 Cosponsor: Representative DeVon
• 2021-02-23 House sponsor: Representative Cook
• 2021-02-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 179: yeas 39, nays 9 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-24 Referred to the House
• 2021-03-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-03-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 291: yeas 92, nays 2 passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-24 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-03-31 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-01 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 315: yeas 47, nays 1 amendment-failure
• 2021-04-12 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-13 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-19 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-19 Public Law 73
• 2021-04-19 Signed by the President of the Senate

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e1e22c24-81ce-4fc5-a415-d7e441c96c60. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).