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type: "Bill"
title: "Education matters."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 196"
citation: "Indiana SB 196 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "State Superintendent", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anthony Cook", "Dennis Kruse", "Jeff Raatz"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-05"
last_action: "2021-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1e22c24-81ce-4fc5-a415-d7e441c96c60"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/196"
source_hash: "578645c51d74d2a01b62b460c1b6e461b036a568773b97ed630e880d8dab2304"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0196/versions/SB0196.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0196/versions/SB0196.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0196/versions/SB0196.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2021/bills/SB0196/versions/SB0196.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 196 - Cook - 3rd Reading — **922** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1e22c24-81ce-4fc5-a415-d7e441c96c60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).