republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2021/sb-205.md

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Bill	Teacher training.	Requires the department of education (department) to provide an initial practitioner license to an individual that competes an alternative teacher certification program. Requires the individual to complete a one year clinical experience program. Provides that the individual may not teach a special education course or be a teacher of record for a special education student. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school shall submit a plan to the department if the school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school hires one or more individuals who have received an initial practitioner license. Requires a teacher preparation program to include curriculum that instructs teachers about social emotional learning practices that are helpful in supporting students who have experienced trauma. Mandates that a teacher preparation program consider training teachers on evidence based social emotional learning practices that are consistent with the state's social emotional learning competencies established by the department of education. Makes conforming changes.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2021	SB 205	Indiana SB 205 (2021)	bill	SCHOOLS Teachers	enacted	Brian Buchanan Dale DeVon Kyle Walker Linda Rogers	6	29	0	2021-01-07	2021-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b03d57cd-1ae5-40d0-988a-a9eb639438c6	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2021/bills/senate/205	d55fa0222f1cb58a4b091750e514e322c07bfe00ae4dc45431846b1f08804f36	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 205 (2021) — Teacher training.

Requires the department of education (department) to provide an initial practitioner license to an individual that competes an alternative teacher certification program. Requires the individual to complete a one year clinical experience program. Provides that the individual may not teach a special education course or be a teacher of record for a special education student. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school shall submit a plan to the department if the school corporation, charter school, or state accredited nonpublic school hires one or more individuals who have received an initial practitioner license. Requires a teacher preparation program to include curriculum that instructs teachers about social emotional learning practices that are helpful in supporting students who have experienced trauma. Mandates that a teacher preparation program consider training teachers on evidence based social emotional learning practices that are consistent with the state's social emotional learning competencies established by the department of education. Makes conforming changes.

Version chain

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

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

Sponsors

• Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
• Dale DeVon — primary (person)
• Kyle Walker — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Chuck Goodrich — cosponsor (person)
• Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
• Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
• Jeff Raatz — coauthor (person)
• Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
• Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-07 Authored by Senator Rogers
• 2021-01-07 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-02-15 Senator Walker K added as third author
• 2021-02-15 Senator Kruse added as coauthor
• 2021-02-15 Senator Raatz added as coauthor
• 2021-02-18 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-02-22 Senator Buchanan added as second author
• 2021-02-22 Amendment #1 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-02-22 Amendment #2 (Ford J.D.) failed; voice vote amendment-failure
• 2021-02-22 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-02-23 Senator Bassler added as coauthor
• 2021-02-23 House sponsor: Representative DeVon
• 2021-02-23 Cosponsors: Representatives Behning and Goodrich
• 2021-02-23 Senator Donato added as coauthor
• 2021-02-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 28, nays 20 passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-24 Referred to the House
• 2021-03-04 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2021-04-12 Amendment #2 (Clere) prevailed; voice vote amendment-failure, amendment-passage
• 2021-04-12 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2021-04-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 437: yeas 63, nays 26 passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-14 Returned to the Senate with amendments amendment-failure
• 2021-04-14 Motion to concur filed
• 2021-04-15 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 445: yeas 28, nays 14 amendment-failure
• 2021-04-20 Signed by the President Pro Tempore
• 2021-04-21 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-04-21 Signed by the Speaker
• 2021-04-22 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2021-04-22 Public Law 96

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b03d57cd-1ae5-40d0-988a-a9eb639438c6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).