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Bill
Twenty-first century scholars program.
Provides that the commission for higher education shall do the following: (1) In cooperation with the department of education, identify students who meet the requirements to participate in the twenty-first century scholars program (program). (2) Notify the student and the custodial parent or guardian of the student, if the student is an unemancipated minor, that: (A) the student is eligible to participate in the program; (B) the student must agree to the conditions required to participate in the program; and (C) the student has the right to opt out of the program at any time.
us/states/in
Indiana General Assembly
2023
HB 1449
Indiana HB 1449 (2023)
EDUCATION
Secretary of Education
State Department and Boards
HIGHER EDUCATION
Colleges and Universities
STUDENT ASSISTANCE
LOANS
AND GRANTS
enacted
Earl Harris
Eddie Melton
Jeff Raatz
Jon Ford
6
31
1
2023-01-17
2023-05-04
openstates
ocd-bill/36e2cf5c-103d-417f-be89-74b4fab45efd
http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1449
0aacc28bc01f7b397253b8e390b67a705f6591baa5f6c2b79a481a94eb335e2f
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
Indiana HB 1449 (2023) — Twenty-first century scholars program.
Provides that the commission for higher education shall do the following: (1) In cooperation with the department of education, identify students who meet the requirements to participate in the twenty-first century scholars program (program). (2) Notify the student and the custodial parent or guardian of the student, if the student is an unemancipated minor, that: (A) the student is eligible to participate in the program; (B) the student must agree to the conditions required to participate in the program; and (C) the student has the right to opt out of the program at any time.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Enrolled House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
House Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
Introduced House Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
Votes
HB 1449 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — 48– 0 (pass) · upper
Earl Harris — primary (person)
Eddie Melton — primary (person)
Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
Jon Ford — primary (person)
Fady Qaddoura — cosponsor (person)
J.D. Ford — cosponsor (person)
Jean Leising — cosponsor (person)
Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
Robert Behning — coauthor (person)
Robert Morris — coauthor (person)
Shelli Yoder — cosponsor (person)
Vaneta Becker — cosponsor (person)
Vernon Smith — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-01-17 Authored by Representative Harris
2023-01-17 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
2023-01-17 Representative Smith, V. added as coauthor
2023-01-30 Representatives Behning and Davis M added as coauthors
2023-02-02 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
2023-02-02 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
2023-02-09 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
2023-02-13 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
2023-02-16 Senate sponsors: Senators Raatz, Melton, Ford Jon
2023-02-16 Cosponsor: Senator Qaddoura
2023-02-16 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 148: yeas 92, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
2023-02-16 Representative Davis M removed as coauthor
2023-02-16 Representative Morris added as coauthor
2023-02-17 Referred to the Senate referral
2023-02-27 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
2023-03-09 Senator Yoder added as cosponsor
2023-03-14 Senators Ford J.D. and Leising added as cosponsors
2023-03-16 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
2023-04-03 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
2023-04-06 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
2023-04-10 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
2023-04-11 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 374: yeas 48, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
2023-04-11 Senator Becker added as cosponsor
2023-04-12 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
2023-04-17 Motion to concur filed filing
2023-04-19 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 456: yeas 89, nays 1
2023-04-24 Signed by the Speaker passage
2023-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
2023-04-28 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
2023-05-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
2023-05-04 Public Law 235 became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/36e2cf5c-103d-417f-be89-74b4fab45efd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).