republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1590.md

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Bill	Various education matters.	Makes various changes to the education law concerning the following: (1) The science of reading and licensing requirements. (2) The grant for benchmark, formative, interim, or similar assessments with regards to certain assessments, including universal screeners that screen for dyslexia. (3) Eligibility requirements for the next level computer science program. (4) Reading deficiency remediation plan requirements. (5) Payments and funding for excess costs of educating certain students with disabilities. (6) The use of funds from the Senator David C. Ford educational technology fund. (7) Requirements for public schools regarding adopting or replacing data technology systems. (8) The evaluation of curricular materials by the department of education (department). Requires the department to evaluate, approve, and publish a list of high quality curricular materials in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. Provides that, before curricular material is included on the list, the publisher of the curricular material must enter into a data share agreement with the department. Requires, not later than July 1, 2024, the department to conduct a statewide survey to determine which curricular materials have been adopted for use in certain subjects.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	HB 1590	Indiana HB 1590 (2023)	bill	EDUCATION Secretary of Education State Department and Boards SCHOOLS Choice Scholarships SCHOOLS Curricula SCHOOLS Funds and Budgets SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY	enacted	Jeff Raatz Linda Rogers Robert Behning	8	35	1	2023-01-19	2023-05-04	openstates	ocd-bill/7988315e-89f3-414d-bab9-583522d51f01	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1590	b5a216612ee773b7ab9b99c6a8e50c4e9fc103acc4e6c41143a5c8ef2c52d6a3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana HB 1590 (2023) — Various education matters.

Makes various changes to the education law concerning the following: (1) The science of reading and licensing requirements. (2) The grant for benchmark, formative, interim, or similar assessments with regards to certain assessments, including universal screeners that screen for dyslexia. (3) Eligibility requirements for the next level computer science program. (4) Reading deficiency remediation plan requirements. (5) Payments and funding for excess costs of educating certain students with disabilities. (6) The use of funds from the Senator David C. Ford educational technology fund. (7) Requirements for public schools regarding adopting or replacing data technology systems. (8) The evaluation of curricular materials by the department of education (department). Requires the department to evaluate, approve, and publish a list of high quality curricular materials in the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math. Provides that, before curricular material is included on the list, the publisher of the curricular material must enter into a data share agreement with the department. Requires, not later than July 1, 2024, the department to conduct a statewide survey to determine which curricular materials have been adopted for use in certain subjects.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• HB 1590 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Robert Behning — primary (person)
• Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19 Authored by Representative Behning
• 2023-01-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-01-26 Representative Klinker added as coauthor
• 2023-01-26 Committee report: do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-01-26 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
• 2023-02-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-20 Amendment #2 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2023-02-20 Amendment #3 (Porter) failed; Roll Call 163: yeas 29, nays 68 amendment-failure, failure
• 2023-02-20 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 194: yeas 90, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-21 Senate sponsors: Senators Raatz and Rogers
• 2023-02-22 Referred to the Senate referral
• 2023-03-01 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-04-17 Amendment #2 (Freeman) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2023-04-17 Amendment #3 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2023-04-17 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-04-18 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 450: yeas 50, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-04-19 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
• 2023-04-20 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2023-04-20 House dissented from Senate amendments
• 2023-04-20 House conferees appointed: Behning and Klinker
• 2023-04-20 House advisors appointed: Payne, Wesco and Pfaff
• 2023-04-20 Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Hunley
• 2023-04-20 Senate advisors appointed: Ford J.D. and Rogers
• 2023-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2023-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2023-04-25 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 494: yeas 85, nays 0
• 2023-04-25 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 485: yeas 49, nays 0
• 2023-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-04-28 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-05-01 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-05-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-04 Public Law 245 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7988315e-89f3-414d-bab9-583522d51f01. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).