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Bill Education matters. Provides that a school, an employee or staff member of a school, or a third party vendor used by a school to provide instruction may not provide any instruction to a student in prekindergarten through grade 3 on human sexuality. Provides that a school employee or a school staff member is not prohibited from responding to a question from a student regarding certain topics. Requires a school to notify in writing at least one parent of a student, if the student is an unemancipated minor, of a request made by the student to change the student's name or pronoun, title, or word to identify the student. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2023 HB 1608 Indiana HB 1608 (2023)
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Gary Byrne
Jeff Raatz
Michelle Davis
Stacey Donato
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Indiana HB 1608 (2023) — Education matters.

Provides that a school, an employee or staff member of a school, or a third party vendor used by a school to provide instruction may not provide any instruction to a student in prekindergarten through grade 3 on human sexuality. Provides that a school employee or a school staff member is not prohibited from responding to a question from a student regarding certain topics. Requires a school to notify in writing at least one parent of a student, if the student is an unemancipated minor, of a request made by the student to change the student's name or pronoun, title, or word to identify the student.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

  • HB 1608 - Davis M - 3rd Reading — 6529 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Gary Byrne — primary (person)
  • Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
  • Michelle Davis — primary (person)
  • Stacey Donato — primary (person)
  • Chris Jeter — coauthor (person)
  • Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)
  • Robert Heaton — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-19 Coauthored by Representatives Teshka, Jeter, Heaton
  • 2023-01-19 Authored by Representative Davis
  • 2023-01-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-02-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-02-22 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-02-23 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 220: yeas 65, nays 29 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-02-23 Senate sponsors: Senators Donato, Raatz, Byrne
  • 2023-02-24 Referred to the Senate referral
  • 2023-03-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-03-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-04-06 Amendment #12 (Donato) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
  • 2023-04-06 Amendment #11 (Yoder) failed; Roll Call 335: yeas 14, nays 34 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2023-04-06 Amendment #5 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 336: yeas 9, nays 39 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2023-04-06 Amendment #4 (Yoder) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
  • 2023-04-06 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-04-10 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 345: yeas 37, nays 12 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-04-11 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
  • 2023-04-24 Motion to concur filed filing
  • 2023-04-24 House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 489: yeas 63, nays 29
  • 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 248 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/658d3fca-256a-4b32-b1f8-25ac242ba82e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).