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type: "Bill"
title: "Statewide assessment results."
description: "Requires (rather than permits) the department of education to include in a contract with a statewide assessment vendor entered into or renewed after June 30, 2023, a requirement that the vendor provide a summary of a student's statewide assessment results. Makes a conforming change and a technical correction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "Indiana SB 168 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "PUBLIC CONTRACTS", "SCHOOLS", "ILEARN (formerly ISTEP) and Testing Programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Linda Rogers", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/944bf78f-71b7-46ba-8112-470e28208bd6"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/168"
source_hash: "2b92bf12c9f636bb24e0663edc81ced05839dd5de426146660288800d49bae30"
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 168 (2023) — Statewide assessment results.
Requires (rather than permits) the department of education to include in a contract with a statewide assessment vendor entered into or renewed after June 30, 2023, a requirement that the vendor provide a summary of a student's statewide assessment results. Makes a conforming change and a technical correction.
## 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/2023/bills/SB0168/versions/SB0168.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0168/versions/SB0168.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0168/versions/SB0168.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0168/versions/SB0168.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 168 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **941** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jean Leising — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — cosponsor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Leising
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 47: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2023-01-31** Cosponsors: Representatives Carbaugh, Smith, V., Klinker
- **2023-01-31** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 312: yeas 94, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-03-29** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2023-03-30** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-04-20** Public Law 30 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/944bf78f-71b7-46ba-8112-470e28208bd6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).