republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-404.md

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Bill	Access to transcripts.	Provides that a state educational institution or private postsecondary educational institution operated for profit (institution) in Indiana may not: (1) refuse to provide a transcript for a current or former student of the institution on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; (2) charge a higher fee for obtaining a transcript or provide less favorable treatment of a request for a transcript of a current or former student who owes a debt to the institution; or (3) withhold from a current or former student's transcript any degrees earned on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; if the student has paid certain amounts in the past year on the debt owed. Provides that a current or former student may bring a civil action against an institution for a violation of these provisions.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2023	SB 404	Indiana SB 404 (2023)	bill	CIVIL ACTIONS generally EDUCATION generally SCHOOLS generally (K-12)	enacted	Brian Buchanan Julie McGuire Kyle Walker Spencer Deery	4	24	1	2023-01-19	2023-04-20	openstates	ocd-bill/b8f483a8-aa6f-4704-a9e5-f64aed6c8e74	http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/404	6af19b7658a6c1f246ffc7e3bfdeb88defea0adff776a3f326f4c2bf2ef7b27f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 404 (2023) — Access to transcripts.

Provides that a state educational institution or private postsecondary educational institution operated for profit (institution) in Indiana may not: (1) refuse to provide a transcript for a current or former student of the institution on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; (2) charge a higher fee for obtaining a transcript or provide less favorable treatment of a request for a transcript of a current or former student who owes a debt to the institution; or (3) withhold from a current or former student's transcript any degrees earned on the grounds that the student owes a debt to the institution; if the student has paid certain amounts in the past year on the debt owed. Provides that a current or former student may bring a civil action against an institution for a violation of these provisions.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 404 - McGuire J - 3rd Reading — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
• Julie McGuire — primary (person)
• Kyle Walker — primary (person)
• Spencer Deery — primary (person)
• Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
• Fady Qaddoura — coauthor (person)
• J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
• Ragen Hatcher — cosponsor (person)
• Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-19 Authored by Senator Deery
• 2023-01-19 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-01-23 Senator Walker K added as second author
• 2023-01-26 Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
• 2023-01-26 Senator Qaddoura added as coauthor
• 2023-02-02 Senator Buchanan added as third author
• 2023-02-09 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-02-13 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-02-14 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 119: yeas 47, nays 2 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-02-14 House sponsor: Representative McGuire
• 2023-02-15 Referred to the House referral
• 2023-02-28 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2023-03-20 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2023-03-20 Representatives Cash B, Hatcher, Klinker added as cosponsors
• 2023-03-21 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 285: yeas 95, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2023-03-22 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2023-04-03 Motion to concur filed filing
• 2023-04-04 Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 328: yeas 48, nays 0
• 2023-04-06 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2023-04-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2023-04-18 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2023-04-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2023-04-20 Public Law 51 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b8f483a8-aa6f-4704-a9e5-f64aed6c8e74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).