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

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Access to transcripts."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 404"
citation: "Indiana SB 404 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CIVIL ACTIONS generally", "EDUCATION generally", "SCHOOLS generally (K-12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Julie McGuire", "Kyle Walker", "Spencer Deery"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8f483a8-aa6f-4704-a9e5-f64aed6c8e74"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/404"
source_hash: "6af19b7658a6c1f246ffc7e3bfdeb88defea0adff776a3f326f4c2bf2ef7b27f"
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 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](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0404/versions/SB0404.02.COMS)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8f483a8-aa6f-4704-a9e5-f64aed6c8e74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).