republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/sb-443.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various education matters."
description: "Requires the department of education to, not later than November 1, 2023, do the following: (1) Create a list of personal liability insurers that offer personal liability insurance policies for teachers. (2) Post the list on the department's website. Provides that the academic standards committee appointed by the secretary of education must include employers (in addition to other members under current law). Provides that a school psychologist may provide services on a private basis to an individual if the school psychologist receives a referral from the individual's parent and the individual is an unemancipated minor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 443"
citation: "Indiana SB 443 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Health and Safety Issues"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jake Teshka", "Jeff Raatz", "John Crane", "Linda Rogers"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/235d7809-680e-48ee-a28d-1366a2d2033b"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/443"
source_hash: "cbcb5ac9bc616a5b86d064a3f4a87cbe833fdb06216cf908b9a18f77d015384d"
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 443 (2023) — Various education matters.

Requires the department of education to, not later than November 1, 2023, do the following: (1) Create a list of personal liability insurers that offer personal liability insurance policies for teachers. (2) Post the list on the department's website. Provides that the academic standards committee appointed by the secretary of education must include employers (in addition to other members under current law). Provides that a school psychologist may provide services on a private basis to an individual if the school psychologist receives a referral from the individual's parent and the individual is an unemancipated minor.

## 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/SB0443/versions/SB0443.06.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0443/versions/SB0443.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0443/versions/SB0443.04.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0443/versions/SB0443.05.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0443/versions/SB0443.03.COMS)
6. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0443/versions/SB0443.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 443 - Teshka J - 3rd Reading — **96–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jake Teshka — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- John Crane — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Chuck Goodrich — cosponsor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Authored by Senator Rogers
- **2023-01-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2023-02-09** Senator Crane added as third author
- **2023-02-09** Senator Johnson added as coauthor
- **2023-02-14** Senators Buchanan and Donato added as coauthors
- **2023-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-23** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2023-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 204: yeas 48, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Teshka
- **2023-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Goodrich, Behning, Davis M
- **2023-03-01** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-23** Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
- **2023-04-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 389: yeas 96, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-12** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-18** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-19** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 458: yeas 40, nays 2
- **2023-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 196 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/235d7809-680e-48ee-a28d-1366a2d2033b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).