republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2024/sb-211.md

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Bill	Excellence in civic engagement designation and school meetings.	Requires the department of education (department), in collaboration with the commission for higher education and subject to the approval of the state board, to establish an excellence in civic engagement designation. Requires the department to develop recommendations for an excellence in civics education designation for schools. Provides that the public hearing required before a school employer and school employee may privately negotiate certain matters may take place at a regular or special meeting of the school's governing body.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2024	SB 211	Indiana SB 211 (2024)	bill	AGENCIES; Commission for Higher Education (CHE) AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining Benefits and Wages SCHOOLS; Academic Achievements and Outcomes (Including Diplomas) SCHOOLS; Curricula	enacted	Jeff Raatz John Crane Robert Behning Stacey Donato	6	37	5	2024-01-10	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c49a0b90-7509-4bd3-bd1c-856a4c51281a	https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0211	6794c354347273a7f416bba4768144545c6e3783843d1339a917da282fa96474	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 211 (2024) — Excellence in civic engagement designation and school meetings.

Requires the department of education (department), in collaboration with the commission for higher education and subject to the approval of the state board, to establish an excellence in civic engagement designation. Requires the department to develop recommendations for an excellence in civics education designation for schools. Provides that the public hearing required before a school employer and school employee may privately negotiate certain matters may take place at a regular or special meeting of the school's governing body.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• SB 211 - Behning — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 211 - Raatz — 43–4 (pass) · upper
• SB 211 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — 38–10 (pass) · upper
• SB 211 - Behning - 3rd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 211 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• John Crane — primary (person)
• Robert Behning — primary (person)
• Stacey Donato — primary (person)
• Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Authored by Senator Raatz
• 2024-01-11 Senator Crane added as coauthor
• 2024-02-01 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-05 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-05 Senator Crane removed as coauthor
• 2024-02-05 Senator Crane added as third author
• 2024-02-05 Senator Donato added as second author
• 2024-02-05 Amendment #2 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2024-02-06 House sponsor: Representative Behning
• 2024-02-06 Cosponsor: Representative Davis
• 2024-02-06 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 133: yeas 38, nays 10 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-07 Referred to the House referral
• 2024-02-12 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Amendment #4 (DeLaney) prevailed; Roll Call 202: yeas 93, nays 0 amendment-passage
• 2024-02-26 Amendment #3 (DeLaney) ruled out of order
• 2024-02-26 Amendment #2 (Hamilton) ruled out of order
• 2024-02-26 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Amendment #1 (Behning) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
• 2024-02-27 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 229: yeas 93, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2024-03-05 Senate advisors appointed: Qaddoura and Baldwin
• 2024-03-05 Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Yoder
• 2024-03-05 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2024-03-05 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2024-03-05 House advisors appointed: Davis, Payne, Cash and Smith V
• 2024-03-05 House conferees appointed: Behning and DeLaney
• 2024-03-08 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2024-03-08 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 318: yeas 43, nays 4
• 2024-03-08 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 343: yeas 98, nays 0
• 2024-03-08 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2024-03-11 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2024-03-12 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-13 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2024-03-13 Public Law 114 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c49a0b90-7509-4bd3-bd1c-856a4c51281a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).