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Bill Various education matters. Removes and repeals various education provisions and expired education provisions, including provisions concerning the following: (1) Secretary of education criteria. (2) Certain department of education (department) requirements. (3) The advisory committee on career and technical education. (4) Use of hearing examiners by the state board of education (state board). (5) Credit for retaking a virtual course during certain time periods. (6) Children's social, emotional, and behavioral health plans. (7) Family friendly school designations. (8) The Indiana civic education commission. (9) Discretionary directives to the department. (10) The program for the advancement of math and science. (11) Access to telecommunication services. (12) Elementary school counselors, social workers, and school psychologists program and fund. (13) Grants for mental health counselor licenses for school counselors. (14) The arts education program. (15) The geothermal conversion revolving fund. (16) Clause requirements for certain charter school organizer documents. (17) Required acknowledgment by a current authorizer regarding a proposal by an existing charter school to another authorizer. (18) Requirements regarding a governing body of a school corporation (governing body) providing a noncharter school. (19) Charter requirements, including minimum year and annual performance target requirements. (20) Certain notice requirements from an authorizer to an organizer that is not in compliance. (21) Indiana school for the arts. (22) Allowing the board of trustees of Vincennes University to establish a grammar school. (23) Designation of certain committees by a governing body. (24) Governing body use of funds for associations. (25) Developing and reviewing evidence based plans with parents for improving student behavior and discipline. (26) Township trustees and the sale of schoolhouses. (27) School health advisory councils and adoption of a school corporation policy on child nutrition and physical activity. (28) Certain agreement requirements regarding joint programs. (29) Certain requirements regarding the transfer of a student to another school. (30) Freeway school corporation and freeway school program. (31) Policies, programs, and reports regarding criminal organization activity. (32) Transportation program discretion. (33) Recommendations regarding certain powers and duties of the department. (34) Culturally responsive methods. (35) Certain training and professional development requirements. (36) Certain teacher leave requirements. (37) Ineligibility for state funds for adopting residence requirements. (38) Certain compensation included in computing a teacher's retirement benefit. (39) Penalty for failing to comply with working schedule requirements. (40) Discretionary modification of graduation plan. (41) Required course on safety education. (42) Compilation of leaflets regarding hygiene, sanitary science, and disease prevention. (43) Making a violation regarding teaching certain disease information an infraction. (44) Certain elective courses and teachings. (45) Voluntary summer school program and joint summer school program requirements. (46) Technology preparation curriculum. (47) Community or volunteer service programs. (48) Nonsession school activities. (49) Requirements regarding Indiana academic standards. (50) Strategic and continuous improvement and achievement plans. (51) Cultural competency. (52) Student educational achievement grants. (53) Remediation grant program. (54) Postsecondary workforce training program remediation reduction. (55) Requirement to provide an enrollment form for the twenty-first century scholars program to certain students. (56) Governor's scholars academy. (57) Seminary township school fund. (58) Dual credit teacher stipend matching grant fund. (59) Student enrichment grants. (60) The study of ethnic and racial groups as a semester elective course. (61) Requirements regarding proposed charter school economic interest statements. (62) Certain charter requirements for adult high schools. (63) Required policies on contacting employment references. (64) Certain requirements concerning staff performance evaluations. (65) Authorizer responsibility for charter school compliance with applicable legal standards. (66) Certain nondiscrimination provisions regarding students who transfer from charter schools to public noncharter schools. Merges and amends provisions regarding fund distribution upon the termination of a charter and the cessation of a charter school. Amends the age eligibility for a member of a governing body. Amends the time period by which a governing body must organize by electing officers. Establishes information that must be included in a consolidated audit by an organizer. Provides adult high schools are excluded from all cohort based graduation rate calculations except to the extent required under federal law. Amends the termination and notice requirements with regard to terminating a transportation program. Relocates and amends a provision regarding classroom instruction curriculum in teacher preparation programs. Provides that the secretary of education (instead of the governor) shall appoint the director of special education. Amends required frequency of child abuse and neglect training. Requires the department to make a list of best practices and guidelines regarding classroom behavioral management strategies and a list of best practices to reduce student discipline. Permits the governing body of a school corporation or an organizer of a charter school to assess and collect a reasonable fee for certain supplies and materials. Amends certain financial statement filing requirements regarding school trusts to pool assets for insurance coverage. Repeals a provision regarding requiring certain CSA participating entities to provide evidence of certain unencumbered assets. Makes technical and conforming changes. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2025 HB 1002 Indiana HB 1002 (2025)
bill
AGENCIES; Commission for Higher Education (CHE)
AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education
AGENCIES; Department of Insurance (IDOI)
BOARDS
COMMISSIONS
AND COUNCILS; Generally
COUNTIES; Vanderburgh
CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Human Trafficking
EDUCATION; Generally
EDUCATION; State Board of Education (SBOE)
HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; Behavioral Health
HIGHER EDUCATION; Colleges and Universities (Including Ivy Tech)
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining
Benefits
and Wages
LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS; Township Trustees
SCHOOLS; Charter Schools
SCHOOLS; Curricula
SCHOOLS; Discipline
SCHOOLS; Health and Safety Issues
SCHOOLS; Teachers
SOCIAL SERVICES; Social Workers
enacted
Jeff Raatz
Linda Rogers
Robert Behning
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Indiana HB 1002 (2025) — Various education matters.

Removes and repeals various education provisions and expired education provisions, including provisions concerning the following: (1) Secretary of education criteria. (2) Certain department of education (department) requirements. (3) The advisory committee on career and technical education. (4) Use of hearing examiners by the state board of education (state board). (5) Credit for retaking a virtual course during certain time periods. (6) Children's social, emotional, and behavioral health plans. (7) Family friendly school designations. (8) The Indiana civic education commission. (9) Discretionary directives to the department. (10) The program for the advancement of math and science. (11) Access to telecommunication services. (12) Elementary school counselors, social workers, and school psychologists program and fund. (13) Grants for mental health counselor licenses for school counselors. (14) The arts education program. (15) The geothermal conversion revolving fund. (16) Clause requirements for certain charter school organizer documents. (17) Required acknowledgment by a current authorizer regarding a proposal by an existing charter school to another authorizer. (18) Requirements regarding a governing body of a school corporation (governing body) providing a noncharter school. (19) Charter requirements, including minimum year and annual performance target requirements. (20) Certain notice requirements from an authorizer to an organizer that is not in compliance. (21) Indiana school for the arts. (22) Allowing the board of trustees of Vincennes University to establish a grammar school. (23) Designation of certain committees by a governing body. (24) Governing body use of funds for associations. (25) Developing and reviewing evidence based plans with parents for improving student behavior and discipline. (26) Township trustees and the sale of schoolhouses. (27) School health advisory councils and adoption of a school corporation policy on child nutrition and physical activity. (28) Certain agreement requirements regarding joint programs. (29) Certain requirements regarding the transfer of a student to another school. (30) Freeway school corporation and freeway school program. (31) Policies, programs, and reports regarding criminal organization activity. (32) Transportation program discretion. (33) Recommendations regarding certain powers and duties of the department. (34) Culturally responsive methods. (35) Certain training and professional development requirements. (36) Certain teacher leave requirements. (37) Ineligibility for state funds for adopting residence requirements. (38) Certain compensation included in computing a teacher's retirement benefit. (39) Penalty for failing to comply with working schedule requirements. (40) Discretionary modification of graduation plan. (41) Required course on safety education. (42) Compilation of leaflets regarding hygiene, sanitary science, and disease prevention. (43) Making a violation regarding teaching certain disease information an infraction. (44) Certain elective courses and teachings. (45) Voluntary summer school program and joint summer school program requirements. (46) Technology preparation curriculum. (47) Community or volunteer service programs. (48) Nonsession school activities. (49) Requirements regarding Indiana academic standards. (50) Strategic and continuous improvement and achievement plans. (51) Cultural competency. (52) Student educational achievement grants. (53) Remediation grant program. (54) Postsecondary workforce training program remediation reduction. (55) Requirement to provide an enrollment form for the twenty-first century scholars program to certain students. (56) Governor's scholars academy. (57) Seminary township school fund. (58) Dual credit teacher stipend matching grant fund. (59) Student enrichment grants. (60) The study of ethnic and racial groups as a semester elective course. (61) Requirements regarding proposed charter school economic interest statements. (62) Certain charter requirements for adult high schools. (63) Required policies on contacting employment references. (64) Certain requirements concerning staff performance evaluations. (65) Authorizer responsibility for charter school compliance with applicable legal standards. (66) Certain nondiscrimination provisions regarding students who transfer from charter schools to public noncharter schools. Merges and amends provisions regarding fund distribution upon the termination of a charter and the cessation of a charter school. Amends the age eligibility for a member of a governing body. Amends the time period by which a governing body must organize by electing officers. Establishes information that must be included in a consolidated audit by an organizer. Provides adult high schools are excluded from all cohort based graduation rate calculations except to the extent required under federal law. Amends the termination and notice requirements with regard to terminating a transportation program. Relocates and amends a provision regarding classroom instruction curriculum in teacher preparation programs. Provides that the secretary of education (instead of the governor) shall appoint the director of special education. Amends required frequency of child abuse and neglect training. Requires the department to make a list of best practices and guidelines regarding classroom behavioral management strategies and a list of best practices to reduce student discipline. Permits the governing body of a school corporation or an organizer of a charter school to assess and collect a reasonable fee for certain supplies and materials. Amends certain financial statement filing requirements regarding school trusts to pool assets for insurance coverage. Repeals a provision regarding requiring certain CSA participating entities to provide evidence of certain unencumbered assets. Makes technical and conforming changes.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

  • HB 1002 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 2862 (fail) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Behning — 6125 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Behning - 3rd Reading — 7516 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 883 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 3060 (fail) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Raatz - 2nd Reading — 1132 (fail) · upper
  • HB 1002 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 6327 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 2863 (fail) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Behning - 2nd Reading — 910 (pass) · lower
  • HB 1002 - Raatz - 2nd Reading — 934 (fail) · upper
  • HB 1002 - Raatz — 2721 (pass) · upper
  • HB 1002 - Raatz - 2nd Reading — 932 (fail) · upper
  • HB 1002 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — 3118 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
  • Linda Rogers — primary (person)
  • Robert Behning — primary (person)
  • Hunter Smith — coauthor (person)
  • Jack Jordan — coauthor (person)
  • Jake Teshka — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-01-13 Authored by Representative Behning
  • 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2025-01-13 Coauthored by Representatives Teshka and Smith H
  • 2025-01-27 Representative Jordan added as coauthor
  • 2025-01-27 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #3 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 38: yeas 28, nays 63 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #7 (Klinker) failed; Roll Call 41: yeas 28, nays 62 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #6 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 40: yeas 88, nays 3 amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #5 (Smith V) prevailed; Roll Call 39: yeas 91, nays 0 amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #2 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 37: yeas 30, nays 60 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #1 (DeLaney) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #9 (Behning) prevailed; Roll Call 36: yeas 63, nays 27 amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Amendment #8 (Teshka) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
  • 2025-01-30 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-02-03 Cosponsor: Senator Rogers
  • 2025-02-03 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 64: yeas 75, nays 16 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-02-03 Senate sponsor: Senator Raatz
  • 2025-02-04 Referred to the Senate referral
  • 2025-02-18 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2025-03-10 Senator Rogers removed as cosponsor
  • 2025-03-10 Senator Rogers added as second sponsor
  • 2025-03-27 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2025-04-03 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2025-04-10 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2025-04-10 Amendment #9 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 378: yeas 11, nays 32 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-04-10 Amendment #15 (Yoder) failed; Roll Call 380: yeas 9, nays 34 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-04-10 Amendment #21 (Ford J.D.) failed; Roll Call 379: yeas 9, nays 32 amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-04-10 Amendment #17 (Yoder) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-04-10 Amendment #11 (Hunley) failed; voice vote amendment-failure, failure
  • 2025-04-10 Amendment #7 (Qaddoura) prevailed; voice vote amendment-passage
  • 2025-04-15 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 420: yeas 31, nays 18 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2025-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2025-04-16 House dissented from Senate amendments
  • 2025-04-16 Returned to the House with amendments receipt
  • 2025-04-16 House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
  • 2025-04-16 House advisors appointed: Davis, McGuire, Smith H, DeLaney, Klinker and Pfaff
  • 2025-04-16 Motion to dissent filed filing
  • 2025-04-17 Senate advisors appointed: Qaddoura and Rogers
  • 2025-04-17 Senate conferees appointed: Raatz and Yoder
  • 2025-04-23 Representative Davis removed as advisor
  • 2025-04-23 Representative Smith V removed as conferee
  • 2025-04-23 Representative Davis added as conferee
  • 2025-04-28 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2025-04-24 Senator Rogers removed as advisor
  • 2025-05-06 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-04-24 Senator Rogers added as conferee
  • 2025-04-24 Senator Yoder removed as conferee
  • 2025-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
  • 2025-05-06 Public Law 214 became-law
  • 2025-04-29 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2025-04-24 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 530: yeas 27, nays 21
  • 2025-04-25 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2025-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2025-04-24 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 563: yeas 61, nays 25

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0035dca0-4c16-4956-993c-43b577b7248d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).