republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-146.md

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Bill	Teacher compensation.	Requires the department of education (department) to submit a report to the general assembly before November 1, 2025, that provides an analysis of the feasibility and cost of increasing school corporation employee health plan options. Creates the Indiana teacher recruitment program. Beginning June 30, 2025: (1) increases the minimum salary for a teacher employed by a school corporation to $45,000 (current law requires $40,000); and (2) requires a school corporation to expend an amount for teacher compensation that is not less than 65% of state tuition support (current law requires 62%). Amends the requirements for a school corporation and the department if the school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot meet minimum teacher salary requirements. Removes a provision that provides that the matrix rating system may not rank or compare teacher preparation programs.	us/states/in	Indiana General Assembly	2025	SB 146	Indiana SB 146 (2025)	bill	AGENCIES; Commission for Higher Education (CHE) AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education CHILDREN AND MINORS; Adoption CHILDREN AND MINORS; Foster Care CHILDREN AND MINORS; Generally ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Generally GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Uniform Laws and Compacts HEALTH; Pregnancy INSURANCE; Health Insurance LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT; Collective Bargaining Benefits and Wages SCHOOLS; Charter Schools SCHOOLS; Financial Assistance (Including Vouchers Choice Scholarships and Education Savings Accounts) SCHOOLS; Funds and Budgets SCHOOLS; Officers and Employees (Other than Teachers) SCHOOLS; Teachers STATE GOVERNMENT; Employees	enacted	Daryl Schmitt Jake Teshka Jeff Raatz Linda Rogers	4	43	6	2025-01-13	2025-05-06	openstates	ocd-bill/9e11a45e-705a-4337-b4d2-cd368d498d26	https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0146	3efbf7943a1f6e1f659e9abb66b848fcbc81cef34aa37c245bbba92cd9aa7366	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-in

Indiana SB 146 (2025) — Teacher compensation.

Requires the department of education (department) to submit a report to the general assembly before November 1, 2025, that provides an analysis of the feasibility and cost of increasing school corporation employee health plan options. Creates the Indiana teacher recruitment program. Beginning June 30, 2025: (1) increases the minimum salary for a teacher employed by a school corporation to $45,000 (current law requires $40,000); and (2) requires a school corporation to expend an amount for teacher compensation that is not less than 65% of state tuition support (current law requires 62%). Amends the requirements for a school corporation and the department if the school corporation determines that the school corporation cannot meet minimum teacher salary requirements. Removes a provision that provides that the matrix rating system may not rank or compare teacher preparation programs.

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 146 - Rogers - 2nd Reading — 11–38 (fail) · upper
• SB 146 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 146 - Rogers - 2nd Reading — 9–40 (fail) · upper
• SB 146 - Teshka — 90–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 146 - Teshka - 3rd Reading — 90–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 146 - Rogers — 47–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Daryl Schmitt — primary (person)
• Jake Teshka — primary (person)
• Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
• Linda Rogers — primary (person)
• Becky Cash — cosponsor (person)
• Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
• Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
• Gary Byrne — coauthor (person)
• Greg Goode — coauthor (person)
• Julie McGuire — cosponsor (person)
• Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
• Robert Behning — cosponsor (person)
• Ron Alting — coauthor (person)
• Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
• Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
• Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Authored by Senator Rogers
• 2025-01-13 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-01-23 Senator Raatz added as second author
• 2025-01-30 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-02-03 Amendment #1 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 47: yeas 9, nays 40 amendment-failure, failure
• 2025-02-03 Amendment #2 (Qaddoura) failed; Roll Call 46: yeas 11, nays 38 amendment-failure, failure
• 2025-02-03 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-02-03 Senator Schmitt added as third author
• 2025-02-04 Senator Goode added as coauthor
• 2025-02-04 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
• 2025-02-04 Senators Byrne, Deery, Johnson T added as coauthors
• 2025-02-04 Senators Donato and Buchanan added as coauthors
• 2025-02-04 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 68: yeas 50, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 House sponsor: Representative Teshka
• 2025-02-04 Cosponsors: Representatives Behning and McGuire
• 2025-02-05 Referred to the House referral
• 2025-03-03 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 Representative Cash added as cosponsor
• 2025-03-20 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-03-20 Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
• 2025-04-03 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
• 2025-04-07 Amendment #1 (Klinker) ruled out of order
• 2025-04-08 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 395: yeas 90, nays 1 passage, reading-3, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
• 2025-04-15 House advisors appointed: Behning, Cash, McGuire, DeLaney, Pfaff and Smith V
• 2025-04-15 Senator Doriot added as coauthor
• 2025-04-15 House conferees appointed: Teshka and Klinker
• 2025-04-15 Motion to dissent filed filing
• 2025-04-15 Senate dissented from House amendments
• 2025-04-17 Senate conferees appointed: Rogers and Hunley
• 2025-04-17 Senate advisors appointed: Yoder and Raatz
• 2025-04-23 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
• 2025-04-23 Senator Alting added as coauthor
• 2025-04-23 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
• 2025-04-23 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 532: yeas 90, nays 1
• 2025-04-23 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 497: yeas 47, nays 0
• 2025-04-24 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
• 2025-05-06 Public Law 190 became-law
• 2025-04-24 Signed by the Speaker passage
• 2025-05-06 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-29 Signed by the President of the Senate passage

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e11a45e-705a-4337-b4d2-cd368d498d26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).