republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2025/sb-366.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education matters."
description: "Requires, not later than October 1, 2025, the secretary of education to compile and prepare a report concerning school bus driver safety education training. Makes certain changes concerning the process of filling a school board vacancy. Provides that a superintendent is preferred (current law says required) to hold a master's degree from certain institutions. Provides that certain covered school buildings are not required to revert to a school corporation if the building is subject to ongoing renovations. Provides that a superintendent must discuss a plan for annual performance evaluations with teachers (instead of teachers or the teachers' representative). Requires, not later than August 1, 2025, the early learning advisory committee, in coordination with the department of education, to assess certain prekindergarten program matters and submit a report to the legislative council. Removes a provision that contracts with certain superintendents must be in a form of a regular teacher's contract."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 366"
citation: "Indiana SB 366 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education", "EDUCATION; Local School Boards", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Generally", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY; Legislative Council", "HIGHER EDUCATION; Academics and Curriculum", "SCHOOLS; Buildings and Grounds", "SCHOOLS; Buses", "SCHOOLS; Charter Schools", "SCHOOLS; Funds and Budgets", "SCHOOLS; Generally", "SCHOOLS; Officers and Employees (Other than Teachers)", "SCHOOLS; Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten", "SCHOOLS; Teachers", "TASK FORCES AND COMMITTEES; New"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Raatz", "Linda Rogers", "Robert Behning", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14e30dcd-2887-4435-b556-92febfb6e58f"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0366"
source_hash: "e83e989d4626c31f950d2494f06341b815cc655e2f04911e9681e77990f656dd"
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 366 (2025) — Education matters.

Requires, not later than October 1, 2025, the secretary of education to compile and prepare a report concerning school bus driver safety education training. Makes certain changes concerning the process of filling a school board vacancy. Provides that a superintendent is preferred (current law says required) to hold a master's degree from certain institutions. Provides that certain covered school buildings are not required to revert to a school corporation if the building is subject to ongoing renovations. Provides that a superintendent must discuss a plan for annual performance evaluations with teachers (instead of teachers or the teachers' representative). Requires, not later than August 1, 2025, the early learning advisory committee, in coordination with the department of education, to assess certain prekindergarten program matters and submit a report to the legislative council. Removes a provision that contracts with certain superintendents must be in a form of a regular teacher's contract.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0366/SB0366.03.ENGS.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0366/SB0366.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0366/SB0366.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0366/SB0366.04.COMH.pdf)

## Votes

- SB 366 - Rogers - 3rd Reading — **30–16** (pass) · upper
- SB 366 - Rogers — **24–13** (fail) · upper
- SB 366 - Rogers — **29–17** (pass) · upper
- SB 366 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **63–27** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Hunter Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Julie McGuire — cosponsor (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`
- **2025-02-03** Senator Donato added as second author
- **2025-02-03** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2025-02-03** Senator Buchanan added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Amendment #2 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2025-02-13** Cosponsors: Representatives McGuire and Smith H
- **2025-02-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 126: yeas 30, nays 16 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-14** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 401: yeas 63, nays 27 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-16** Concurrence failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 461: yeas 24, nays 13 `failure`
- **2025-04-17** Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 469: yeas 29, nays 17
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-22** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-23** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Public Law 135 `became-law`
- **2025-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14e30dcd-2887-4435-b556-92febfb6e58f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).