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type: "Bill"
title: "Education matters."
description: "Makes changes to the requirements necessary to obtain an initial practitioner license for an individual who completes an alternative teacher certification program and changes regarding teaching special education under the license. Provides that, for school years beginning after June 30, 2022, a school corporation may provide a supplemental payment to a teacher in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. (Current law allows a school corporation to provide supplemental payment to a teacher in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan if certain circumstances apply.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 356"
citation: "Indiana SB 356 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "Secretary of Education", "State Department and Boards", "SCHOOLS", "Special Education and Special Programs", "SCHOOLS", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Buchanan", "Jeff Raatz", "Linda Rogers", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4acf3f36-392f-432e-80ef-0a0bbadbeac9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/356"
source_hash: "8dcc61387b1c82aa277f80dd2ab25775025884fa3f9d8ef2d0762f52aa4b9b85"
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 356 (2022) — Education matters.
Makes changes to the requirements necessary to obtain an initial practitioner license for an individual who completes an alternative teacher certification program and changes regarding teaching special education under the license. Provides that, for school years beginning after June 30, 2022, a school corporation may provide a supplemental payment to a teacher in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan. (Current law allows a school corporation to provide supplemental payment to a teacher in excess of the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan if certain circumstances apply.)
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0356/versions/SB0356.03.ENGS)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0356/versions/SB0356.05.ENRH)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0356/versions/SB0356.01.INTR)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0356/versions/SB0356.04.COMH)
5. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2022/bills/SB0356/versions/SB0356.02.COMS)
## Votes
- SB 356 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **6432** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Brian Buchanan — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Andy Zay — coauthor (person)
- Blake Doriot — coauthor (person)
- Chip Perfect — coauthor (person)
- Chuck Goodrich — cosponsor (person)
- Dennis Kruse — coauthor (person)
- Eric Bassler — coauthor (person)
- Greg Walker — coauthor (person)
- Jack Sandlin — coauthor (person)
- Jake Teshka — cosponsor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Liz Brown — coauthor (person)
- Mike Gaskill — coauthor (person)
- Philip Boots — coauthor (person)
- Stacey Donato — coauthor (person)
- Travis Holdman — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-11** Authored by Senator Rogers
- **2022-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2022-01-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Senator Buchanan added as second author
- **2022-01-31** Senators Brown L and Gaskill added as coauthors
- **2022-01-31** Senators Donato, Bassler, Boots, Kruse added as coauthors
- **2022-01-31** Senator Doriot added as coauthor
- **2022-01-31** Senator Crane added as coauthor
- **2022-01-31** Senators Perfect, Sandlin, Holdman added as coauthors
- **2022-01-31** Senators Zay and Walker G added as coauthors
- **2022-01-31** Amendment #11 (Rogers) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-failure, amendment-passage`
- **2022-01-31** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 180: yeas 31, nays 18 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2022-02-01** Cosponsors: Representatives Goodrich and Teshka J
- **2022-02-02** Referred to the House
- **2022-02-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-23** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 265: yeas 25, nays 63 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-23** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 301: yeas 64, nays 32 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Returned to the Senate with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-01** Motion to dissent filed
- **2022-03-01** Senate dissented from House amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-02** House conferees appointed: Behning and DeLaney
- **2022-03-02** House advisors appointed: Goodrich, Clere and Smith V
- **2022-03-02** Senate conferees appointed: Rogers and Qaddoura
- **2022-03-02** Senate advisors appointed: Buchanan and Yoder
- **2022-03-07** Senator Qaddoura removed as conferee
- **2022-03-07** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2022-03-08** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2022-03-08** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2022-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 376: yeas 64, nays 30
- **2022-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 358: yeas 39, nays 11
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-15** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2022-03-15** Public Law 134
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4acf3f36-392f-432e-80ef-0a0bbadbeac9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).