republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2023/hb-1447.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education matters."
description: "Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing certain personal analyses, evaluations, or surveys, the third party vendor and the school corporation or qualified school may not record, collect, or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey, the school corporation or qualified school must provide parents or students, as applicable, two requests for written consent before administering the analysis, evaluation, or survey. Provides that the school corporation or qualified school may administer the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey if a parent or student, as applicable, does not decline the analysis, evaluation, or survey. Requires each school corporation or qualified school to: (1) post a copy of a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey on the school corporation's or qualified school's website; and (2) send with each notice an explanation of the reasons that the school corporation or qualified school is administering the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey. Requires each qualified school to establish and maintain a grievance procedure for complaints regarding a violation of this provision. Provides that, if a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school or an employee of a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school requires, makes part of a course, awards a grade or course credit, or otherwise incentivizes a student to engage in: (1) political activism; (2) lobbying; or (3) efforts to persuade members of the legislative or executive branch at the federal, state, or local level; the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school or the employee of the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school shall not require the student to adopt, affirm, affiliate, or take any action that would result in favoring any particular position on the issue or issues involved without offering an alternative option for the student to complete the assignment or receive extra credit or other incentivization that allows for the favoring of an alternative position. After June 30, 2023, requires certain contracts between a school corporation or a qualified school and a third party vendor concerning a personal analysis, survey, or evaluation to contain a breach of contract provision. Requires schools to adopt policies and procedures concerning material alleged to be obscene or harmful to minors. Removes schools from the list of entities eligible for a specified defense to such criminal prosecutions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1447"
citation: "Indiana HB 1447 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["SCHOOLS generally (K-12)", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula", "STATE AGENCIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Donna Schaibley", "Jeff Raatz", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/070e6939-9c2f-4518-8f51-1e79c30fc98e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1447"
source_hash: "3e0ba321c0d87c357fca141b08117c73c3764e918a91fcf6ecd94a5eedc6af36"
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 HB 1447 (2023) — Education matters.

Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing certain personal analyses, evaluations, or surveys, the third party vendor and the school corporation or qualified school may not record, collect, or maintain the responses to or results of the analysis, evaluation, or survey in a manner that would identify the responses or results of an individual student. Provides that, if a school corporation or qualified school uses a third party vendor in providing the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey, the school corporation or qualified school must provide parents or students, as applicable, two requests for written consent before administering the analysis, evaluation, or survey. Provides that the school corporation or qualified school may administer the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey if a parent or student, as applicable, does not decline the analysis, evaluation, or survey. Requires each school corporation or qualified school to: (1) post a copy of a personal analysis, evaluation, or survey on the school corporation's or qualified school's website; and (2) send with each notice an explanation of the reasons that the school corporation or qualified school is administering the personal analysis, evaluation, or survey. Requires each qualified school to establish and maintain a grievance procedure for complaints regarding a violation of this provision. Provides that, if a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school or an employee of a state agency, school corporation, or qualified school requires, makes part of a course, awards a grade or course credit, or otherwise incentivizes a student to engage in: (1) political activism; (2) lobbying; or (3) efforts to persuade members of the legislative or executive branch at the federal, state, or local level; the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school or the employee of the state agency, school corporation, or qualified school shall not require the student to adopt, affirm, affiliate, or take any action that would result in favoring any particular position on the issue or issues involved without offering an alternative option for the student to complete the assignment or receive extra credit or other incentivization that allows for the favoring of an alternative position. After June 30, 2023, requires certain contracts between a school corporation or a qualified school and a third party vendor concerning a personal analysis, survey, or evaluation to contain a breach of contract provision. Requires schools to adopt policies and procedures concerning material alleged to be obscene or harmful to minors. Removes schools from the list of entities eligible for a specified defense to such criminal prosecutions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1447/versions/HB1447.04.ENRS)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1447/versions/HB1447.02.COMH)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1447/versions/HB1447.03.COMS)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/HB1447/versions/HB1447.01.INTR)

## Votes

- HB 1447 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **37–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Donna Schaibley — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Becky Cash — coauthor (person)
- Julie McGuire — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Authored by Representative Schaibley
- **2023-01-17** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Representative McGuire J added as coauthor
- **2023-02-16** Representative Cash B added as coauthor
- **2023-02-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** Senate sponsors: Senators Donato and Raatz
- **2023-02-23** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 223: yeas 94, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2023-03-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 294: yeas 37, nays 10 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-04** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-06** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2023-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2023-04-06** House conferees appointed: Lehman and Smith V
- **2023-04-06** House advisors appointed: Schaibley, Cash, DeLaney and Pfaff
- **2023-04-10** Representative Lehman removed as conferee
- **2023-04-10** Representative Carbaugh added as conferee
- **2023-04-10** Representative Behning added as advisor
- **2023-04-11** Senate conferees appointed: Donato and Hunley
- **2023-04-11** Senate advisors appointed: Ford J.D., Raatz and Tomes
- **2023-04-26** Senator Raatz removed as advisor
- **2023-04-26** Senator Hunley removed as conferee
- **2023-04-26** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2023-04-26** Representative Cash removed as advisor
- **2023-04-26** Representative Smith V removed as conferee
- **2023-04-26** Representative Cash added as conferee
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2023-04-27** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 535: yeas 69, nays 28
- **2023-04-27** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 520: yeas 39, nays 10
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-04** Public Law 234 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/070e6939-9c2f-4518-8f51-1e79c30fc98e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).