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type: "Bill"
title: "Absenteeism and school attendance."
description: "Amends the duties of an attendance officer and the state attendance officer. Requires, not later than November 1 of each year, the state attendance officer to submit a report to the legislative council containing recommended legislation based on the state attendance officer's discussions with attendance officers. Requires each governing authority of a school corporation and charter school to establish a truancy prevention policy regarding certain students in kindergarten through grade 6. Provides that a prosecuting attorney shall notify each parent of a child when an affidavit is filed regarding the child's compulsory attendance violations or if the child is a habitual truant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 282"
citation: "Indiana SB 282 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS; Juvenile Courts", "CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE; Prosecuting Attorneys (Non-Elected)", "LAW ENFORCEMENT; Generally", "SCHOOLS; Discipline", "SCHOOLS; Officers and Employees (Other than Teachers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Raatz", "Linda Rogers", "Martin Carbaugh", "Stacey Donato"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05e9149d-8f1f-4f93-aba9-45efca19df80"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0282"
source_hash: "8ce0086ebc36ab3e5d8eb3f38be809e66dbb80e4abac50530c8ed32a2016ca5c"
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 282 (2024) — Absenteeism and school attendance.
Amends the duties of an attendance officer and the state attendance officer. Requires, not later than November 1 of each year, the state attendance officer to submit a report to the legislative council containing recommended legislation based on the state attendance officer's discussions with attendance officers. Requires each governing authority of a school corporation and charter school to establish a truancy prevention policy regarding certain students in kindergarten through grade 6. Provides that a prosecuting attorney shall notify each parent of a child when an affidavit is filed regarding the child's compulsory attendance violations or if the child is a habitual truant.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0282/SB0282.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0282/SB0282.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0282/SB0282.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0282/SB0282.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 282 - Donato — **470** (pass) · upper
- SB 282 - Donato - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 282 - Carbaugh — **926** (pass) · lower
- SB 282 - Carbaugh - 3rd Reading — **6631** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — primary (person)
- Stacey Donato — primary (person)
- Brian Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Chris Garten — coauthor (person)
- Dan Dernulc — coauthor (person)
- Jack Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Jake Teshka — cosponsor (person)
- Jean Leising — coauthor (person)
- Julie McGuire — cosponsor (person)
- Michael Crider — coauthor (person)
- Scott Alexander — coauthor (person)
- Spencer Deery — coauthor (person)
- Tyler Johnson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-16** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Authored by Senator Donato
- **2024-01-29** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2024-01-29** Senator Alexander added as coauthor
- **2024-01-29** Senator Raatz added as third author
- **2024-01-29** Senator Deery added as coauthor
- **2024-01-29** Senators Crider and Johnson T added as coauthors
- **2024-02-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-01** Senator Dernulc added as coauthor
- **2024-02-05** Senators Leising, Buchanan, Garten added as coauthors
- **2024-02-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** House sponsor: Representative Carbaugh
- **2024-02-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 144: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** Cosponsors: Representatives Teshka, McGuire, Jordan
- **2024-02-07** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-12** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 66, nays 31 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Senate advisors appointed: Ford J.D., Raatz and Rogers
- **2024-03-05** House conferees appointed: Carbaugh and Pfaff
- **2024-03-05** House advisors appointed: Cherry, Teshka, McGuire and Klinker
- **2024-03-05** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2024-03-05** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2024-03-05** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2024-03-05** Senate conferees appointed: Donato and Yoder
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2024-03-07** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 332: yeas 92, nays 6
- **2024-03-13** Public Law 125 `became-law`
- **2024-03-13** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-12** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 312: yeas 47, nays 0
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05e9149d-8f1f-4f93-aba9-45efca19df80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).