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type: "Bill"
title: "Reading proficiency."
description: "Requires the department of education (department) to develop a method to identify students in grade 4 through grade 8 who: (1) did not pass the determinant evaluation of reading skills approved by the state board of education; and (2) are at risk of not being proficient in reading as determined by Lexile scores on the statewide summative assessment. Requires the department to develop guidance for schools regarding how to support students who are at risk of not being proficient in reading."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 6"
citation: "Indiana SB 6 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education", "EDUCATION; State Board of Education (SBOE)", "SCHOOLS; Academic Achievements and Outcomes (Including Diplomas)", "SCHOOLS; Curricula"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeff Raatz", "Linda Rogers", "Robert Behning"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e0baa40-571a-44e4-9d4c-ff0e9cea4857"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2024/bills/sb0006"
source_hash: "5fd00c9a8f16c81063ed34f6948f87666829ed8c76a0b843a784f9dd0f5e808d"
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 6 (2024) — Reading proficiency.
Requires the department of education (department) to develop a method to identify students in grade 4 through grade 8 who: (1) did not pass the determinant evaluation of reading skills approved by the state board of education; and (2) are at risk of not being proficient in reading as determined by Lexile scores on the statewide summative assessment. Requires the department to develop guidance for schools regarding how to support students who are at risk of not being proficient in reading.
## 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/SB0006/SB0006.04.ENRH.pdf)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0006/SB0006.01.INTR.pdf)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0006/SB0006.02.COMS.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/senate/bills/SB0006/SB0006.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 6 - Raatz - 3rd Reading — **490** (pass) · upper
- SB 6 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **921** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Linda Rogers — primary (person)
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-08** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** Authored by Senator Raatz
- **2024-01-11** Senator Crane added as coauthor
- **2024-01-18** Senator Rogers added as second author
- **2024-01-25** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-29** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 56: yeas 49, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** House sponsor: Representative Behning
- **2024-01-30** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
- **2024-01-31** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2024-02-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-19** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 163: yeas 92, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Returned to the Senate without amendments `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Public Law 7 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e0baa40-571a-44e4-9d4c-ff0e9cea4857`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).