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type: "Bill"
title: "Instruction on human sexuality."
description: "Provides that, if a school provides instruction on human sexuality or sexually transmitted infections, the instruction must include instruction concerning consent to sexual activity and a presentation on human growth and development during pregnancy. Provides that a school maintained by a school corporation may not use curricular materials to provide instruction on human sexuality that have not been approved by the governing body of a school corporation. Requires a school corporation to include certain information concerning instruction on human sexuality in the written consent forms provided to a parent of a student or a student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, before the student may receive instruction on human sexuality. Requires the governing body of a school corporation to publish a list of materials used in connection with instruction on human sexuality on the school's website and to include a link to the list of materials on electronically formatted written consent forms. Replaces references to \"sexually transmitted diseases\" with \"sexually transmitted infections\". Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 442"
citation: "Indiana SB 442 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION; Local School Boards", "HEALTH; Communicable Diseases", "Infectious Diseases", "HEALTH; Pregnancy", "SCHOOLS; Charter Schools", "SCHOOLS; Curricula", "SCHOOLS; Generally", "SCHOOLS; Health and Safety Issues", "SCHOOLS; Private Schools", "SCHOOLS; Textbooks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Byrne", "Jeff Raatz", "Michael Young", "Michelle Davis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd1974ff-0f2d-495f-a774-0e58426c7eb3"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/sb0442"
source_hash: "e3d5f3ff065ba933dd62f1a0ff298eb92f48fd88789666259b09be11cb2274ed"
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 442 (2025) — Instruction on human sexuality.
Provides that, if a school provides instruction on human sexuality or sexually transmitted infections, the instruction must include instruction concerning consent to sexual activity and a presentation on human growth and development during pregnancy. Provides that a school maintained by a school corporation may not use curricular materials to provide instruction on human sexuality that have not been approved by the governing body of a school corporation. Requires a school corporation to include certain information concerning instruction on human sexuality in the written consent forms provided to a parent of a student or a student, if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor, before the student may receive instruction on human sexuality. Requires the governing body of a school corporation to publish a list of materials used in connection with instruction on human sexuality on the school's website and to include a link to the list of materials on electronically formatted written consent forms. Replaces references to "sexually transmitted diseases" with "sexually transmitted infections". Makes conforming changes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0442/SB0442.04.ENGH.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0442/SB0442.05.ENRH.pdf)
3. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0442/SB0442.01.INTR.pdf)
4. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0442/SB0442.03.COMH.pdf)
## Votes
- SB 442 - Davis - 2nd Reading — **3159** (fail) · lower
- SB 442 - Byrne — **3512** (pass) · upper
- SB 442 - Davis — **7220** (pass) · lower
- SB 442 - Byrne - 3rd Reading — **399** (pass) · upper
- SB 442 - Davis - 3rd Reading — **7619** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gary Byrne — primary (person)
- Jeff Raatz — primary (person)
- Michael Young — primary (person)
- Michelle Davis — primary (person)
- David Abbott — cosponsor (person)
- Joanna King — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-13** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Authored by Senator Byrne
- **2025-02-03** Senator Raatz added as second author
- **2025-02-03** Senator Schmitt added as coauthor
- **2025-02-06** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10** Senator Young M added as third author
- **2025-02-10** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2025-02-11** House sponsor: Representative Davis
- **2025-02-11** Cosponsor: Representative King
- **2025-02-11** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 109: yeas 39, nays 9 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Representative Abbott added as cosponsor
- **2025-04-09** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-14** Amendment #2 (Errington) failed; Roll Call 439: yeas 31, nays 59 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2025-04-14** Amendment #3 (Pfaff) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-14** Amendment #1 (Hamilton) prevailed; voice vote `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-14** Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 451: yeas 76, nays 19 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-16** Senate dissented from House amendments
- **2025-04-16** House conferees appointed: Davis and Pfaff
- **2025-04-16** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-16** House advisors appointed: Behning, Cash, Payne, DeLaney, Klinker and Smith V
- **2025-04-17** Senate advisors appointed: Yoder and Raatz
- **2025-04-17** Senate conferees appointed: Byrne and Hunley
- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
- **2025-04-23** Senator Schmitt removed as coauthor
- **2025-04-23** Representative McGuire added as conferee
- **2025-04-23** Senator Hunley removed as conferee
- **2025-04-23** Representative Pfaff removed as conferee
- **2025-04-23** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
- **2025-04-23** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 534: yeas 72, nays 20
- **2025-04-23** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 499: yeas 35, nays 12
- **2025-04-23** Senator Raatz removed as advisor
- **2025-04-23** Senator Raatz added as conferee
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 204 `became-law`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-24** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd1974ff-0f2d-495f-a774-0e58426c7eb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).