republic-os/legislation/us/states/in/2018/hb-1242.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1242"
citation: "Indiana HB 1242 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS", "SCHOOLS", "Transfers and Tuition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Baird", "Ronald Grooms"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/979b3965-3fc4-40b8-9139-f122e2a36c65"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/house/1242"
source_hash: "decc8ba42d66441fe8c705286275bf1594d87444d8f6a88efb9ce3c9d5c03bee"
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 1242 (2018) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning higher education.

## 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/2018/bills/hb1242/versions/hb1242.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1242/versions/hb1242.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1242/versions/hb1242.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2018/bills/hb1242/versions/hb1242.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1242 - Grooms - 3rd Reading — **35–14** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1242 - Baird - 3rd Reading — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James Baird — primary (person)
- Ronald Grooms — primary (person)
- Alan Morrison — coauthor (person)
- Ben Smaltz — coauthor (person)
- Brian Bosma — coauthor (person)
- Bruce Borders — coauthor (person)
- Chris Judy — coauthor (person)
- Cindy Kirchhofer — coauthor (person)
- Dan Forestal — coauthor (person)
- David Ober — coauthor (person)
- David Wolkins — coauthor (person)
- Dennis Zent — coauthor (person)
- Donna Schaibley — coauthor (person)
- Doug Gutwein — coauthor (person)
- Doug Miller — coauthor (person)
- Earl Harris — coauthor (person)
- Edward Clere — coauthor (person)
- Gregory Porter — coauthor (person)
- Harold Slager — coauthor (person)
- Heath VanNatter — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Ellington — coauthor (person)
- Jeffrey Thompson — coauthor (person)
- Joe Taylor — coauthor (person)
- John Bartlett — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Linda Lawson — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Martin Carbaugh — coauthor (person)
- Mike Aylesworth — coauthor (person)
- Peggy Mayfield — coauthor (person)
- Randall Frye — coauthor (person)
- Richard Hamm — coauthor (person)
- Robert Behning — coauthor (person)
- Robert Cherry — coauthor (person)
- Ronald Bacon — coauthor (person)
- Ryan Hatfield — coauthor (person)
- Sally Siegrist — coauthor (person)
- Scott Pelath — coauthor (person)
- Sean Eberhart — coauthor (person)
- Shane Lindauer — coauthor (person)
- Sharon Negele — coauthor (person)
- Sheila Klinker — coauthor (person)
- Steve Bartels — coauthor (person)
- Steven Stemler — coauthor (person)
- Terry Goodin — coauthor (person)
- Wendy McNamara — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-11** Authored by Representative Baird
- **2018-01-11** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-16** Representative Bartlett added as coauthor
- **2018-01-18** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** Representatives Cherry and Klinker added as coauthors
- **2018-01-22** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 33: yeas 96, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-01-22** Senate sponsor: Senator Grooms
- **2018-01-23** Referred to the Senate
- **2018-01-23** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-01-23** Representatives Bosma, Thompson, McNamara, Olthoff, Smaltz, Gutwein, Ober, Wolkins, Carbaugh, Behning, Eberhart, Bartels, Aylesworth, Lindauer, Siegrist, Frye, Judy, Clere, VanNatter, Hatfield, Stemler, Taylor J, Forestal, Lawson, Porter, Pelath, Goodin added as coauthors
- **2018-01-23** Representatives Bacon, Borders, Ellington, Mayfield, Miller, Negele, Zent added as coauthors
- **2018-01-23** Representatives Kirchhofer, Morrison, Schaibley, Slager, Harris added as coauthors
- **2018-02-01** First reading: referred to Committee on Appropriations `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** Amendment #1 (Brown L) failed; voice vote `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-05** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2018-03-06** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 319: yeas 35, nays 14 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-06** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-08** Motion to concur filed
- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 365: yeas 80, nays 0 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-03-12** Rule 105.1 suspended
- **2018-03-12** Representative Hamm added as coauthor
- **2018-03-13** Signed by the Speaker
- **2018-03-14** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2018-03-19** Public Law 143
- **2018-03-19** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/979b3965-3fc4-40b8-9139-f122e2a36c65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).