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type: "Bill"
title: "School accountability."
description: "Repeals certain provisions regarding statewide assessment scores and the establishment of categories or designations of school performance. Requires the state board of education to establish a new methodology for designating school performance. Extends the expiration of certain provisions regarding the posting of school information. Provides that the proposals to align diploma waiver statutes with new diploma requirements may include a proposal to eliminate diploma waivers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1498"
citation: "Indiana HB 1498 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGENCIES; Department of Education (DOE) and Secretary of Education", "SCHOOLS; Charter Schools", "SCHOOLS; Funds and Budgets", "SCHOOLS; Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Behning", "Spencer Deery"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b63781f3-adff-49cf-9f3e-a51e0eb4d42d"
source_url: "https://api.iga.in.gov/2025/bills/hb1498"
source_hash: "2e0ec4bbf89ce464e0d2e7086e1d24847d7d85c863fde6734b276d527487c54b"
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 1498 (2025) — School accountability.
Repeals certain provisions regarding statewide assessment scores and the establishment of categories or designations of school performance. Requires the state board of education to establish a new methodology for designating school performance. Extends the expiration of certain provisions regarding the posting of school information. Provides that the proposals to align diploma waiver statutes with new diploma requirements may include a proposal to eliminate diploma waivers.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1498/HB1498.04.ENRS.pdf)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1498/HB1498.03.COMS.pdf)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1498/HB1498.02.COMH.pdf)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1498/HB1498.01.INTR.pdf)
## Votes
- HB 1498 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **62–28** (pass) · lower
- HB 1498 - Behning — **65–25** (pass) · lower
- HB 1498 - Deery - 3rd Reading — **43–4** (pass) · upper
- HB 1498 - Behning - 2nd Reading — **28–62** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Robert Behning — primary (person)
- Spencer Deery — primary (person)
- Greg Goode — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Raatz — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-21** Authored by Representative Behning
- **2025-01-21** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** Amendment #1 (DeLaney) failed; Roll Call 63: yeas 28, nays 62 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2025-02-03** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Senate sponsor: Senator Deery
- **2025-02-04** Cosponsor: Senator Goode
- **2025-02-05** Referred to the Senate `referral`
- **2025-02-04** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 90: yeas 62, nays 28 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-02-19** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Senator Raatz added as cosponsor
- **2025-03-25** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 289: yeas 43, nays 4 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Returned to the House with amendments `receipt`
- **2025-04-23** House conferees appointed: Behning and DeLaney
- **2025-04-23** House advisors appointed: Smith H, Pfaff and Smith V
- **2025-04-23** Senate conferees appointed: Deery and Hunley
- **2025-04-23** Senate advisors appointed: Goode and Qaddoura
- **2025-04-23** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
- **2025-04-23** House dissented from Senate amendments
- **2025-05-06** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-24** House reconsidered dissent and concurred with Senate amendments; Roll Call 564: yeas 65, nays 25
- **2025-04-25** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2025-04-24** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2025-04-29** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-05-06** Public Law 231 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b63781f3-adff-49cf-9f3e-a51e0eb4d42d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).