Legislative record

SB 161STATE · IndianaIntroduced

Education matters.

Requires the Indiana department of education to elect to participate as a covered state in the federal tax credit scholarship program for elementary and secondary education under Section 25F of the Internal Revenue Code (enacted in Public Law 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025). Makes conforming changes to the school scholarship tax credit in current law. Requires the governor and the department of workforce development, in consultation with the commission for higher education, to: (1) establish a process to identify eligible workforce training programs; (2) establish a process for institutions and programs to apply for recognition as an eligible workforce training program; (3) coordinate certain workforce training matters; and (4) require eligible workforce training programs to provide certain datasets to the department. Provides that the department of workforce development must maintain alignment with federal rules governing workforce Pell grants.

Voted 2/12/2026

Roll-call record

How representatives voted

42 yea·2 nay·4 other

Docket history

Action history

  1. 2/12/2026Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
  2. 2/12/2026Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
  3. 2/12/2026Representative Davis added as cosponsor
  4. 1/28/2026First reading: referred to Committee on Education
  5. 1/27/2026Referred to the House
  6. 1/26/2026Third reading: passed; Roll Call 74: yeas 42, nays 2
  7. 1/26/2026House sponsor: Representative Behning
  8. 1/26/2026Cosponsor: Representative McGuire
  9. 1/22/2026Amendment #1 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote
  10. 1/22/2026Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed