State Government / Indiana / Legislation / SB 161
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.
Latest development · Feb 12, 2026
Representative Davis added as cosponsor
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Representative Davis added as cosponsor
Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Referred to the House
Cosponsor: Representative McGuire
House sponsor: Representative Behning
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 74: yeas 42, nays 2
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Amendment #1 (Raatz) prevailed; voice vote
Committee report: do pass, adopted
Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy
Senator Garten added as third author
First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
Authored by Senators Raatz, Rogers
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