The Indiana House passed legislation Monday to replace the ISTEP exam starting in the 2018-19 school year.

House Bill 10-03 was approved in a 67-31 vote. It offers the basic framework for a new exam called I-LEARN. That stands for Indiana’s Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network.

Republican Representative Robert Behning chairs the House Education Committee and authored the bill. He says it includes recommendations from educators on how to make the exam better than the ISTEP.

“Make it shorter. Quicker return. End of year assessment. A single test window. And have Hoosier educators directly involved in either creation or grading of it.”

The bill now heads to the Senate.