Cook
Incumbent State Representative Tony Cook, District 32 (Delaware, Madison, Hamilton, Tipton, Howard and Grant counties) will seek a third term in the May primary.
Since entering the legislature, Cook has been very productive and effective ushering in legislation. He has authored five bills that have been passed into law, co-authored 16 that have been enacted and has sponsored six bills from the Senate that then passed the House with his vocal advocacy and were signed into law by the Governor.
Two major education bills he authored last year were the Course Access Bill (HB 1007), widening the array of classes for students, and the flexible school finance bill (HB 1009) that assists corporations in moving money where needed. In 2016 he was co-author of the priority, and highly popular, Next Generation Hoosier Scholarship bill, which provides tuition scholarships to high performing senior high school students to enter the teaching field.
Representative Cook is currently Vice Chairman of the Education Committee, and he also serves on the Government and Regulatory Reform Committee, as well as the Family, Children, and Human Affairs house committee.
Representative Cook came to the statehouse after serving 41 years in the public education profession as a teacher, principal and superintendent of schools.