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HB1001
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EDUCATION FUNDING. (SIEGRIST S) Permits
the budget agency to transfer from the K-12 state tuition reserve account to
the state general fund the amount necessary to cover the K-12 state tuition
distribution amount when it exceeds the appropriated amount. Limits the
transfer to $25,000,000 in state fiscal year 2018 and $50,000,000 for state
fiscal year 2019. Makes conforming changes.
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1/16/2018 - House Bills on Second Reading
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1/11/2018 - Committee Report do pass, adopted
1/10/2018 - DO PASS Yeas: 22; Nays: 0 |
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HB1002
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REORGANIZATION OF WORKFORCE FUNDING AND PROGRAMS. (HUSTON
T) Repeals various educational and workforce training programs and
provides for program phase outs, effective July 1, 2019. Requires the state
workforce innovation council to review each proposed grant award by the
department of workforce development (department) before the grant is awarded
by the department. Establishes the next level workforce training and
development fund (fund) as a dedicated fund for certain state workforce
training and development programs. Dedicates all corporate adjusted gross
income tax revenues to the fund. Requires the creation of accounts within the
fund. Establishes the employer workforce training grant fund to provide money
for grants to eligible employers that incur costs or expenses for training
programs that allow their employees or prospective employees in Indiana to
attain a work related degree, certification, or credential. Makes a
continuous appropriation from the employer workforce training grant fund to
the Indiana economic development corporation. Requires the state board of
education, when establishing an apprenticeship as a graduation pathway
requirement, to establish as an apprenticeship only an apprenticeship program
registered under the federal National Apprenticeship Act or another federal
apprenticeship program administered by the United States Department of Labor.
Provides that an emancipated student or the parent of a student enrolled in a
career or technical course may voluntarily release information, on a form
prescribed by the department of education, pertaining to the student's enrollment
in the career and technical education course to potential employers that
contact the school to recruit students with particular career and technical
skills. Requires the department to: (1) develop information regarding
workforce needs in Indiana; (2) assign at least two employees at each one
stop center (one stop centers provide access to services required by the
federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014) to work with school
counselors; and (3) upon request of a school corporation, make a presentation
to middle school and high school counselors. Makes the following changes
concerning the high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant: (1) Removes a
requirement that, to be eligible to receive a grant, an applicant must be
financially independent. (2) Removes a requirement that, to be eligible to
receive a grant, an applicant must be financially independent and not have
previously received a baccalaureate degree, an associate degree, or an
eligible certificate. (3) Requires the commission for higher education to
give priority in awarding a grant to an applicant who has not previously
received a baccalaureate degree, an associate degree, or an eligible
certificate. Requires workforce and education information as part of the
biennial budget report that is submitted to the governor and state budget
committee for preparation of the governor's proposed budget bill. Makes
conforming amendments.
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1/9/2018 - added as coauthor Representative Clere
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1/8/2018 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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HB1014
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REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. (TORR
J) Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold
hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general
assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative
services agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the commission.
Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in the creation
of redistricting plans. Provides that the general assembly must meet and
enact redistricting plans before October 1 of a redistricting year.
Authorizes the general assembly to convene in a session to act on
redistricting bills at times other than the times the general assembly is
currently authorized to meet. Repeals the current law establishing a
redistricting commission for congressional redistricting.
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1/10/2018 - added as coauthors Representatives Bartlett
and Moed
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Elections and Apportionment
1/9/2018 - First Reading |
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HB1016
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STUDENT JOURNALISM. (CLERE E) Provides
freedom of speech and freedom of press protections for grades 7 through 12
and state educational institution student journalists. Requires each school
corporation and charter school to adopt a policy concerning student
journalist protections. Requires a student media adviser to, each school
year, supervise student journalists in grades 7 through 12 in the creation of
certain school sponsored media policies. Provides that a public school or
school corporation may not suppress school sponsored media unless certain
conditions apply. Provides that public schools, school corporations, and
state educational institutions are immune from civil liability for any injury
resulting from school sponsored media produced by a student journalist,
except for acts or omissions that constitute gross negligence or willful,
wanton, or intentional misconduct.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Coauthored by Representative DeLaney |
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HB1018
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SAME DAY REGISTRATION; CLOSE OF THE POLLS. (KERSEY
C) Provides that the polls close at 8 p.m. (Under current law, the polls
must close at 6 p.m.) Permits a voter to register at the polls by completing
a voter registration form and an affirmation that the person has not voted
elsewhere in the election and by providing proof of residence.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Elections and Apportionment
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Authored By Clyde Kersey |
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HB1024
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HEAT PREPAREDNESS TRAINING FOR COACHES. (BACON
R) Provides that head coaches and assistant coaches who coach
interscholastic sports or intramural sports must complete a certified
coaching education course that includes content for prevention of or response
to heat related medical issues that may arise from a student athlete's
training.
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Current Status:
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1/8/2018 - added as coauthors Representatives Cook,
Heaton, Klinker
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Recent Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Education
1/3/2018 - First Reading |
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HB1037
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EARLY RETIREMENT OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (CULVER
W) Provides that for new hires of the: (1) state excise police, gaming
agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers'
retirement plan; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) Indiana state
teachers' retirement fund; (4) Indiana judges' retirement fund: 1985
retirement, disability, and death system; and (5) prosecuting attorneys
retirement fund; eligibility for early retirement according to the "rule
of 85" is incrementally changed to a "rule of 95" over the
period beginning July 1, 2018, and ending July 1, 2036.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and
Pensions
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Wes Culver |
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HB1038
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DEFAULT RETIREMENT PLANS. (CULVER
W) Provides that after June 30, 2018, an individual who becomes a
full-time employee of the state for the first time becomes a member of the
public employees' defined contribution plan (plan) unless the individual
elects to become a member of the public employees' retirement fund (fund).
(Under current law, an eligible employee becomes a member of the fund unless
the employee elects to become a member of the plan.) Provides that after June
30, 2018, an individual who begins employment for the first time in a covered
position with a school corporation and is not already a member of the
teachers' defined retirement fund (TRF) becomes a member of the teachers'
defined contribution plan unless the individual makes an election to become a
member of TRF. (Under current law, an individual that begins employment in a
covered position becomes a member of TRF unless the individual elects to
become a member of the teachers' defined contribution plan.)
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and
Pensions
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Wes Culver |
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HB1039
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STUDY OF TAX TOPICS. (CULVER W) Urges the
legislative council to have the interim study committee on fiscal policy
study the following: (1) Whether the annual limit on the adjusted gross
income tax credit for contributions to a college choice 529 savings plan
should be modified in some way to allow a taxpayer to make greater
contributions earlier in the taxpayer's schedule of savings. (2) The
implications of changes made by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to the
allowable uses of 529 plans. (3) Whether the adjusted gross income tax
deduction for education expenditures should be extended to include
expenditures made in connection with the enrollment, attendance, and
participation in a public school elementary or high school education program.
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1/16/2018 - House Bills on Second Reading
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Recent Status:
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1/11/2018 - Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
1/10/2018 - DO PASS AMEND Yeas: 22; Nays: 0 |
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HB1040
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MUNCIE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS. (ERRINGTON
S) Provides that, not later than June 30, 2020, the Muncie Community
Schools may request an interest free loan from the common school fund.
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Current Status:
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1/11/2018 - added as coauthor Representative Wright
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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HB1042
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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. (ERRINGTON
S) Removes the requirement that, for an eligible child to qualify for a
grant under the prekindergarten pilot program, the eligible child reside with
a parent or guardian who is: (1) working or attending a job training program
or educational program; or (2) actively seeking employment. Removes a
provision that allows priority for a grant to an eligible child whose parent
or guardian is involved in: (1) activities that improve the parent's or
guardian's education; or (2) job training.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Sue Errington |
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HB1043
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EXPANDED CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS. (THOMPSON
J) Provides that an expanded criminal history check may be used instead
of certain background checks and criminal history checks.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Courts and Criminal Code
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Recent Status:
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Jeffrey Thompson |
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HB1044
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VARIOUS ELECTION LAW MATTERS. (THOMPSON
J) Provides that voter registration closes after the twenty-first day
before the date of an election rather than after the twenty-ninth day before
the date of an election. Provides that early voting begins on the eighteenth
day before an election rather than the twenty-eighth day before an election.
Increases the maximum civil penalty for a delinquent filing of a preprimary
or pre-election campaign finance report from $1,000 to $1,250 (and in some
cases, $2,500). Provides for staggering the terms of the members of township
boards (other than township boards in Marion County), beginning with the 2022
general election.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Elections and Apportionment
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Jeffrey Thompson |
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HB1045
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CONTROLLED PROJECT REFERENDUM. (THOMPSON
J) Provides that if the estimated increase in a political subdivision's
property tax levy for debt service for a proposed controlled project will be
offset in whole or in part because of the retirement of existing debt of the
political subdivision, the proper officers of the political subdivision may
adopt a resolution that does the following: (1) Includes a schedule that
specifies certain information concerning the debt service for the controlled
project and the expected changes in the political subdivision's total debt
service payments that will result because the debt service for the controlled
project will be offset by the retirement of existing debt. (2) States that
the political subdivision intends to maintain the political subdivision's
total debt service property tax rate (including debt service for the controlled
project and for all other debt of the political subdivision) at or below a
specified tax rate. Provides that the political subdivision's statement that
it intends to maintain its total debt service property tax rate at or below a
specified tax rate may include exceptions for specified projects or purposes,
including any projects that the political subdivision declares are required
by an emergency or are required for the safety and security of citizens or
students. Specifies the ballot language for the referendum on such a proposed
controlled project.
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Current Status:
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1/9/2018 - added as coauthor Representative Cook
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1/3/2018 - added as coauthor Representative Clere
1/3/2018 - Referred to House Ways and Means |
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HB1046
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LOCAL INCOME TAXES. (THOMPSON J) Expires
the existing local income tax law on December 31, 2021, and adds a new local
income tax law effective in 2022 and thereafter. Does the following under the
new local income tax law: (1) Authorizes counties, municipalities, and school
corporations to each enact a property tax relief tax rate of not more than
0.5% in the case of counties and municipalities and not more than 0.25% in
the case of school corporations. Provides that in Marion County,
municipalities may not enact a property tax relief rate, but the Marion
County city-county council may adopt a 1% property tax relief rate. (2)
Authorizes counties, municipalities (other than municipalities in Marion
County), and school corporations to each enact an expenditure rate. (3)
Provides that an expenditure rate may not exceed: (A) 1.25% in the case of
counties other than Marion County or 2% in the case of Marion County; (B) 1%
in the case of municipalities (other than municipalities in Marion County);
and (C) 0.25% in the case of school corporations. (4) Provides that if an
expenditure rate is imposed by a municipality, the municipality shall receive
the revenue from the tax, and specifies that the revenue may be used for any
legal purpose of the municipality (including providing additional property
tax credits). (5) Specifies that a school corporation may not adopt an
expenditure rate unless: (A) the expenditure rate is approved by the voters
of the school corporation in a local public question; or (B) the revenue from
the expenditure rate is used to provide additional property tax credits.
Provides that if a school corporation's expenditure rate is approved by the
voters, the revenue may be used for any legal purpose of the school
corporation (including providing additional property tax credits). Provides
that the maximum period for an expenditure rate approved by the voters of a
school corporation is eight years, but that the expenditure rate may be
reimposed by the school corporation if approved by the voters. (6) Provides
that if an expenditure rate is imposed by a county other than Marion County,
the revenue shall be distributed as certified shares to civil taxing units in
the county (other than municipalities and school corporations) on the basis
of property tax levies. Specifies that in counties other than Marion County,
the revenue from the county's expenditure rate may be allocated to a public
safety answering point or used to provide additional property tax credits
before the remaining revenue is distributed as certified shares. (7) Provides
that the 2% maximum expenditure rate in Marion County consists of: (A) an
expenditure rate of not more than 1%, to be distributed as certified shares
to the county and to excluded cities in the county on the basis of property
tax levies; and (B) an expenditure rate of not more than 1%, to be
distributed as certified shares to the county and to townships in the county
on the basis of property tax levies. (8) Specifies that in Marion County: (A)
the revenue from the county's expenditure rate may be allocated to a public
communications system and computer facilities district, a public library, or
a public transportation corporation, or for additional property tax credits
before the remaining revenue is distributed as certified shares; and (B)
revenue distributed as certified shares may be used for any legal purpose of
the unit receiving the certified shares. (9) Provides that, after May 31,
2018, a political subdivision may not pledge for the payment of bonds,
leases, or other obligations any tax revenue received under the current local
income tax law (other than a special purpose rate). (10) Maintains the
existing special purpose rates. (11) Provides that after December 31, 2021, a
local income tax rate imposed for transit purposes after approval in a local
public question: (A) is a separate special purpose rate; and (B) is not part
of the county's expenditure rate or considered in determining whether the
county is imposing its maximum expenditure rate. (12) For property taxes due
and payable in 2022 and thereafter, requires the department of local
government finance to adjust each maximum property tax levy for which a levy
freeze amount was applied under the existing local income tax law in 2021.
(13) Authorizes a political subdivision to appeal to the department of local
government finance for the authority to impose an additional local income tax
rate if the political subdivision's expected local income tax distributions
will be insufficient to pay obligations for which a pledge of revenue was
made under the prior local income tax laws. (14) Specifies that the
legislative council shall provide for the preparation and introduction of legislation
in the 2019 session of the general assembly to correct cross references and
make other changes to the Indiana Code, as necessary, to bring other
provisions of the Indiana Code into conformity with this act.
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1/3/2018 - added as coauthor Representative Cherry
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HB1047
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EDUCATION BENEFITS FOR VETERANS. (WESCO
T) Excludes from the determination of financial eligibility for need
based financial aid certain benefits received by veteran students. Provides
for state educational institution students who are members of the Indiana
National Guard, the reserves, or armed forces who are on active duty or are
called to active duty during an academic term to receive: (1) a tuition
refund or credit; or (2) reenrollment in courses not completed due to active
duty status.
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1/16/2018 - House Bills on Second Reading
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1/10/2018 - Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
1/9/2018 - DO PASS AMEND Yeas: 10; Nays: 0 |
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HB1055
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MILITARY UNIFORMS AT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS. (AYLESWORTH
M) Provides that school discipline rules must allow a student to wear a
dress uniform issued to the student by any active or reserve component of the
armed forces of the United States or the national guard while participating
in the student's high school graduation ceremony.
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1/16/2018 - House Bills on Third Reading
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1/11/2018 - Second reading ordered engrossed
1/10/2018 - House Bills on Second Reading |
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HB1068
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PROTECTION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS. (BAUER
B) Requires each school corporation and charter school to maintain video
surveillance with a camera containing auditory capability in each classroom
used to provide instruction to students with a disability.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Authored By B Patrick Bauer |
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HB1069
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DISTRIBUTED GENERATION. (OBER D) Provides
that an electric customer: (1) that is a school corporation or a
municipality; (2) that installs a net metering facility after December 31,
2017, and before the date on which the net metering tariff terminates under
the state statute concerning distributed generation; and (3) whose net
metering facility is subject to Level 2 interconnection review under the
Indiana utility regulatory commission's interconnection rules; will be served
under the terms and conditions of the net metering tariff of the customer's
electricity supplier until the net metering facility is removed or until July
1, 2037, whichever occurs earlier. Defines "install",
"nameplate capacity", and "successor in interest" for
purposes of distributed generation. Provides that the amount of nameplate
capacity in place before the net metering deadlines is the amount of
nameplate capacity considered to be participating in the net metering tariff.
Provides that any repairs, updates, and upgrades to portions of a net
metering facility that do not increase the nameplate capacity of the net
metering facility are not considered a replacement of the net metering
facility.
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1/17/2018 - House Utilities, Energy and
Telecommunications, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time &
Location: 1:30 PM, Rm. 156-B
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Utilities, Energy and
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HB1074
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VARIOUS HIGHER EDUCATION MATTERS. (SULLIVAN
H) Makes changes regarding the: (1) conditions required to qualify for
the renewal of a twenty-first century scholars program scholarship; and (2)
award amounts to twenty-first century scholars program scholarship applicants
who attend a private, approved postsecondary educational institution. Makes
the following changes concerning the primary care shortage area scholarship:
(1) Amends the practice requirements to receive a scholarship. (2) Amends the
repayment requirements for noncompliance with a primary care practice agreement.
(3) Allows the commission for higher education (commission) to impose and
collect interest on unpaid repayment amounts. (4) Provides that, if the
commission and a recipient of a scholarship enter into a new written
agreement that complies with the primary care shortage area scholarship
provisions, the commission and recipient may terminate an agreement entered
into or renewed before July 1, 2018. Requires the chairperson of the
commission to appoint a: (1) seven member student member nominating committee;
and (2) seven member faculty member nominating committee. (Current law
requires the chairperson to appoint a ten member nominating committee of five
student members and five faculty members.) Requires the commission to: (1)
study and make recommendations regarding the expansion of the high value
workforce ready credit-bearing grant to recent high school graduates; and (2)
prepare and submit, not later than November 1, 2018, a report regarding the
recommendations to the budget agency and legislative council. Modifies the
procedures that a state educational institution must use to dispose of real
estate (including any real estate acquired by gift, bequest, or devise).
Provides that an applicant who: (1) does not maintain satisfactory academic
progress as required to be eligible for a high value workforce ready
credit-bearing grant; but (2) meets other certain conditions; is still
eligible for the grant. Repeals certain statutes concerning: (1) the
disposition of gifts, bequests, and devises of real estate to state
educational institutions; and (2) matters that pertain to the closing process
in the disposition of real estate by a state educational institution. Makes
conforming amendments. Removes an expired provision.
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1/16/2018 - House Bills on Second Reading
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1/10/2018 - House Bills on Second Reading
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HB1081
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REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. (MOED
J) Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold
hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general
assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative
services agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the
commission. Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in
the creation of redistricting plans. Provides that the general assembly shall
meet and enact redistricting plans before October 1 of a redistricting year.
Authorizes the general assembly to convene in a session to act on
redistricting bills at times other than the times the general assembly is
currently authorized to meet. Repeals the current law establishing a
redistricting commission for congressional redistricting.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Elections and Apportionment
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Authored By Justin Moed |
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HB1093
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BULLYING AND ORDERS OF PROTECTION. (HATFIELD
R) Defines "bullying". Provides that a person who is a victim
of bullying may file a petition for an order of protection against a person
who commits harassment or an act of bullying. Makes the knowing or
intentional violation of an order of protection against bullying a Class A
misdemeanor. Makes conforming changes.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to House Courts and Criminal Code
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Ryan Hatfield |
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HB1109
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VARIOUS PENSION MATTERS. (CARBAUGH
M) Provides that the default investment option for the legislators'
defined contribution plan is a target date fund rather than the Indiana
public retirement system's consolidated retirement investment fund. Removes a
requirement that only active members of the public employees' retirement fund
(PERF) and the Indiana teachers' retirement fund (TRF) may make rollover
distributions into annuity savings accounts (ASA) from other qualified
retirement accounts. Allows any PERF or TRF member who terminates employment
and is not currently employed in a covered position or for the same employer
to suspend fund membership, retain the member's creditable service, and
withdraw all or part of the amount in the member's ASA before retirement.
Requires employers eligible to purchase death benefit fund coverage for
certain employees to pay for the coverage annually rather than quarterly.
Removes charitable contributions as a voluntary benefit deduction for the
1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund and the
state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation
enforcement officers' retirement plan. Makes technical corrections. (The
introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee
on pension management oversight.)
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HB1111
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AGE OF CONSENT. (MACER K) Adds the
criminal offense of indiscretion, which is committed when a person who is at
least 23 years of age engages in sexual intercourse or other sexual conduct,
fondling, or touching with a child who is at least 16 years of age but less
than 18 years of age. Provides that a teacher's license may be revoked or
contract canceled for conviction of indiscretion. Adds indiscretion to the
list of sex offenses. Makes conforming amendments.
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HB1114
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INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR DONATIONS. (HAMILTON
C) Provides for an adjusted gross income tax credit for donations to a
public school foundation. Provides that the maximum individual taxpayer
credit is $2,000 in the case of a single return and $4,000 in the case of a
joint return. Provides that the maximum corporate taxpayer credit is the
greater of 10% of the corporation's total adjusted gross income tax liability
or $10,000. Makes the credit refundable. Makes an appropriation.
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HB1124
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SALE OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS. (MAY
C) Provides that if: (1) two or more school corporations consolidate or
reorganize; and (2) a school building becomes closed, unused, or unoccupied
as a result of the consolidation or reorganization; the governing body of the
consolidated or reorganized school corporation may request from the
department of education (department) a waiver from the requirements for
making the vacant school building available to a charter school before the
school corporation may sell or exchange the building. Requires the department
to grant the waiver if requested. Resolves conflicts between P.L.217-2017, P.L.241-2017,
and P.L.244-2017.
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HB1164
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MILITARY EDUCATION BENEFITS. (COOK
A) Changes the definition of "eligible student" to expand who
may participate in the course access program under which educational courses
are permitted to be delivered through any method, including online
technologies. Provides that an eligible student who is an adult student
pursuing a diploma to qualify for enlistment in the armed forces of the
United States may use course access program courses to meet graduation
requirements at the school corporation that the eligible student previously
attended. Provides that a student who is eligible to receive a tuition and
fee exemption because the student is a child of a veteran must maintain at
least a cumulative grade point average that the eligible institution
determines is satisfactory academic progress, which may not be less than a
cumulative grade point average of 2.0 on a 4.0 grading scale or its
equivalent as established by the eligible institution. (Current law requires
the student to maintain at least a cumulative grade point average that the
eligible institution determines is satisfactory academic progress.) Provides
that if the Indiana department of veterans' affairs approves a determination
of eligibility for a request from a person after the person initially enrolls
in a state educational institution and while the person attends the state
educational institution, the determination of eligibility shall be made
retroactive to the date the application to recognize the person's mother's or
father's service related death or disability is submitted to the United
States Department of Veterans Affairs. Provides that the applicant may
receive a refund equal to the amount of the tuition and fees paid to the
state educational institution by the applicant. Provides that the amount of
tuition and fee exemption for a child of a veteran is reduced by any amount
of assistance received by the student under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act
of 1944 (G.I. Bill). Repeals a provision that limits the tuition exemption
amount for a child of a veteran who serves in the armed forces after June 30,
2011, based on the percentage of the parent's disability rating. Makes
conforming amendments.
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1/11/2018 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time
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HB1165
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SCHOOL BUSES. (COOK A) Establishes the
school bus safety equipment grant fund (fund), administered by the department
of education, to provide grants to school corporations seeking to purchase or
equip school buses and special purpose buses with 3-point lap and shoulder
safety belts or, if recommended by the state school bus committee, other
proven safety equipment. Provides that a governing body may apply for a grant
from the fund in an amount equal to 50% of the cost of purchasing or equipping
a school bus or special purpose bus with 3-point lap and shoulder safety
belts or other safety equipment. Requires a governing body seeking to
purchase a school bus or special purpose bus to request information
concerning the cost of purchasing a school bus or special purpose bus
equipped with 3-point lap and shoulder safety belts. Requires the governing
body to hold a public hearing on the costs and benefits of purchasing a
school bus or special purpose bus with 3-point lap and shoulder safety belts
before voting on whether to purchase a school bus or special purpose bus
equipped with 3-point lap and shoulder safety belts. Allows a school
corporation to use a portion of a grant from the safe schools fund or the
secured school fund toward purchase or equipping school buses and special
purpose buses with safety equipment. Requires each occupant of a school bus
or special purpose bus that has a 3-point lap and shoulder safety belt to
have the 3-point lap and shoulder safety belt properly fastened about the
occupant's body at all times when the bus is in motion. Provides for an
exception to the laws concerning other types of passenger restraint systems.
Makes an appropriation.
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HB1166
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TEACHER EVALUATIONS. (COOK A) Defines the
term "qualified school district". Provides that each qualified
school district shall develop and maintain a teacher performance plan that
must be in writing and approved by the department of education (department).
Provides that teacher evaluations must be based on statistically verifiable
measures of student instructional improvement goals that are approved by the
qualified school district after discussing and receiving input from the
teachers. Provides that certain teachers who teach at a school that has not
been identified by the department as a school subject to comprehensive
support and improvement pursuant to the federal Every Student Succeeds Act
may be required to receive an evaluation only once every two years. Requires
certain teachers to receive annual evaluations. Provides that the department
may issue compliance orders to a qualified school district that fails to
comply with the provision regarding teacher performance evaluations or the
terms of the qualified school district's teacher performance evaluation plan
approved by the department. Provides that if a qualified school district does
not comply with a compliance order within the time frame established by the
department, the department may withhold the distribution of state money,
including grants designated for the qualified school district. Provides that
a qualified school district may dismiss a new teacher after the teacher's
third year of teaching if the teacher received any combination of ratings of
"needs improvement" or "ineffective" during the teacher's
initial three years of teaching. Repeals a current provision establishing
requirements for a school corporation's staff performance evaluation plan.
Repeals certain definitions relating to school staff performance evaluation
plans. Makes conforming amendments. Makes technical corrections.
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1/9/2018 - added as coauthors Representatives Karickhoff
and Cherry
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HB1167
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SCHOOL CORPORATION FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. (COOK
A) Provides that a school corporation's rainy day fund may be used to
pay for teacher bonuses and stipends. Permits money in a school corporation's
operations fund at the end of a year to be transferred to the school
corporation's rainy day fund. Combines various levies into a single
operations fund levy beginning in 2019. Changes provisions concerning the
education fund and operations fund. Specifies the items to be included in a
school corporation's capital projects plan. Changes the reasons for which a
school corporation may appeal to increase the school corporation's operations
fund levy for transportation purposes. Resolves conflicts among various 2017
acts that take effect before the education funding and accounting changes
made by HEA 1009-2017.
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1/10/2018 - House Ways and Means, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 2:00 PM, Rm. 404
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1/9/2018 - added as coauthor Representative Huston
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HB1169
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TEXTBOOKS. (PELATH S) Requires public
schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost to a student.
Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state
reimbursements for costs incurred by public schools to provide curricular
materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education
shall administer the fund. Provides that money in the fund is continually
appropriated. Makes conforming changes consistent with 2017 legislation and
other corresponding changes.
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1/8/2018 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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HB1185
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TEACHER SALARIES. (KLINKER S) Provides
that, for a compensation plan adopted after June 30, 2018, one factor on
which a school corporation must base an increase or increment in a local
salary range for a teacher is the teacher's possession of a master's or
doctorate degree or completion, at any time, of credit hours necessary to
obtain a master's or doctorate degree. Provides that a school corporation may
negotiate an increase or increment for salaries of teachers who make less
than the greater of: (1) $50,000; or (2) the state average for teacher yearly
salaries; if the teacher worked at least 120 days for the school corporation
during the previous school year. Provides that a school corporation must
demonstrate that providing an increase or increment will not place the school
corporation in a position of deficit financing.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
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HB1198
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WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. (VANNATTER
H) Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires
an employer that desires to participate in the work sharing unemployment
insurance program to submit a work sharing plan for approval by the
commissioner of the department of workforce development. Establishes the work
sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's unemployment benefit
reduced by a percentage that is equivalent to the number of hours by which an
affected employee's normal weekly work hours are reduced divided by the
employer's number of normal weekly work hours.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and
Pensions
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Authored By Heath VanNatter |
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HB1208
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SCHOOL DISCIPLINE. (TAYLOR III
J) Provides that an evidence based plan for improving student behavior
and discipline in a school corporation: (1) may not contain any zero
tolerance requirements; (2) must reduce disproportionality in discipline or
inappropriately high rates of in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension,
and expulsion; and (3) must limit referrals to law enforcement or arrests on
school property to those necessary to protect the health and safety of other
students or school employees. Adds a definition of "exclusion".
Adds a definition of "positive discipline". Provides that a
school's discipline policy must include a graduated system of discipline and
incorporate positive discipline principles and establish clear limits for
referring students to law enforcement officials only in cases necessary to
protect the safety of other students or school employees. Makes various
changes to provisions relating to school discipline to reduce student
exclusion from school. Repeals a provision that provides that a principal may
require a student at least 16 years of age who wishes to reenroll in school
after an expulsion to attend certain alternative educational programs.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Authored By Joe Taylor III |
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HB1216
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LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR DISTRESSED SCHOOLS. (SMITH
V) Provides that certain school corporations that are distressed
political subdivisions may qualify to have common school fund loans or
advances forgiven. Provides that the budget agency may approve to deposit
reversions to the state general fund into the common school fund to offset
advances or loans forgiven.
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1/9/2018 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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1/9/2018 - First Reading
1/9/2018 - Authored By Vernon Smith |
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HB1230
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SCHOOL SAFETY. (MCNAMARA W) Requires the
department of education (department) to maintain a link on the department's
Internet web site providing parents and school officials with resources or
best practices regarding the prevention or reporting of cyberbullying.
Requires the department to maintain a link on the department's Internet web
site regarding the identification and reporting of human trafficking.
Requires certain employees of a school corporation or an accredited nonpublic
school to receive at least one hour of inservice training annually pertaining
to the identification and reporting of human trafficking. Provides that a
school corporation's disciplinary rules pertaining to bullying must prohibit
bullying through the use of data or computer software that is accessed
through a computer or through a cellular telephone or other wireless or
cellular communications device. (Current law provides that a school
corporation's disciplinary rules pertaining to bullying must prohibit
bullying through the use of data or computer software that is accessed
through a computer.)
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1/11/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/11/2018 - First Reading
1/11/2018 - Authored By Wendy McNamara |
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HB1242
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RESIDENT TUITION FOR SERVING ON THE USS INDIANA. (BAIRD
J) Provides that, after June 30, 2019, certain persons who serve or
served on the USS Indiana (SSN-789) are eligible for the resident tuition
rate determined by the state educational institution.
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Current Status:
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1/16/2018 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 156-C
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HB1253
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VARIOUS ELECTION LAW MATTERS. (RICHARDSON
K) Provides that a county voter registration office may destroy original
voter registration applications, affidavits, and other voter registration
forms if the county voter registration office scans the original document
into the statewide voter registration system. Codifies current administrative
procedures ("confidence factors") used by the Indiana election
division to determine which potentially duplicate voter registration records
to provide to county voter registration offices to assist the county in
determining whether a voter of the county has registered more recently in
another state. Provides that a voter may apply for permanent absentee voter
status. Provides that absentee ballots would be sent automatically to voters
who have permanent absentee voter status. Permits a county election board (or
a board of elections and registration) to authorize the circuit court clerk
to use an electronic voting system for voting by voters required to cast a
provisional ballot. Changes the measure that triggers an audit of the vote
totals in a precinct using electronic voting systems, in an election in which
more than 80 votes are cast in the precinct on an electronic voting system,
from a fixed number of votes to a specified percentage of the difference
between the number of votes cast on an electronic voting system and the
number of voters shown on the poll list who have voted. Repeals the provision
that requires scanning an absentee ballot application for absentee ballots
sent by mail or cast before a traveling board.
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Current Status:
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1/11/2018 - Referred to House Elections and Apportionment
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1/11/2018 - First Reading
1/11/2018 - Authored By Kathy Richardson |
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HB1264
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COMPETENCY BASED HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. (BROWN
T) Establishes the competency based high school education pilot program
(pilot program) to provide grants to school corporations for the design and
implementation of competency based education programs in high schools.
Provides that the department of education (department) administers the pilot
program. Requires a school corporation to apply and provide certain
information to the department to participate in the pilot program. Requires
the Indiana state board of education to establish requirements and standards
concerning the competency based education programs. Provides that, after June
30, 2019, a school corporation is eligible to receive a grant for
participation in the pilot program. Prohibits a school corporation to which
an eligible pupil who received credit under a competency based education
program transfers from: (1) requiring the eligible pupil to repeat the course
work for which the eligible student received the credit; (2) changing the
grade or credit that the eligible pupil received from participating in the
competency based education program; or (3) otherwise penalizing the eligible
pupil regarding the eligible pupil's previous attendance of a competency
based education program. Requires, with exceptions, a school corporation to
repay to the department a grant awarded for an eligible pupil who: (1) fails
to attain a Core 40 diploma or, for students with disabilities, a high school
diploma or certificate of completion in accordance with the student's
individualized education program; or (2) is considered a dropout. Requires
the department to: (1) before June 30, 2020, and before June 30 each year
thereafter, evaluate and prepare a report concerning implementation and pupil
outcomes of the competency based education programs; and (2) submit the
report to the legislative council. Requires state educational institutions to
recognize and accept credits awarded under a competency based education
program and a diploma awarded to a student who successfully completes an
education program that includes, in whole or in part, a competency based
education program.
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1/16/2018 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 156-C
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HB1279
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MANDATORY TESTING OF STUDENTS FOR LEAD POISONING. (DVORAK
R) Mandates that the governing body of a school corporation require
students to be tested for lead poisoning.
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1/11/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/11/2018 - First Reading
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HB1294
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EDUCATION STUDY COMMITTEE. (JUDY C) Urges
the legislative council to assign to the education study committee during the
2018 legislative interim the topic of studying a diploma option that would
replace the Core 40 diploma and general education diploma requirements. Urges
the legislative council to assign to the education study committee during the
2018 legislative interim the topic of studying whether Indiana should replace
the "A" through "F" grading scale to designate school
performance because of changes in federal school accountability requirements
under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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1/11/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/11/2018 - First Reading
1/11/2018 - Authored By Chris Judy |
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HB1315
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SCHOOL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. (BROWN
T) Allows the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB) to delegate board
authority and responsibilities to the executive director by resolution of the
board. Permits only the emergency manager to petition the DUAB to terminate a
political subdivision's distressed status. Allows the DUAB to adopt rules.
Requires the attorney general to represent a member of the fiscal management
board, an emergency manager, a chief financial officer, or a chief academic
officer if the individual requests the representation. Specifies restrictions
on school corporations that are designated distressed. Specifies that waivers
regarding the allocation of protected taxes apply only to distressed school
corporations. Makes changes concerning the Gary Community School Corporation
and its operation. Removes the laws concerning the Muncie Community Schools
being a fiscally impaired school corporation. Permits the DUAB to recommend
to the state board of finance that the state board of finance make an
interest free loan to the Muncie Community Schools. Requires the DUAB to make
a request for information on whether a state educational institution,
educational organization, or other community group has an interest in
partnering with the Muncie Community Schools. Allows state educational
institutions to establish one or more laboratory schools within a school
district or establish a laboratory school district by agreement with a school
corporation. Allows the state educational institution to use property of the
school corporation for a laboratory school. Requires the management
performance hub (MPH) to determine the fiscal and qualitative indicators to
be used in analyzing the financial condition of school corporations.
Specifies certain factors that must be used. Requires the MPH to determine
the financial condition of each school corporation. Requires the MPH to
present the information on its Internet web site. Sets minimum standards for
presenting the information. Permits the DUAB to enter into an agreement with
a school corporation showing fiscal distress to establish a corrective action
plan. Requires the DUAB to create a watch list of school corporations that
show fiscal distress. Allows the DUAB to revoke or suspend a superintendent's
license if a school corporation remains on the watch list for four
consecutive years. Establishes the fiscal and qualitative indicators committee
(committee) to make the initial determination of factors to be used for
evaluating the financial condition of each school, the initial determination
of the information to be presented by the MPH, and the initial determination
of the frequency for updating the indicators, information, and presentation.
Expires the committee on June 30, 2019. Requires various reports.
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1/11/2018 - Referred to House Ways and Means
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1/11/2018 - First Reading
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HB1326
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SCHOOL DISCIPLINE. (PORTER G) Provides
that an evidence based plan for improving student behavior and discipline in
a school corporation must seek to: (1) reduce out-of-school suspensions and
disproportionality in discipline and expulsions; and (2) limit referrals to
law enforcement or arrests on school property to cases in which referral to
law enforcement or arrest is necessary to protect the health and safety of
other students or school employees. Adds a definition of
"exclusion". Adds a definition of "positive discipline".
Provides that discipline policies established by a superintendent or member of
the superintendent's administrative staff must be consistent with positive
discipline practices. Provides that a school's discipline policy must include
a graduated system of discipline and incorporate positive discipline
principles and establish clear limits for referring students to law
enforcement officials. Makes various changes to provisions relating to school
discipline to reduce student exclusion from school. Repeals a provision that
provides that a principal may require a student at least 16 years of age who
wishes to reenroll in school after an expulsion to attend certain alternative
educational programs.
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1/11/2018 - Referred to House Education
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1/11/2018 - First Reading
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URGING THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO ASSIGN THE TOPIC OF
REDUCING OVERT IDENTIFICATION OF FREE AND REDUCED PRICE LUNCH STUDENTS
THROUGH ALTERNATE CHARGE AND MEAL POLICIES OF LOCAL EDUCATION AGENCIES TO T (SIEGRIST
S) Urging the legislative council to assign the topic of reducing overt
identification of free and reduced price lunch students through alternate
charge and meal policies of local education agencies to the appropriate
committee.
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Current Status:
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1/11/2018 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 156-C
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1/4/2018 - Coauthored by Representatives Frye R, Olthoff,
and Wright
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SB7
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SCHOOL CALENDAR. (LEISING J) Prohibits
public schools and accredited nonpublic schools from beginning student
instructional days for the school year before the last Monday in August,
beginning with the 2019-2020 school year.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Rules and Legislative
Procedure
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Recent Status:
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Coauthored by Senator Freeman |
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SB8
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SCHOOL CURRICULUM. (LEISING J) Requires
each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic elementary
school to include cursive writing in its curriculum.
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Current Status:
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1/16/2018 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
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Recent Status:
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1/11/2018 - Committee Report do pass, adopted
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SB18
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NOTICE OF SCHOOL IMMUNIZATION EXEMPTIONS. (TOMES
J) Provides that at the beginning of each school year, each accredited
school shall send each student's parent written notice of the student's
rights not to receive immunizations, treatment, testing, or examinations if
the parent objects on religious grounds or a physician certifies that the
immunization, treatment, testing, or examination is or may be detrimental to
the student's health.
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SB24
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STUDENT POSSESSION AND USE OF SUNSCREEN. (BROWN
L) Provides that a student may possess and use a topical, non-aerosol
sunscreen product while on school property or at a school sponsored event or
activity without being required to: (1) have a physician's note or
prescription; or (2) store the topical, non-aerosol sunscreen product in a
specific location; if the product is regulated by the United States Food and
Drug Administration for over-the-counter use for the purpose of limiting
ultraviolet light-induced skin damage. Allows school personnel to assist a
student in applying the sunscreen if the school has written permission from
the student's parent or guardian. Provides certain civil immunity for school
corporations, schools, and school personnel for any action taken to comply
with the sunscreen provisions.
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1/17/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm.
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1/10/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
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SB25
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TERMINATION OF LOCAL DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS. (BOOTS
P) Requires the termination of a defined benefit plan sponsored by a
political subdivision if the full actuarially determined contribution to the
plan is not made for three consecutive years.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SB29
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PREKINDERGARTEN PILOT PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY. (MELTON
E) Removes the requirement that, for an eligible child to qualify for a
grant under the prekindergarten pilot program, the eligible child reside with
a parent or guardian who is: (1) working or attending a job training program
or educational program; or (2) actively seeking employment. Removes a
provision that allows priority for a grant to an eligible child whose parent
or guardian is involved in: (1) activities that improve the parent's or
guardian's education; or (2) job training.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SB33
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HOUSES OF WORSHIP AND FIREARMS. (SANDLIN
J) Permits a person who may legally possess a firearm to possess a
firearm on school property if the person possesses the firearm: (1) as an
employee or volunteer of a house of worship located on the school property;
or (2) while attending a worship service or religious ceremony conducted at a
house of worship located on the school property.
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1/8/2018 - added as second author Senator Tomes
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SB34
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PRECINCT COMMITTEEMEN. (SANDLIN
J) Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice
committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in
a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be
entitled to vote for the office for which a successor is to be selected in
the caucus.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SB65
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INSTRUCTION ON HUMAN SEXUALITY. (KRUSE
D) Requires each school corporation to make available for inspection to
a parent of a student instructional material used in connection with
instruction on human sexuality. Prohibits a school from providing a student
with instruction on human sexuality unless the parent of the student or the
student (if the student is an adult or an emancipated minor) consents to the
instruction. Establishes requirements regarding the consent form. Requires
the department of education and the governing body of a school corporation to
give parents and students notice of these requirements.
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1/17/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm.
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1/9/2018 - added as coauthors Senators Raatz, Tomes, Crane
1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career Development |
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SB77
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REDISTRICTING. (LANANE T) Establishes a
redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold hearings on, take
public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly
districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services
agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the
commission. Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in
the creation of redistricting plans. Provides that the general assembly must
meet and enact redistricting plans before October 1 of a redistricting year.
Authorizes the general assembly to convene in a session to act on
redistricting bills at times other than the times the general assembly is
currently authorized to meet. Repeals the current law establishing a
redistricting commission for congressional redistricting.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Timothy Lanane |
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SB93
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FAIR PAY IN EMPLOYMENT. (BREAUX
J) Provides that: (1) it is an unlawful employment practice to pay wages
that discriminate based on sex, race, or national origin for the same or
equivalent jobs; and (2) the civil rights commission has jurisdiction for
investigation and resolution of complaints of these employment actions.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SB95
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LEGISLATIVE ETHICS. (DELPH M) Provides
that a lobbyist and certain persons associated with state educational
institutions may not give a gift to a legislative person with certain stated
exceptions. Requires a lobbyist who communicates with certain legislative
persons to make a log of the communication. Requires a lobbyist to submit a
copy of the communications log electronically to the lobby registration
commission (commission) on a weekly basis. Requires a lobbyist to maintain a
copy of written communications and an archived copy of certain electronic
communications for four years. Provides that upon the request of the
commission, a lobbyist shall provide the commission with an electronic copy
of a communication that is required to be maintained or archived. Requires
the commission to provide an electronic copy of any of those communications
to any person who makes a request to inspect the communication. Repeals
superseded statutes. Makes conforming changes.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Rules and Legislative
Procedure
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Michael Delph |
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SB109
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SATELLITE VOTING. (TAYLOR G) Allows a
county election board to adopt a resolution by the majority vote of the
board's entire membership in order to establish satellite locations for early
voting. (Currently, a resolution to establish satellite voting locations must
be adopted unanimously by the board.)
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Greg Taylor |
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SB113
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PAID EMPLOYEE LEAVE. (RANDOLPH L) Urges
the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee
during the 2018 legislative interim the task of studying paid personal leave
from employment.
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1/8/2018 - added as coauthor Senator Ford
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
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SB115
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TAX CREDIT FOR TEACHERS' CLASSROOM SUPPLIES. (RANDOLPH
L) Increases the income tax credit for an individual employed as a
teacher for amounts expended on classroom supplies from $100 to $500 per
taxable year.
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1/8/2018 - added as coauthor Senator Ford
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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SB117
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LIMITS ON EXPULSIONS AND LONG-TERM SUSPENSIONS. (RANDOLPH
L) Requires a determination that a student's school suspension or
expulsion will prevent or reduce the risk of interference with an educational
function or school purposes, disruption of the learning environment, or
physical injury to the student, other students, school employees, or school
visitors and, in the case of an expulsion, a determination that all other
available and appropriate disciplinary and behavioral interventions have been
exhausted. Requires inclusion of the rationale for the use of school
suspension or expulsion in the statement to a student's parent.
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1/10/2018 - added as coauthor Senator Melton
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career Development
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SB118
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SCHOOL CITY OF EAST CHICAGO LOAN. (RANDOLPH
L) Transfers, not later than July 1, 2018, to the school disaster loan
fund from the state general fund an amount sufficient to pay off the loan
that was made to the School City of East Chicago school corporation from the
school disaster loan fund.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Appropriations
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Lonnie Randolph |
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SB121
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MINIMUM WAGE. (MRVAN F) Increases the
minimum wage paid to certain employees in Indiana as follows: (1) after June
30, 2019, from $7.25 an hour to $10 an hour; (2) after June 30, 2020, from
$10 an hour to $13 an hour; and (3) after June 30, 2021, from $13 an hour to
$15 an hour. Provides that after June 30, 2022, and each subsequent June 30,
the hourly minimum wage increases at the same percentage as any increase in
the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year. Makes technical
corrections and corresponding changes. Removes outdated language.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Frank Mrvan |
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SB133
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INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION PROGRAM STUDENTS. (BOHACEK
M) Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students
with an individualized education program at no cost to the student. Makes
conforming changes.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Mike Bohacek |
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SB135
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REQUIRED DCS NOTIFICATIONS FOR SCHOOLS. (BOHACEK
M) Requires a law enforcement agency that participates in a child abuse
or neglect assessment (assessment) involving a child who attends kindergarten
through grade 12 to provide information to the department of child services
(DCS) if a person who resides in the home of the child is arrested during the
course of the assessment. Requires DCS to provide information to the school a
child attends if a person who resides in the home of the child is arrested
during the course of an assessment. Requires DCS to notify a child's school
if the child is removed from the child's home. Makes conforming amendments.
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Current Status:
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1/11/2018 - DO PASS AMEND Yeas: 7; Nays: 0
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1/11/2018 - added as second author Senator Zay
1/11/2018 - Senate Family and Children Services, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 1:00 PM, Senate Chamber |
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SB136
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WORKFORCE READY GRANT. (ZAKAS J) Provides
that an applicant is eligible to receive a high value workforce ready
noncredit-bearing grant if the applicant has been accepted for enrollment in
a noncredit-bearing credential or similar program that offers a certification
or credential upon completion that is approved by the department of workforce
development. Provides that the credential or similar program may be offered
by any public, private, or nonprofit entity, including a postsecondary educational
institution. Provides that the noncredit-bearing credential or similar
programs determined to be eligible for the high value workforce ready
noncredit-bearing grant may not be limited to programs offered by a
postsecondary educational institution.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Joseph Zakas |
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SB143
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STUDY OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE GRADES. (LEISING
J) Requires the department of education (department) and the commission
for higher education (commission) to study and submit a report describing as
to whether there is any disparity in determining enrollment eligibility in a
state educational institution or educational program offered by the state
educational institution that is caused by the use of different grading scales
by public secondary schools. Requires the department and commission to submit
the report to the general assembly. Requires a public secondary school to
submit certain information to the department regarding the calculation of a
public secondary student's grade. Requires a state educational institution to
submit certain information to the commission regarding the use of a public
secondary student's grade point average for determining enrollment
eligibility.
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1/16/2018 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
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1/11/2018 - Committee Report amend do pass, adopted
1/10/2018 - DO PASS AMEND Yeas: 9; Nays: 0 |
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SB144
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ABSENTEE VOTING. (FORD J) Permits a voter
who is qualified to vote in person to vote by absentee ballot. Removes all
other qualifications for a voter to vote by absentee ballot except for a
voter with disabilities who is unable to make a voting mark on the ballot or
sign the absentee ballot secrecy envelope. (Such a disabled voter is
currently required to vote before an absentee voter board.)
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Current Status:
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1/8/2018 - Senate Elections, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 9:30 AM, Rm. 125
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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SB157
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REAL WORLD CAREER READINESS PROGRAM. (RUCKELSHAUS
J) Establishes the real world career readiness program (program).
Provides that the state board of education (state board) shall establish the
program to provide a real world career readiness student with career and
technical education credentials necessary to transition from school to the
workforce. Provides that the state board, in consultation with the department
of workforce development, may create an authorized program, or approve high
or moderate value career and technical education programs administered by one
or more school corporations or charter schools. Provides that a real world
career readiness student may attend an authorized program for a period of not
more than one school year after the student's cohort's expected graduation
year in order to obtain an industry recognized certification, credential, or
postsecondary degree. Provides that a program must include an apprenticeship
program, a cooperative program, or a work based learning program. Provides
that a student may participate in an authorized program if the student: (1)
participates in the Indiana career explorer program or curriculum or an
alternative Internet based system and curriculum approved by the department
of education, in consultation with the department of workforce development,
that includes an aptitude assessment that demonstrates the student's
aptitude, in a manner prescribed by the state board, on the aptitude
assessment administered for the applicable field of study; or (2) meets
alternative qualification requirements for the student's applicable field of
study established by the state board in consultation with the department of
workforce development. Provides that not later than July 1, 2019, each school
corporation or charter high school, either solely, or in a cooperative or
consortia with one or more school corporations or charter high schools, must
participate in an authorized program beginning with a cohort with an expected
graduation year of 2023. Provides that an eligible pupil, for purposes of
calculating state tuition support, includes a student enrolled in a program.
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1/17/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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SB159
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REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. (RUCKELSHAUS
J) Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold
hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general
assembly districts and congressional districts. Provides for appointment of
four commission members by the legislative leadership. Establishes the
redistricting commission nominating committee (committee) to receive applications
from and evaluate applicants to fill the five remaining positions on the
commission. Provides for selection of those five commission members from
pools of applicants selected by the committee. Requires the legislative
services agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the
commission. Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in
the creation of redistricting plans. Provides that the general assembly must
meet and enact redistricting plans before October 1 of a redistricting year.
Authorizes the general assembly to convene in a session to act on
redistricting bills at times other than the times the general assembly is
currently authorized to meet. Repeals the current law establishing a
redistricting commission for congressional redistricting.
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1/10/2018 - added as coauthor Senator Niezgodski
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1/4/2018 - added as third author Senator Ford
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SB169
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PROOF OF IDENTIFICATION. (NIEZGODSKI
D) Provides that a document issued by a state university or by an
approved postsecondary educational institution serves as proof of identification
for purposes of voting if the document otherwise satisfies the requirements
for a proof of identification. Provides that such a document is not required
to have an expiration date or may have an indefinite expiration date if it
otherwise satisfies the requirements for a proof of identification.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SB172
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COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM. (RAATZ
J) Establishes the next level computer science grant program (program)
and the next level computer science fund (fund) to award grants, after June
30, 2019, to eligible entities to implement teacher professional development
programs for training in teaching computer science. Requires the state board
of education to: (1) administer the program and fund; and (2) develop
guidelines to award grants from the fund to eligible entities. Requires
(beginning July 1, 2021) each public school, including a charter school, to
offer a computer science course as a one semester elective course in its
curriculum at least once each school year to high school students. Requires (beginning
July 1, 2021) each public school, including a charter school, to include
computer science in the public school's curriculum for students in
kindergarten through grade 12. Makes conforming changes. Makes a continuing
appropriation.
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Current Status:
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1/17/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm.
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1/10/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 3:00 PM, Rm. 130
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SB177
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THE INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. (KRUSE
D) Requires the state board of education (state board) to establish one
Indiana diploma for individuals who successfully complete high school
graduation requirements. (Current law establishes four different diplomas.)
Provides that an Indiana diploma may include one of the following
distinctions: (1) Core 40 distinction. (2) Core 40 academic honors
distinction. (3) Core 40 technical honors distinction. Provides that each
student must meet course and credit requirements for an Indiana diploma.
(Current law requires each student to meet Core 40 course and credit
requirements and allows a student to be exempted from these requirements.)
Removes certain requirements that a student may, if the student fails to meet
a graduation pathway requirement, elect to complete to be eligible to
graduate. Makes conforming changes. Repeals provisions that: (1) require the
state board to design a high school diploma for the high school fast track
program; (2) establish a subcommittee to make recommendations regarding
diplomas and certain course requirements and develop the requirements for a
career and technical education diploma; and (3) allow a student to be
exempted from Core 40 curriculum requirements.
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Current Status:
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1/8/2018 - added as second author Senator Raatz
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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SB189
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K-12 FUNDING. (MISHLER R) Permits the
budget agency to transfer from the state tuition reserve account to the state
general fund the amount necessary to offset a reduction in basic tuition
support, special education grants, or career and technical education grants
as a result of actual enrollment counts exceeding the enrollment projection
estimates. Limits the transfer to $25,000,000 in a state fiscal year.
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Current Status:
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1/11/2018 - DO PASS AMEND Yeas: 12; Nays: 0
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1/11/2018 - Senate Appropriations, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 431
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SB204
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VETERANS EDUCATIONAL MATTERS. (FREEMAN
A) Excludes from the determination of financial eligibility for need
based financial aid certain benefits received by veteran students. Provides
for state educational institution students who are members of the Indiana
National Guard or the reserves and are called to active duty during an academic
term to receive: (1) a tuition refund or credit; or (2) reenrollment in
courses not completed due to active duty status.
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Current Status:
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1/11/2018 - added as second author Senator Glick
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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SB205
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SCHOOL CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS. (FREEMAN
A) Provides that, if an eligible choice scholarship student (student)
leaves an eligible school during the school year and transfers during the
same school year to a different eligible school that has a choice scholarship
available for that eligible school, the student may use the amount remaining
of the choice scholarship awarded to the student for that school year to pay
the tuition at the eligible school to which the student has transferred for
the remainder of the school year. Provides that the student may not use the
amounts if the student has previously transferred eligible schools during
that same school year. Provides that any amounts distributed may not exceed
the cost of tuition at the eligible school to which the student transfers.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
1/3/2018 - Authored By Aaron Freeman |
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SB216
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STORAGE OF FIREARMS AT PUBLIC VENUES. (SANDLIN
J) Provides that a person in possession of: (1) a valid Indiana handgun
permit; or (2) a valid handgun permit from a state sharing a reciprocity
agreement with Indiana; may carry or possess a handgun on the grounds or
premises of certain buildings, facilities, and structures. Provides that a
law enforcement officer or an off duty law enforcement officer may carry or
possess a handgun on the grounds or premises of certain buildings,
facilities, or structures without restriction. Creates certain exceptions.
Provides that any: (1) administrative rule; (2) contractual term; (3)
ordinance; (4) policy; (5) regulation; (6) rule; or (7) statute; that
prevents or prohibits a person possessing a valid handgun permit or a law
enforcement officer from carrying or possessing a handgun on the grounds or
premises of certain buildings, facilities, or structures, is void. Creates
certain exceptions.
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SB217
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DYSLEXIA. (HOUCHIN E) Requires the
following: (1) A school multidisciplinary team must include information about
dyslexia in a student's educational evaluation if the multidisciplinary team
determines that the student is eligible to receive special education and
related services and has or has characteristics of dyslexia. (2) Information
about dyslexia must be: (A) discussed by the student's case conference
committee if information about dyslexia is included in the student's
education evaluation; and (B) included in the student's individualized
education program if the case conference committee determines that the
information should be included. Requires school corporations and charter
schools to screen: (1) each student in kindergarten, grade 1, and grade 2;
and (2) certain other students. Establishes requirements regarding dyslexia
screenings, notifications to parents, and dyslexia intervention services
(including instructional approaches). Requires school corporations and
charter schools to: (1) use the response to intervention process to address
needs of students who are determined to have characteristics of dyslexia; and
(2) obtain parental consent before administering a level I dyslexia screening
or a level II dyslexia screening. Allows a student's parent to elect to have
an independent comprehensive dyslexia evaluation of the student. Requires
school corporations and charter schools to report annually to the department
of education (department) regarding the number of students who were: (1)
administered the initial dyslexia screening during the school year; and (2)
determined to be at risk, or at some risk, for dyslexia. Requires a school
corporation and charter school to report on the school corporation's or
charter school's Internet web site certain information regarding dyslexia.
Requires, not later than July 1, 2019, the department to employ at least
three dyslexia specialists. Establishes the: (1) requirements for a dyslexia
specialist; and (2) services the dyslexia specialist is required to provide.
Requires, not later than the 2019-2020 school year, each school corporation
and charter school to employ at least one individual to serve as a dyslexia
interventionist for the school corporation or charter school. Requires, not
later than the 2019-2020 school year, the department to ensure that each
teacher receives professional awareness information on dyslexia. Requires the
department to develop and update an Indiana dyslexia resource guide.
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SB220
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READING ASSESSMENTS. (HOUCHIN E) Requires,
after June 30, 2019, that the state superintendent of public instruction's
reading deficiency remediation plan (IREAD) must include a reading evaluation
for students by grade 2. Provides that a student who requires remediation
after the student is evaluated in grade 2 must receive remedial action and be
reevaluated in grade 3. Provides that if the student remains below standard
after receiving remedial action and being reevaluated in grade 3, the
student, after other methods of remediation have been evaluated or used, or
both, may be retained as a last resort.
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SB229
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PENSION COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS. (NIEZGODSKI
D) Provides for cost of living adjustments for certain members of the:
(1) public employees' retirement fund; (2) Indiana state teachers' retirement
fund; (3) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (4) state police 1987
benefit system.
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SB230
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SUICIDE PREVENTION. (HEAD R) Provides
that the division of mental health and addiction is responsible for the
development and provision of a research based training program for health
care providers concerning suicide assessment, training, and management that
is: (1) demonstrated to be an effective or promising program; and (2)
recommended by the Indiana Suicide Prevention Network Advisory Council.
Requires emergency medical technicians to complete a research based training
program concerning suicide assessment, treatment, and management that is: (1)
demonstrated to be an effective or promising program; and (2) recommended by
the Indiana Suicide Prevention Network Advisory Council. Requires that
teachers and other school employees receive at least two hours of research
based youth suicide awareness and prevention training from a program that is:
(1) demonstrated to be an effective or promising program; and (2) recommended
by the Indiana Suicide Prevention Network Advisory Council.
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SB234
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EDUCATION FOUNDATION TAX CREDIT. (FORD
J) Provides for an adjusted gross income tax credit for donations to a
public school foundation. Provides that the maximum individual taxpayer
credit is $1,000 in the case of a single return or $2,000 in the case of a
joint return. Provides that the maximum corporate taxpayer credit is the greater
of 10% of the corporation's total adjusted gross income tax liability or
$10,000.
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SB235
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TAX CREDIT FOR EDUCATION CONTRIBUTIONS. (ALTING
R) Provides for an adjusted gross income tax credit for donations to:
(1) a public elementary school or public secondary school; or (2) a public
school foundation. Provides that the maximum individual taxpayer credit is
$1,000 in the case of a single return or $2,000 in the case of a joint return.
Provides that the maximum corporate taxpayer credit is the greater of 10% of
the corporation's total adjusted gross income tax liability or $10,000.
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SB245
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COLLEGE SAVINGS PROGRAM. (KOCH
E) Establishes a state income tax credit for employers who contribute to
employees' 529 education savings accounts. Limits the credit to $100 per
employee. Allows taxpayers to designate an income tax refund to a 529
education savings account. Requires the Indiana education savings authority
to make a contribution to 529 education savings accounts of lower income
account owners in the amount of the lesser of: (1) the amount the account
owner contributed minus the amount the account owner withdrew from the
account in the previous calendar year; or (2) $250. Makes an annual
appropriation from the state general fund to reimburse the Indiana education
savings authority for the contributions made.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SB250
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ABSENTEE VOTING. (MRVAN F) Permits a
voter who is qualified to vote in person to vote by absentee ballot. Removes
all other qualifications for a voter to vote by absentee ballot except for a
voter with disabilities who is unable to make a voting mark on the ballot or
sign the absentee ballot secrecy envelope. (Such a disabled voter is
currently required to vote before an absentee voter board.)
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SB255
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MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND SCREENINGS. (MRVAN
F) Requires a school corporation's health education curriculum to
include mental health wellness education. Provides that the governing body of
a school corporation may provide mental health screenings to students if the
governing body receives written consent from a student's parent or guardian
to provide a mental health screening to the student. Requires the department
of education to provide a school corporation with resources regarding mental
health wellness upon request by the school corporation.
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SB267
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SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR CONTRACTS. (HOUCHIN
E) Provides that, unless a provision in a contract entered into or
renewed between the governing body of a school corporation and a principal or
an assistant principal before July 1, 2018, provides otherwise, the governing
body of a school corporation may not pay to a principal or an assistant
principal to buy out a contract an amount that exceeds an amount equal to the
principal's or assistant principal's salary for any one year under the
contract. Provides that, unless a provision in a contract entered into or renewed
between the governing body of a school corporation and an assistant
superintendent before July 1, 2018, provides otherwise, a governing body may
not pay to an assistant superintendent to buy out a contract an amount that
exceeds an amount equal to the lesser of: (1) the assistant superintendent's
salary for any one year under the contract; or (2) $250,000. Requires that an
initial employment contract entered into between the governing body of a
school corporation and an assistant superintendent, a principal, or an
assistant principal be at least one year and not more than 3 years. (Current
law requires the initial contract between the governing body of a school
corporation and a principal or assistant principal be the equivalent of at
least two years.) Provides that a contract with an assistant superintendent,
a principal, or an assistant principal may be extended for an additional
three years.
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SB270
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STATE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENTS. (KOCH
E) Prohibits a state employee from directing proceeds of a settlement
agreement on behalf of the state to a third party who is not directly or
proximately connected to the civil action. Requires each state agency to
submit an annual report, not later than September 1 of each year, to the
budget agency concerning settlement agreements made to a third party for the
preceding fiscal year. Requires the budget agency to submit an annual report,
not later than November 1 of each year, to the legislative council concerning
all settlement agreements entered into by state agencies or the attorney
general's office that violate the prohibition on directing proceeds to a
third party not directly or proximately connected to the civil action.
Provides that neither a unit nor a school corporation may, without the
consent of the attorney general, settle a claim by agreeing to: (1) adopt,
refuse to adopt, or refuse to enforce an ordinance or policy; or (2) the
terms of an injunction, restraining order, or consent decree.
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SB272
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AGE FOR COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. (TAYLOR
G) Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance
requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year
in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year.
(Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance
requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year
in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming
amendments.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB276
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TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICTS. (BASSLER
E) Provides that if a redevelopment commission outside Marion County
wishes to establish a tax increment financing (TIF) area after December 31,
2018, a unit (county, city, town, or township) or school corporation that is
located wholly or partly within a proposed TIF area may elect whether to
participate in the TIF area. Provides that after December 31, 2018, each
taxing unit that is located wholly or partly in a TIF area is bound by the
terms of the TIF area until the TIF area expires, except for those units and
school corporations that do not elect to participate in the TIF area.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB282
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WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT MATTERS. (BOOTS
P) Requires the state board of education, when establishing an
apprenticeship as a graduation pathway requirement, to establish as an
apprenticeship only an apprenticeship program registered under the federal
National Apprenticeship Act or another federal apprenticeship program
administered by the United States Department of Labor. Requires the state
workforce innovation council, not an advisory committee, to approve all
applicable federal and state workforce related programs. Defines
apprenticeship program and work based learning course for career and
technical education purposes.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
1/4/2018 - Authored By Philip Boots |
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SB287
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SAME DAY REGISTRATION. (LANANE T) Permits
a voter to register at the polls by completing a voter registration form and
an affirmation that the person has not voted elsewhere in the election and by
providing proof of residence.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB290
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WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (FORD
J) Establishes a time frame for the payment of compensation under a
settlement agreement, a permanent partial impairment agreement, and an award
of compensation ordered by a single hearing member of the worker's
compensation board (board). Provides that an employer that fails to make a
timely payment is subject to a civil penalty. Requires an employer that has
mobile or remote employees to convey information about worker's compensation
coverage to the employer's employees in an electronic format or in the same
manner as the employer conveys other employment related information. Allows
the electronic filing of certain documents with the board. Provides that a
permanently, totally disabled worker must reapply to the second injury fund
for a wage replacement benefit every three years instead of every 150 weeks.
Requires the reporting of workplace injuries needing medical attention beyond
first aid instead of injuries causing an absence from work for more than one
day. Provides that reporting requirements for workplace injuries are intended
to be consistent with those set out in the United States Occupational Safety
and Health Administration's regulations. Changes from $50 per employee to
$100 per day the civil penalty for an employer's failure to provide proof of
worker's compensation coverage. Revises the definition of employer to include
corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships,
and other entities that have common control and ownership. Makes conforming
amendments for occupational diseases compensation.
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Current Status:
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1/17/2018 - Senate Pensions and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location:10:00 AM, Rm. 233
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SB295
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SCHOOL PROPERTY AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. (YOUNG
M) Permits a sex offender to enter school property if: (1) a religious
institution or house of worship is located on the school property; and (2)
the person enters the school property for the sole purpose of attending
worship services or receiving religious instruction.
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1/11/2018 - added as second author Senator Mrvan
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Corrections and Criminal Law
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SB297
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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS CURRICULUM. (RAATZ
J) Provides that, not later than July 1, 2019, each school within a
school corporation shall include interdisciplinary employability skills
standards established by the department of workforce development, in
consultation with the department of education and approved by the state board
of education, in the school's curriculum. Establishes the work ethic
certificate program (program) and fund. Requires the department of workforce
development to administer the program.
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1/8/2018 - added as second author Senator Kruse
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1/8/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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SB298
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TRANSFER OF CREDITS TOWARD GRADUATE DEGREES. (RAATZ
J) Requires the commission for higher education (commission) to study
and prepare a report concerning transferability of courses between state
educational institutions. Requires the commission to provide the report not
later than August 1, 2018, to the department of education, the state board of
education, and the legislative council. Defines "eligible teacher",
for purposes of the dual credit teacher stipend matching grant fund, as a
teacher who teaches a dual credit class and either holds or is in the process
of obtaining, with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0 on a 4.0
scale or its equivalent, a master's degree that includes at least 18 credit
hours in the subject area of the dual credit class the teacher teaches.
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SB302
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CAMPUS SPEECH. (RAATZ J) Requires each
state educational institution to adopt policies protecting free speech.
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1/4/2018 - added as second author Senator Kruse
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SB303
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VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (RAATZ
J) Amends dates for the following: (1) The submission of reports
regarding the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in an
alternative education program. (2) Student enrollment and attendance and
grant distributions regarding alternative education program grants. (3) A
school corporation's count of pupils in homebound programs. (4) The
submission of reports to the department of education (department) concerning
scholarships awarded by a scholarship granting organization in the previous
school year. Requires the state board of education, in collaboration with the
commission for higher education, to establish a uniform online system of
certain staff performance evaluation data. Amends requirements and defines "appropriate
vehicle" with regard to the types of vehicles a school corporation may
use to transport homeless students to a school of origin. Provides that the
same requirements apply to the transport of students in foster care to a
school of origin. Requires that a contract entered into by a teacher and a
school corporation must contain the minimum number of hours per day the
teacher is expected to work. (Current law requires that a contract entered
into by a teacher and a school corporation include the number of hours per
day the teacher is expected to work.) Amends the conditions that must apply
for an original school corporation and a transitional school corporation to
be required to enter into an agreement concerning the responsibility for and
apportionment of the costs of transporting a foster student to and from a
school of origin. Provides that, to drive a school bus, an individual must
have a depth perception of at least 80% or 48 seconds of arc or less angle of
stereopsis. (Current law requires an individual to have a depth perception of
at least 80% or 33 seconds of arc or less angle of stereopsis.) Removes a
provision that requires school corporations to conduct an additional
cumulative count of pupils in homebound programs for informational purposes.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB304
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VOTING HOURS. (TALLIAN K) Provides that
the polls close at 7 p.m. (Under current law, the polls must close at 6 p.m.)
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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SB308
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MINIMUM WAGE. (TALLIAN K) Increases the
state minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $11.31 an hour. Eliminates the tip
credit in determining the minimum wage paid to a tipped employee. Makes a
technical correction.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
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SB309
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FAMILY LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM. (TALLIAN
K) Requires the department of insurance to establish, not later than
January 1, 2019, a family leave insurance program (program) for the purpose
of providing benefits to employees who elect to participate in the program.
Requires that: (1) the program be voluntary for both employers and employees;
(2) both employers and employees make contributions to the program to fund
benefits; (3) employee contributions be made by payroll deduction; (4) the
benefit eligibility requirements established for the program include, at a
minimum, the requirements that qualify an employee for leave under the
federal Family and Medical Leave Act; and (5) an employee have the option to
select whether the employee's benefit is equal to 100%, 75%, or 50 % of the
employee's salary and the number of weeks that a benefit will be paid.
Requires the department of insurance to develop the program with the
assistance of and in coordination with the department of labor. Requires the
department of insurance, not later than November 1, 2018, to submit a report
to the legislative council and the budget committee concerning the proposed
program. Establishes the family leave insurance program trust fund (trust
fund) for the purpose of paying program benefits. Transfers and appropriates
the balance in the political subdivision risk management fund to the trust
fund.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Insurance and Financial
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB314
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STUDENT MEALS AND LUNCH SHAMING. (STOOPS
M) Requires public schools, charter schools, and nonpublic schools that
participate in the national school lunch program or national school breakfast
program, or both, to provide a meal that meets the reimbursable meal
requirements established by the United States Department of Agriculture to a
student if: (1) the student requests a meal; and (2) the student's parent or
guardian has not submitted a written request that the school not serve the
student a meal. Prohibits the schools from the following: (1) Requiring a
student to dispose of a meal because of the student's inability to pay for
the meal or the student owes meal debt for previous meals. (2) Publicly
identifying or stigmatizing a student of the school who is unable to pay for
a meal or owes a meal debt. (3) Requiring a student of the school who is
unable to pay for a meal or owes a meal debt to perform chores or other work
for the purposes of paying for the meal or meal debt. Requires the schools to
take certain actions if a student owes money to the school for more than four
meals.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB315
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REQUIREMENTS FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS. (STOOPS
M) Provides that certain charter school authorizers that issued a
charter for a charter school before July 1, 2015, are required to be approved
by the state board of education (state board) before the authorizers may
authorize a new charter or renew an existing charter for a charter school.
(Current law provides that certain charter school authorizers that have not
issued a charter for a charter school prior to July 1, 2015, are required to
be approved by the state board before they may authorize a charter school.)
Provides that an authorizer may not accept a proposal to establish a charter
school from an organizer that already operates a charter school if a charter
school that the organizer operates does not meet certain thresholds regarding
its school accountability grade. Provides that a charter school may not
enroll new students who are not currently enrolled in the charter school if
the charter school does not meet certain threshholds regarding its school
accountability grade. Provides that the provisions allowing an administrative
fee of not more than 3% for certain authorizers do not apply to charters
granted or renewed after June 30, 2018.
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SB319
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RESIDENT TUITION RATE FOR ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS. (STOOPS
M) Provides that an individual, except for certain nonimmigrant aliens,
who: (1) attends a high school in Indiana for at least three years; (2)
registers as an entering student at or enrolls in a state educational
institution not earlier than the fall semester (or its equivalent, as
determined by the state educational institution) of the 2015-2016 academic year;
and (3) graduates from a high school located in Indiana or receives the
equivalent of a high school diploma in Indiana; is eligible for the resident
tuition rate beginning in the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.
Requires such an individual to verify that the individual meets the criteria
to receive the resident tuition rate.
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SB324
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ABSENTEE VOTING AT SATELLITE OFFICES. (BREAUX
J) Requires a county to establish at least one satellite office in the
county for voters to vote by absentee ballot.
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SB326
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REDISTRICTING STANDARDS. (WALKER
G) Establishes redistricting standards for congressional and state
legislative districts. Provides that the initial proposed plans for
congressional and state legislative districts must comply with the
redistricting standards. Allows the general assembly, during the process by
which the initial proposed plans become effective by being enacted as a law,
to consider and adopt modifications to the initial proposed plans that
deviate from the redistricting standards as long as the reason or reasons for
each deviation are publicly explained and documented.
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SB328
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BALLOT ACCESS. (WALKER G) Reduces the
minimum number of votes cast at an election required for certain purposes
from 2% of the votes cast at the election for secretary of state to 0.5% of
the votes cast for the state office receiving the greatest number of votes in
the last election. Repeals the definition of "major political
party" and uses instead the designation of a political party eligible to
hold a nominating convention. Makes conforming amendments.
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SB329
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ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION AT CENTRAL LOCATION. (WALKER
G) Permits a county election board in a county that has established a
board of registration and is a vote center county to adopt an order to allow
a person who is not registered to vote to register and vote on election day
at a central location in the jurisdiction where the election is being held by
completing a voter registration form and an affirmation that the person has not
voted elsewhere in the election and by providing proof of residence.
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SB350
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VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (KRUSE
D) Requires the board of a charter school to consist of at least two
members who reside within the geographic boundaries of the school corporation
in which the charter school is located. Prohibits an authorizer from
accepting a proposal to establish a charter school from an organizer that
already operates a charter school in Indiana unless the organizer provides
evidence of improvement and achievement of student academic performance at
the charter school. Requires the department of education (department) to
establish requirements or criteria to prevent charter school and organizer
financial and enrollment fraud, waste, and abuse. Requires a charter school
and organizer to obtain annually an independent audit. Provides that, not
later than July 1, 2019, and each July 1 thereafter, each charter school and
organizer shall submit a report to the department. Requires the department
and each charter school to post a copy of the report on their respective
Internet web sites. Provides that, if the department finds that a charter
school or organizer has misrepresented facts or committed fraud, waste, or
abuse, the department shall issue findings and may make recommendations to
the state board of education to take certain action, including withholding
distributions or requiring an authorizer to revoke the charter school's
charter. Requires that at least 50% of the public meetings of a charter
school be held in the geographic boundaries of the school corporation in
which the charter school is located. Provides that increases or increments in
a local teacher salary range are not required to be equal for all teachers
even if the salary increases or increments are based on the same combination
of weighted factors.
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SB352
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PRIVACY OF STUDENTS AND FAMILIES. (KRUSE
D) Provides that computer programs and assessments used in connection
with a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey are included in the
instructional materials that a school corporation must make available for
inspection by students' parents. Provides that a student may not be required
to participate in a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey that
reveals or attempts to affect the student's attitudes, habits, traits,
opinions, beliefs, or feelings concerning sexual orientation (in addition to
the list of other matters that a student may not be required to participate
in regarding a personal analysis, an evaluation, or a survey). Provides that
a school corporation or school shall obtain prior written consent from the
parent of a student who is less than 18 years of age and not emancipated
before the student may participate in any medical health assessment or service,
mental health assessment, or mental health service that is conducted in
connection with the school corporation or school. Requires that, before
obtaining the consent of a parent, a school corporation or school shall
provide the parent informed written notice describing in detail the medical
health assessment or service, mental health assessment, or mental health
service. Provides that a school corporation or school may not require,
without prior consent from the student's parent, a student to submit to a
psychiatric or psychological examination or test or psychiatric or
psychological treatment in which the purpose of the examination, test, or
treatment is to reveal certain information. Establishes requirements
regarding student education records, personally identifiable information of a
student, and certain other information concerning a student.
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SB354
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FREEWAY SCHOOL CORPORATIONS AND SCHOOLS. (KRUSE
D) Provides that the state board of education shall, upon request by a
freeway school corporation or a freeway school, waive certain educational
benefit requirements for a period of not more than 36 months if the freeway
school corporation or freeway school meets certain thresholds regarding its
school accountability grade.
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1/17/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
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1/10/2018 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
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SB356
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BROADBAND READY COMMUNITIES GRANT PROGRAM. (HOUCHIN
E) Authorizes the office of community and rural affairs (office) to
award grants for eligible projects that: (1) are undertaken or funded by
eligible entities; and (2) are related to: (A) the construction or deployment
of wireline or wireless communications facilities to provide communications
services in a local unit; or (B) the promotion of broadband adoption in a
unit. Defines an "eligible entity" for purposes of these provisions
as: (1) a unit that has been certified as a broadband ready community by the
Indiana economic development corporation; or (2) a school corporation that:
(A) is located, entirely or in part, in a unit that has been certified as a
broadband ready community; or (B) submits, in connection with a grant
application, evidence of the school corporation's participation in a planned
or pending application for certification as a broadband ready community with
respect to a unit in which the school corporation is located entirely or in
part. Provides that the office shall determine: (1) the number of grants
awarded; and (2) the amount of each grant awarded; in any state fiscal year.
Specifies sources of funding from which the office may award grants,
including the rural economic development fund, subject to appropriation by
the general assembly and approval by the office. Requires each grant to be
made under a grant agreement by and between the office and the grant
recipient. Sets forth the duties of the office in administering the grant
program.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Utilities
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SB358
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ANNUAL NOTICE OF TEACHERS' RIGHTS. (PERFECT
C) Provides that the attorney general is required to send by electronic
mail the annual letter to teachers summarizing teachers' rights and
protections under state and federal law. (Current law requires the letter to
be sent by first class mail to the teachers' homes.) Charges the department
of education (department) with developing a method to provide the attorney
general with the names and electronic mail addresses of current teachers in
Indiana. (The law currently requires the department to provide the attorney general
with the teachers' residential addresses.)
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB364
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INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR K-12 EDUCATION DONATIONS. (MELTON
E) Provides a 50% income tax credit to donors who donate to a public
school foundation. Sets forth standards that apply to taking the credit and
to public school foundations that receive contributions. Limits the total
credits that may be claimed during a state fiscal year using a three year
phase in period.
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Current Status:
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1/18/2018 - Senate Appropriations, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 431
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1/10/2018 - added as coauthor Senator Ruckelshaus
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SB365
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TEACHER COMPENSATION. (MELTON E) Provides
that a school corporation may increase a teacher's base salary that exceeds
the salary specified in the school corporation's compensation plan if the
teacher possesses a master's degree that is: (1) directly related to the
content area of a dual credit course or another course taught by the teacher;
or (2) approved by the governing body of the school corporation. (Current law
provides that a school corporation may provide a supplemental payment to a
teacher that exceeds the salary specified in the school corporation's
compensation plan if the teacher has earned a master's degree in a content
area directly related to the subject matter of a dual credit course or
another course taught by the teacher.) Provides that a school corporation may
increase the base salary of an elementary school teacher who possesses a
master's degree in math, reading, or literacy. (Current law provides that a
supplemental payment may be made to an elementary school teacher who earns a
master's degree in math or reading and literacy.)
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB366
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COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. (MELTON
E) Provides that increases or increments in a local teacher salary range
are not required to be equal for all teachers even if the salary increases or
increments are based on the same combination of weighted factors. Provides
that teacher working hours are subject to collective bargaining. Provides
that an employer is required to discuss: (1) working conditions; and (2)
student learning; with the exclusive representative of certificated
employees. Removes teacher evaluations from the list of items that are
required to be considered to determine teacher salary increases or
increments. Makes changes to the term "deficit financing" for
purposes of determining the amount of money that is available for teacher
contracts. Makes conforming changes consistent with 2017 legislation.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB367
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TRAUMA SENSITIVE SCHOOLS. (MELTON
E) Requires the department of education to conduct a statewide needs
assessment survey concerning student service providers and how schools are
addressing the social and emotional needs of students.
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB368
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SCHOOL FINANCIAL CONDITION ANALYSIS. (MELTON
E) Provides for a coordinated effort by the department of education, the
department of local government finance, the state board of accounts, the
management performance hub (MPH), and the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB)
in identifying whether a school corporation needs technical assistance in
addressing its financial condition. Requires the MPH to submit a preliminary
report of its findings to the interim committee on fiscal policy before
submitting a final report to the DUAB. Requires the DUAB to make a determination
whether a school corporation identified by another agency needs technical
assistance, and requires the DUAB to initiate contact with the school
corporation governing body chairperson and superintendent to offer the
technical assistance. Provides that if a school corporation accepts the
assistance, a technical assistance team is created. Requires the team to
perform a thorough review of the school corporation's financial condition and
recommend actions the school corporation could take to address its financial
condition. Requires the team leader to meet with the school corporation
officials to review the report. Requires the team leader to include any
written response by the school corporation officials in the final report to
the DUAB. Specifies that the governing body, the superintendent, and the DUAB
may enter into an agreement setting forth the actions that will be taken to
implement the recommendations.
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1/4/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/4/2018 - First Reading
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SB373
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PENSION SUPPLEMENTAL ALLOWANCE RESERVE ACCOUNTS. (WALKER
G) Establishes supplemental allowance reserve accounts (reserve
accounts) within the legislators' defined benefit plan, the state excise
police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement
officers' retirement plan (EGC), the public employees' retirement fund
(PERF), and the pre-1996 and 1996 accounts of the Indiana state teachers'
retirement fund (TRF) for the purpose of paying postretirement benefit
increases, thirteenth checks, and other benefit changes or adjustments
granted by the general assembly after June 30, 2018. Requires that, after
June 30, 2018, the state lottery commission (commission) transfer each
quarter $7,500,000 of the surplus revenue from the commission's
administrative trust fund to the Indiana public retirement system (INPRS) for
credit first to the pension stabilization fund and second to one or more of
the reserve accounts as allocated by the INPRS board of trustees (board).
(Current law transfers this amount to the pension stabilization fund.)
Requires that, after December 31, 2018, each employer having employees who
are members of PERF, the 1996 TRF account, or EGC contribute to the
applicable reserve account an amount not to exceed 1% of the employer's
payroll that is attributable to those employees. Provides that all amounts in
the reserve account are available to pay postretirement benefit increases,
thirteenth checks, or other benefit changes or adjustments, but a
postretirement benefit increase, thirteenth check, or other benefit change or
adjustment may be granted by the general assembly: (1) only in an
odd-numbered calendar year; and (2) only if the postretirement benefit
increase, thirteenth check, or other benefit change or adjustment: (A) may be
funded from the uncommitted balance in the reserve account of the particular
fund or plan; and (B) may be paid in the same amount or percentage, or by
using the same formula or computation method, to members of each of the funds
and plans. Makes changes to the actuarial evaluation and the actuarially
determined contribution for each fund or plan to track postretirement benefit
increases, thirteenth checks, and other benefit changes or adjustments
granted by the general assembly after June 30, 2018, separately. Provides
that, in each even-numbered calendar year, the INPRS board shall present to
the interim study committee on pension management oversight an actuarial
report concerning the status of each reserve account. Provides that the board
may not pay a postretirement benefit change or adjustment, including a
postretirement benefit increase, thirteenth check, or other benefit change or
adjustment granted by the general assembly after June 30, 2018, unless the
change or adjustment is actuarially pre-funded. Appropriates to the INPRS
$40,000,000 from the personal services/fringe benefits contingency fund for
credit to the PERF reserve account for purposes of paying postretirement
benefit adjustments, including postretirement benefit increases, thirteenth
checks, and other benefit changes or adjustments granted by the general
assembly after June 30, 2018. (The introduced version of this bill was
prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.)
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1/11/2018 - Committee Report amend do pass adopted;
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SB387
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TEACHER CONTENT AREA EXAMINATION WAIVER. (ZAY
A) Provides that the department of education (department) may grant an
initial practitioner's license to an individual who: (1) took the content
area examination twice and did not pass; and (2) meets certain other
requirements. Limits the number of individuals who may be granted an initial
practitioner license without passing the content area examination. Provides
that a postsecondary educational institution determines which individuals who
have completed the institution's teacher preparation program are eligible.
Establishes requirements for renewal of an initial practitioner license for
an individual who did not pass the content area examination. Requires the
department to post on the department's Internet web site the pass rate of the
content area examination for each postsecondary educational institution.
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1/8/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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SB400
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RANKED CHOICE VOTING. (STOOPS M) Permits
a municipality to implement ranked choice voting for all of the
municipality's elected offices. Permits a county to implement ranked choice
voting for all offices elected in the county. Establishes the procedure for a
voter to rank the candidates according to the voter's choice when there are
three or more candidates for election to an office. Establishes the
procedures to count the voter's choices as votes at various stages of
tabulating ballots. Makes conforming amendments.
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1/8/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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SB406
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CHARTER SCHOOL REQUIREMENTS. (MELTON
E) Requires that the board of a charter school must consist of at least
two members who reside within the geographic boundaries of the school
corporation in which the charter school is located. Prohibits an authorizer
from accepting a proposal to establish a charter school from an organizer that
already operates a charter school in Indiana unless the organizer provides
evidence of improvement and achievement of student academic performance at
the charter school. Removes certain provisions that allow charter schools to:
(1) limit new admissions; and (2) give preference to children of the charter
school's founders, governing body members, and charter school employees.
Prohibits a charter school authorizer or organizer from interfering with or
discouraging employees who seek to organize and bargain collectively.
Requires all full-time teachers in a charter school to hold a teaching
license or to be enrolled in a transition to teaching program. Requires the
department of education (department) to establish requirements or criteria to
prevent charter school and organizer financial and enrollment fraud, waste,
and abuse. Requires a charter school and organizer to obtain annually an
independent audit. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2019, and each July
1 thereafter, each charter school and organizer shall submit a report to the
department. Requires the department and each charter school to post a copy of
the report on their Internet web sites. Provides that, if the department
finds that a charter school or organizer has misrepresented facts or committed
fraud, waste, or abuse, the department shall issue a summary of the
department's findings and may make recommendations to the state board of
education to take certain actions, including withholding distributions or
requiring an authorizer to revoke the charter school's charter. Requires that
at least 50% of the public meetings of a charter school must be held in the
geographic boundaries of the school corporation in which the charter school
is located. Establishes the charter school market assessment board (board).
Requires the board to: (1) conduct a market assessment; (2) provide notice of
public meetings and conduct public meetings to receive public input on the
market assessment topics; and (3) before January 1, 2019, prepare and submit
a report to the legislative council of the board's findings and any
recommendation by the board concerning the market assessment.
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1/8/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/8/2018 - First Reading
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SB427
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VOTE BY MAIL. (TALLIAN K) Authorizes a
county election board to provide that all municipal primary elections,
municipal elections, and special elections for a public question held in the
county in odd numbered years be held by all mail voting. Authorizes towns
that conduct their own municipal elections to provide that all the town's
municipal primary elections, municipal elections, and special elections for a
public question held in the town in odd numbered years be held by all mail
voting.
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1/10/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/10/2018 - First Reading
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SCR2
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URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO AMEND THE EVERY
CHILD SUCCEEDS ACT TO REMOVE THE "PREPONDERANCE OF STUDENTS"
LANGUAGE FROM ITS SECTION 8101(43) DEFINITION OF REGULAR HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. (KOCH
E) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to amend
the Every Child Succeeds Act to remove the "preponderance of
students" language from its section 8101(43) definition of regular high
school diploma.
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Current Status:
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. (DELPH
M) Requires the general assembly to establish a commission to draw
congressional and legislative districts. This proposed amendment has not been
previously agreed to by a general assembly.
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1/3/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/3/2018 - First Reading
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SJR13
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INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. (STOOPS
M) Provides that the people of Indiana may propose and adopt amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Indiana and propose and enact statutes
independent of the General Assembly through initiative. Provides that the
people of Indiana may approve or reject through referendum any statute or
part of any statute enacted by the General Assembly. This proposed amendment
has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
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1/8/2018 - Referred to Senate Elections
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1/8/2018 - First Reading
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