| HB1001 | STATE BIENNIAL BUDGET (BROWN T) Appropriates money for capital expenditures, the operation of the state, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Specifies higher education capital projects authorized to be constructed using bonds. Establishes a historic preservation grant program and provides that the income tax credit for historic preservation does not apply to expenditures made after June 30, 2016. Specifies that the budget report must include a list of tax expenditure items. Specifies that for financial reporting purposes, the state's combined general fund reserves include the balances of the general fund, the Medicaid contingency and reserve account, the state tuition reserve account, and the counter-cyclical revenue and economic stabilization fund (less any outstanding loans). Changes the name of the state tuition reserve fund to an account within the state general fund. Prohibits the budget agency from enforcing a policy or procedure against certain agencies and officials by refusing to allot money from the personal services/fringe benefits contingency fund to the official or agency. Establishes the securities rating settlement fund for the purpose of depositing and distributing money received under a multistate agreement related to litigation concerning securities rating agencies. Specifies that money received by the state under such an agreement shall be distributed by the auditor of state as follows: (1) 67.67% shall be transferred to the state general fund. (2) 16.165% shall be transferred to the securities division enforcement account. (3) 16.165% shall be transferred to the homeowner protection unit account. Prohibits the budget agency from withholding appropriations for a state educational institution without review by the budget committee. Establishes the state bicentennial capital account to provide funds for capital projects that commemorate the bicentennial of Indiana's statehood. Provides that the budget agency shall administer the account. Provides that money generated from the lease of communications systems infrastructure (including under a public-private partnership) shall be transferred to the account to be used for capital projects that commemorate the bicentennial of Indiana's statehood. Establishes the office of state based initiatives. Increases the fee for taxing units for state board of accounts audits from $45 per day to $175 per day. Specifies that the fee for state colleges and universities is the direct and indirect cost of an examination (now $83 per hour). Permits a state college or university to have its examination performed by an independent certified public accounting firm. Provides that fees collected for audits are to be deposited in the state board of accounts trust and agency fund. Makes the fund a dedicated fund that can be used to cover expenses of doing audits...REVIEW FULL DIGEST IN THE MISC. DOCUMENTS SECTION BELOW |
| | Current Status: | 5/7/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/29/2015 - Conference Committee Report Adopted CCR #1 (69-30)
4/29/2015 - Conference Committee Report Adopted CCR #1 (40-9)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1001 |
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| HB1483 | VARIOUS EDUCATION ISSUES. (THOMPSON J) Adds "school psychologist" to the definition of "teacher" for the purposes of teacher preparation and licensing. Requires an election for a student to have legal settlement in the school corporation whose attendance area contains the residence of the student's mother or father to be made on a yearly basis and apply throughout the school year unless the student's parent no longer resides within the attendance area of the school corporation. Provides that the visual acuity required of a school bus driver is not required of a school bus monitor. Provides that an accredited school may not offer, support, or promote a student program, class, or activity that provides student instruction that is contrary to a curriculum required to be provided to students. Requires the department of education to allow the use of computer or digital response technology to complete a statewide, national, or international student assessment. Provides that a school corporation or school may allow a student to use computer or digital response technology to complete an assessment. Provides that factfinding initiated by the Indiana education employment relations board (IEERB) may not last more than 30 days. Provides that the board must rule on an appeal within 60 days. Provides the factfinding process may not exceed 30 days. Urges the legislative council to assign to an existing study committee the topics of: (1) determining appropriate and feasible incentives to encourage highly effective teachers to teach in poorly performing schools; and (2) the feasibility of changing timelines related to teacher collective bargaining and impasse resolution. |
| | Current Status: | 5/7/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/29/2015 - Conference Committee Report Adopted CCR #1 (49-0)
4/29/2015 - Senate Rules & Legislative Procedure, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 7:55 PM, Rm. 431
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| HB1635 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Allows grants from the safe schools fund to provide school wide programs to improve school climate and professional development and training in alternatives to suspension and expulsion and evidence based practices that contribute to a positive school environment. Provides that a consolidated school corporation shall offer to transfer property to the township from which the consolidated school corporation received the property for any purpose if the property is no longer needed by the school corporation. (Current law requires the transferred property to be used for park and recreation purposes.) Allows the township to sell or lease the property to an Indiana nonprofit corporation that is exempt from federal taxation. Requires a consolidated school corporation to offer to transfer property to the city or town from which the consolidated school corporation received the property for any purpose if the property is no longer needed by the school corporation. Requires a consolidated school corporation to provide to a township, city, or town written notice of its intent to demolish a structure located on a property subject to transfer. Allows a township, city, or town 90 days to inform the school corporation whether the township, city, or town wishes to retain the structure. Prohibits a school corporation from demolishing a structure if the township, city, or town wishes to retain the structure. Requires the department of education (department) to develop guidelines for use by accredited teacher education institutions in preparing teachers to successfully apply classroom behavioral management strategies, including culturally responsive methods, to provide alternatives to suspension and expulsion. Makes changes to the information that must be reported in a school corporation's annual performance report. Provides that a rural school corporation shall provide transportation to a charter school student in the same manner transportation is provided to a nonpublic school student. |
| | Current Status: | 5/7/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/29/2015 - Conference Committee Report Adopted CCR #1 (49-0)
4/29/2015 - Conference Committee Report Adopted CCR #1 (85-11)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1635 |
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| SB369 | PUBLICATION AND INTERNET POSTING OF INFORMATION. (MILLER P) Requires local governments and school corporations to provide information for posting on the Indiana transparency Internet web site as follows: (1) Expenditures categorized by personal services, other operating expenses or total operating expenses, and debt service, including lease payments, related to debt. (2) A listing of fund balances, specifically identifying balances in funds that are being used for accumulation of money for future capital needs. Requires the department of local government finance (DLGF) after July 31, 2016, to publish an annual financial and operational summary of each political subdivision on the Indiana transparency Internet web site. Requires a political subdivision that has a public web site to publish a link to the Indiana transparency web site. Requires the DLGF to determine the summary's form, content, and publishing dates. Provides that the department of education determines the educational performance information to be included in the summary published by a school corporation. Allows a state or local government public agency to charge a fee for the time required by the public agency in excess of two hours, to search for a public record. Restricts the hourly rate charged for the search. Prohibits a public agency from charging a fee for the public agency to transmit a public record by electronic mail. Provides that if a public record is in an electronic format, a public agency shall provide a public record (excluding a public record recorded in the office of the county recorder) in electronic form or in paper form, at the option of the person making the request for a public record. Provides that a search fee collected by a department, agency, or office of a county, city, town, or township shall be deposited in the general fund of the county, city, town, or township. Changes a waiting period described by cross reference from 30 days to 60 days to conform with the extension of the waiting period enacted in SEA 7-2015. Specifies that a political subdivision or the appropriate fiscal body may also publish in one or more newspapers the budget information required to be submitted to the department of local government finance's computer gateway. Provides that in certain circumstances, a political subdivision (other than a county) may publish notice in a locality newspaper that has its business office located in the political subdivision instead of in a newspaper that is published in the county and circulates in the political subdivision. Establishes requirements for locality newspapers that may publish notice. Resolves a conflict with a provision in ESB 530-2015 that removes a duplicative provision from the publication statute that prescribes a publication procedure if another specific publication procedure does not apply to an event. |
| | Current Status: | 5/8/2015 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/29/2015 - Signed by the Speaker
4/29/2015 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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| | State Bill Page: | SB369 |
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| SB476 | SCHOOL CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND TAX RATE. (HEAD R) Provides that when calculating the maximum rate for a school corporation's capital projects fund for taxes due and payable in calendar year 2016, the first step in the calculation (the previous year's maximum rate) shall be the larger of: (1) the actual maximum rate for the school corporation's capital projects fund for the previous year; or (2) the maximum rate that would have been established for the school corporation's capital project fund for the previous year if the formula used in current law to determine the maximum rate had been in effect for each calendar year after 2006. |
| | Current Status: | 5/7/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/29/2015 - Signed by the Speaker
4/29/2015 - Signed by the President Pro Tempore
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| | State Bill Page: | SB476 |
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| SB566 | EDUCATION. (MISHLER R) Requires the attorney general in consultation with the Indiana education employment relations board (IEERB) to draft and disseminate a letter by first class mail to teachers providing a summary of the teacher's rights and protections under state and federal law. Provides that the state board of education (state board) may not adopt Common Core standards or an assessment or test that is produced solely by the United States government or a consortium of states. Requires the department of education (department) to establish a program to permit an individual with a major in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics and a minor in education to obtain a teaching license. Provides that a school corporation must consider certain factors in developing a performance evaluation model. Provides that a school corporation shall report its staff performance evaluation plan to the department (which may review the plan for efficacy) and IEERB (which may review the plan for legality). Provides that the state board, in consultation with the department, shall define "low population schools" and shall determine the criteria for placing low population schools in performance categories. Provides that in developing metrics for the categories to measure school performance, the state board, in consultation with the department, shall consider the severity of tested students' disabilities when using ISTEP scores. Requests the legislative council to assign the topic of replacing the ISTEP test to a study committee. |
| | Current Status: | 5/7/2015 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| | Recent Status: | 4/29/2015 - Conference Committee Report Adopted CCR #1 (49-0)
4/29/2015 - Senate Conference Committees Eligible for Action CCR #1
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| | State Bill Page: | SB566 |
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