| HB1001 | STATE BIENNIAL BUDGET. (BROWN T) Appropriates money for capital expenditures, the operation of the state, K-12 and higher education, the delivery of Medicaid and other services, and various other distributions and purposes. Provides for bonding authority for capital projects for higher education institutions. Terminates the legislative evaluation and oversight program. Replaces the statutory appropriation from the counter cyclical and revenue stabilization fund to the state general fund based on the budget report with a limited discretionary transfer determined by the budget director and approved by the governor. Requires the attorney general to include certain language concerning settlement funds in proposed court order language. Establishes the agency settlement fund for purposes of receiving certain funds paid to the state as part of a settlement or similar agreement. Permits money held in a trust fund for other post-employment benefits (other than pension) to be invested in the same manner as money may be invested by the public employees' retirement fund or any other public pension or employee retirement fund administered by the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system. Establishes the teachers' defined contribution plan (plan) as an account within the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Provides that an individual who begins employment with a school corporation in a covered position that would otherwise be eligible for membership in the fund may elect to become a member of the plan. Provides that an individual who does not elect to become a member of the plan becomes a member of the fund. Requires the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to establish, subject to any approval from the Internal Revenue Service that the board considers necessary or desirable, alternative investment programs within the annuity savings account as the initial alternative investment programs for the plan. Provides that, if the board considers it necessary or appropriate, the board may establish different or additional alternative investment programs for the plan, except that the board shall maintain the stable value fund. Provides that each member's contribution to the plan is 3% of the member's compensation and requires the employer to pay the member's contribution on behalf of the member. Allows a member to make additional contributions to the plan up to 10% of the member's compensation. Provides that the employer's contribution rate for the plan is equal to the employer's contribution rate for the fund as determined by the board, although the amount credited from the employer's contribution rate to the member's account may not be greater than the normal cost of the fund, and any amount not credited to the member's account is applied to the unfunded accrued liability of the fund. Provides that an employer's minimum contribution to the plan is 3% of the compensation of all members of the plan. Provides that member contributions and net earnings on the member contributions belong to the member at all times and do not belong to the employer. Provides that a member vests in the employer contribution subaccount at 20% per year with full vesting after five years of participation. Provides that, if a member separates from service with an employer before the member is fully vested in the employer contribution subaccount, the amount in the subaccount that is not vested is: (1) transferred to the member's new employer, if the new employer participates in the plan; or (2) held in the member's employer contribution subaccount until forfeited. Provides that a member who: (1) terminates service in a covered position; and (2) does not perform any service in a covered position for at least 30 days after the date on which the member terminates service; is entitled to withdraw vested amounts in the member's account. Provides that a member may elect to have withdrawals paid as: (1) a lump sum; (2) a direct rollover to another eligible retirement plan; or (3) if the member is at least 62 years of age with at least five years of participation in the plan, a monthly annuity in accordance with the rules of the board. Provides that, on the plan's effective date, school corporations become participants in the plan. Provides that the board shall provide education to employers and members regarding retirement benefit options of all applicable pension and retirement funds that the board administers. Establishes the next level Indiana trust and trust fund. Provides that the trust proceeds of the next generation trust shall be transferred to the next level Indiana trust and trust fund and that the next generation trust shall cease upon completion of the transfer. Provides that the proceeds transferred to the next level Indiana trust fund shall be used exclusively for the provision of highways, roads, and bridges. Requires the board of trustees (board) of the Indiana public employees' retirement system, after December 31, 2017, to establish and maintain the next level Indiana innovation and entrepreneurial fund (fund) as an annuity savings account investment option for members of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF). Requires the deferred compensation committee (committee), after December 31, 2017, to establish and maintain the fund as an investment option in the state employees' deferred compensation plan. Requires the board and the committee to consult with the board of trustees of the next level Indiana trust fund to establish the fund's investment objectives and policies. Limits initial transfers into the fund to 20% of the balance in a fund member's or state employee's account. Limits annual contributions to the fund to 20% of a member's or an employee's total contributions for that year. Provides that, if a member or employee contributes not less than the amount the member or employee initially designated to the fund for at least 36 consecutive months and maintains in the fund the amounts transferred and contributed during that period, the state shall contribute on the member's or employee's behalf to the fund as a match 10% of the total amount contributed by the member or employee or on the member's or employee's behalf to the fund during that 36 month period. Provides that for each additional 12 consecutive months that a member or an employee contributes not less than the member or employee initially designated to the fund and maintains in the fund the amounts transferred and contributed that period, the state shall contribute on the member's or employee's behalf to the fund as a match 10% of the total amount contributed by the member or employee or on the member's or employee's behalf to the fund during that 12 month period. Provides that, for purposes of determining the amount of the state's match, the total amount contributed by the member or employee or on the member's or employee's behalf excludes the amount of any state match. Provides that, in the case of a group insurance plan established by the state police department, conservation officers of the department of natural resources, and the state excise police (state law enforcement agencies), any proposed modification to change the benefits under the plan may not be made unless the modification is approved by the budget agency. Provides that, on or before July 1 of each year, state law enforcement agencies must submit to the budget agency the current pla |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1002 | TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING. (SOLIDAY E) Eliminates the sales tax on the sale of special fuel. Establishes the special transportation flexibility fund. Provides the following for gasoline use tax collections for state fiscal year 2020 and each state fiscal year thereafter: (1) 14.286% of the collections shall be deposited in the motor vehicle highway account. (2) 21.429% of the collections shall be deposited in the local road and bridge matching grant fund. (3) A percentage of the gasoline use tax collections shall be deposited in the state general fund in each state fiscal year before state fiscal year 2025. (4) In state fiscal year 2020 through state fiscal year 2023, a percentage of the gasoline use tax collections shall be deposited in the special transportation flexibility fund. (5) In state fiscal year 2020 and thereafter, a percentage of the gasoline use tax collections shall be deposited in the state highway fund. Changes the deadline for the adoption and notification of county and municipal vehicle excise and wheel tax ordinances. Provides for a one-time fuel tax rate increase using a multiyear index factor based on the last time the particular fuel tax rate was increased and the current fuel tax rate per gallon. (Gasoline tax is currently $0.18, special fuel tax is currently $0.16, and motor carrier surcharge tax is currently $0.11.) Limits the one-time increase to $0.10 per gallon. Provides for an annual rate increase in fuel tax rates based on an annual index factor. Limits the annual rate increase based on the annual index factor to $0.01 per gallon. Provides that the last index factor adjustment to the fuel tax rates is July 1, 2024. Increases the aviation fuel excise tax by $0.10 per gallon and transfers the increased revenue to the airport development grant fund for airport capital improvement matching grants. Increases alternative fuel decal fees by 50%. Specifies that the motor carrier fuel surcharge tax must be paid on special fuel that is not an alternative fuel at the time of purchase (the same time the special fuel tax is paid), instead of being entirely paid using a quarterly return. Imposes a motor carrier fuel surcharge inventory tax on motor fuel held in storage and offered for sale to motor carriers on the date the surcharge tax rate changes. Eliminates from the distribution of the gasoline and special fuel taxes: (1) the $0.01 going to the state highway fund; (2) the $0.01 going to counties, cites, and towns; and (3) the $25,000,000 special distribution allocation distributions. Establishes a $15 transportation infrastructure improvement fee that applies to the registration of all motor vehicles except trailers, semitrailers, non-motive recreational vehicles, special machinery, vehicles registered as military vehicles, vehicles registered as collector vehicles, motor driven cycles, trucks, tractors used with a semitrailer, and for-hire buses with a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds. Increases annual registration fees for certain motor vehicles with a declared gross weight that equals or exceeds 26,000 pounds. Requires a person who registers an electric vehicle to pay a supplemental registration fee of $150 with an increase every five years based on an index factor. Requires a person who registers a hybrid vehicle to pay a supplemental registration fee of $50 with an increase every five years based on an index factor. Provides that the percentage of the amounts distributed to the state and to the local units from the motor vehicle highway account changes incrementally from 53% for the state and 47% for the local units under current law to 60% for the state and 40% for the local units after June 30, 2022. Eliminates the authority for cities and towns to use distributions from the motor vehicle highway account for: (1) the painting of structures and objects; and (2) law enforcement. Requires counties, cities, and towns to use at least 50% of the distributions from the motor vehicle highway account for the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of highways. Repeals restrictions on when a tolling project can be undertaken. Provides that before the governor, the Indiana department of transportation (INDOT), the Indiana Finance Authority (IFA), or an operator may enter into an agreement for the financing, construction, maintenance, or operation of a toll road project, the budget committee must first review the proposed agreement. Provides that neither the IFA nor INDOT may issue a request for proposals for a public-private agreement that would authorize an operator to impose tolls unless the budget committee has reviewed the request for proposals. Requires INDOT to seek a Federal Highway Administration waiver to toll interstate highways. Limits the first toll lanes under the waiver to certain interstate highways. Provides for a public comment period and requires replies to the public comments for a toll road project by INDOT or a tollway project carried out using a public private partnership. Imposes other duties on INDOT. Amends the assessment procedures for motor carrier civil penalties. Establishes the weigh-in-motion pilot program. Makes various changes to the local road and bridge matching grant program. Allows INDOT to approve certain railroad crossing projects, and authorizes the IFA to finance an approved project subject to a maximum annual debt service limit of $10,000,000. Authorizes the IFA to take certain actions in the event a public-private agreement is terminated. Annually appropriates $250,000 to INDOT for the local technical assistance program to develop and maintain a centralized electronic statewide asset management data base. Provides that the owner of a semitrailer permanently registered in Indiana does not pay an annual registration renewal fee. Makes various changes to the transportation funding exchange program between the state and counties and municipalities. Adds various study requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1003 | STUDENT ASSESSMENTS. (BEHNING R) Replaces the ISTEP test program after June 30, 2018, with a new statewide assessment program to be known as Indiana's Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN). Provides that after June 30, 2018, a student must complete a graduation pathway requirement rather than pass a graduation exam. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on education for study during the 2017 interim of the general assembly the topic of Indiana's laws concerning school certificated employee evaluations. Provides that not later than November 1, 2017, the department of education (department) shall make recommendations to the general assembly for updating Indiana's graduation waiver requirements. Provides that a school corporation may revise its teacher evaluation plan for the 2017-18 school year to determine how to include ISTEP results in evaluations of certificated employees. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1004 | PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION. (BEHNING R) Provides that, after June 30, 2017, the early education grant pilot program (prekindergarten pilot program) includes: (1) eligible providers in an additional 15 counties; and (2) eligible providers that received a grant under the early education matching grant program and meet certain conditions. Changes references to the "pilot program" to the "prekindergarten pilot program". Adds additional requirements for an eligible provider to participate in the prekindergarten pilot program. Adds additional requirements for an eligible child to qualify for or receive a grant under the prekindergarten pilot program. Amends income eligibility requirements for eligible children in counties that meet certain conditions and establishes certain requirements and restrictions. Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) may award a grant to a potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider for an expansion plan if certain requirements are met. Requires a potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider to repay to the office the total amount of the grant awarded if the potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider fails to use the grant funds in accordance with the expansion plan or in compliance with the agreement with the office. Requires the office to: (1) monitor the educational outcomes resulting from the implementation of expansion plans; and (2) annually provide the governor and legislative council a report of the findings of the office concerning the educational outcomes. Amends a provision that requires a match for the prekindergarten pilot program be from at least 10% but not more than 50% to be at least 5% but not more than 50%, with an exception. Requires the office to make random onsite inspections, as determined necessary by the office, of facilities of eligible providers and potential eligible providers or existing eligible providers each year. Provides that the office may determine that an eligible provider or potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider is no longer eligible under the prekindergarten pilot program. Provides that eligible children who use a prekindergarten pilot program grant to attend a prekindergarten program at an eligible choice scholarship school are eligible to receive a choice scholarship to attend the same eligible choice scholarship school if certain conditions are met. Requires the division of family resources to develop a provider rate reimbursement schedule that uses money appropriated by the general assembly as an incentive for providers eligible to receive voucher payments under the federal Child Care and Development fund voucher program to meet the standards of quality recognized by a Level 3 or Level 4 Paths to QUALITY program rating. Requires the department of education (department) to approve an early learning development framework for prekindergarten. Requires the office to apply for waivers from all applicable federal agencies to receive any federal funding for child care or prekindergarten education in one block grant to use for child care and prekindergarten programs in the state. Establishes the prekindergarten pilot program fund (fund). Allows the office to develop and implement a reimbursement program to reimburse costs incurred by parents to provide technology based, in-home early education services to a child. Allows money in the fund to be used to pay for the reimbursements. Repeals the provisions concerning the early education matching grant program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1005 | SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. (BOSMA B) Abolishes the office of the state superintendent of public instruction on January 10, 2025. Provides that, after January 10, 2025, the governor shall appoint a secretary of education. Establishes residency, education, and experience qualifications for the secretary of education. Makes conforming and technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1007 | EDUCATION COURSE ACCESS PROGRAM. (COOK A) Allows the department of education (department) to authorize course providers to offer course access program courses that provide for the delivery of instruction through any method, including online technologies, in the course access program (program). Requires the department to: (1) oversee the program; (2) approve courses offered in the program; and (3) maintain a course access program catalog. Requires the department to negotiate a tuition fee for each offered course. Requires the school corporation in which an eligible student is enrolled to transfer the tuition fee for a course to the authorized course provider. Defines "eligible student" as a student pursing: (1) any type of diploma available for students to receive in Indiana; or (2) an industry certification that appears on the state board of education's approved industry certification list. Provides certain reasons a school corporation may deny a student's enrollment in a course access course. Provides that a parent of an eligible student or an emancipated eligible student may appeal the school corporation's decision to the department. Allows the state board of education to adopt emergency and nonemergency rules. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1008 | WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. (HUSTON T) Requires the state board of education to use data from the department of workforce development (DWD) in developing and implementing certain plans, recommendations, and other matters relating to career and technical education. Requires the department of education (department) to implement a pilot program for instruction in and the use of the Indiana career explorer program and curriculum by all students in grade 8 attending schools in 15 school corporations. Provides that the pilot program expires July 1, 2018, unless the department determines the pilot program shall be extended until July 1, 2019. Provides that beginning on July 1, in the year in which the pilot program expires, each school within a school corporation and charter school must include in the school's curriculum for all students in grade 8 either: (1) instruction in and the use of the Indiana career explorer program and curriculum; or (2) an alternative system and curriculum approved by the department. Requires the DWD, with approval of the state board of education, to designate each career and technical education program (program) based on specified program designations. Provides that a program must be approved by the DWD in order for a school corporation to receive a career and technical education enrollment grant (grant). Specifies the calculation and the amount of a school corporation's grant beginning after June 30, 2018. Makes changes to the definitions used to determine grant amounts. Provides that each school corporation that receives a grant must report to the department the pupil count and per pupil cost for each program in which the school corporation receives a grant. Requires the department to post the school corporation's pupil count and per pupil costs reported to the department on the department's Internet web site. Specifies the requirements for the award of a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant and a high value workforce ready noncredit-bearing grant. Adds an applicant who attends or has attended an accredited nonpublic school or a nonaccredited nonpublic school as eligible to receive a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Establishes conditions for the renewal of a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant, and provides alternatives to maintenance of satisfactory academic progress that allow a student to qualify for and renew an adult student grant and a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Establishes the maximum period during which a student may receive an adult study grant and a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Establishes the high value workforce ready grant program implementation fund, administered by DWD and the commission for higher education, to award high value workforce ready grants and administer the grant program. Requires the DWD to give a veteran or the spouse of a veteran priority for placement in any federal or state employment or training program administered by the DWD if the veteran or the veteran's spouse: (1) submits documentation satisfactory to the DWD establishing the veteran's honorable discharge from service; and (2) meets the eligibility requirements for the program. Establish the governor's advisory commission on workforce development to make recommendations to the legislative council regarding the alignment of workforce programs and funding in the areas of secondary (including career and technical grants), postsecondary, and adult training and retraining in order to focus on meeting the needs of Indiana employers. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/21/2017 - DEAD BILL - Fails to pass by close of 2017 session
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| HB1009 | SCHOOL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. (COOK A) Provides for the following, effective January 1, 2019: (1) Eliminates the school general fund. (2) Creates an education fund to be used as the exclusive fund to pay expenses allocated to student instruction and learning. (3) Creates an operations fund to replace the capital projects fund, the transportation fund, the school bus replacement fund, an art association or a historical society fund, and the public playground fund. Provides that the levy for a school corporation's operations fund consists of the following separately calculated levies: (1) A transportation levy. (2) A school bus replacement levy. (3) A capital projects levy. (4) For certain schools, levies to provide funding for an art association, a historical society, or a public playground. Specifies that each separately calculated maximum levy for 2019 is the 2018 maximum levy increased by the maximum levy (assessed value) growth quotient and that after 2019 each separately calculated maximum levy is increased by the maximum levy (assessed value) growth quotient. Provides that on January 1, 2019, the balance in the school corporation's general fund shall be transferred to the education fund. Specifies that before March 1, 2019, the governing body of a school corporation may transfer to the school corporation's operations fund, from the amounts transferred from the school corporation's general fund, any amounts that are not allocated to student instruction and learning. Allows transfers between the education fund and operations fund. Specifies that money transferred from the operations fund to the education fund is not revenue for purposes of collective bargaining. Provides new allowable expenditures from the operations fund to include all skilled trades, school maintenance vehicles, and contracted services related to buildings and grounds. Eliminates the requirement to publish the entire capital projects plan and school bus replacement plan in a newspaper and requires that the plans be posted on the school corporation's web site. Removes the approval of the plans and appropriations by the department of local government finance. Eliminates various dedicated funds and moves the purpose for each of these funds to the education fund or operations fund. Creates the school corporation referendum controlled project tax levy fund to pay for projects approved by a voter referendum. Makes corresponding changes. Extends (through 2019) the ability in current law for a school corporation to allocate circuit breaker credits proportionately (without taking protected taxes into account) under certain circumstances. Provides that the chart of accounts to be used by school corporations must coincide with the following expenditure categories: (1) Student academic achievement expenditures. (2) Student instructional support expenditures. (3) Overhead and operational expenditures. (4) Nonoperational expenditures. Provides that a school corporation that has an ADM of more than 15,000 may not issue bonds after August 15, 2020, unless the school corporation has for its preceding budget year prepared an annual financial report using the modified accrual basis of accounting in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Provides that a county that has a population of more than 100,000 and a municipality that has a population of more than 75,000 may not issue bonds after June 30, 2020, unless the county or municipality has for its preceding budget year prepared an annual financial report using the modified accrual basis of accounting in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Allows the state examiner to waive these requirements if the state examiner determines that a waiver is in the best interest of the school corporation, county, or municipality. Replaces the provisions in current law (which would be phased in during 2017-2020) concerning annual financial report requirements that must be met before a school corporation, county, or municipality may issue bonds. Provides that effective July 1, 2017, a school corporation may not issue any bonds unless it has filed its annual financial report with the department of education. Provides that effective July 1, 2017, a county or municipality may not issue any bonds unless it has filed its annual financial report with the state examiner for the preceding fiscal year. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1011 | HEALTH CARE CHARGES. (CULVER W) Beginning in 2018, requires health care providers to publish and provide to patients the charges for procedures rendered by the health care provider. Beginning in 2020, requires health care providers to publish and provide to patients the charges for each product or service rendered by the health care provider. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1012 | HIGHER EDUCATION EXPENSES. (CULVER W) Requires a state educational institution, each semester (or its equivalent), to provide to each student enrolled in the state educational institution: (1) a statement of the total amount of money the student is paying to the state educational institution to attend the state educational institution for that semester (or its equivalent); and (2) an itemized invoice of the expenses for which the student's payment is being used. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1014 | 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. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the special interim study committee on redistricting.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1015 | SCHOOL EFFICIENCY GRANTS. (FRYE R) Establishes the school efficiency grant program for the purpose of providing grants to school corporations for costs associated with implementing efficiency and cost effective measures. Establishes the school efficiency grant fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1016 | ELIMINATION OF LOWER SPEED LIMIT FOR TRUCKS. (AYLESWORTH M) Provides that the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than 26,000 pounds operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate and defense highways located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101) with a population of at least 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance authority; is 70 miles per hour. (Current law provides that the speed limit for those vehicles (other than a bus) is 65 miles per hour.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1024 | PRAYER IN SCHOOLS. (BARTLETT J) Provides that a school corporation or charter school shall not discriminate against a student or a student's parent on the basis of a religious viewpoint or religious expression. Provides that students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork, and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions. Provides that public school students may pray or engage in religious activities or religious expression before, during, and after the school day in the same manner and to the same extent that students may engage in nonreligious activities or expression. Provides that students in public schools may wear clothing, accessories, and jewelry that display religious messages or religious symbols in the same manner and to the same extent that other types of clothing, accessories, and jewelry that display messages or symbols are permitted. Requires the department of education, in collaboration with the attorney general's office and organizations with expertise in religious civil liberties, to establish a model policy. Provides that each school corporation may include as an elective in the school corporation's high school curriculum a course surveying religions of the world. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1025 | MINIMUM CREW SIZE. (BACON R) Provides that the crew of a freight train must consist of at least two individuals. Imposes penalties for violations of the minimum crew requirement. Deposits the penalties in the industrial rail service fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1030 | ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS. (LUCAS J) Adds state educational institutions and bodies corporate and politic to the entities prohibited from restricting the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Provides that if a valid complaint is filed with the attorney general by an Indiana resident, the agency that is the subject of the complaint may not receive any state funds, grants, loans, or appropriations until the attorney general determines that the agency's violation has ceased. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1032 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. (HARRIS JR. E) Establishes the northwest Indiana professional sports development commission. Authorizes the commission to study various plans and recommendations that are proposed with respect to attracting a professional sports franchise to northwest Indiana. Authorizes the commission to prepare a comprehensive master plan for building the facilities and other infrastructure necessary for attracting and developing one or more professional sports franchises in northwest Indiana. Creates the professional sports development fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1035 | SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE CONTRIBUTIONS. (HARRIS JR. E) Provides that a candidate of a school board office may not accept a contribution from a contributor if the contributor: (1) resides outside Indiana; or (2) is a political action committee that makes contributions to candidates outside Indiana. Requires the candidate to return such a contribution to the contributor. Provides that, if the candidate is unable to locate the contributor, the candidate shall send the contribution to the county election board if the county has established a county election and registration fund, or the county executive for deposit in the county's general fund if the county has not established a county election and registration fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1037 | CONSTRUCTION OR DESIGN CONTRACTS. (TORR J) For purposes of the statute providing for the invalidity of an indemnity agreement related to negligence or willful misconduct in connection with a construction or design contract, removes the word "sole" as a descriptor of the negligence or willful misconduct at issue. Makes a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1038 | GENERAL FUND REFERENDUM; SCHOOL FACILITIES. (TORR J) Provides that voters in a general fund referendum for a political subdivision that takes place after June 30, 2017, may not approve a levy that is imposed for more than eight years. (Current law provides that voters in a general fund referendum may not approve a levy that is imposed for more than seven years.) Provides that a political subdivision seeking to issue bonds or enter into a lease for a proposed controlled project may promote a position on the local public question at facilities owned by the political subdivision. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1042 | ALLOCATION OF CIRCUIT BREAKER CREDITS BY SCHOOLS. (THOMPSON J) Extends the authority for certain school corporations to allocate circuit breaker credits proportionately (without taking protected taxes into account) through 2019. (Under current law, this authority extends only through 2018.) Provides that a school corporation may not allocate circuit breaker credits proportionately if: (1) the school corporation issued new debt in 2017, 2018, or 2019; and (2) the school corporation's debt service levy in 2018 or 2019 is greater than its 2016 debt service levy, and the school corporation's debt service tax rate in 2018 or 2019 is greater than its 2016 debt service tax rate. (Under current law, an increase in a school corporation's debt service tax rate is not a factor in determining whether the school corporation may allocate circuit breaker credits proportionately.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1043 | REFERENDUM AND REMONSTRANCE PROCESS. (THOMPSON J) Increases the threshold used for purposes of determining whether a capital project is a controlled project as follows: (1) In the case of an ordinance or resolution adopted after December 31, 2017, and before January 1, 2019, making a preliminary determination to issue bonds or to enter into a lease for the project, the threshold is increased from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. (2) In the case of an ordinance or resolution adopted after December 31, 2018, making a preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the project, the threshold is increased by applying the assessed value growth quotient for the year to the threshold amount determined for the preceding year. Specifies that a capital project is also a controlled project if the cost of the project will exceed: (1) 1% of the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision, if that total gross assessed value is more than $100,000,000; or (2) $1,000,000, if the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision is not more than $100,000,000. Increases the thresholds used for applying the petition and remonstrance process and referendum process as follows: (1) In the case of an ordinance or resolution adopted after December 31, 2017, and before January 1, 2019, making a preliminary determination to issue bonds or to enter into a lease for the project, the threshold is increased from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 for school building projects and from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 for any civil unit project. (2) In the case of an ordinance or resolution adopted after December 31, 2018, making a preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the project, the threshold is increased by applying the assessed value growth quotient for the year to the threshold amount determined for the preceding year. Provides that a school building project is also subject to the referendum process if the cost of the project will exceed: (1) 1% of the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision, if that total gross assessed value is more than $1,000,000,000; or (2) $10,000,000, if the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision is not more than $1,000,000,000. Provides that a civil unit project is also subject to the referendum process if the cost of the project will exceed: (1) 1% of the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision, if that total gross assessed value is more than $100,000,000; or (2) $1,000,000, if the total gross assessed value of property within the political subdivision is not more than $100,000,000. Provides that a controlled project for which a political subdivision makes a preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease is subject to the referendum process if the sum of: (1) the cost of that controlled project; plus (2) the costs of all other controlled projects for which the political subdivision has previously adopted within the preceding 365 days an ordinance or resolution making a preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for those other controlled projects; exceeds $25,000,000. Requires that a political subdivision's notice of the preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for a controlled project must also include information concerning the estimated amount of the political subdivision's debt service levy and rate that will result during the following 10 years if the political subdivision issues the bonds or enters into the lease, after also considering any changes that will occur to the debt service levy and rate during that period on account of any outstanding bonds or lease obligations that will mature or terminate. Provides that a petition objecting that a political subdivision has divided a controlled project in order to avoid the requirements of the petition and remonstrance process or the referendum process must be filed with the department of local government finance (DLGF) not more than 10 days after the political subdivision gives notice of the political subdivision's determination to issue bonds or enter into leases for the capital project. Specifies that if the DLGF determines that a political subdivision divided a controlled project in order to avoid the referendum requirements and the political subdivision continues to desire to proceed with the project, the political subdivision may appeal the determination of the DLGF to the Indiana board of tax review. Specifies that a political subdivision shall be considered to have divided a capital project in order to avoid the requirements of the petition and remonstrance process or the referendum process if the result of one or more of the subprojects cannot reasonably be considered an independently desirable end in itself without reference to another capital project. Relocates existing law concerning calculation of the cost of certain projects by a school corporation career and technical education school to a separate section within the controlled projects statute. Requires a political subdivision to: (1) conduct at least two public hearings on a preliminary determination concerning a controlled project (rather than one hearing under current law); and (2) make certain information available to the public at each of the public hearings. Provides that if a referendum for a controlled project or for a school operating referendum fund property tax levy is defeated, another referendum may not be held earlier than 700 days after the date of the first referendum (rather than 350 days under current law). Specifies that the 350 day limit applies if a sufficient petition requesting that limit is submitted by property owners or voters. Provides that a school corporation operating referendum fund property tax levy may not be imposed for more than eight years. (Current law provides that the referendum levy may not be imposed for more than seven years.) Applies to a referendum that takes place after June 30, 2017. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1043 |
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| HB1044 | EXPANDED CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS. (THOMPSON J) Amends definitions throughout the Indiana Code to reflect a uniform definition of "expanded criminal history check". |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1047 | DEFAULT PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT PLAN. (CULVER W) Provides that after June 30, 2017, 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.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1047 |
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| HB1049 | MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (AYLESWORTH M) Provides that any municipality may adopt an ordinance to move the election of its elected officers to be held only in even-numbered years. Provides that a municipality's schedule of municipal elections remains the same as it was for the 2015 municipal elections unless it changes the schedule under the new statute. Provides that a municipality that holds any of its municipal elections in years other than even-numbered years shall reimburse the county the county's costs in administering such elections. Repeals existing statutes that authorize towns to change the schedule of their municipal elections in certain specified ways. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1052 | USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN BY REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. (JUDY C) Eliminates the ability of a regional development authority to acquire land by eminent domain. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1054 | TAXATION OF NATURAL GAS. (FRYE R) Provides a sales and use tax exemption for natural gas used to operate compressors to produce a compressed natural gas product. Provides that the income tax credit for the purchase of natural gas powered vehicles is extended until the credits claimed reach the amount of the sales tax revenue that was collected on transactions during 2014 through 2016 involving natural gas used to fuel a motor vehicle that provides public transportation for persons or property. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1055 | PENSION COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS. (CARBAUGH M) Provides for cost of living adjustments for certain members of: (1) the public employees' retirement fund; (2) the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (3) the state police 1987 benefit system; and (4) the state police pre-1987 benefit system. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1055 |
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| HB1057 | RACIAL PROFILING AND PRETEXTUAL STOPS. (PRYOR C) Prohibits a law enforcement agency or a law enforcement officer from engaging in racial profiling or conducting pretextual stops. Requires a law enforcement agency to adopt a detailed policy that defines the elements of racial profiling and pretextual stops, and requires a law enforcement agency to collect certain data relating to stops made by law enforcement officers. Requires cultural diversity awareness training and training on unlawful racial profiling and pretextual stops as part of the mandatory training for law enforcement officers. Specifies that a law enforcement agency shall transmit to the attorney general information concerning racial profiling complaints, investigations, and any action taken, as well as data collected relating to stops made by the law enforcement agency. Requires the attorney general to: (1) submit an annual report to the legislative council based on the information; (2) submit the data to a third party for statistical analysis; and (3) publish the results of the analysis on the attorney general's Internet web site. Establishes the racial profiling review commission to review complaints of unlawful racial profiling and unlawful pretextual stops. Permits a person to bring a civil action based on unlawful racial profiling and unlawful pretextual stops. Permits a law enforcement agency to use certain federal funds to purchase vehicle cameras and body cameras, and establishes training standards and standards for use. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1073 | ENERGY EFFICIENCY AUDITS OF STATE PROPERTY. (MACER K) Requires the department of administration (department) to annually conduct energy efficiency audits of state owned real property that the department considers to be the least energy efficient. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1079 | SCHOOL EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHER LICENSURE. (THOMPSON J) Amends the time by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for employment. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check concerning each applicant for employment before or not later than 60 days after the applicant's employment. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school shall require an expanded criminal history check on each employee every five years. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school may implement the requirement for updated background checks for current employees over a five year period. Provides that an applicant is responsible for all costs associated with obtaining the expanded criminal history check and expanded child protection index check unless the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school agrees to pay the costs. Provides that an employee of a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school may not be required to pay the costs of an expanded child protection index check. Makes an exception to the provision that an applicant or employee may not be required to obtain an expanded criminal history check more than one time during a five year period. Requires each school corporation, charter school, and nonpublic school with one or more employees to adopt a policy requiring the school employer of the school corporation or charter school to contact references and, if applicable, the most recent employer provided by a prospective employee, before the school corporation or charter school may hire the prospective employee. Prohibits a school from hiring persons who have been convicted of certain crimes. Adds human trafficking to the list of offenses requiring license revocation. Permits the department of education (department) to reinstate the license of a person convicted of certain crimes if the conviction is reversed, vacated, or set aside on appeal. Requires the division of state court administration to weekly transmit a list of persons convicted of specified crimes to the department, and requires the department to: (1) compare this list with the department's list of licensed employees; and (2) revoke the license of a licensed employee who has been convicted of a specified offense. Provides that a presentence investigation includes gathering information with respect to whether the convicted defendant holds a teaching license or is a teacher. Provides that a superintendent (in addition to a principal under current law) may initiate the cancellation of a teacher's contract by providing notice to the teacher of the superintendent's preliminary decision. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1079 |
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| HB1081 | TEACHER SALARIES. (COOK A) Makes changes to factors used to determine increases or increments in a local salary range. Removes an obsolete provision. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1082 | REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP. (COOK A) Provides that after December 31, 2017, one of the commissioners appointed by the municipal or county executive to a redevelopment commission must be a member of the governing body of a school corporation that includes all or part of the territory served by the redevelopment commission. Removes language providing for the appointment of nonvoting advisers to redevelopment commissions from the governing bodies of school corporations. Provides that nonvoting advisers serve until a member of the governing body of a school corporation is appointed to the redevelopment commission. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1083 | CIVICS EDUCATION. (COOK A) Requires the department of education to develop civics curriculum standards for students in kindergarten through grade 7 that are tailored to prepare students to take the United States Civics Test (civics test) by the end of grade 7. Provides that a student must have the opportunity to take the civics test at least once per year. Provides that students who have not passed the civics test before enrollment in the student's high school United States government course must take the civics test in the student's high school United States government course. Provides a student who has passed the civics test before the student's enrollment in a high school United States government course with the option to request to take the civics test in the student's high school United States government course. Provides an exemption from the requirement for a special education student under the student's individualized education plan. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1094 | DEFERRED RETIREMENT OPTION PLAN FOR PERF AND TRF. (BURTON W) Establishes a deferred retirement option plan (DROP) for members of the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF), excluding elected officials of the state or a political subdivision. Provides that a member of PERF or TRF who is employed in a covered position and is eligible to receive an unreduced retirement benefit under the provisions of the fund to which the member belongs may make an election to enter the DROP. Provides that a member who enters the DROP: (1) shall execute an irrevocable election to retire on the DROP retirement date and remain employed until that date; (2) shall continue to make contributions to the fund to which the member belongs; (3) shall elect a DROP retirement date not less than 12 months and not more than 36 months after the member's DROP entry date; and (4) may make an election to enter the DROP only once in the member's lifetime. Provides that the employer of a member who elects to enter the DROP shall continue to make employer contributions to the fund to which the member belongs. Provides that a member who retires on the member's DROP retirement date may elect to receive a retirement benefit: (1) paid by and calculated under the provisions of the fund to which the member belongs as if the member had never entered the DROP; or (2) calculated under the applicable provisions of the fund to which the member belongs and based on the average of the annual compensation computed and the total creditable service completed by the member on the member's DROP entry date (DROP frozen benefit), plus an additional amount calculated by multiplying the amount of the DROP frozen benefit by the number of months that the member was in the DROP. Requires the member to elect to receive the additional amount as a lump sum or in three equal annual payments. Provides for a partial DROP benefit if the member retires because the member becomes disabled while in the DROP. Provides that benefits for the beneficiaries or survivors of a member who dies while in the DROP are calculated under the provisions of the fund to which the member belongs, as if the member had never entered the DROP. Outlines the treatment of cost of living increases paid to members of the fund to which a member belongs while the member is in the DROP. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1098 | PENSION THIRTEENTH CHECKS. (BURTON W) Provides for a thirteenth check in 2017 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1099 | INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY TAX CREDIT. (TORR J) Provides that a taxpayer is entitled each taxable year to an industrial recovery tax credit against the taxpayer's state tax liability in an amount equal to 25% of the taxpayer's qualified investment in a qualified community development entity made during the taxable year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1099 |
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| HB1103 | MOTORSPORTS DEVELOPMENT. (BEUMER G) Provides for a grant from the motorsports improvement fund to the city of Winchester for additional seating capacity at the Winchester Speedway. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1114 | TEACHER SALARY SCALES. (KLINKER S) Provides that a school corporation may provide an increase or increment in a local salary range for a teacher who attains a master's or doctorate degree or attains the credit hours necessary to obtain a master's or doctorate degree. Makes a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1117 | PERFORMANCE BOND REQUIREMENTS. (MILLER D) Provides that a local governmental unit and a land developer may agree to the partial release of a performance bond or other surety required of the land developer to ensure the completion of certain unfinished improvements and installations in a subdivision on a more frequent basis than an annual basis. (Under current law, a performance bond or other surety may be partially released on an annual basis, which would continue to be permitted.) Provides that a contractor is not required to submit a payment bond for a public works contract of a state educational institution if the amount to be paid under the contract is less than $500,000 and the state educational institution agrees to waive the requirement. Provides that a contractor is not required to submit a performance bond for a public works contract of a state educational institution if the amount to be paid under the contract is less than $500,000 and the state educational institution agrees to waive the requirement. Makes a technical change to make language in the statute uniform. |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1117 |
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| HB1118 | OVERSIGHT OF REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SPENDING. (MILLER D) Requires a city council to approve all expenditures of a city redevelopment commission. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1124 | ENGINEERED LUMBER. (WESCO T) Requires an individual applying for a building permit after June 30, 2017, to disclose the use of engineered lumber in structural assemblies on the building permit application. Directs that a building commissioner shall not: (1) approve a structure or private home during final inspection; or (2) issue a certificate of occupancy for a Class 1 or Class 2 structure; unless disclosure requirements regarding engineered lumber are met. Requires the building commissioner to notify the: (1) local fire department; and (2) local 911 call center; of a Class 1 or Class 2 structure's use of engineered lumber not later than 10 days after issuing a building permit. Requires that all notifications regarding the use of engineered lumber must: (1) be sent by certified mail; and (2) request a return receipt. Defines certain terms. Makes conforming technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1130 | PROTECTIONS FOR STUDENT JOURNALISTS. (CLERE E) Provides freedom of speech and freedom of press protections for grades 9 through 12 and state educational institution student journalists. Requires each school corporation and charter school to adopt a policy concerning student journalist protections. 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. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1131 | APPOINTMENTS TO LOCAL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. (CLERE E) Provides that after June 30, 2017, one of the commissioners appointed to a redevelopment commission must be a member of the governing body of a school corporation that includes all or part of the territory served by the redevelopment commission. Provides for the appointment to be made by the appointing governing body as determined in the statute. Removes language providing for the appointment of nonvoting advisers to redevelopment commissions from the governing bodies of school corporations. Provides that nonvoting advisers serve until a member of the governing body of a school corporation is appointed to the redevelopment commission. Provides that if the executive or fiscal body of a municipality does not fill a vacancy in the municipal housing authority before the 61st day after the vacancy occurs, the remaining members of the housing authority shall fill the vacancy. Provides that the remaining members are authorized to fill the vacancy even if the number of remaining members is not sufficient for a quorum. Provides that an individual who is acting as a member of a housing authority 60 days after the expiration of the individual's term as a member of the housing authority may continue to act as a member for purposes of filling the vacancy. (Provides for expiration of this provision.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1136 | LATCH KEY PROGRAMS. (FRIZZELL D) Provides that a school corporation may include children who attend preschool offered by the school corporation in a school age child care program (commonly referred to as a latch key program) conducted by the school corporation. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1136 |
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| HB1141 | REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. (BRAUN M) Authorizes a regional development authority (RDA) to apply for a "FASTLANE" grant from the Federal Highway Administration (or a grant from any other federal grant program) for highway funding. Authorizes an RDA to enter into a supplemental funding agreement with the Indiana department of transportation (INDOT) or a political subdivision to contribute local matching funds to be used to pay a part or all of the nonfederal share of the costs necessary to carry out regional transportation infrastructure projects. Allows INDOT, when determining its long range construction program, to give special priority to construction projects for which an RDA has agreed to provide local matching funds under a supplemental funding agreement. Allows a county or municipality participating in an RDA to transfer money to a fund from its general fund or rainy day fund (or other available fund) to the RDA for purposes of providing funds under the supplemental funding agreement. Allows a property owner in a county that is a participant in an RDA to make a contribution to a fund by public subscription and voluntary property tax levy. Authorizes the fiscal body of a county that is a participant in an RDA to adopt a resolution to place a supplemental transportation infrastructure referendum tax levy on the ballot. Provides that, if a majority of individuals who vote in the referendum vote in favor of the referendum, the county is authorized to impose the levy: (1) not greater than the amount approved in the referendum; and (2) for the number of years specified in the referendum. Upon recommendation by an RDA, authorizes a county or municipality to establish a cumulative fund for the purpose of funding regional transportation infrastructure projects. Provides that an authority may issue bonds payable from the fund. Allows a county, municipality, or township within the boundaries of an authority to transfer money to a fund from the county's, municipality's, or township's general fund or rainy day fund (or other available fund). Allows a property owner in a county that is a participant in an authority to make a contribution to a fund by public subscription and voluntary property tax levy. Provides that a property owner who wishes to make a contribution to a fund must: (1) execute a voluntary property tax levy agreement (agreement) to impose a tax rate on the property owner's real property; and (2) record the agreement with the county recorder's office. Provides that the Indiana finance authority (IFA) administers the local infrastructure revolving funds. Authorizes the IFA to issue its bonds to carry out the funds. Specifies that a tax rate imposed under an agreement must be at least $0.05 but not more than $0.50 on each $100 of assessed valuation of the property. Provides that the tax rate imposed under an agreement must expire on the assessment date following the maturity date of bonds that are issued and payable solely from the authority's fund. Requires the county fiscal officer to transfer to the fund all property tax collection amounts received from a voluntary property tax levy. Authorizes the fiscal body of a county that is a participant in an authority to adopt a resolution to place a supplemental highway funding referendum tax levy on the ballot. Provides that, if a majority of individuals who vote in the referendum vote in favor of the referendum, the county is authorized to impose a levy: (1) not greater than the amount approved in the referendum; and (2) for the number of years for which bonds that are issued and payable solely from the authority's fund will be outstanding. Provides that the county's referendum tax levy may not be considered in determining any other property tax levy imposed by the county. Provides that money received from the county's referendum tax levy must be transferred to the fund. Appropriates money in the fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1143 | SMALL SCHOOL GRANTS. (FRIEND W) Reestablishes a small school grant for school corporations having a current ADM (average daily membership) of less than 2,400. Appropriates from the state general fund an amount sufficient to make the grants for the 2017-2019 biennium. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1149 | RESIDENT TUITION RATE FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS. (TAYLOR III J) Provides that an agency or political subdivision is not required to verify that an individual is a United States citizen or qualified alien for the individual to be eligible to pay the resident tuition rate. Repeals a provision that provides that an individual who is not lawfully in the United States is not eligible to pay the resident tuition rate. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1152 | 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1154 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. (LEONARD D) Requires the department of workforce development (department) to give its annual presentation regarding the status of the unemployment compensation system to the interim study committee on employment and labor (instead of the budget committee, as provided in current law). Modifies the law governing the department's recordkeeping, release of records, and confidentiality duties and obligations. Changes the manner in which notice of a claimant's registration, failure to register, renewal, or continuation of the claimant's claim for unemployment benefits may be provided to an employer. Allows an employer to receive delivery of: (1) a notice of a claimant's registration, failure to register, renewal, continuation, or cancellation of a claimant's claim for unemployment benefits, or wage or benefit rights; (2) a monthly report of benefit charges; and (3) a notice of the employer's contribution rate; by the United States Postal Service using first class mail, if the employer notifies the department on a form provided by the department. Updates a reference to the bureau of employment security to the United States Department of Labor. Requires that the training grants paid from the special employment and training services fund (fund) be paid each state fiscal year before expenditures from the fund are made for any other purpose. For the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, suspends the $5,000,000 maximum on expenditures from the fund by the department in a state fiscal year. Requires the department to transfer the amount in the fund that exceeds $8,500,000 on December 31 to the unemployment insurance benefit fund not later than 30 days after December 31. Repeals a provision that provides up to $2,000,000 from the fund to provide training and reemployment of department employees dislocated by unemployment compensation system modernization. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| HB1169 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. (MAHAN K) Changes the start date for collective bargaining between a school corporation and a representative from August 1 to July 1. Requires the department of education to provide an estimate of general fund revenue available for collective bargaining to the parties by July 1 instead of August 1. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1170 | WARNING DEVICES ON FORKLIFTS. (MAHAN K) Requires the occupational safety standards commission to adopt a general industry standard not later than January 1, 2018, that requires a forklift operated on a worksite to be equipped with an audible reverse signal alarm that must be sounded whenever the forklift is operated in reverse gear. Requires compliance with the standard beginning January 1, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1171 | DISCIPLINARY PROCESS FOR FIREFIGHTERS. (MAHAN K) Establishes minimum rights for a full-time, paid, nonprobationary member of a fire department to be represented in a meeting at which the chief of the fire department (chief) notifies the firefighter: (1) of the firefighter's termination or demotion with cause; or (2) that the chief is recommending the firefighter's termination or demotion with cause to the safety board. Provides that the firefighter's meeting with the chief concerning the firefighter's termination or demotion with cause may not proceed until the firefighter is provided at least 72 hours to obtain the requested representation. Excludes from these provisions: (1) a member of the fire department who holds an upper level policy making position; (2) a member of the fire department who holds a position in the fire department: (A) that is not an upper level policy making position; and (B) to which the member was appointed by the chief; and (3) a fire department with a merit system established under IC~36-8-3.5. |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1171 |
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| HB1172 | COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT BY ELECTRIC UTILITIES. (NEGELE S) Requires an electric utility that applies to the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) to: (1) construct, purchase, or lease a generating facility with a generating capacity of more than 50 megawatts (MW); (2) enter a contract to purchase for at least one year electric capacity of more than 50 MW; (3) recover certain costs related to electricity generation; or (4) convert the fuel source of a generating facility; to solicit competitive bids from alternative suppliers of the same resource or from suppliers of alternative resources. Specifies that the requirement to solicit competitive bids does not apply to rural electric membership corporations. Removes a provision allowing a utility to revise, as part of an ongoing review by the IURC, original cost estimates for the construction of a generating facility. Repeals a provision allowing a utility to recover through its rates, and under specified circumstances, actual costs incurred in the construction of a generating facility. Provides that if: (1) the IURC disapproves all or part of the construction or cost of a facility under review; or (2) a utility cancels the facility; the commission may address reasonable cost recovery by the utility. Provides that with respect to an approved purchased power or purchased capacity agreement, a utility may recover, through a periodic rate adjustment mechanism, only those costs that are prudently incurred. Provides that a utility: (1) may recover the estimated costs for a facility if the facility operates in accordance with its certificate of public convenience and necessity; and (2) may not recover costs exceeding the estimated costs unless the additional costs were prudently incurred and due to exceptional circumstances. Makes a technical change. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1172 |
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| HB1178 | VOTER REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL MOTOR VEHICLE TRANSACTIONS. (KERSEY C) Provides that when an individual transacts business with a license branch, other than for a motor vehicle driver's license, permit, or identification card, the license branch employee assisting the individual shall ask the individual whether the individual wants to register to vote or change the individual's voter registration record. Provides that, if the individual is provided with a paper voter registration application form by the license branch employee, the individual, rather than the license branch, is responsible for filing the form with the appropriate county voter registration office. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1178 |
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| HB1179 | 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1179 |
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| HB1183 | EMPLOYEE PAID SICK LEAVE. (LAWSON L) Provides that certain employers shall provide paid sick leave to employees of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours of employment, up to a maximum of 40 hours of paid sick leave a year. Provides that the commissioner of labor shall enforce paid sick leave for employees and shall adopt rules to implement paid sick leave. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1183 |
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| HB1195 | OVERSIGHT OF UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND. (OBER D) Requires that the department of workforce development provide an annual report to the interim study committee on employment and labor (committee) concerning the status of the unemployment compensation system, including any recommendations for maintaining the solvency of the unemployment insurance benefit fund. Authorizes the committee to receive the report and requires the committee to submit to the legislative council recommendations, if any, concerning the unemployment compensation system. Changes from December 1 to November 1 the due date for an annual report to the general assembly and the governor concerning the unemployment compensation system. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1195 |
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| HB1212 | WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT. (HATFIELD R) Establishes a work sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer 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 employee's unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage that is equivalent to the number of hours by which the employee's normal weekly work hours are reduced. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1212 |
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| HB1220 | STAFF PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS. (MCNAMARA W) Makes changes to factors that must be included in a school corporation's teacher performance evaluation plan. Provides that a professional teacher who is rated as highly effective or effective is required to receive a teacher evaluation only one time every five years. Provides that a: (1) probationary teacher; or (2) professional teacher who receives an evaluation of improvement necessary; must receive performance evaluations annually. Makes technical and conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1220 |
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| HB1226 | PIPING MATERIALS FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (VANNATTER H) Provides, for purposes of the law on public works projects of state agencies and political subdivisions, including design-build public works projects, that: (1) the specifications or design criteria package must specify that all piping materials that meet the recognized standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials or the American Water Works Association may be acquired for and used in the projects; and (2) in the acquisition of piping materials for a project, the characteristics of the piping materials as to quality, sustainability, durability, and corrosion resistance of the piping materials shall be considered, where applicable. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1226 |
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| HB1227 | STUDY OF THE SCHOOL FUNDING FORMULA. (CANDELARIA REARDON M) Urges the legislative council to establish a study committee during the 2017 legislative interim to study issues related to the school funding formula and the methodology used to determine state funding of schools in Indiana. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1227 |
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| HB1228 | DISTRIBUTION OF CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS. (CANDELARIA REARDON M) Prohibits, with an exception, the department of education from distributing a choice scholarship for an eligible choice scholarship student to an eligible school if, for the immediately preceding school year, the eligible school is placed in a category or designation of school performance that is lower than the category or designation of school performance in which the public school that serves the attendance area in which the eligible choice scholarship student resides is placed. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1228 |
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| HB1233 | GREEN CLEANING AT SCHOOLS. (ERRINGTON S) Requires the department of education (department), in consultation with the state department of health and the Indiana department of environmental management, to establish: (1) a list of environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products approved by the department; and (2) guidelines and specifications for the purchase, storage, and use of environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products by a school at a school facility. Requires, not later than July 1, 2022, the following: (1) A school to comply with the guidelines and specifications and notify school employees of the availability of the list and guidelines and specifications. (2) A school employee to use at a school only cleaning and maintenance products that are approved environmentally sensitive cleaning and maintenance products and to comply with the guidelines and specifications. Allows the department to annually grant a green cleaning award to any school that complies with the guidelines and specifications before July 1, 2022. Requires the department to provide guidance and assistance to schools in complying with the green cleaning requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1233 |
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| HB1240 | GARNISHMENT OF WAGES. (HAMM R) Provides that if: (1) a judgment debtor leaves employment with an employer who is garnishing the wages of the judgment debtor subject to a judgment obtained by a judgment creditor; (2) the judgment debtor subsequently returns to employment with the same employer; and (3) the judgment against the judgment debtor has not been satisfied; the judgment creditor must obtain a new judgment against the judgment debtor before the employer of the judgment debtor is required to resume garnishment of the wages of the judgment debtor. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1240 |
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| HB1246 | COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT FOR RETIRED TEACHERS. (KARICKHOFF M) Provides for a 2% cost of living adjustment for retired members of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1246 |
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| HB1249 | TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND BENEFIT ADJUSTMENT. (KARICKHOFF M) Provides that a member of the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (or the survivor or beneficiary of a member) may receive a benefit adjustment that is either: (1) a 2% cost of living adjustment; or (2) a thirteenth check; whichever is greater. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1249 |
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| HB1253 | EARLY RETIREMENT OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. (CULVER W) Provides that for new hires of: (1) the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (2) the public employees' retirement fund; (3) the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (4) the Indiana judges' retirement fund: 1985 retirement, disability, and death system; and (5) the 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, 2017, and ending July 1, 2034. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1253 |
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| HB1256 | CAMERA ENFORCEMENT OF SCHOOL BUS ARM SIGNAL VIOLATIONS. (SMITH M) Provides that a school corporation or a nonpublic school may install cameras on school buses to enforce arm signal device traffic violations (camera enforcement). Allows a school corporation to pay for costs associated with camera enforcement from the school corporation's school transportation fund. Imposes civil penalties for arm signal device violations detected by camera enforcement. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1256 |
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| HB1260 | RAILROADS AND EMINENT DOMAIN. (SOLIDAY E) Defines "corporation", "rail carrier", and "railroad". Specifies that eminent domain may be exercised by a rail carrier incorporated in Indiana or authorized to do business in Indiana, and prescribes the manner in which a railroad (including a rail carrier) may incorporate. Requires a rail carrier to demonstrate that property will be used for a public use before the carrier may use eminent domain to take the property. Eliminates the provisions in the law under which a defendant in an eminent domain proceeding who appeals an interlocutory order overruling the defendant's objections to the proceeding is required to file an appeal bond. |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1260 |
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| HB1266 | PERFORMANCE AND PAYMENT BONDS. (GUTWEIN D) Requires that public-private agreements must contain performance bond and payment bond requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1266 |
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| HB1281 | VARIOUS HIGHER EDUCATION MATTERS. (SULLIVAN H) Allows the commission for higher education (commission) to extend, with limitations, eligibility for certain grants or reductions in tuition or fees for recipients who used the grants or reductions in tuition or fees at postsecondary educational institutions that have closed. Amends provisions regarding renewal of certain scholarships and tuition and fee remissions. Changes the term "professional degree program" to "professional degree program or accelerated graduate degree program" and amends the definition. Amends the provision regarding the use of renewals and extensions of certain grants or reductions in tuition or fees for professional degree programs or accelerated graduate degree programs. Allows recipients of certain grants, scholarships, or remissions of fees to: (1) use, with certain limitations, funds from the grants, scholarships, or remissions of fees to pay for costs associated with prior learning assessments that the student attempts to earn during the academic year in which the student receives the grants, scholarships, or remissions of fees; and (2) count anticipated credit hours for prior learning assessments toward attendance requirements. Establishes the tuition and fee exemption reimbursement fund to provide reimbursement to state educational institutions for certain tuition and fee remissions. Provides that the commission, in coordination with the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, shall administer the primary care shortage area scholarship. (Current law provides that the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine shall administer the scholarship.) Requires a scholarship recipient to enter into an agreement with the commission (instead of the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine). Requires the commission to: (1) study and make recommendations regarding the benefits of a reverse transfer policy for Indiana students and prepare a report regarding the recommendations; and (2) submit, not later than November 1, 2017, the report to the budget agency and legislative council. |
| | Current Status: | 4/26/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1281 |
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| HB1283 | AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. (LEHE D) Provides that after June 30, 2018, a school corporation, charter high school, or accredited nonpublic high school may not be placed in the highest category or designation of school improvement unless the school corporation, charter high school, or accredited nonpublic high school offers as part of its high school curriculum at least one course in agriculture science. Provides that a student may receive an excused absence from school if the student: (1) participates or exhibits in a 4-H club or FFA event; or (2) is at least 14 years of age and assists a parent with farm work associated with the planting or harvesting of crops. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1283 |
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| HB1285 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WIND TURBINES. (MOSELEY C) Establishes the Hoosier heritage innovative industry loan fund. Authorizes interest free loans, reduced income tax rates, and enhanced economic development for a growing economy (EDGE) tax credits to encourage the manufacturing of wind turbine components in Indiana using steel produced in the United States. Transfers $1,000,000 from the Indiana twenty-first century research and technology fund to the Hoosier heritage innovative industry loan fund. Makes an appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1285 |
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| HB1286 | REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES. (STEMLER S) Provides that the exercise of the power of eminent domain by a regional development authority (other than the northwest Indiana regional development authority) is subject to the approval of the legislative body of the municipality in which the property is located or, if the property is not located within a municipality, the legislative body of the county in which the property is located. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1286 |
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| HB1288 | EMERGENCY ACTION PLANS. (BACON R) Requires schools to create emergency action plans in consultation with emergency medical services personnel, school public safety officials, onsite first responders, and school administrators. Specifies that the emergency action plans must be tailored to each individual facility hosting an athletic event for student athletes. Requires head coaches and assistant coaches to complete a heat preparedness training course. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1288 |
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| HB1291 | SCHOOL POLICIES ON REPORTING CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT. (SUMMERS V) Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school may not establish an internal policy or procedure that in any way restricts or delays a duty to report child abuse or neglect. Provides that an individual who knowingly establishes a policy or procedure that restricts or delays a duty to report child abuse or neglect commits a Class B misdemeanor. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1291 |
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| HB1292 | SEAT BELTS ON SCHOOL BUSES. (BARTLETT J) Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus that is placed into operation after June 30, 2018, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and shoulder safety belt (safety belt) at each seating location. Requires the state school bus committee to adopt rules for the design, installation, and use of safety belt systems that must be installed in school buses and special purpose buses. Provides for an exception to the laws concerning other types of passenger restraint systems. Requires each occupant of a school bus or special purpose bus that has a safety belt to have the safety belt properly fastened about the occupant's body at all times when the bus is in motion. Establishes the safety belt revolving loan fund (fund). Requires the department of education to establish a revolving loan program to provide loans from the fund to school corporations to assist school corporations in paying expenses necessary to comply with requirements concerning safety belts on school buses and special purpose buses. Appropriates $5,000,000 to the fund from the state general fund. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1302 | SCHOOL REFERENDUM GRANTS. (CANDELARIA REARDON M) Provides a dollar for dollar state matching grant for a school corporation in which the voters approve an operating referendum tax levy after May 1, 2017. Specifies that a school corporation in which a charter school is located is not eligible for the grant. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1302 |
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| HB1307 | PREEMPTION OF CERTAIN LOCAL ORDINANCES. (GUTWEIN D) Preempts the ability of a unit to license, register, or certify a person generally to practice the person's profession or occupation within the unit, whether or not the person's profession or occupation is licensed, registered, or certified under the Indiana Code. Provides that the preemption does not apply to an ordinance or regulation that requires a person to obtain permits or other approvals to undertake particular instances of the practice of the person's profession or occupation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1307 |
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| HB1315 | LOCAL LABOR FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS. (BROWN C) Requires that at least 25% of the labor employed by each contractor in any contractor tier on a public works project must be individuals who reside: (1) in the municipality, if the project is located in a municipality; or (2) in the county, if the project is not located in a municipality. Allows the public agency letting the contract for the public works project to make a determination in writing that sufficient labor is not available and to modify or waive the requirement. Includes the requirement for operating agreements, design-build projects, and construction managers as constructors projects. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1322 | EMPLOYEE TRAINING TAX CREDITS. (CLERE E) Provides a tax credit to employers who complete the requirements for a portable workforce credential that is required for a high wage, high demand job. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1322 |
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| HB1327 | GRANTS FOR GREEN INDUSTRY JOBS. (FORESTAL D) Establishes the green jobs training program to support opportunities for eligible workers to receive job training in green industry sectors and occupations. Requires the department of workforce development (department) to administer the program. Establishes the green jobs training fund. Provides that the department shall: (1) identify and develop the framework, potential funding, strategies, policies, partnerships, and opportunities necessary to address the need for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of the green economy; and (2) subject to the availability of appropriated funds, award grants from the green jobs training fund to employers and other persons for worker training grants. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1327 |
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| HB1328 | CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS FOR STATE PROJECTS. (FORESTAL D) Provides that the plans and specifications for a state public works project or a highway or bridge construction or improvement project must take into account the possibility of a terrorist attack so as to minimize damage to life and property if such an attack occurs. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1328 |
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| HB1329 | ABSENTEE VOTING. (SLAGER H) Requires a voter who casts an absentee ballot by mail to provide a photocopy of the voter's proof of identification in the mailing envelope. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1329 |
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| HB1343 | SCHOOL CITY OF EAST CHICAGO FISCAL MATTERS. (HARRIS JR. E) Changes, for the school years beginning after June 30, 2016, June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, the manner in which average daily membership is determined for the School City of East Chicago school corporation. Transfers, not later than July 15, 2017, to the school disaster loan fund from the state general fund an amount equal to the total amount to pay off the loan that was made to the School City of East Chicago school corporation in the amount of $2,805,000 from the school disaster loan fund. Appropriates to the department of education (department) from the state general fund the following amounts: (1) $1,472,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017. (2) $736,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018. Requires the: (1) department to distribute the appropriated amounts to the School City of East Chicago school corporation; and (2) School City of East Chicago school corporation to use the money only for the purpose of paying the lease payments under the lease agreement, as certified by the department of local government finance, entered into between the School City of East Chicago school corporation and the East Chicago Multi School Building Corporation for the lease of the Carrie Gosch Elementary School. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1343 |
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| HB1357 | REPORTING TRF SERVICE FOR SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. (ERRINGTON S) Requires the treasurer of a school corporation, the township trustee, or the appropriate officer of any other institution covered by the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF) to make contributions for, deduct contributions from, and include in reports to the board of the Indiana public retirement system a substitute teacher who qualifies for membership in TRF. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1357 |
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| HB1364 | MATCHING FUND FOR SIDEWALKS AND MULTI-USE PATHS. (HAMILTON C) Establishes the Indiana sidewalk and multi-use path program and matching fund (matching fund) to which eligible applicants may apply for grants to finance the construction of new sidewalks and multi-use paths. Specifies that the Indiana department of transportation shall administer the matching fund. Provides that $5,000,000 shall be transferred from the administrative trust fund of the lottery to the matching fund in the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and that $10,000,000 shall be transferred from the administrative trust fund of the lottery to the matching fund in each state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2018. Continuously appropriates money in the matching fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1364 |
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| HB1372 | SCHOOL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATIONS. (SMITH M) Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to the school or school corporation by the state board of education for the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that, for a state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the higher of: (1) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2013-2014 school year; or (2) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2015-2016 school year. (The current law that applies to this calculation provides for certain limits on the grant amount.) Provides that ISTEP program test scores, from the ISTEP program test taken in the spring of 2016, may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ISTEP program test scores would improve the particular teacher's annual performance rating. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1382 | CHARTER SCHOOLS. (BEHNING R) Changes the definition of a charter school organizer. Requires each authorizer to establish a charter school Internet web page. Makes changes to the minimum standards for renewing a charter. Makes changes to the procedure for suspending an authorizer from authorizing a charter school. Provides that an authorizer is considered a state educational authority within the meaning of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Provides that a: (1) charter school or a participating innovation network charter school located in a county with a consolidated city; or (2) governing body of a school corporation with regard to transfer students; must determine which students may attend the school by using a publicly verifiable random selection process. (Current law provides attendance must be determined by a random drawing in a public meeting.) Makes changes to information that an education service provider must provide to a charter school. Provides that an authorizer must provide notification of acceptance or rejection of a proposal to establish a charter school within 75 days unless the authorizer and organizer agree to an extension of not more than 15 days. (Current law provides that notification must be provided within 75 days.) Provides that an organizer shall immediately inform the authorizer if its tax exempt status is questioned, modified, or revoked by the Internal Revenue Service or if its nonprofit corporation status is questioned, modified, or revoked by the state. Makes changes to the information an authorizer is required to report to the department of education (department). Changes procedures relating to the renewal of a charter. Requires a charter school organizer to submit a statement of economic interest for each board member of a proposed charter school. Requires an authorizer that is a state educational institution to assign authorization responsibilities to another entity. Makes changes to a provision relating to the qualifications of charter school teachers. Makes changes to a provision relating to the distribution of state funds to a charter school that does not have its charter renewed or terminated. Makes changes to the definition of a virtual charter school. Requires a virtual charter school to adopt a student engagement policy. Makes changes to which innovation network schools can receive a grant from the innovation network school grant fund. Provides that a governing body may enter into an agreement with an organizer to reconstitute certain schools as a participating innovation network charter school or to establish a participating innovation network charter school at a location selected by the board within the boundary of the school corporation. Provides that a participating innovation network charter school may be eligible for innovation network school grant funding. Provides that a participating innovation network charter school with a curriculum that includes study in a foreign country may deny admission to a student if certain conditions apply. Provides that an authorizer of a charter school is responsible for ensuring that the charter school is in compliance with applicable legal standards. Requires an organizer of a charter school closing for any reason to ensure the transfer of all charter school records, including student records, to the department. Repeals a provision that provides that the state board of education may require an authorizer to appear at a hearing conducted by the state board if the authorizer has renewed the charter of or failed to close a charter school that does not meet the minimum standards in the charter agreement. Repeals a provision establishing the charter school review panel. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1382 |
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| HB1383 | ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. (BEHNING R) Provides that, not later than July 1, 2019, the state board of education shall adopt rules to establish one or more elementary school teacher content area licenses that must, at a minimum, include a content area license in the subject matter of math and science. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| HB1384 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Provides that before July 1, 2018, the state board of education (state board) shall establish a definition of a high mobility school for schools with a high concentration of mobile students. Provides that for each school year beginning after June 30, 2018, the department of education (department) shall make a report regarding the performance of high mobility schools and post the report on the department's Internet web site. Provides that for purposes of calculating a school's category or designation of school improvement, the state board shall consider the mobility of high school students who are credit deficient and whether any high school should be rewarded for enrolling credit deficient students or penalized for transferring out credit deficient students. Provides that $50,000 is the maximum grant a school corporation or charter school may receive under the dual language immersion pilot program. Provides that appropriations to the department to provide grants to school corporations for high ability students must be for expenditures beyond those for regular educational programs. Provides that the state board may accredit a nonpublic school at the time the nonpublic school begins operation in Indiana. Provides that the state board may accredit a nonpublic school that enters into a contract with the state board to become a freeway school at the time the nonpublic school enters into the contract. Provides that a choice scholarship school may submit a request to the state board to waive or delay certain consequences if it is placed in the two lowest categories or designations of school improvement for a particular school year. Provides that the state board may grant a request to an eligible school that requests a delay or waiver if the choice scholarship school demonstrates that a majority of students in the eligible school demonstrated academic improvement during the preceding school year. Requires a school corporation to issue, upon request of a parent, a posthumous diploma to a student who: (1) dies while enrolled in grade 12 of a school in the school corporation; and (2) was academically eligible or on track to meet the requirements for the diploma at the time of death. Requires the department to conduct a review of each high school's graduation cohort on a schedule determined by the department. Prohibits a school from classifying a student as, or applying an exit code or description that indicates that a student is, leaving a cohort for the reason of removal by a student's parents to provide instruction equivalent to that given in the school unless the school has substantial evidence that the parent or guardian of the student initiated the student leaving the cohort. Amends requirements for an individual who obtains a position as a school social worker. Makes changes to the composition of the board of trustees for Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. Provides that a school corporation may designate a full-time employee of the school corporation to represent the school corporation in a small claims court action to collect unpaid required fees if the claim does not exceed $1,500. Provides that all students, regardless of age, enrolled in an adult high school must be included and calculated under the same requirements, metrics, and goals established under the alternative accountability system to assess the performance of an adult high school system. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1384 |
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| HB1385 | DUAL LANGUAGE PILOT PROGRAM. (BEHNING R) Provides that $25,000 is the maximum grant a school corporation or charter school may receive under the dual language immersion pilot program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1385 |
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| HB1386 | COMPETENCY BASED EDUCATION. (BEHNING R) Establishes the competency based education pilot program (pilot program). Provides that the department of education may award grants under the pilot program for competency based education programs from the innovation network school grant fund. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1386 |
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| HB1387 | VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS. (BEHNING R) Provides that appropriations to the department of education to provide grants to school corporations for high ability students must be for expenditures beyond those for regular educational programs. Makes changes to the definition of "teacher" to include a: (1) school nurse; and (2) school social worker. Makes changes to the composition of the board of trustees for Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1387 |
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| HB1388 | BATTERY ON A UTILITY WORKER. (MOSELEY C) Makes battery a Level 6 felony instead of a Class B misdemeanor if the battery is committed against a utility worker engaged in the ordinary course of the utility worker's employment. Makes the offense a Level 5 felony if: (1) the battery involved the placement of any bodily fluid or waste on a utility worker; and (2) the person who committed the offense knew or recklessly failed to know that the bodily fluid or waste placed on the utility worker was infected with hepatitis, tuberculosis, or human immunodeficiency virus. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1388 |
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| HB1389 | TEACHER BONUSES. (CLERE E) Establishes the testing out of college credit teacher bonus program and fund. Provides that a teacher who teaches an advanced placement course, international baccalaureate class, or a class to prepare a student to take a College Level Examination Program (CLEP) exam is entitled to receive a bonus or stipend if a student obtains certain threshold scores. Provides that a school corporation or charter school shall receive annual grants to pay bonuses or stipends to teachers who teach prerequisites of courses in which a student obtains college credit on an advanced placement, international baccalaureate, or CLEP exam. Provides that a school corporation or charter school is entitled to receive a grant for use as a teacher bonus or stipend if a student obtains college credit from an advanced credit exam administered by a state educational institution. Establishes the career and technical education teacher bonus program and fund. Provides that a career and technical education teacher is entitled to receive a bonus or stipend for each student who: (1) completes a career and technical education program approved by the state board and taught by the teacher; and (2) earns certain industry recognized certifications or credentials. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or state educational institution to provide certain information necessary for the department of education to administer the program. Makes changes to the definition of "eligible teacher" for purposes of the dual credit stipend matching grant program to include a teacher who teaches or is obtaining qualifications to teach an advanced placement course or an international baccalaureate course. Makes conforming and technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1389 |
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| HB1394 | WAIVER OF LOCAL OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE FEES. (FRIZZELL D) Requires a unit (county, city, town, or township) to waive as applicable all or part of the occupational and professional license fees and taxes imposed by the unit for the initial issuance and reinstatement of an occupational or professional license for applicants who are veterans, on active duty with the military or national guard, or indigent. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1394 |
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| HB1396 | TEACHER LICENSING FOR MILITARY SPOUSES. (MCNAMARA W) Requires the state board of education to adopt rules, including emergency rules, that establish procedures to expedite the issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a teacher license to a military spouse whose husband or wife is assigned to a duty station in Indiana. (Current law allows, but does not require, the state board to adopt such rules.) |
| | Current Status: | 3/29/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1396 |
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| HB1412 | TEACHER SALARIES. (THOMPSON J) Provides that a school corporation may offer a teacher who on June 30, 2011: (1) was employed with the school corporation; and (2) had at least 10 years of teaching experience; a one time annual salary increase. Provides that compensation attributable to additional degrees or graduate credits for which a teacher has started course work before July 1, 2011, and completed course work before September 2, 2018, shall also continue for school years beginning after June 30, 2015. (Current law provides that compensation attributable to additional degrees for which a teacher has started course work before July 1, 2011, and completed course work before September 2, 2014, shall also continue for school years beginning after June 30, 2015.) Provides that a school corporation is not prohibited from paying a substitute teacher in conformity with the regular pay range for teachers of the school corporation the teacher serves during the initial 15 consecutive school days in which the teacher serves as a substitute teacher. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1412 |
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| HB1416 | SCHOOL BUSES. (COOK A) Establishes the school bus safety equipment grant fund, administered by the department of education, to provide grants to school corporations seeking to purchase new school buses equipped with passenger 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 equipping the school buses with passenger safety belts or other safety equipment. Requires new school buses purchased after June 30, 2018, to be equipped with passenger safety belts or, if recommended by the state school bus committee, other proven safety equipment. Allows a school corporation to use a portion of a grant from the safe schools fund or the secured school fund toward purchase of new school buses equipped with safety equipment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1416 |
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| HB1419 | AVERAGE DAILY MEMBERSHIP. (MAHAN K) Provides that for purposes of determining the adjusted average daily membership (ADM) for distributions for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2017, a school corporation's February count of ADM for a high school within the school corporation is the high school's February count of ADM, plus the number of students who are in their fourth year of high school and were included in the high school's September count of ADM who graduated with a Core 40 or an academic honor's degree before the February count of ADM. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1419 |
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| HB1430 | SUICIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION. (OLTHOFF J) Provides that, after June 30, 2018, each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school: (1) shall require all teachers; and (2) may require any other appropriate school employees; who are employed at schools that provide instruction to students in any combination of grade 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12 to attend or participate in evidence based inservice youth suicide awareness and prevention training every three school years. Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) develop a statewide program for suicide prevention; and (2) employ a coordinator of the statewide program for suicide prevention. Requires the coordinator to study and determine: (1) the professions that should be required to receive training on suicide assessment, treatment, and management; and (2) the manner in which to fund the training. Requires the coordinator to report the determinations to the legislative council not later than December 31, 2017. Requires emergency medical services providers to complete an evidence based training program concerning suicide assessment, treatment, and management. Requires each school corporation to adopt a policy addressing measures intended to increase child suicide awareness and prevention. Establishes requirements regarding the policy. Requires an approved postsecondary educational institution to adopt a policy concerning suicide information and resources. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1430 |
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| HB1434 | FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF CONTRACT CARRIERS. (AUSTIN T) Establishes a minimum level of financial responsibility of $5,000,000 for contract carriers that transport railroad employees. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1434 |
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| HB1442 | PAID SICK AND SAFE LEAVE. (PORTER G) Provides that certain employers shall provide paid sick and safe leave to employees, accrued at the rate of one hour of paid sick and safe leave for every 30 hours of employment. Establishes conditions to entitlement to sick and safe leave. Requires the commissioner of labor to enforce paid sick and safe leave for employees. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1442 |
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| HB1449 | TEACHER INDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM. (DEVON D) Makes changes to who may submit a plan to participate in the career pathways and mentorship program. Establishes the Indiana new educator induction program (program) to give new teachers, principals, and administrators mentoring support. Provides that grants for the program may be made from the system for teacher and student advancement grant fund. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2018, and each July thereafter, the state board of education shall submit a report to the governor and the general assembly regarding the status of the program. Establishes the Indiana educator residency pilot program. Urges the legislative council to assign to the education interim study committee for study during the 2017 legislative interim the topic of teacher residency programs. Urges the legislative council to assign to the education interim study committee for study during the 2017 legislative interim the topic of new teacher induction programs. |
| | Current Status: | 4/24/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1449 |
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| HB1458 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE. (MORRIS R) Provides that an individual who is an employer and makes contributions to the unemployment insurance benefit fund for the individual's own service: (1) is eligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits after filing a claim for benefits; and (2) is exempt from the requirements of the unemployment insurance law in determining the individual's eligibility to receive unemployment insurance benefits. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1458 |
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| HB1463 | TEACHERS' DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN. (CARBAUGH M) Establishes the teachers' defined contribution plan (plan) as an account within the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (fund). Provides that an individual who begins employment with a school corporation in a covered position that would otherwise be eligible for membership in the fund may elect to become a member of the plan. Provides that an individual who does not elect to become a member of the plan becomes a member of the fund. Requires the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system (board) to establish, subject to any approval from the Internal Revenue Service that the board considers necessary or desirable, alternative investment programs within the annuity savings account as the initial alternative investment programs for the plan. Provides that, if the board considers it necessary or appropriate, the board may establish different or additional alternative investment programs for the plan, except that the board shall maintain the stable value fund. Provides that each member's contribution to the plan is 3% of the member's compensation and requires the employer to pay the member's contribution on behalf of the member. Allows a member to make additional contributions to the plan up to 10% of the member's compensation. Provides that the employer's contribution rate for the plan is equal to the employer's contribution rate for the fund as determined by the board, although the amount credited from the employer's contribution rate to the member's account may not be greater than the normal cost of the fund, and any amount not credited to the member's account is applied to the unfunded accrued liability of the fund. Provides that an employer's minimum contribution to the plan is 3% of the compensation of all members of the plan. Provides that member contributions and net earnings on the member contributions belong to the member at all times and do not belong to the employer. Provides that a member vests in the employer contribution subaccount at 20% per year with full vesting after five years of participation. Provides that, if a member separates from service with an employer before the member is fully vested in the employer contribution subaccount, the amount in the subaccount that is not vested is: (1) transferred to the member's new employer, if the new employer participates in the plan; or (2) held in the member's employer contribution subaccount until forfeited. Provides that a member who: (1) terminates service in a covered position; and (2) does not perform any service in a covered position for at least 30 days after the date on which the member terminates service; is entitled to withdraw vested amounts in the member's account. Provides that a member may elect to have withdrawals paid as: (1) a lump sum; (2) a direct rollover to another eligible retirement plan; or (3) if the member is at least 62 years of age with at least five years of participation in the plan, a monthly annuity in accordance with the rules of the board. Provides that, on the plan's effective date, school corporations become participants in the plan. Provides that the board shall provide education to employers and members regarding retirement benefit options of all applicable pension and retirement funds that the board administers. |
| | Current Status: | 4/21/2017 - DEAD BILL - Fails to pass by close of 2017 session
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1463 |
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| HB1464 | WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. (CARBAUGH M) 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1464 |
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| HB1472 | VOTE CENTERS. (WESCO T) Provides that the adoption, rescission, or amendment of a vote center plan may be taken by a majority vote of all members of a county election board. (Current law requires such action to be taken by the unanimous vote of a county election board.) Provides that if all of the members of a county election board do not agree on the location of the vote centers, each member of the county election board (or board of elections and registration) is entitled to designate an equal number of locations of the vote centers. Urges the legislative council to establish or assign to an appropriate study committee the task of studying how policy changes to Indiana election law have affected voting in Indiana from 2000 through 2016 regarding voter participation and election results. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline for House bills (Rule 79(b))
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1472 |
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| HB1480 | BATTERY ON UTILITY EMPLOYEES. (VANNATTER H) Makes battery a Level 6 felony instead of a Class B misdemeanor if the battery is committed against a utility worker engaged in the ordinary course of the utility worker's employment. Makes the offense a Level 5 felony if the battery results in bodily injury to the utility worker. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1480 |
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| HB1507 | SCHOOL BUSES. (SOLIDAY E) Provides that a special education cooperative or school corporation may enter into an agreement with an agency or organization serving individuals with a developmental disability in which a school bus or special purpose bus used by the special education cooperative or school corporation may be used to transport individuals with a developmental disability. (Current law provides that a special education cooperative or school corporation may enter into an agreement with a state supported agency serving individuals with a developmental disability in which a school bus or special purpose bus may be used to transport individuals with a developmental disability.) Removes a requirement that an individual with a developmental disability must live within the boundaries of the special education cooperative or school corporation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1507 |
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| HB1530 | PHASE OUT OF TUITION AT PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES. (DVORAK R) Freezes the Indiana resident tuition rates that may be charged by state educational institutions for the 2017-2018 academic year. Phases down the maximum Indiana resident tuition rates that may charged by state educational institutions. Provides that for the 2027-2028 academic year and for each academic year thereafter, the state educational institutions may not charge any tuition to students who are Indiana residents. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1530 |
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| HB1537 | PENSION THIRTEENTH CHECKS. (GUTWEIN D) Provides for thirteenth checks in 2017 and 2018 for certain members of the: (1) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (2) public employees' retirement fund; (3) state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan; (4) state police pre-1987 benefit system; and (5) state police 1987 benefit system. |
| | Current Status: | 4/20/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1537 |
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| HB1547 | NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS; SCHOOL CORPORATION AUDITS. (CARBAUGH M) Provides that the state board of education (state board) may accredit a nonpublic school that has: (1) received provisional or candidate accreditation from a nationally or regionally recognized accrediting body recognized by the state board; or (2) demonstrated to the state board the nonpublic school's accomplishments based on the nonpublic school's performance in another state. Provides that the state board may: (1) authorize a school participating in the choice scholarship program or that receives contributions from a scholarship granting organization to sponsor another nonpublic school that has demonstrated to the state board the nonpublic school's competency or accomplishments; and (2) accredit or provisionally accredit the nonpublic school. Provides that the state board may accredit a nonpublic school that enters into a contract with the state board to become a freeway school at the time the nonpublic school enters the contract. Allows the state board to delay certain consequences for an eligible school (under the choice scholarship provisions) that demonstrates that, despite remaining in either of the lowest two categories or designations of school performance, a majority of students in the eligible school demonstrated academic improvement during the preceding school year. Allows a school corporation to contract with a certified public accountant for an annual audit. Provides that a school eligible for participation in the choice scholarship program shall submit to the department of education (department) a report showing how money received during the preceding fiscal year from each choice scholarship student has been used by the school. Requires the department to post a copy of each report it receives on its Internet web site. Requires a school eligible for participation in the choice scholarship program to post a copy of each report that the eligible school submits on its Internet web site. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1547 |
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| HB1566 | SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS. (PELATH S) Requires the department of education (department) to: (1) develop a safe and supportive school framework; (2) create a school monitoring tool; and (3) develop procedures for updating, improving, or refining the safe and supportive school framework and the school monitoring tool. Allows a school corporation, by a vote of the school corporation's governing body, to: (1) implement a safe and supportive school framework; and (2) develop and implement an action plan to create and maintain the safe and supportive school framework. Allows, upon approval, a public school to develop and implement an action plan to create and maintain the safe and supportive school framework. Establishes requirements for an action plan and the posting of action plans. Establishes requirements for the department that include a requirement to establish a safe and supportive school grant program. Establishes the safe and supportive school fund to award grants to school corporations and public schools for the development and implementation of action plans and to provide training to school corporation and public school personnel. Appropriates $500,000 to the safe and supportive school fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1566 |
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| HB1568 | ELIMINATION OF TEXTBOOK FEES. (HATFIELD R) Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost to a student. Establishes the curricular materials 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 corresponding changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1570 | STUDENT EMERGENCY SAFETY PLANS. (HATFIELD R) Requires, not later than January 1, 2018, the commission for higher education to prepare and disseminate to each state educational institution recommendations and guidelines concerning emergency procedures for student safety. Requires, not later than July 1, 2018, a state educational institution to establish a student emergency safety plan that sets forth the state educational institution's student safety procedures in cases of emergency situations on a campus of the state educational institution. Requires, beginning after August 31, 2018, a state educational institution to provide written information concerning the student emergency safety plan to new students and present the information at the state educational institution's orientation for new students each year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1574 | CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. (GIAQUINTA P) Prohibits the use of corporal punishment on public school students, including charter school, students. Allows the use of reasonable and necessary force in certain situations. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1574 |
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| HB1575 | ARTISAN DISTILLERS. (GIAQUINTA P) Provides that an applicant for an artisan distiller's permit must hold a farm winery, brewer's, or distiller's permit for one year (instead of three years) before the date of the application. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1575 |
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| HB1581 | STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR FARMERS. (WRIGHT M) Establishes the Indiana farmer student loan forgiveness program. Defines "small farm". Provides that an individual who: (1) engages in agricultural activities as a small farm; and (2) participates in the day-to-day operation of a small farm; is eligible to receive a student loan forgiveness payment not to exceed $10,000 to be used to satisfy the individual's outstanding student loans. Provides that the commission for higher education shall administer the program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1581 |
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| HB1585 | ACTION FOR CONTRIBUTION FOR RAILROAD EMPLOYEES. (LEHMAN M) Creates a right of action for contribution against a third party for claims that arise under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1590 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (LUCAS J) Provides a $1,000 state income tax credit for an individual who is a licensed K-12 classroom teacher with respect to state income taxes on the income earned from the individual's employment as a classroom teacher. Replaces the ISTEP test program with an assessment program developed by the state board of education (state board) and the department of education. Specifies that the assessment program may not include measures or requirements that exceed measures and requirements in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Changes the definition of a probationary and professional teacher. Expands the definition of an eligible student for purposes of receiving a choice scholarship to include any student who is at least five years of age and less than 22 years of age and has legal settlement in Indiana. Repeals provisions requiring a school corporation to develop and implement an annual teacher performance evaluation plan. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2018, the state board shall establish new categories or designations of school performance. Provides that the new standards of assessing school performance may not: (1) use an "A through F" grading scale; (2) use statewide assessment program test results as the primary means to assess school performance; and (3) include requirements or measures other than requirements or measures authorized under ESSA. Makes conforming and technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1591 | EDUCATION OPTIONS ACCOUNT PROGRAM. (LUCAS J) Establishes the education options account program (program). Requires the treasurer of state to administer the program. Establishes: (1) the education options account fund; and (2) requirements and conditions for the program. Requires the treasurer of state to: (1) annually request a parent of an eligible student who is participating in the program to complete a written survey; and (2) annually provide a summary of the survey to the governor and the legislative council. Continuously appropriates money from the education options account fund and the accounts established within the fund for the purposes of the program. Provides a $1,000 state income tax credit for an individual who is a licensed K-12 classroom teacher with respect to state income taxes on the income earned from the individual's employment as a classroom teacher. Replaces the ISTEP test program with an assessment program developed by the state board of education (state board) and the department of education. Specifies that the assessment program may not include measures or requirements that exceed measures and requirements in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Changes the definition of a probationary and professional teacher. Repeals provisions requiring a school corporation to develop and implement an annual teacher performance evaluation plan. Provides that, not later than July 1, 2018, the state board shall establish new categories or designations of school performance. Provides that the new standards of assessing school performance may not: (1) use an "A through F" grading scale; (2) use statewide assessment program test results as the primary means to assess school performance; and (3) include requirements or measures other than requirements or measures authorized under ESSA. Makes conforming and technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1599 | WORKER'S COMPENSATION. (MAYFIELD P) Defines "rejected risk" for purposes of coverage under the worker's compensation assigned risk plan. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1599 |
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| HB1609 | INDIANAPOLIS AIRPORT AUTHORITY. (MAYFIELD P) Provides that as of June 1, 2017, the advisory member of the board of the Indianapolis Airport Authority representing Morgan County becomes a full voting member of the board. Makes conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1609 |
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| HB1614 | EARLY EDUCATION GRANT PILOT PROGRAM. (MOED J) Provides that the early education grant pilot program (program) may include eligible providers in any county. (Current law provides that the program may include eligible providers in not more than five counties.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1614 |
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| HB1630 | ADDITIONAL TEACHER SALARY. (SMITH V) Provides that a school corporation may provide an increase or increment in a local salary range for a teacher who attains a master's degree or doctorate degree. Removes an obsolete provision. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| HB1639 | SCHOOL FACILITY ADA COMPLIANCE. (CANDELARIA REARDON M) Requires charter schools and eligible schools, jointly in consultation with the department of education (department), before July 1, 2018, to establish standards of compliance (standards) with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Requires the department to post the standards on the department's Internet web site. Allows the department to conduct an assessment of the school buildings, educational programs, and student activities of each charter school and eligible school to determine the school's compliance with the standards. Provides that, notwithstanding any other law, each charter school or eligible school that receives public funds must meet the standards not later than July 1, 2022. Requires that if, after June 30, 2022, a charter school or eligible school that receives public funds fails to meet the standards, the noncompliant school is ineligible to receive public funds. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1639 |
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| HB1640 | SCHOOL BUILDINGS. (CANDELARIA REARDON M) Requires the department of education (department) to conduct a review of each school building in a school corporation, including: (1) the physical condition of each school building; and (2) the student enrollment of each school building. Requires the department to provide the information to the school corporation and to post the results of the review on the department's Internet web site. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline (Rule 147.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | HB1640 |
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| HCR12 | CONDUCTOR TRAINEE PROGRAMS FOR VETERANS. (MOSELEY C) Urging the United States Congress to enact legislation requiring the Department of Veterans Affairs to certify all licensure conductor trainee programs for GI Bill benefits as prescribed by the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2010. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - Returned to the House
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| | State Bill Page: | HCR12 |
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| SB3 | PAID PERSONAL LEAVE. (RANDOLPH L) Urges the legislative council to assign to a study committee during the 2017 legislative interim the topic of paid personal leave from employment. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB3 |
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| SB10 | CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS. (MERRITT J) Increases the penalty for battery if it is committed against a public safety official or a relative of a public safety official because of the official's status or perceived status as a public safety official, and increases the penalty for criminal recklessness if it is committed against: (1) a public safety official while the official is engaged in the official's official duties; or (2) a public safety official or a relative of a public safety official if the offense is committed because of the official's status or perceived status as a public safety official. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB29 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM. (KOCH E) Requires each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school to offer Indiana studies as a one semester elective course in its high school curriculum at least once every school year. Provides that the course may be offered through a course access program administered by the department of education (department). Makes changes to a provision regarding a functional workplace Spanish designation. Provides that the department shall conduct a survey of elementary and secondary school teachers, administrators, and members of governing bodies regarding whether the individuals surveyed are in favor of or opposed to mandatory instruction of cursive writing in elementary school and the reasons why an individual surveyed is in favor of or opposed to mandatory cursive writing instruction in elementary schools. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB29 |
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| SB30 | STUDENT SCHOOL INFORMATION. (KOCH E) Requires the department of education (department), for each spring semester and each fall semester, to distribute to each school corporation: (1) the name of each eligible school in which an eligible choice scholarship student who has legal settlement in the school corporation is enrolled; (2) the number of the eligible choice scholarship students who are enrolled in each eligible school for the school year; and (3) certain information regarding the number of students who have legal settlement in a school corporation and attend a public school maintained by another school corporation or a charter school. Requires the department to post the information on the department's Internet web site. |
| | Current Status: | 4/21/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB30 |
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| SB34 | BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR SCHOOL EMPLOYEES. (MERRITT J) Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school shall require an expanded criminal history check and expanded child protection index check on each employee every five years. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school may implement the requirement for updated background checks for current employees over a five year period. Provides that the employee is responsible for costs associated with obtaining the background checks unless the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school agrees to pay the costs. Makes an exception to the provision that an applicant or employee may not be required to obtain an expanded criminal history check or expanded child protection index check more than one time during a five year period. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | SB34 |
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| SB35 | TEACHER EVALUATIONS. (FORD J) Provides that a school corporation may use objective measures of student achievement as part of a teacher evaluation plan. (Current law provides that the use of an objective measure of student achievement is required as part of a teacher evaluation plan.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB35 |
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| SB46 | VARIOUS PENSION MATTERS. (BOOTS P) Establishes a single special death benefit fund to replace the two separate death benefit funds established under current law to pay death benefit claims to the beneficiaries of public safety officers or other state public employees who die in the line of duty. Provides that death benefits paid to beneficiaries of members of the following funds who die in the line of duty are to be paid from the special death benefit fund instead of the pension relief fund: (1) The 1925 police pension fund. (2) The 1937 firefighters' fund. (3) The 1953 police pension fund (Indianapolis). (4) The 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund. Allows an individual who is a member of both the public employees' retirement fund (PERF) and the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund (TRF) to make independent elections concerning the amounts credited to the member in the annuity savings account of each fund. Allows a member of PERF or TRF, or both, to do the following with the money credited to the member in a PERF or TRF annuity savings account, in any combination: (1) Retain and continue to invest all or part of the money in the annuity savings account. (2) Receive one or more distributions of all or part of the money in the annuity savings account. (3) Obtain an annuity with all or part of the money in the annuity savings account. Provides that if survivor benefits under PERF or TRF are forfeited for the failure of a survivor to claim the benefits within three years of the death of a member, the money to pay the benefits must be credited in the manner provided by the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system, rather than to PERF or TRF specifically. Provides that the minimum pension benefit for a regularly retired member of
TRF who receives an unreduced pension benefit is $185 per month. Makes an appropriation. (The introduced verison of this bill was prepared by the interim study committee on pension management oversight.) |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB46 |
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| SB47 | C AND E FUND DEDUCTIONS FROM RETIREMENT BENEFITS. (BOOTS P) Allows a participant in the state excise police, gaming agent, gaming control officer, and conservation enforcement officers' retirement plan (C and E fund) to authorize a deduction from the participant's monthly retirement benefit for the purpose of paying insurance premiums, charitable contributions, or labor organization dues. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB47 |
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| SB48 | RESIDENT TUITION RATE AT STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. (MRVAN F) Provides that an individual, except for certain nonimmigrants, 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 2017-2018 academic year. Requires such an individual to verify that the individual meets the criteria to receive the resident tuition rate. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB48 |
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| SB54 | DCS NOTIFICATION TO SCHOOL EMPLOYER. (MERRITT J) Requires the department of child services (DCS) to notify a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school that employs one or more employees if a report of child abuse or neglect is substantiated against an employee or volunteer of the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB54 |
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| SB57 | GRADUATION RATE CALCULATION. (RAATZ J) Changes the definition of "cohort" for purposes of calculating a high school's graduation rate. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB57 |
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| SB61 | COMMISSION ON SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT. (HEAD R) Requires the commission on seclusion and restraint in schools (commission) to adopt rules concerning reporting requirements for the use of seclusion and restraint by school resource officers. Requires that the commission include a member of the Indiana School Resource Officers Association. Provides that a school corporation, accredited nonpublic school, or charter school must report incidents of seclusion and restraint involving a school resource officer. Provides that the commission may adopt emergency rules. Voids a rule adopted by the commission that excludes school resource officers from the reporting requirements. Makes changes to the duties of the commission. Provides that if the department of education (department) has been advised of a discrepancy in a report, the department shall require the school to provide a written explanation of the discrepancy to the department. Provides that the department has the authority to require schools to submit seclusion and restraint plans. Provides that the department shall review incident rules and submit summary findings to the commission in compliance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Provides that the commission shall review summary findings submitted by the department and may make nonbinding recommendations to the department or other entities. Provides that if the department receives a recommendation from the commission, the department shall send a response with regard to recommendations made by the commission. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB61 |
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| SB62 | SCHOOL SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION PILOT PROGRAM AND FUND. (HEAD R) Provides the department of education (department), in collaboration with organizations that have expertise in school based substance abuse prevention, shall develop: (1) materials to assist schools to develop a formal substance abuse prevention policy; and (2) a model school based substance abuse prevention policy. Establishes the school substance abuse prevention pilot program (program). Provides the department shall administer the program. Establishes the school substance abuse prevention pilot program fund to: (1) provide grants to schools to use for evidence based substance abuse prevention programming; (2) provide grants to schools to embed mental health personnel in schools; and (3) hire a research partner to conduct a cross agency cost benefit analysis of Indiana's current school based prevention program expenditures to provide information for future funding decisions for school based prevention. Establishes requirements regarding the program. Requires the department to annually submit a report concerning the program to the governor, legislative council, and the budget committee. Requires each school corporation and charter school to develop a formal school substance abuse prevention policy. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | SB62 |
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| SB66 | HEALTH CURRICULUM. (BREAUX J) Requires the state department of health and the department of education, working cooperatively, to identify and report to the general assembly appropriate academic standards and curricula concerning health education. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB66 |
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| SB71 | 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB71 |
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| SB75 | DRUG TESTING OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE APPLICANTS. (FORD J) Requires an individual to undergo a drug test as a condition of the individual's initial eligibility for unemployment benefits (benefits) if the individual: (1) was discharged from employment by the individual's most recent employer because of the individual's unlawful use of a controlled substance; or (2) is an individual for whom suitable work is only available in an occupation that the United States Department of Labor has determined by rule is an occupation that regularly conducts drug testing. If the individual tests positive or refuses to take a drug test, provides that the individual is ineligible for waiting period or benefit rights for the week in which the positive test results or refusal occurred and until: (1) the individual earns remuneration in employment in at least eight weeks; and (2) the remuneration earned equals or exceeds the product of the individual's weekly benefit amount multiplied by eight. Provides that an individual is not disqualified from receiving benefits if the individual: (1) obtained the controlled substance for which the individual tested positive by means of a prescription issued by a practitioner authorized to prescribe the controlled substance; and (2) ingested, injected, or inhaled the controlled substance that was prescribed in accordance with the practitioner's directions. Provides that the department of workforce development (department) may not require an individual to pay any of the costs of a drug test. Provides that the fact that the individual took a drug test and the results of the test are confidential to the extent required by 20 CFR 603. Requires the department to ensure that a drug test meets or exceeds: (1) standards of the mandatory guidelines for federal workplace drug testing programs published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); or (2) procedures established by the United States Department of Transportation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB78 | POSSESSION OF FIREARMS ON SCHOOL PROPERTY. (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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB78 |
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| SB80 | DEFERRED RETIREMENT OPTION PLAN DISABILITY BENEFIT. (BOOTS P) Revises, for a member of the 1925 police pension fund, the 1937 firefighters' pension fund, the 1953 police pension fund, or the 1977 police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund who retires after June 30, 2017, because of a disability at least 12 months after the date the member enters the deferred retirement option plan (DROP), the calculation of the retirement benefit paid to the member. Allows a member who retired after January 1, 2015, and before July 1, 2017, because of a disability at least 12 months after the date the member entered the DROP to elect to have the member's retirement benefit recalculated under the new provision. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB80 |
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| SB85 | FUNDING SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC TRANSIT. (BROWN L) Permits a redevelopment commission outside Marion County to provide revenue on an annual basis to a school corporation or public transportation corporation from property taxes allocated to the redevelopment commission in a tax increment financing allocation area. Specifies the amount of property taxes that may be transferred by the redevelopment commission. Requires a joint public hearing of the legislative body of the unit that established the tax increment financing area, the redevelopment commission, and the governing body of the school corporation or public transportation corporation and the adoption of substantially similar authorizing resolutions. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB86 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM. (LEISING J) Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | SB86 |
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| SB87 | REPORT CARDS. (LEISING J) Requires that each public school and accredited nonpublic school issue letter grades on report cards for students in grades 3 through 12. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB87 |
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| SB88 | 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 2018-2019 school year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB88 |
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| SB89 | HEALTH EDUCATION. (LEISING J) Requires the state department of health and the department of education, working cooperatively, to identify and report to the general assembly appropriate academic standards and curricula concerning health education. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB89 |
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| SB99 | PARENTAL PRIVILEGE. (KRUSE D) Provides that a parent is not required to testify concerning a communication between the parent and the parent's child, and that an adult child or emancipated child is not required to testify concerning a communication between the child and the child's parent. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB99 |
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| SB102 | STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS ACCOUNT. (MERRITT J) Makes an appropriation to the mental health and addiction services loan forgiveness account. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB102 |
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| SB108 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (KRUSE D) Provides that when a school corporation authorizes an absence to permit a student to attend any educationally related nonclassroom activity, the student may not be recorded as being absent on any date for which the excuse is operative and may not be penalized by the school. Provides that an initial school improvement plan must be established and approved by the governing body not later than August 1 of the school year in which the plan is to be implemented. Requires: (1) the Indiana education employment relations board (board) to publish a model compensation plan with a model salary range that a school corporation may adopt; (2) each school corporation to submit its local compensation plan to the board; and (3) the board to publish local compensation plans on the board's Internet web site. (Under current law, the department of education publishes and oversees the model compensation plan and local compensation plans.) Provides that the board: (1) shall review a compensation plan for compliance; and (2) has jurisdiction to determine compliance of a compensation plan submitted. Establishes an expiration for emergency rules that the board adopts. Requires a school corporation that has a compensation plan but does not have a ratified collective bargaining agreement to, not later than October 1 of the year in which the compensation plan becomes effective, submit the school corporation's compensation plan to the board. Provides that, if a school corporation does not submit the compensation plan by October 1, the compensation plan is considered not in compliance unless a compliance officer of the board finds good cause shown for the delay. Provides that a principal or superintendent, or the principal's or superintendent's designee, may recommend an individual to participate in the Indiana high school equivalency diploma program. Allows the governing body of a school corporation to deny a request for a student to transfer to the school corporation or discontinue enrollment, or establish terms or conditions for enrollment or for continued enrollment, if the student has a history of unexcused absences and the governing body believes that, based on the location of the student's residence, attendance would be a problem. Provides that a special needs bus may be used to provide transportation for asibling of a student with a developmental or physical disability. Requires the department of education (department), in collaboration with the state board of education, to prepare a report that includes recommendations regarding certificated employee evaluations. Requires the department, not later than November 1, 2017, to submit the report to the general assembly. Provides that a provision requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation training applies to a charter school other than a virtual charter school. Requires, before December 1, 2017, the department of workforce development to commission an entity that specializes in improving access to adult literacy programs to: (1) prepare and submit a report regarding adult literacy programs to the legislative council; and (2) present the report to the state workforce innovation council. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB108 |
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| SB109 | ACCREDITATION OF SCHOOLS. (KRUSE D) Provides that the state board of education (state board) may accredit a nonpublic school that has: (1) received a provisional or candidate accreditation from a nationally or regionally recognized accrediting body recognized by the state board; or (2) demonstrated to the state board the nonpublic school's accomplishments based on the nonpublic school's performance in another state. Provides that the state board may authorize a school participating in the choice scholarship program or that receives contributions from a scholarship granting organization to sponsor another nonpublic school that has demonstrated to the state board the nonpublic school's competency or accomplishments and accredit or provisionally accredit the nonpublic school. Provides that the state board may accredit a nonpublic school that enters into a contract with the state board to become a freeway school at the time the nonpublic school enters the contract. Makes technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB109 |
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| SB111 | SCHOOL CALENDAR. (KRUSE D) Prohibits public schools from beginning student instructional days for the school year before the Tuesday after the first Monday in September (Labor Day), beginning with the 2019-2020 school year. Provides that a governing body may establish a beginning date before Labor Day for year-round schools, schools with balanced calendars, schools that coordinate calendars with a postsecondary educational institution, and schools that coordinate calendars with a large employer in the school corporation, following a public hearing and a majority vote of the governing body. Makes the change effective for collective bargaining agreements and contracts negotiated after June 30, 2019. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB111 |
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| SB115 | TEACHING LICENSES. (KRUSE D) Requires a court to: (1) recommend revocation of a defendant's teaching license (license) if the defendant holds a license and is convicted of certain felonies; and (2) deliver any order recommending revocation of the defendant's license to the department of education (department). Requires the department to revoke the license upon receipt of the order. Allows the department to reinstate a license if a person has been pardoned or the person's conviction has been reversed, vacated, or set aside on appeal. Provides that a presentence investigation consists of gathering information with respect to whether the convicted defendant holds a license. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB115 |
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| SB116 | OUT OF SCHOOL TIME PILOT PROGRAM AND FUND. (KRUSE D) Requires the department of education (department) to establish a pilot program to provide grants for out of school time programs that serve students in grades 5 through 8. Establishes eligibility requirements. Establishes the out of school time program fund. Requires, before November 1 of each year, the department to submit a report regarding the pilot program to the governor, budget committee, state board of education, and legislative council. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB116 |
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| SB117 | UNITED STATES HISTORY COURSES. (KRUSE D) Requires that each high school United States history course must include the study of the structure of state and federal governments. Moves existing language concerning the study of the Holocaust. Requires that all students enrolled in a high school United States history course must take the United States Civics Test prepared by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Allows school corporations to determine whether a passing score on the test is required to receive credit for the course. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| | State Bill Page: | SB117 |
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| SB129 | CONSTRUCTION AND CONSTRUCTION PERMITS. (MESSMER M) Amends the law requiring the state department of health to approve or disapprove a construction permit application in not more than 30 days to specify that the law applies to applications for permits for the construction of nonresidential onsite sewage systems. Provides that the construction, acquisition, or leasing of any sewage works by a municipality is initiated by the adoption, by the municipal works board or other appropriate body of the municipality, of a resolution (rather than by the adoption by the municipal legislative body of an ordinance). |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB129 |
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| SB135 | IMPROPER WORKER CLASSIFICATION. (MRVAN F) Authorizes the department of state revenue, the department of labor, the worker's compensation board, and the department of workforce development to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of records and to question witnesses under oath when conducting an investigation of any suspected improper worker classification by a construction contractor. Allows the worker's compensation board to issue a stop work order as an additional remedy against an employer that does not have the required insurance and has not furnished satisfactory proof of self-insurance. Provides that service of a stop work order on a worksite is effective as to the employer's operations on that worksite, and that service of a stop work order on an employer is effective as to all of the employer's worksites where the employer has not complied with the insurance or self-insurance requirements. Provides a civil penalty of $1,000 for each day an employer violates a stop work order. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB135 |
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| SB136 | REDISTRICTING. (DELPH M) 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 if the Constitution of the State of Indiana does not require the general assembly to establish legislative districts, the commission's recommendations for legislative plans define those districts. Provides that if the Constitution of the State of Indiana requires the general assembly to establish the districts, 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. Provides that a person employed by the agency or under contract with the agency may not knowingly or intentionally use political data in the creation or evaluation of a redistricting plan. Provides that a person may not knowingly or intentionally solicit, aid, induce, or cause a person employed by the agency or under contract with the agency to use political data in the creation or evaluation of a redistricting plan. Makes a violation of these restrictions a Level 6 felony. Repeals the current law relating to congressional redistricting by a commission when the general assembly fails to enact a congressional redistricting plan. Appropriates from the state general fund the amounts necessary to pay the expenses of implementing the statute. Repeals the statute establishing the special interim study committee on redistricting. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB148 | SCHOOL CITY OF EAST CHICAGO FISCAL MATTERS. (RANDOLPH L) Changes, for the school years beginning after June 30, 2016, June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, the manner in which average daily membership is determined for the School City of East Chicago school corporation. Transfers, not later than July 15, 2017, to the school disaster loan fund from the state general fund an amount equal to the total amount to pay off the loan that was made to the School City of East Chicago school corporation in the amount of $2,805,000 from the school disaster loan fund. Appropriates to the department of education (department) from the state general fund the following amounts: (1) $1,472,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017. (2) $736,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018. Requires the: (1) department to distribute the appropriated amounts to the School City of East Chicago school corporation; and (2) School City of East Chicago school corporation to use the money only for the purpose of paying the lease payments under the lease agreement, as certified by the department of local government finance, entered into between the School City of East Chicago school corporation and the East Chicago Multi School Building Corporation for the lease of the Carrie Gosch Elementary School. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB148 |
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| SB152 | LOCAL REDEVELOPMENT. (MERRITT J) Provides that a redevelopment commission may purchase property that is for sale at an auction or that has a purchase price of not more than $25,000 without first obtaining two independent appraisals. Provides that a redevelopment commission may purchase property that is blighted, unsafe, abandoned, foreclosed, or structurally damaged. Repeals the tax sale blight registry, and makes conforming amendments. Amends the homeowner protection unit account statute to recognize that certain court fees are deposited under current law in that account. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB161 | REFERENDUM LEVIES. (NIEMEYER R) Provides that a referendum on a controlled project may be held only at a general election, if the preliminary determination to issue bonds or enter into a lease for the controlled project is made after June 30, 2017. Requires a political subdivision that intends to hold a referendum on a controlled project to post examples on the Internet web site of the department of local government finance (department) that illustrate the effect on the annual property tax liabilities of hypothetical taxpayers if the referendum question were to be approved. Provides that a referendum for a referendum tax levy of a school corporation may be held only at a general election, if the resolution to hold the referendum is adopted after June 30, 2017. Requires a school corporation that intends to hold a referendum for a referendum levy to post examples on the department's Internet web site that illustrate the effect on the annual property tax liabilities of hypothetical taxpayers if the referendum question were to be approved. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB176 | LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMON CONSTRUCTION WAGE. (MRVAN F) Allows the legislative body of a political subdivision to adopt an ordinance requiring the political subdivision to establish a common construction wage for public work projects awarded by the political subdivision. Exempts projects: (1) in which the actual construction costs are less than $350,000; (2) that are paid for in whole or in part by federal funds unless the federal government gives written consent; or (3) that are undertaken by a person that has entered into an operating agreement with a political subdivision for the management or operation of a public facility under IC 5-23. Requires the board having the power to award a contract for a public work to set up a five member committee to determine the common construction wage for the political subdivision before advertising a contract. Provides that the committee members are: (1) an individual representing labor to be named by the president of the state federation of labor; (2) an individual representing industry to be named by the board; (3) an individual to be named by the state president of the Associated Builders and Contractors; and (4) two taxpayers who pay the tax that is the funding source for the project and reside in the political subdivision where the project is located, one taxpayer appointed by the owner of the project and one taxpayer appointed by the legislative body for the political subdivision where the project is located. Requires the committee to determine in writing: (1) a classification of the labor to be employed in the performance of the contract for the project, divided into three classes: (A) skilled labor; (B) semiskilled labor; and (C) unskilled labor; and (2) the wage per hour to be paid to each of the classes. Provides that the rate of wages determined by the committee applies to any contract which the board lets not later than three months after the date the committee determines the rate of wages. Requires the committee to make and file the determination with the board at least two weeks before the date fixed for the letting of the project. If the committee fails to act, requires the board letting the contract to make the determination, which is final. Requires a contractor or subcontractor to file with the political subdivision before performing any work on the project a schedule of the wages to be paid to the workers on the project, which may not be less than the wage scale determined by the committee. Provides that a contractor or subcontractor that knowingly fails to pay the rate of wages determined by the committee commits a Class B misdemeanor, and if the contractor or subcontractor has committed a prior offense, the contract on which the subsequent offense occurs is forfeited, and the contractor or subcontractor may not receive any further payment on the contract. Provides that a person who is a party to a public work contract, or an officer or employee of a political subdivision, who knowingly artificially divides a public work project into two or more projects to avoid paying a common construction wage commits a Class A infraction and the person may not be a party to, or benefit from, a public work contract for two years after the date the violation is adjudicated. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB179 | SELECTION OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. (BUCK J) Provides for the state superintendent of public instruction (superintendent) to be appointed by the governor after January 10, 2021. Provides that, after January 10, 2021, the governor appoints the members of the charter school review panel. (Under current law, the superintendent, or the governor jointly with the superintendent, appoints the members of the panel.) Provides that, after January 10, 2021, the governor appoints the director of special education. (Under current law, the governor appoints the director of special education upon the recommendation of the superintendent.) Repeals a provision that a candidate for the office of state superintendent of public instruction must have resided in Indiana for at least two years. Requires the legislative services agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2021 regular session of the general assembly to organize and correct statutes affected by this act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB182 | SUPERINTENDENT CONTRACTS. (HOUCHIN E) Provides that a contract entered into or renewed after June 30, 2017, between a governing body and its superintendent is subject to the following conditions: (1) The contract must, with an exception for an extension, be for a term of at least one year and not more than three years. (2) If the contract contains a provision that establishes an amount the governing body must pay to the superintendent to buy out the contract, the amount may not be more than an amount equal to the lesser of: (A) the superintendent's salary for any one year under the contract; or (B) $250,000. Provides that a superintendent (in addition to a principal under current law) may initiate the cancellation of a teacher's contract by providing notice to the teacher of the superintendent's preliminary decision. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB182 |
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| SB196 | SCHOOL DEBT SERVICE OBLIGATIONS. (KENLEY L) Provides the following for purposes of the school bond payment intercept statute: (1) The term "debt service obligations" also includes principal and interest payable to a school corporation's designated paying agent under a written agreement entered into in connection with the issuance of a school corporation's general obligation bonds. (2) Upon being notified of a school corporation's failure to pay debt service obligations when due, the treasurer of state shall within five days pay the unpaid debt service obligations that are due from state funds, in an amount equal to the amount of the unpaid debt service obligations that are due to the claimant (but only to the extent that amounts are available to the treasurer of state to fulfill this requirement). (3) The treasurer of state shall provide notice of the request by a claimant to the budget director, the auditor of state, and any department or agency of the state responsible for distributing funds appropriated by the general assembly for distribution to the school corporation from state funds, and such a department or agency of the state shall transfer those funds to the treasurer of state for purposes of paying the unpaid debt service obligations. (4) The amounts made available to the treasurer of state for this purpose shall be made from the following sources and in the following order of priority: (A) First, from amounts appropriated by the general assembly for the state fiscal year for distribution to the school corporation from state funds. (B) Second, from any remaining amounts appropriated by the general assembly for distribution for tuition support in each state fiscal year in excess of the aggregate amount of tuition support needed for distribution to school corporations. (C) Third, to the extent that the general assembly has adopted a biennial budget appropriating amounts in the immediately succeeding state fiscal year for distribution to the school corporation from state funds, then from such fund or account, as determined by the state budget director (from which fund or account there is appropriated to the treasurer of state an amount equal to the lesser of: (i) the unpaid debt service obligations not paid from the other sources; or (ii) the amount appropriated by the general assembly for the immediately succeeding state fiscal year for distribution to the school corporation). (5) If any amounts are transferred to the treasurer of state to pay the unpaid debt service obligations of the school corporation, the applicable department or agency shall recover those amounts by deducting an amount equal to the transfer from any future amounts to be distributed to the school corporation from state funds. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB196 |
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| SB197 | VEHICLE BILL. (LONG D) None |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB198 | CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. (LONG D) Requires the state board of education to use data from the department of workforce development (DWD) in developing and implementing certain plans, recommendations, and other matters relating to career and technical education. Requires the department of education (department) to implement a pilot program for instruction in and use of the Indiana career explorer program and curriculum by all students in grade 8 attending the schools in 15 schools. Provides that the pilot program expires July 1, 2018, unless the department determines the pilot program shall be extended until July 1, 2019. Provides that beginning on July 1 in the year in which the pilot program expires, each school in a school corporation and each charter school must include in the school's curriculum for all students in grade 8 either: (1) instruction in and use of the Indiana career explorer program and curriculum; or (2) an alternative system and curriculum approved by the department in consultation with the DWD. Requires the DWD, with review and approval of the state board of education, to designate each career and technical education program (program) based on specified program designations. Provides that a program must be approved by the DWD in order for a school corporation to receive a career and technical education enrollment grant (grant). Specifies the calculation and the amount of a school corporation's grant beginning after June 30, 2018. Makes changes to the definitions used to determine grant amounts. Provides that each school corporation that receives a grant must report to the department the pupil count and per pupil cost for each program in which the school corporation receives a grant. Requires the department to post the school corporation's pupil count and per pupil costs reported to the department on the department's Internet web site. Specifies the requirements for the award of a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant and a high value workforce ready noncredit-bearing grant. Adds an applicant who attends or has attended an accredited nonpublic school or a nonaccredited nonpublic school as eligible to receive a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Establishes conditions for the renewal of a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant, and provides alternatives to maintenance of satisfactory academic progress that allow a student to qualify for and renew an adult student grant and a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Establishes the maximum period during which a student may receive an adult study grant and a high value workforce ready credit-bearing grant. Establishes the high value workforce ready grant program implementation fund, administered by the DWD and the commission for higher education, to award high value workforce ready grants and administer the grant program. Requires the DWD to give a veteran or the spouse of a veteran priority for placement in any federal or state employment or training program administered by the DWD if the veteran or the veteran's spouse: (1) submits documentation satisfactory to the DWD establishing the veteran's honorable discharge from service; and (2) meets the eligibility requirements for the program. Establishes an annual reporting requirement to the governor, the legislative council, the state workforce innovation council, and the DWD by state providers of workforce related programs concerning the results of each of those programs. Requires the governor's office to develop a comprehensive workforce development plan with assistance of the DWD, the commission for higher education, and the state board of education, and forward a copy of the report to the legislative council before November 1, 2017. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB198 |
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| SB199 | PERMITS AND CERTAIN EXPENSES RELATED TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. (ALTING R) Defines "entertainment", "gift", and "professional and educational expenses", and specifies that certain prohibitions that apply to alcoholic beverage permittees concerning gifts do not apply to entertainment or professional and educational expenses, if the provision of entertainment or professional and educational expenses is not exclusionary. Defines "advertising specialty" and "consumer advertising specialty", and voids certain rules of the alcohol and tobacco commission that relate to advertising specialties and consumer advertising specialties. Increases, from four days to seven days, the number of days in a calendar month that may be designated as guest days by the holder of a club permit for alcoholic beverages. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB200 | MATERIALS HARMFUL TO MINORS. (MERRITT J) Requires a person convicted of disseminating material harmful to minor to register as a sex offender if the person is a child care worker and distributes the material to a child under the person's care or supervision or to a child who attends a school at which the child care worker is employed. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB224 | PREKINDERGARTEN STATUS REPORT. (LEISING J) Requires the department of education (department), in consultation with the family and social services administration, to conduct a survey to determine the number of children who were four years of age and enrolled in a prekindergarten program during the 2015-2016 school year. Requires, not later than December 1, 2017, the department to submit a report concerning the survey to the general assembly. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB236 | ASBESTOS LITIGATION. (GLICK S) Requires certain disclosures regarding asbestos bankruptcy trust claims in civil asbestos actions. Provides medical criteria to set aside and preserve the claims of asbestos and silica claimants without physical impairment, and gives priority to asbestos and silica claimants with malignant conditions and impairing nonmalignant conditions. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB240 | INDIANA SCHOOL COUNSELING PILOT PROGRAM. (HEAD R) Establishes the Indiana school counseling pilot program, which authorizes the state superintendent of public instruction to select school corporations and charter schools from urban, suburban, and rural areas to apply for and receive grants from the department of education (department) to develop and implement school counseling programs. Establishes a fund, administered by the department, to provide grants to participating schools and to carry out or contract for research concerning school counseling programs. Makes an appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB248 | CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS. (RAATZ J) Allows two or more school corporations situated in the same or adjoining counties to consolidate in a manner in which debts or obligations paid by a debt service levy incurred by a school corporation before the new consolidated school corporation comes into existence may be levied only on the taxpayers of the subunit that initially incurred the debt or obligation before consolidation. Provides that each school corporation is considered a subunit of the consolidated school corporation. Provides that the resolution consolidating the school corporations may declare: (1) that administrative functions of each subunit will be consolidated in the proposed consolidated school corporation; and (2) that the name or attendance area of each school within a subunit may remain unchanged after the date the consolidated school corporation comes into existence. Provides that, if two or more school corporations consolidate under the new consolidation provision, the department of local government finance shall set for the consolidated school corporation: (1) new maximum levies, which must equal the sum of the existing maximum levies adjusted for assessed value growth; and (2) a maximum capital projects levy rate. Relocates and amends the provision that provides that 20% of the legal voters residing in the district of any school corporation, jointly with 20% of the legal voters residing in the district of each of one or more other school corporations, may petition the trustees of their respective school corporations to consolidate the school corporations. Provides that the meeting that the governing bodies of the school corporations are required to hold one week after the date of the appearance of the last publication of notice of intention to consolidate must be a public meeting. Amends provisions concerning compensation and vacancies regarding the membership of the governing body after a consolidation. Provides that the governing body must meet to reorganize not more than 15 days after the commencement date of the members' terms of office. |
| | Current Status: | 4/25/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB249 | TEACHER HIRING. (RAATZ J) Provides that a school corporation and a charter school shall adopt a policy requiring the school employer of the school corporation or charter school to contact references and, if applicable, the most recent employer provided by a prospective employee, before the school corporation or charter school may hire the prospective employee. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB250 | REPORT ON STUDENT PROGRESS TOWARD GRADUATION. (RAATZ J) Requires each school corporation to submit an annual report to the department of education (department) containing the: (1) number of students of the school corporation that transfer out of the school corporation after the student's cohort enters grade 12; (2) exit code and exit title or description for each student who transfers; (3) grade point average for each student who transfers; and (4) number of high school credits earned by each student who transfers. Requires the department to prepare a report and maintain a copy of the report on the department's Internet web site. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB251 | PREVAILING WAGE. (TALLIAN K) Requires that, whenever the actual costs for the construction of a public improvement are at least $150,000, a contractor or subcontractor shall pay the workers employed in the performance of work for the construction of the public improvement a rate of wages that is not less than the prevailing wage determined by the commissioner (commissioner) of the department of labor. Requires that employer contributions for fringe benefits paid under a bona fide collective bargaining agreement be included in the prevailing wage determination unless a contractor or subcontractor is required by federal, state, or local law to provide the fringe benefit. Provides that a prevailing wage determination is conclusive for one year from the date of the determination unless the determination is superseded by a later determination. Requires that all prevailing wage determinations be publicly available. Requires that a contract or subcontract for the construction of a public improvement contain a provision stating that the contractor or subcontractor is required to pay a rate of wages that is not less than the prevailing wage, and that, if it is determined that a worker has been paid less than the prevailing wage, the public body may terminate the contract or part of the contract and continue the work with the public body's own work force or another contractor or subcontractor. Requires a contractor or subcontractor to make full payment of wages without any deductions, except for deductions required by federal or state law and deductions agreed to by the worker and approved by the contracting public body as fair and reasonable. Provides that if a contractor or subcontractor fails to provide records requested by the commissioner concerning the payment of a prevailing wage, the commissioner may direct the fiscal or financial officer of the contracting public body to withhold from payment up to 25% of the contract amount and pay the workers directly any wages and fringe benefits due and payable. Requires the commissioner to distribute to all public bodies in the state a list of persons and firms that the commissioner can determine have not paid prevailing wages and prohibits a public body from awarding a contract or subcontract to a person or firm on the list for three years after the list is published. Provides mechanisms for the commissioner, workers, or an interested body to enforce violations of the prevailing wage law. Requires a contractor or subcontractor that fails to pay prevailing wages to pay as a civil penalty 75% of the difference between the prevailing wage rate and the wages paid to the workers. Deposits the civil penalties into a prevailing wage penalty enforcement fund to be used to pay expenses incurred by the commissioner in the administration and enforcement of the prevailing wage law. Prohibits a person from requesting or demanding all or a portion of a worker's wages in exchange for employment on the construction of a public improvement. Prohibits a public body from dividing the construction of a public improvement into two or more contracts to avoid paying the prevailing wage. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB252 | MINIMUM WAGE. (TALLIAN K) Increases the state minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.62 an hour. Eliminates the tip credit in determining the minimum wage paid to a tipped employee. Makes a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB252 |
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| SB253 | STUDY OF VOLUNTARY PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE. (TALLIAN K) Urges the legislative council to assign the topic of establishing a voluntary paid family and medical leave program to the interim study committee on employment and labor or another appropriate study committee. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB253 |
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| SB259 | INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL EXPENSES. (TALLIAN K) Provides that the income tax deduction for education expenses for a dependent child is allowable for expenses made in connection with attendance at a public school. (Under current law, the tax deduction applies only to expenses made in connection with a private school program.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB265 | PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS RETIREMENT FUND. (WALKER G) Provides that the pension received by a participant in the prosecuting attorneys retirement fund (PARF) upon retirement from PARF is reduced by: (1) the actual amount of the pension the participant is receiving from the public employees' retirement fund (PERF), if the participant is receiving a pension from PERF when the participant retires from PARF; or (2) if the participant is not receiving a pension from PERF when the participant retires from PARF, the amount of the pension that the participant would be entitled to receive from PERF, if the participant were also retiring from PERF on the date the participant retires from PARF. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB269 | PROTECTIVE ORDERS AND EMPLOYMENT. (RANDOLPH L) Provides that an employer may not discriminate against an employee with respect to compensation and benefits from the employer or terms and conditions of employment based on: (1) the employee's filing a petition for a protective order, whether or not the protective order has been issued; or (2) the actions of an individual against whom the employee has filed a protective order. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB269 |
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| SB274 | LIMITS ON SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS. (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. Requires inclusion of the rationale for the use of school suspension or expulsion in the statement to a student's parent. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB276 | PREKINDERGARTEN EDUCATION. (HOLDMAN T) Provides that, after June 30, 2017, the early education grant pilot program (pilot program) includes eligible providers in any county in Indiana. Adds additional requirements for an eligible provider to participate in the pilot program. Adds additional requirements for an eligible child to qualify for or receive a grant under the pilot program. Provides that the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) may award a grant to a potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider for an expansion plan if certain requirements are met. Requires a potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider to repay to the office the total amount of the grant awarded if the potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider fails to use the grant funds in accordance with the expansion plan or in compliance with the agreement with the office. Requires the office to: (1) monitor the educational outcomes resulting from the implementation of expansion plans; and (2) annually provide the governor and legislative council a report of the findings of the office concerning the educational outcomes. Requires the office to make at least two onsite inspections of facilities of eligible providers and potential eligible providers or existing eligible providers each year. Provides that the office may determine that an eligible provider or potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider is no longer eligible under the pilot program. Requires the division of family resources to develop a provider rate reimbursement schedule that uses money appropriated by the general assembly as an incentive for providers eligible to receive voucher payments under the federal Child Care and Development fund voucher program to meet the standards of quality recognized by a Level 3 or Level 4 Paths to QUALITY program rating.
Requires the department of education to approve an early learning development framework for prekindergarten. Requires the office to apply for waivers from all applicable federal agencies to receive any federal funding for child care or prekindergarten education in one block grant to use for child care and prekindergarten programs in the state. Establishes the prekindergarten pilot program fund (fund). Allows the office to develop and implement a reimbursement program to reimburse costs incurred by parents to provide technology based, in-home early education services to a child. Allows money in the fund to be used to pay for the reimbursements. Makes an appropriation to the fund of $16,000,000 in both state fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Specifies that of the $16,000,000 appropriated in a state fiscal year, $1,000,000 of that amount must be used for reimbursement of in-home early education services. Repeals the provisions concerning the early education matching grant program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB278 | REDISTRICTING COMMISSION. (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. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the special interim study committee on redistricting.) |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB281 | BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT. (MESSMER M) Provides that a local governmental unit that wishes to be certified as a broadband ready community must establish a procedure under which the unit promotes increasing the number of subscribers to broadband services in the unit after the unit is certified as a broadband ready community. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB284 | EDUCATOR EXPENSE TAX CREDIT. (TOMES J) Provides that a teacher employed by a private school is entitled to claim a state income tax credit for teacher classroom supplies. (Currently, only public school teachers are entitled to claim the tax credit.) Specifies that a "teacher" for purposes of the tax credit is a kindergarten through grade 12 teacher. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB285 | STUDY COMMITTEE. (TOMES J) Urges the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the topic of a unit's use of law enforcement to respond to a mass traffic obstruction. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB286 | SCHOOL ASSESSMENTS AND EVALUATIONS. (FORD J) Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year, 2016-2017 school year, 2017-2018 school year, and 2018-2019 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to the school or school corporation by the state board of education for the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that, for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2016, and ending before July 1, 2020, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2013-2014 school year or the school year immediately preceding the applicable state fiscal year, whichever percentage of passing scores is greater. (The current law that applies to this calculation provides for certain limits on the grant amount.) Provides that ISTEP program test scores for the ISTEP program test taken in the 2015-2016 school year, 2016-2017 school year, 2017-2018 school year, or 2018-2019 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ISTEP program test scores would improve the particular teacher's annual performance rating. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB290 | STUDENT LOAN ASSISTANCE. (NIEZGODSKI D) Provides an annual grant award of $2,500 to assist an individual with student loan debt for each consecutive year the individual is employed full time in social work, nursing, or teaching in Indiana, not to exceed five years. Specifies that eligibility for a grant award begins on the first month of the first year that an individual is required to start repayment of a student loan, the proceeds of which were used to fund the individual's education. Makes an annual appropriation. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB298 | SCHOOL EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECKS. (ALTING R) Amends the time period by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for noncertificated employment or certificated employment. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check concerning each applicant for noncertificated employment or certificated employment before or not later than two months after the applicant's employment. (Current law requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check before or not later than three months after the applicant's employment.) |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB311 | SCHOOL PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATIONS. (BOOTS P) Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year, 2016-2017 school year, and 2017-2018 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to the school or school corporation by the state board of education for the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that, for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2016, and ending before July 1, 2019, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2013-2014 school year or the school year immediately preceding the applicable state fiscal year, whichever percentage of passing scores is greater. (The current law that applies to this calculation provides for certain limits on the grant amount.) Provides that ISTEP program test scores for the ISTEP program test taken in the 2015-2016 school year, 2016-2017 school year, or 2017-2018 school year may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee unless the use of the ISTEP program test scores would improve the particular teacher's annual performance rating. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB312 | USE OF CRIMINAL HISTORY INFORMATION IN HIRING. (BOOTS P) Provides that a political subdivision may not prohibit an employer from obtaining or using criminal history information during the hiring process to the extent allowed by federal or state law, rules, or regulations. Provides that a political subdivision may not prohibit an employer, at the time an individual makes an initial application for employment, from making an inquiry regarding the individual's criminal history information or requiring the individual to disclose criminal history information. Provides that criminal history information concerning an employee or former employee may not be introduced against an employer, an employer's agents, or an employer's employees in a civil action based on the employee's or the former employee's conduct if: (1) the criminal history information does not bear a direct relationship to the facts underlying the civil action; (2) the records of the criminal case have been sealed; (3) the criminal conviction has been reversed, vacated, or expunged; (4) the employee or former employer has received a pardon for the criminal conviction; or (5) the arrest or charge did not result in a criminal conviction. Provides that this provision does not supersede any federal or state law requirement to conduct a criminal history information background investigation or consider criminal history information in hiring for particular types of employment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB317 | STATE DISASTER RELIEF FUND APPROPRIATION. (MRVAN F) Makes an appropriation to the state disaster relief fund to provide financial assistance to eligible entities affected by lead contamination in East Chicago. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB318 | MINIMUM WAGE. (MRVAN F) Increases, after June 30, 2018, the minimum wage paid to certain employees in Indiana from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour. Provides that after June 30, 2019, 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB319 | DISCIPLINE OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. (MRVAN F) Provides that if a student with a disability is suspended or expelled for an incident in which the student causes a classroom disturbance, the student's case conference committee must be convened not later than 10 school days after the date of the incident to consider the appropriateness of an alternative placement for the student. Makes a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB325 | VOLUNTARY PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAM. (STOOPS M) Establishes the voluntary prekindergarten program. Establishes the voluntary prekindergarten program fund. Makes an appropriation from the state general fund to fund the voluntary prekindergarten program in an amount not to exceed: (1) $2,500,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017; (2) $148,000,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018; and (3) $176,000,000 for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019. Repeals provisions concerning the following: (1) The early education matching grant program. (2) The early education grant pilot program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB330 | CAREER READINESS IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE. (RUCKELSHAUS J) Establishes a career readiness improvement committee to study the state's public higher education system and the feasibility of adding a fifth year of high school for the attainment of vocational and other certificates of training for entry into the workforce. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB337 | STUDY OF ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS COURSE. (TAYLOR G) Requires each school corporation, charter school, and accredited nonpublic school to offer the study of ethnic and racial groups as a one semester elective course in its high school curriculum at least once every school year. Provides that the course may be offered through a course access program administered by the department of education. |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB349 | EXPEDITED TEACHER LICENSING FOR MILITARY SPOUSES. (GLICK S) Requires the state board of education to adopt rules, including emergency rules, that establish procedures to expedite the issuance, renewal, or reinstatement of a teacher license to a military spouse whose husband or wife is assigned to a duty station in Indiana. (Current law allows, but does not require, the state board to adopt such rules.) Requires the state board of education to promote and encourage military spouses to participate in the federal Troops to Teachers program, or a similar program approved by the department of education. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB359 | SCHOOL CONCUSSION RECOVERY GUIDELINES. (LANANE T) Requires the department of education to develop and disseminate, before July 1, 2018, guidelines to school corporations concerning suggested protocols for a student who has received a concussion or brain injury to return to classroom work. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB365 | VEHICLE BILL. (LANANE T) None |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB367 | REVOCATION OF TEACHING LICENSES. (BASSLER E) Prohibits a school from hiring persons who have been convicted of certain crimes. Adds human trafficking to the list of offenses requiring license revocation. Permits the department of education to reinstate the license of a person convicted of certain crimes if the conviction is vacated on appeal. Requires the division of state court administration to weekly transmit a list of persons convicted of specified crimes to the department of education, and requires the department of education to: (1) compare this list with the department's list of licensed employees; and (2) institute revocation proceedings if it appears that a licensed employee has been convicted of a specified offense. Provides that a presentence investigation includes gathering information with respect to whether the convicted defendant holds a teaching license or is a teacher. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB374 | PETITIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT. (DELPH M) Allows a court to issue an educational support order until a child becomes 23 years of age. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB392 | EMERGENCY MEDICATION. (STOOPS M) Defines "emergency medication" as epinephrine, albuterol, or naloxone. Allows a school or school corporation to: (1) fill a prescription for an emergency medication; and (2) store the emergency medication. (Current law allows a school to fill a prescription for auto-injectable epinephrine and store the auto-injectable epinephrine.) Defines "emergency stock medication" as emergency medication to which both the following apply: (1) The prescription of the emergency medication is filled by a school or school corporation. (2) The emergency medication is stored at a school. Provides that injectable epinephrine filled by certain entities must have an expiration date of not less than 12 months from the date that the pharmacy dispenses the injectable epinephrine. Makes conforming changes regarding: (1) administering emergency stock medication; (2) prescribing and dispensing emergency medication; and (3) certain immunity from liability concerning the administration of emergency stock medication. Defines "school" and "school nurse". Requires the department of education (department) to develop guidance materials concerning emergency medication and post a copy of the materials on the department's Internet web site. Requires a school nurse or school employee to make a report if an emergency stock medication is administered and submit the report in an electronic format to the department. |
| | Current Status: | 4/21/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB407 | EDUCATION MATTERS. (HOUCHIN E) Requires a school employer to submit a copy of the affidavit submitted by the exclusive representative indicating the number of teachers who are members of the exclusive representative to the Indiana education employment relations board (board). Requires the board to compile information included in the affidavit from each school corporation and post aggregate information on the board's Internet web site. Provides that the information posted by the board may not include any information that would identify a particular school employee. Requires the board to develop and post on its Internet web site training modules, videos, or other instructional material informing school employees of their rights to select an exclusive representative. Provides that each school year in which school employee participation in a school employee organization currently serving as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit does not represent a majority of the school employees within the unit, the board shall notify the school employees of the bargaining unit of their right to: (1) representation; and (2) the ability to change their exclusive representative. Urges the general assembly to assign certain issues relating to the federal Every Student Succeeds Act to the education interim study committee. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB409 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. (HOUCHIN E) Provides that formal collective bargaining between a school corporation and an exclusive representative may not begin before September 15. Provides that before September 15 of the first year of the state budget biennium, the department of education shall provide the parties with an estimate of the general fund revenue available for bargaining in the school corporation from the school funding formula. Provides that if the parties do not receive a certified estimate from the department of education within 30 days after the fall count of ADM, the parties may use the school corporation's estimate of the general fund revenue available based on the school corporation's fall count of ADM. Provides that when a collective bargaining agreement expires, the current contract remains in effect with no increase or increment in salary, wages, or benefits until a new contract is executed. Removes a provision that allows a school employer not to continue the current contract if continuation would place the school employer in a position of deficit financing or cause an increase in an employer's expenditures. Requires the Indiana education employment relations board to amend an administrative rule regarding dismissals of petitions for representation. Provides that a factfinder must conduct a public hearing not before November 15, and the hearing must be completed by February 15 of the calendar year after the start of formal collective bargaining. Changes the date, from March 30 to May 31, by which the Indiana education employment relations board must review collective bargaining agreements submitted by a school employer. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB422 | APPOINTED SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. (BASSLER E) Provides that, after January 10, 2021, the state superintendent of public instruction is to be appointed by the governor. Repeals a provision that a candidate for the office of state superintendent of public instruction must have resided in Indiana for at least two years. Makes conforming and technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB428 | AGE FOR COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. (TAYLOR G) Provides that a student shall enroll in a kindergarten program not later than the fall term of the school year if the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law requires that a student enroll in a kindergarten class not later than the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB430 | SCHOOL BUS EQUIPMENT. (FORD J) Provides that a school bus or special purpose bus that is purchased after January 1, 2018, and that is used to transport elementary school or high school students must be equipped with a 3-point lap and shoulder safety belt (safety belt) at each seating location. Requires the state school bus committee to adopt rules for the design, installation, and use of safety belt systems that must be installed in school buses and special purpose buses. Provides for an exception to the laws concerning other types of passenger restraint systems. Requires each occupant of a school bus or special purpose bus that has a safety belt to have the safety belt properly fastened about the occupant's body at all times when the bus is in motion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB432 | DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY DISABILITY. (MRVAN F) Requires the state board of education to amend its rule establishing developmental delay as a disability category to provide that, beginning July 1, 2018, developmental delay is a disability category solely for students who are at least three years of age and less than nine years of age. (Under current law, developmental delay is a disability category solely for students who are at least three years of age and not more than five years of age.) Adds developmental delay as a category of mild and moderate disabilities for purposes of determining special education grant amounts. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB433 | USE OF AMERICAN MATERIAL IN HIGHWAY PROJECTS. (MRVAN F) Requires that all materials used in the construction, alteration, or repair of a highway, street, alley, bridge, or other improvement relating to transportation by a state agency or a political subdivision must be manufactured or produced in the United States, subject to a statute requiring the use of American steel and foundry products in public works contracts. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB460 | GRADUATION RATE DETERMINATION. (HEAD R) Defines "alternate diploma". Makes changes to the definitions of "graduation" and "graduation rate" for purposes of calculating a school's graduation rate. Makes a change to the calculation of a school's graduation rate. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB463 | WORKER MISCLASSIFICATION ISSUES. (TALLIAN K) Requires the department of labor (DOL), the department of workforce development (DWD), the department of state revenue (DOR), and the worker's compensation board (WCB) to share information concerning instances in which a construction contractor paid a worker in cash. Establishes the payroll fraud task force (task force), consisting of the commissioners of the DOL, DWD, and DOR, and the chair of the WCB, or their designees, to investigate suspected instances of payroll fraud, employee misclassification, and violations of other state labor and employment statutes occurring on commercial and industrial construction projects. Requires the DOL to hire and assign to the task force an investigator to conduct the task force's investigation and enforcement activities. Establishes a nonreverting and annually appropriated payroll fraud task force administrative fund to carry out the administrative purposes and functions of the task force. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB464 | TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES. (TALLIAN K) Requires that the primary motor vehicle liability insurance coverage for a transportation network company (TNC) driver who is logged on to the TNC's digital network, but is not engaged in a prearranged ride, includes at least $50,000 per incident medical payments. Describes the relationship between a TNC and a TNC driver for minimum wage and overtime, worker's compensation and occupational diseases compensation, unemployment compensation, and other benefits to an individual based on an employer-employee relationship. Requires a TNC to: (1) maintain records of all amounts paid to its TNC drivers; (2) withhold from amounts paid to a TNC driver all federal and state income taxes due as if the TNC driver were an employee of the TNC; and (3) comply with the federal and state income tax laws that apply to the employment relationship as if the TNC were the employer of a TNC driver. Allows an individual TNC driver or a group of TNC drivers to organize into a labor organization or as an association to bargain with a TNC regarding fees, rates, insurance coverage, and other terms and conditions of the TNC-TNC driver relationship. Allows a TNC, or a group of TNC's, to create a pool of TNC drivers in order to provide or administer benefits, such as insurance and health care, without creating a presumption that an employer-employee relationship exists. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB471 | SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRANTS AND EVALUATIONS. (BECKER V) Provides that, for a state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results must be calculated using the higher of: (1) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2013-2014 school year; or (2) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2015-2016 school year. (The current law that applies to this calculation provides for certain limits on the grant amount.) Provides that ISTEP program test scores from the ISTEP program test taken in the spring of 2016 may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a particular certificated employee, unless the use of the ISTEP program test scores would improve the particular certificated employee's annual performance rating. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB475 | DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY. (MELTON E) Requires the state board of education to amend its rule establishing developmental delay as a disability category to provide that, beginning July 1, 2018, developmental delay is a disability category solely for students who are at least three years of age and less than nine years of age. (Currently, developmental delay is a disability category solely for students who are at least three years of age and not more than five years of age.) Adds developmental delay as a category for mild and moderate disabilities for purposes of determining special education grant amounts. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB498 | TEACHER COMPENSATION. (RAATZ J) Provides that certain factors may account for not more than 33.33% (instead of 33%) of the calculation used to determine a teacher's increase or increment in salary. Amends the factor concerning additional content area degrees and credit hours in determining a teacher's increase or increment in salary. Requires the department of education to grant an application to add an additional content area or areas to a valid Indiana teaching license if certain conditions apply. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB498 |
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| SB503 | TEACHER EVALUATIONS AND SCHOOL PERFORMANCE. (LEISING J) Provides that, for a state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, and ending June 30, 2017, the amount that a school corporation may receive as part of a performance grant relating to test results shall be calculated using the higher of: (1) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2013-2014 school year; or (2) the percentage of passing scores on ISTEP program tests for the school for the 2015-2016 school year. Specifies that if a school's performance grant is calculated using the percentage of passing ISTEP scores from the 2013-2014 school year, the grant amount may not exceed (with certain exceptions) the grant amount that the school received for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, and ending June 30, 2015. Provides that a school corporation shall distribute all stipends from a performance grant to individual teachers within 20 business days of the date the department of education distributes the performance grant to the school corporation. Provides that ISTEP program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement for the 2015-2016 school year, based on the ISTEP program test taken in the spring of 2016, may not be used by a school corporation as part of an annual performance evaluation of a certificated employee unless the use of the ISTEP program test scores or a school's category or designation of school improvement would improve the certificated employee's annual performance rating. Provides that a school's or school corporation's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year may not be lower than the grade assigned to the school or school corporation by the state board of education for the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that for purposes of determining whether a choice scholarship school has become newly eligible for consequences based on the school's category or designation of performance for the 2015-2016 school year, the department of education may not apply the consequences unless the school is placed in the lowest category or designation for the 2015-2016 school year. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB504 | PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS. (LEISING J) Requires that educational service centers provide services to a participating charter or certain nonpublic schools upon the request of the charter school. (This is in addition to current law that requires educational service centers to provide services to a participating school corporation upon request of the school corporation.) Allows charter schools or certain nonpublic school individually, in collaboration with other school corporations, charter schools, nonpublic schools or school corporations and charter schools or nonpublic schools acting jointly, and through the educational services centers, to undertake action to reduce noninstructional expenditures and allocate the resulting savings to student instruction and learning. Makes conforming changes to include charter schools and certain nonpublic schools in the actions that may be undertaken. |
| | Current Status: | 4/21/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| SB506 | SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAMMING. (HEAD R) Requires the division of mental health and addiction to: (1) develop a statewide program for suicide prevention; and (2) employ a coordinator of the statewide program for suicide prevention. Requires the coordinator to study and determine: (1) the professions that should be required to receive training on suicide assessment, treatment, and management; and (2) the manner in which to fund the training. Requires the coordinator to report the determinations to the legislative council not later than December 31, 2017. Requires emergency medical services providers to complete an evidence based training program concerning suicide assessment, treatment, and management. Requires a school corporation to adopt a policy addressing measures intended to increase child suicide awareness and sets forth requirements of policy. Requires approved postsecondary educational institutions to adopt a policy concerning suicide information and resources. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by House 3rd reading deadline for Senate bills (Rule 148.1)
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| SB513 | DRUG TESTING OF HOME HEALTH CARE EMPLOYEES. (HERSHMAN B) Requires home health agencies to drug test job applicants and employees who come in direct contact with patients. Exempts from drug testing certain licensed home health employees employed by a home health agency. Requires random drug testing of at least 50% of certain home health agency employees to occur at least annually. Allows for random drug testing upon reasonable suspicion of illegal controlled substance use. Requires verification of a positive drug test, and requires the employee to pay for the verification test. Specifies that, unless an employee has a valid prescription for the substance for which the employee tests positive on a drug test, a home health agency shall either discharge an employee or suspend an employee from direct contact with patients for at least six months if the drug test is positive. Specifies that a home health agency that discharges or suspends an employee or refuses to hire a job applicant because of a positive drug test is considered to have discharged, suspended, or refused to hire for just cause. Provides that a home health agency, when acting in good faith and in compliance with state law, is immune from civil liability for conducting employee drug testing or taking an employee disciplinary action or discharging an employee as the result of employee drug testing. Provides that immunity does not apply to actions that constitute gross negligence or wanton misconduct. |
| | Current Status: | 4/21/2017 - DEAD BILL - Fails to pass by close of 2017 session
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| SB534 | SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNT PROGRAM. (RAATZ J) Establishes the Indiana special education scholarship account program (program). Requires the treasurer of state to administer the program. Establishes: (1) the special education scholarship account fund (fund); and (2) requirements and conditions for the program. Requires the department of education (department) to, on or before May 1 and January 1 of each year, provide the treasurer of state a list of the names of students with disabilities who require special education and for whom an individualized education program has been developed. Provides that any grant amount distributed to a taxpayer's Indiana special education scholarship account and used for qualified expenses under the program is not included in adjusted gross income for state income tax purposes. Provides that money transferred from a student's Indiana special education scholarship account to the student's college choice 529 education savings plan is not included as a contribution for purposes of a credit against a taxpayer's adjusted gross income tax. Requires the treasurer of state to: (1) annually request a parent of an eligible student or an emancipated eligible student who is participating in the program to complete a written survey; and (2) annually provide a summary of the survey to the governor and the legislative council. Continuously appropriates money from the fund and the accounts established within the fund for the purposes of the program. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB536 | STUDENT ASSESSMENTS. (DELPH M) Replaces the ISTEP test program with an assessment program using the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills or the Iowa Tests of Educational Development, as appropriate for the grade level being tested. Repeals a statute establishing the ISTEP program citizens' review committee. Repeals a provision defining the ISTEP program. Repeals an expiration provision. Makes conforming amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB557 | CHARTER SCHOOLS IN GARY. (MELTON E) Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2022, an authorizer from granting to an organizer a charter to operate a charter school that is or will be located in the city of Gary unless the Gary Community School Corporation has no outstanding loans or advances from the common school fund. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| SB564 | GARY SCHOOLS. (MELTON E) Provides that the following apply to the Gary Community School Corporation: (1) The governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation shall appoint a superintendent for academics and a chief operating officer. Specifies the powers and duties of these individuals. (2) The fiscal management board is established, consisting of one member appointed by the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation, one member appointed by the mayor of the city of Gary, and one member appointed by the superintendent of public instruction. Provides that members of the fiscal management board must have experience in finance and financial management. Specifies that the fiscal management board shall appoint a fiscal manger, and provides that the fiscal manager must possess, through both education and experience, an understanding of finance and financial management, and must possess any other experience and must meet any other requirements as required by the fiscal management board to ensure that the fiscal manager is qualified to carry out the financial restructuring of the school corporation. Provides that the fiscal management board, rather than the governing body: (1) has the fiscal powers and duties of the school corporation; and (2) has the powers and duties of the school corporation concerning specified operational functions and joint programs. Provides that the fiscal manager and the chief operating officer shall report to the fiscal management board and shall carry out the fiscal management board's powers and duties under the direction of and as specified by the fiscal management board. Specifies that after June 30, 2017, and before July 1, 2019, the compensation of the fiscal manager shall be paid by the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB). Specifies that the fiscal manager and the chief operating officer serve at the pleasure of the fiscal management board. Requires the DUAB to: (1) work jointly with the city of Gary and the fiscal manager to develop a financial plan for the school corporation; (2) provide information and technical assistance; and (3) assist the Gary Community School Corporation in obtaining assistance from state agencies and other resources. Authorizes the DUAB to do the following: (1) Delay or suspend any payments of principal or interest, or both, that would otherwise be due from the Gary Community School Corporation on loans or advances from the common school fund. (2) Forgive any payments of principal or interest, or both, that would otherwise be due from the Gary Community School Corporation on loans or advances from the common school fund. (3) Recommend to the state board of finance that the state board of finance make an interest free loan to the Gary Community School Corporation from the common school fund. (4) Establish benchmarks of financial improvement for the school corporation and provide a grant or grants to the school corporation, if the school corporation meets one or more of the benchmarks. Specifies that if the fiscal manager, the chief operating officer, or a member of the fiscal management board is made a party to a civil suit, the attorney general shall defend the officer or board member throughout the action. Requires the fiscal management board to do the following: (1) Attempt to negotiate with the creditors of the school corporation to establish a plan specifying the schedule for paying each creditor. (2) Submit the plan to the DUAB for approval. Specifies that the annual budget adopted by the fiscal management board for the school corporation must dedicate a significant part of the school corporation's budget to eliminating the school corporation's debt obligations. Requires the fiscal management board to do the following: (1) Attempt to negotiate with the creditors of the school corporation to establish a plan specifying the schedule for paying each creditor. (2) Submit the plan to the DUAB for approval. Provides that the fiscal management board must consult with the governing body in developing the school corporation's annual budget, and that the DUAB must review and approve the school corporation's annual budget. Requires the governing body of the Gary Community School Corporation to develop an education plan to achieve academic progress. Specifies certain components that must be included within the plan. Requires the fiscal manager to report quarterly to the DUAB in a format specified by the DUAB. Provides that the report must include: (1) information concerning the status of certain indicators of fiscal health; (2) information concerning the actions that the school corporation is taking to improve the financial condition of the school corporation; and (3) any other information required by the DUAB. Requires the fiscal manager to report more frequently than quarterly if requested by the DUAB and to provide copies of the report to the governing body, the fiscal management board, the mayor of the city of Gary, the budget committee, and the legislative council. Requires the school corporation to publish a copy of each report on the school corporation's Internet web site, along with a link to the Indiana transparency Internet web site established to provide access to financial data for local schools. Requires the school corporation: (1) to make copies of the report available free of charge to the public upon request at each school building operated by the school corporation; and (2) to provide copies of the report to the city of Gary to be made available free of charge to the public upon request. Requires the governing body to report annually concerning the school corporation's academic and financial progress and academic and financial condition at a public meeting of the city council. Specifies that the school corporation remains subject to all of these requirements until the earlier of the following: (1) July 1, 2022. (2) The date specified in a resolution adopted by the DUAB in which the DUAB terminates the school corporation's status of being subject to the requirements, after finding that significant improvements have been made to the financial condition of the school corporation and it is in the best interest of students, the school corporation, citizens, and the state to terminate the school corporation's status of being subject to the requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB564 |
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| SB567 | DISTRESSED AND FISCALLY IMPAIRED POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (KENLEY L) Changes the membership of the distressed unit appeal board (DUAB) by replacing the voting member who is appointed by the chairperson of the legislative council with a member appointed by the governor and adding three nonvoting legislative members. Adds to and modifies the duties and powers of the DUAB. Designates the Gary Community School Corporation as a distressed political subdivision. Specifies the powers and duties of the emergency manager appointed for the Gary Community School Corporation. Establishes the fiscal management board for the Gary Community School Corporation, and provides that the fiscal management board shall make recommendations to the emergency manager and shall advise the emergency manager as requested by the emergency manager. Requires the emergency manager for the Gary Community School Corporation to employ a chief financial officer and chief academic officer for the school corporation. Specifies that the chief financial officer shall report to the emergency manager and shall assist the emergency manager and the fiscal management board in carrying out the day to day financial operations of the school corporation. Specifies that the chief academic officer shall report to the emergency manager and shall assist the emergency manager and the fiscal management board in carrying out the academic matters of the school corporation. Authorizes the DUAB to do the following concerning the Gary Community School Corporation: (1) Delay or suspend any payments of principal or interest, or both, that would otherwise be due from the school corporation on loans or advances from the common school fund. (2) Recommend to the state board of finance that the state board of finance make an interest free loan to the school corporation from the common school fund. (3) Establish benchmarks of financial improvement. (4) Provide grants to the school corporation, from funds appropriated to the DUAB, to assist the school corporation in overcoming short term financial problems. (5) Make a recommendation to the general assembly concerning the possible restructuring of advances made to the school corporation from the common school fund, including forgiveness of principal and interest on those advances. Requires the emergency manager to do the following: (1) Attempt to negotiate with the creditors of the school corporation to establish a plan specifying the schedule for paying each creditor. (2) Submit the plan to the DUAB for approval. Provides that the emergency manager must consult with the governing body of the school corporation, the fiscal management board, and the mayor of the city of Gary in developing the school corporation's annual budget, and that the DUAB must review and approve the school corporation's annual budget. Provides that the annual budget adopted by the emergency manager for the school corporation must dedicate a significant part of the school corporation's budget to eliminating the school corporation's debt obligations. Requires the emergency manager appointed for the Gary Community School Corporation to provide written notice to the mayor of the city of Gary at least 30 days before selling assets or transferring property, and specifies that if the mayor notifies the emergency manager of any concerns or objections regarding the proposed sale or transfer, the emergency manager must confer with the mayor regarding those concerns or objections. Provides that during the period after the effective date of the bill and before an emergency manager is appointed: (1) the financial specialist appointed for the Gary Community School Corporation may identify and implement labor force reductions, including contract cancellations due to a reduction in force; and (2) the governing body may not enter into or renew any contract unless that contract or contract renewal is first approved by the DUAB. Designates the Muncie Community Schools as a fiscally impaired school corporation. Specifies that the Muncie Community Schools' designation as a fiscally impaired school corporation is not a designation as a distressed political subdivision, and provides that the school corporation's designation as a fiscally impaired school corporation terminates on January 1, 2018. Requires the DUAB to appoint an emergency manager for the school corporation. Provides that the DUAB may immediately appoint the superintendent of the school corporation as the emergency manager for the school corporation on a temporary basis, and that this temporary appointment may continue for not more than six months. Provides that notwithstanding the powers, authority, and responsibilities otherwise granted to an emergency manager under the distressed political subdivision law, the emergency manager appointed for the Muncie Community Schools has only certain specified powers and duties while the school corporation is designated as a fiscally impaired school corporation. Provides that the emergency manager may on behalf of the school corporation negotiate and enter into labor contracts and collective bargaining agreements. Requires the emergency manager for the Muncie Community Schools to take actions necessary to implement a deficit reduction plan. Requires the DUAB to hold a public hearing not later than December 1, 2017, to determine if the school corporation should be designated as a distressed political subdivision effective January 1, 2018. Provides that after holding the public hearing, the DUAB shall either: (1) adopt a resolution providing that the school corporation will not be designated as a distressed political subdivision (if the DUAB makes certain findings); or (2) adopt a resolution designating the school corporation as a distressed political subdivision effective January 1, 2018. Provides that if the DUAB adopts a resolution designating the school corporation as a distressed political subdivision, the emergency manager shall, effective January 1, 2018, assume and exercise all of the powers, authority, and responsibilities granted to emergency managers under the distressed political subdivision statutes. Authorizes the treasurer of state to file a petition with the DUAB to have a school corporation designated as a distressed unit if the treasurer of state has reason to believe that the school corporation will not be able to pay the school corporation's debt service obligations as those debt service obligations become due. Requires notice to the Indiana education employment relations board (EERB) when a school corporation is designated as distressed. Replaces and adds conditions for terminating a political subdivision's distressed status. Adds, removes, modifies, and rearranges the duties and powers of an emergency manager regarding all political subdivisions and makes certain changes with regard to distressed school corporations. Provides a procedure for residents who want to appeal a decision of an emergency manager. Specifies that if a member of the fiscal management board is made a party to a civil suit, the attorney general is required to defend the fiscal management board member. Specifies for purposes of a claim against a governmental entity that a member of the fiscal management board, the emergency manager, chief financial officer, or chief academic officer is acting on behalf of the distressed political subdivision and not the state. Provides civil immunity for these individuals with respect to an act or omission made in the course and scope of duties prescribed by the DUAB. A |
| | Current Status: | 4/28/2017 - Signed by the Governor
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| | State Bill Page: | SB567 |
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| SB570 | CDC YOUTH RISK BEHAVIORS SURVEY. (BREAUX J) Requires each school corporation and charter school to annually administer to students in grades 6 through 12 the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Youth Risk Behaviors Survey. |
| | Current Status: | 2/28/2017 - DEAD BILL; Fails to advance by Senate 3rd reading deadline (Rule 79(a))
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| | State Bill Page: | SB570 |
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| SR17 | URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO SUPPORT TEACHERS WHO TEACH A DIVERSE CURRICULUM. (RAATZ J) A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Department of Education to reinforce support of teachers who choose to teach a diverse curriculum. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2017 - Second reading adopted
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| | State Bill Page: | SR17 |
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