SR0041 - Recognizing Youth Council members.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Fady Qaddoura
Last updated 8 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Recognizing Youth Council members. A SENATE RESOLUTION to recognize Youth Council members Katie Bolduc, Evelyn Kemp, and Alina Jaradat.
STATUS
Passed
SB0001 - Reading skills.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Linda Rogers, Jeff Raatz, Brian Buchanan
Last updated 8 months ago36 Co-Sponsors
Reading skills. Provides that the department of education (department) may grant certain individuals a waiver that provides an exception to the literacy endorsement requirements if the department submits a report to the legislative council by a specified date. Requires certain schools, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, to offer summer school courses for students who are not reading proficient or are at risk of not being reading proficient as indicated on the determinant evaluation of reading skills approved by the state board of education (evaluation). Expands eligibility for funding for summer school courses. Requires certain summer school courses to be taught by a teacher, instructor, or tutor who is trained in the science of reading. Provides that if a student does not achieve a 90% attendance rate in a summer reading course, the student is required to participate in an individual reading plan in the following school year. Requires the department of education to procure a universal screening assessment (assessment) that meets certain criteria. Requires certain schools to administer the assessment to students in kindergarten through grade 2 who are not on track for reading proficiency by grade 3 as determined by the department. Requires the state board of education to establish a method for virtual administration of the ILEARN statewide assessment. Provides that a vendor must supply a student's assessment results to the student and the student's parents. Applies the reading deficiency remediation plan (plan) to public schools, charter schools, state accredited nonpublic schools, and eligible schools. Makes the following changes to the plan: (1) Beginning with evaluations administered in the 2024-2025 school year, requires retention of a student in grade 3 in addition to remediation if the student has not achieved a passing score on the evaluation. (2) Requires schools to notify a student's parent of certain assessment results, interventions, or remedial actions provided to the student. (3) Requires schools to monitor the progress of students who have failed to achieve a passing score on the evaluation or the statewide assessment program test. (4) Requires schools to provide reading instruction aligned with the science of reading to all students in kindergarten through grade 8. (5) Requires schools to administer the evaluation to students who are in grade 2. (6) Requires a student to take the evaluation until certain conditions are met. (7) Requires school reporting on interventions for certain students at risk of not being reading proficient and for certain students who do not a achieve a valid passing score on the determinant evaluation of reading skills. Creates exceptions to the grade 3 retention requirement for a student who meets certain criteria. Requires the governing body of a school to establish a procedure allowing a parent or guardian of a student to appeal the student's retention under the plan. Requires the department to notify the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in kindergarten of the retention requirements under the plan.
STATUS
Passed
SB0178 - Hospital assessment fee.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Blake Doriot, Ed Charbonneau, Tyler Johnson
Last updated 10 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Hospital assessment fee. Provides that a physician owned hospital that is ineligible to receive certain Medicaid or Medicare reimbursement is not considered to be a hospital for purposes of the hospital assessment fee.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0224 - School funding.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Fady Qaddoura
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
School funding. Increases the income cap of a family, from 150% to 185% of the federal poverty level, that may participate in the On My Way prekindergarten program. Increases the maximum grant amount under the prekindergarten program from $6,800 to $10,000. Provides that a child who is otherwise eligible for participation in the federal CCDF voucher program may continue to participate unless the child's family income exceeds 185% of the federal income poverty level. Provides that, beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Requires the department of education (department) and the office of the secretary of family and social services to adopt procedures to simplify and streamline the certification process for establishing early childhood education programs within existing school districts. Limits the number of choice scholarships that may be awarded for the 2024-2025 school year. Appropriates $300,000,000 of additional funding to traditional public schools under the funding formula to address inflation and support teacher pay increases. Appropriates $100,000,000 to the department for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to be used to provide early intervention grants to local school corporations under an early intervention program to be administered by the department. Appropriates $100,000,000 to the prekindergarten program fund for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to be used to fund the increase in the income cap and the increase in the grant amount under the prekindergarten program. Appropriates $100,000,000 to the office of the secretary of family and social services for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to be used to fund the expansion of the CCDF voucher program. Appropriates $50,000,000 to the department for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year from the state general fund to be used by the department to distribute supplemental funding to school corporations to be used for the employment or retention of school counselors in the school corporation. Appropriates $25,000,000 to the department for the 2024-2025 state fiscal year to eliminate the funding gap and provide full reimbursement for the actual costs to schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost. Requires the state comptroller to transfer to the state general fund from the total appropriated amounts made to the Indiana economic development corporation in the 2023 state budget bill and that remain unencumbered on the effective date of the bill, $150,000,000 first to be transferred from unencumbered amounts in the deal closing fund, and if the unencumbered amounts in that fund are insufficient, then from unencumbered amounts in the corporation's land acquisition fund or account, and if those two transfers are insufficient, then from any other fund administered by the Indiana economic development corporation to which money was appropriated. Repeals a $380,000,000 portion of the total appropriations made to the department of correction in the both the 2021 and 2023 state budget bills for correctional facility upgrades and requires that amount to be deposited in the state general fund and used to fund the appropriations made in this bill. Makes conforming amendments.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0016 - Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Mike Bohacek, Ronnie J. Alting, Lonnie Marcus Randolph
Last updated 8 months ago5 Co-Sponsors
Guardians ad litem in adoption pilot program. Establishes a guardian ad litem pilot program in LaPorte County, Marshall County, and Starke County. Requires a court to appoint a guardian ad litem in an adoption proceeding if a parent of the child has an intellectual disability and is subject to a guardianship.
STATUS
Passed
SB0152 - Unemployment compensation.
Indiana - 2024 Regular Session
Last updated 10 months ago0 Co-Sponsors
Unemployment compensation. Reduces the maximum amount of regular unemployment benefits to 14 times the individual's weekly benefit. (Under current law, the maximum amount of regular unemployment benefits is 26 times the individual's weekly benefit or 28% of the individual's wage credits, whichever is less.) Provides for additional benefits in an amount not to exceed two times the individual's weekly benefit if the individual meets certain conditions. Removes outdated provisions. Makes conforming changes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0118 - Vehicle Bill.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Greg Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Vehicle Bill. None
STATUS
Introduced
SB0112 - Vehicle Bill.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Greg Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Vehicle Bill. None
STATUS
Introduced
SB0092 - Vehicle Bill.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Rodric D. Bray
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Vehicle Bill. None
STATUS
Introduced
SB0195 - Age for compulsory school attendance.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Greg Taylor
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Age for compulsory school attendance. Provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student is five years of age on August 1 of that school year. (Current law provides that a student is bound by compulsory school attendance requirements from the beginning of the fall school term for the school year in which the student becomes seven years of age.) Makes conforming amendments.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0164 - Federally qualified health center reimbursement.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ed Charbonneau
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Federally qualified health center reimbursement. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to allow a federally qualified health center to elect for a separate reimbursement for pharmacy costs by removing pharmacy costs from the facility specific prospective payment system rate.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0078 - Vehicle Bill.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Rodric D. Bray
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Vehicle Bill. None
STATUS
Introduced
SB0250 - Union County food and beverage tax.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jeff Raatz
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Union County food and beverage tax. Authorizes Union County to impose a food and beverage tax.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0071 - Vehicle Bill.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Rodric D. Bray
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Vehicle Bill. None
STATUS
Introduced
SB0191 - Transparency and freedom of expression.
Indiana - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Tyler Johnson
Last updated 10 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Transparency and freedom of expression. Establishes restrictions on a state educational institution (institution) in regard to the following: (1) A student's or employee's ideological or political viewpoints or refusal to support or endorse one or more divisive concepts. (2) Requiring a student to submit or affirm a personal diversity statement. (3) Conducting any mandatory training that includes divisive concepts or taking other specified actions related to divisive concepts. (4) Exhibiting bias against or favoritism for certain individuals or groups of individuals. (5) Requiring a student group to pay fees or security deposits that are not charged to all other student groups or denying a student group access to institution property that is routinely used by other student groups. Establishes requirements for institutions regarding the following: (1) Maintaining and posting reports of violations submitted by students or employees on the institution's website. (2) Informing students and employees regarding certain restrictions and requirements to which the institution is subject and to the definition of divisive concept. (3) Conducting, posting the results of, and submitting a report to the legislative council regarding a biennial survey. (4) Posting a current syllabus for each course offered in the current semester at the institution on the institution's website. (5) Submitting the following: (A) Certain reports to the institution's chief executive officer. (B) Certain reports to the commission for higher education (commission). Provides that a student or employee of an institution who believes that an institution has violated certain restrictions on institutions may file a report of the alleged violation with the institution. Establishes requirements regarding individuals employed by an institution whose primary or secondary job duties or job title includes diversity, equity, or inclusion. Allows and requires the commission to adopt rules.
STATUS
Introduced
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