| SB82 Senator Craycraft - Rules and Legislative Procedure. |
Extends eligibility for a diploma to veterans of Korea or Vietnam who left school to serve. |
| SB103 Senator Long - Education and Career Development |
Requires a full-time attendance officer for every school corporation. Authorizes two corporations or more to go together if the corporations enroll less than 1,500 students each. Requires that the position have no other duties and excludes the superintendent from being designated as the attendance officer. |
| SB112 Senator R. Meeks - Education and Career Development |
Requires that academic honors diploma awards be used for that particular program or for a program for gifted and talented. |
| SB129 Senator Craycraft - Pensions and Labor |
Extends from 18 to 36 months the time a veteran has to reenroll in TRF after military service. |
| SB155 Senator Lubbers - Education and Labor |
Mandates corporations to take an information pupil count in January of 2006, 2007, and 2008 using the same method as for the current ADM. The informational count is to include a comparison with the current ADM. It is also to report any withdrawls since the current ADM was established along with the reason, the number of suspensions and expulsions, the number and types of alternative programs provided or offered to suspended or expelled students, and the number of tuition transfer students accepted after the date of the current ADM. |
| SB167 Senator Alting - Education and Career Development |
Permits a school corporation to collect referendum signatures on school grounds. |
| SB177 Senators Dillon and Miller - Health and Provider Services |
Requires corporations to track and report each student's height, weight, ethnicity, age, and sex. Data cannot be reported in a way that makes students identifiable. |
| SB194 Senator Kenley - Education and Career Development |
Covers any statutory or locally-created committees. Provides that where committee membership is bargained, the percentage of teachers on a committee cannot exceed the percentage of teachers who are members of the bargaining agent. |
| SB199 Senator Lubbers - Rules and Regulations |
Provides for governor to appoint state superintendent effective January 11, 2009 and gives the governor the power to fix the salary. |
| SB200 Senator Lubbers - Education and Career Development |
Makes Core 40 the curriculum for all students effective with the graduating class in 2008-09. Permits the parent to have the student move from Core 40 to the general curriculum. Provides that the parent of a student starting Core 40 and failing three required courses or receiving a score in the tenth percentile or lower the first time the student takes the GQE can, after meeting with the counselor, decide if the student will be best served by staying in Core 40 or moving to the general curriculum. |
| SB231 Senator Lubbers - Education and Career Development |
Advances the kindergarten starting age to August 1 in 06-07 and to September 1 in 07-08. |
| SB256 Senator Lubbers - Education and Career Development |
Moves ISTEP testing from fall to spring. Bill is effective July 1, 2005 |
| SB257 Senator Kenley - Education and Career Development |
Requires schools to report student suspensions. Specifics 10 reasons and requires that the reason be given. Authorize voluntary agreements between a corporation and a juvenile court whereby the court may supervise or order the supervision of a suspended student; requires the corporation and the court to determine how the costs of supervising the expended student will be paid; allows the corporation to disclose to a court the education records of a student suspended or expelled; and raises the age of mandatory school attendance to 18. |
| SB258 Senator Kenley - Insurance and Financial Institutions |
Permits corporations to enter into interlocal agreements for the purchase of insurance and for the creation of risk management programs. |
| SB276 Senator Craycraft - Education and Career Development |
Amends the current collective bargaining bill repealing current provisions for mediation, fact finding, and collective bargaining. Specifics subjects that may be bargained and adds final-offer employees, and repeals prohibition against strikes. |
| SB281 Senator Kenley - Education and Career Development |
Establishes a public elementary and secondary school transfer program. Permits the DOE to grant a parent a transfer for a student to another school in the corporation or in another corporation. Does not require the receiving corporation to accept the student. Allocates funds to pay for transfer tuition and makes parent responsible for transportation. Gives a parent the right corporations to enter into interlocal agreements regarding transfers. |
| SB284 Senator Zakas - Education and Career Development |
Provides that leases for facilities may be approved without a feasibility study or public hearing in cases where leasing is in lieu of construction and issuing of bonds. |
| SB284 Senators Wyss, Lubbers, Rogers, and Sipes - Education and Career Development |
Requires corporations to adopt a rule to prohibit bullying. Defines bullying and permits the use of safe school funds to provide for training of personnel.
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| SB289 Senator Mrvan - Education and Career Development |
Provides that a charter school have its budget approved by the governing body in the corporation in which the school is located.
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| SB291 Senator Breaux - Education and Career Development |
Requires corporations to establish a full-day kindergarten or a combination full-day, half-day program with parents choosing the program they want their children to attend. |
| SB301 Senator Clark - Education and Career Development |
Requires state board to adopt standards for cheerleading safety. |
| SB309 Senator Lubbers - Education and Career Development |
Indicates that a principal must send a certified letter to the last-known address of a student who cannot be found. Where the student is not located, the principal can request the help of the state attendance officer who is then required to try to find the student. Provides that students that cannot be found are to count as dropouts. Sets up a procedure whereby the Department is to aggressively pursue situations where students are lost and not counted. |
| SB312 Senator Antich and Senator Carr - Education and Career Development |
Permits student to request a transfer to another corporation based on school proximity. |
| SB332 Senator R.M. Young - Education and Career Development |
Requires the display of the American flag in each classroom, the opportunity for each student to recite the pledge of allegiance, and a moment of silence to be used as the student chooses. Requires the attorney general to defend civil suits brought for complying with this provision. |
| SB370 Senator Kenley - Education and Career Development |
Provides that a contract with an architect/engineer must state that the plans are the joint property of the architect/engineer and the school corporation, include an agreement by the architect/engineer that the plans will be filed with the office of the state building commissioner for use by any corporation witout further compensation, and requires the state building commissioner to make the plans available. |
| SB372 Senator Kenley - Education and Career Development |
Provides that a transfer request not acted upon in 30 days is automatically approved. Also provides that a student placed in a home, facility, or institution can attend school in the corporation in which located with the state paying tuition where no one else is responsible. |
| SB380 Senator Ford - Education and Career Development |
Establishes an E-Scholarship Fun to be available to students enrolled in grade 9 with the intent of providing computer and internet access. Program is open to a student previously determined to be a 21st Century Scholar and currently a member of the web academy. |
| SB385 Senator Meeks - Education and Career Development |
States that the school year cannot start before August 31 and must end before June 2. |
| SB400 Senator Clark - Corrections, Criminal and Civil Matters |
Makes assault on a sports official a Class A misdemeanor, Class D felony if bodily injury occurs. |
| HB450 Senator Sipes - Education and Career Development |
Requires that a school corporation submit a plan for improving coordination with the courts and law enforcement agencies on school discipline. |
| HB1047 Representative Kersey - Education Committee |
Requires corporation to include a holocaust study in the high school social studies curriculum. |
| HB1048 Representative Kersey - Public Policy and Veterans Affairs |
Gives four years of credit in TRF for military service of at least 10 years. |
| HB1072 Representative Robertson - Employment and Labor |
Provides cost-of-living increases of 1%, 2%, or 3% for TRF members based on service years. |
| HB1079 Representative Mays - Ways and Means |
Authorizes transfer of up to 4% of capital projects fund to general fund in '06 and '07. Repeals the expired authority to transfer from the capital projects, transportation, and debt service funds. |
| HB1086 Representative Lutz - Enviroment |
Prohibits solid waste landfill boundary within 2,640 feet of a school. |
| HB1095 Representative Ripley - Education Committee |
ALlows two or more corporations to purchase insurance jointly. |
| HB1128 Representative Harris - Education Committee |
Allows corporations to transfer money among funds without restriction. |
| HB1162 Representative Cherry - Ways and Means |
Prohibits entering into a debt obligation of more than 10% of the latest adjusted taxable value or the property. |
| HB1166 Representatives Ortenlicher and Budak - Education Committee |
Prohibits use of corporal punishment. |
| HB1170 Representative Hinkle - Public Safety and Homeland Security |
Permits corporations to establish a police force with officers having full police powers. Requires that an officer have attended the law enforcement academy. |
| HB1171 Representative Hinkle - Education Committee |
Requires DOE to develop guidelines and state board to adopt standards for cheerleader safety. |
| HB1198 Representative Thompson - Education Committee |
Identical to SB257. |
| HB1209 Representative Goodin - Education Committee |
Grants immunity for reasonable use of corporal punishment. |
| HB1235 Representatives Buell, Klinker, Hinkle, and Kersey - Employment and Labor |
Increases exempt earnings for TRF retirees from $25,00 to $45,000. |
| HB1264 Representatives Pond and Klinker - Education Committee |
Allows first two-instructional days for kindergarten to be orientation days. |
| HB1275 Representative Lehe - Education
| Instruction may not start, as of 2007, more than a wekk before the first Monday in September. |
| HB1278 Representative Pond - Education |
Identical to SB256 in moving ISTEP testing to the spring. |
| HB1305 Representative Borror - Employment and Labor |
Exempts school corporations from the prevailing wage law while providing for an interim study committee to study the impact of the law. |
| HB1314 Representatives Boehning and Frizell - Education |
Eliminates the requirement that a superintendent approve the enrollment of a high school student in a post-secondary program. (Covers such enrollment without a diploma.) |
| HB1319 Representative Cherry - Education |
Provides for a referendum to replace the petition and remonstrance process on projects exceeding 10% of the corporation's assessed valuation. |
| HB1343 Representatives Becker, Friend, C. Brown, Budak - Education |
Requires the creation of a child nutrition and physical activity advisory committee, requires physical activity in each elementary school daily, and limits the beverages and foods that can be sold in vending machines during school hours, Exempts school vending contracts signed before May 15, 2005. |
| HB1352 Representatives C. Brown, Becker, Porter, Ruppel - Education |
Identical to SB177 |
| HB1353 Representatives C. Brown, and V. Smith - Education |
Requires a 2/3rds vote for an employee contract of more than three years in those cases where over half of the board membership could change within three months. |
| HB1378 Representatives Klinker and Micon - Education |
Allows school corporation in a 3rd class city to levy up to $.005 on each $100 of assessed valuation for recreational facilities that will serve students and adults. |
| HB1394 Representative Stutzman - Education |
Allows a TRF member to change beneficiaries in certain situations involving a divorce. |
| HB1417 Representative Welch - Education |
Provides for a free textbook program while eliminating the textbook rental program. |
| HB1419 Representative Woodruff and J. Smith - Employment and Labor |
Identical to SB |
| HB1426 Representative Turner - Education |
Provides for school readiness reimbursement grants of $1,000 to a parent of a child that did not attend public school kindergarten, has not been enrolled in a public school for more than 30 days, and has a child who is assessed as ready for the first grade. |
| HB1427 Representative Turner - Education |
Eliminates the requirement that a superintendent of schools be licensed. |
| HB1430 Representatives Turner and T. Harris - Education |
School choice program (voucher program) for students coming from households where the income does not exceed 250% of the standard for participation in the school lunch program. |