Indiana Senate Bill 269 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-02-24 - Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 229: yeas 17, nays 33
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Civics test as graduation requirement. Provides that, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, an individual must obtain a satisfactory score on the United States Civics Test, administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to each applicant for United States citizenship, before: (1) graduating from a public high school or an accredited nonpublic high school that participates in the choice scholarship program; or (2) obtaining a high school equivalency certificate.

Civics test as graduation requirement. Provides that, beginning with the 2016-2017 school year, an individual must obtain a satisfactory score on the United States Civics Test, administered by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to each applicant for United States citizenship, before: (1) graduating from a public high school or an accredited nonpublic high school that participates in the choice scholarship program; or (2) obtaining a high school equivalency certificate.

Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]

Sen. James Smith [R]

Sen. Ed Charbonneau [R]

2015-02-24 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 17 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2015-02-19 - Senate - Senate Committee on Appropriations - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-11 - Senate - Senate Committee on Education & Career Development - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	Senate	Third reading: defeated; Roll Call 229: yeas 17, nays 33
2015-02-23	Senate	Pursuant to Senate Rule 35(c); technical correction committee report adopted deleting amendment 269-01 and substituting amendment 269-02 therefor in order to correct a clerical error
2015-02-23	Senate	Amendment #1 (Lanane) prevailed; voice vote
2015-02-23	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2015-02-19	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2015-02-12	Senate	Committee report: do pass adopted; reassigned to committee on Appropriations
2015-01-15	Senate	Senator Charbonneau added as coauthor
2015-01-07	Senate	Senator Smith added as second author
2015-01-07	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Education & Career Development
2015-01-07	Senate	Authored by Senator Kruse

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/269/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/c/6/c/4c6c0e56/SB0269.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/9/7/3/1973a96b/SB0269.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/5/7/6/b576c1d7/SB0269.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/8/8/d/088ded7a/SB0269.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/5/7/4/95742f7e/SB0269.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/0/0/e/a00e3f73/SB0269.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/6/7/f/767fa271/SB0269.04.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/a/9/2/1a92bde8/SB0269.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/9/a/1/f9a1ee29/SB0269.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/7/c/a/87ca3d21/SB0269.229.pdf