Indiana House Bill 1416 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on May 16 2011 - 100% progression
Action: 2011-05-16 - Effective 07/01/2011
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

Provides that, for an imprisoned person to earn credit time for successfully completing the requirements for a high school diploma through correspondence courses, each correspondence course must be approved in advance by the department of correction. Specifies that a period of confinement is consecutive even if an inmate was released on the basis of an erroneous court order, and requires the department of correction to identify an offender to the parole board and provide certain information if the offender has been consecutively confined for 21 to 25 years, depending on the amount of educational credit time earned by the offender.

Credit time.

Rep. Kreg Battles [D]

Rep. Thomas Dermody [R]

Rep. Wendy McNamara [R]

2011-04-29 - Senate - Senate - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-29 - House - House - Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House (Y: 97 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-04-11 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 48 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-15 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 5) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-16		Effective 07/01/2011
2011-05-16		Public Law 228
2011-05-13		Signed by the Governor
2011-05-05		Signed by the President of the Senate
2011-05-05		Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2011-05-05		Signed by the Speaker
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 523: yeas 49, nays 1
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : adopted by the House; Roll Call 719: yeas 98, nays 0
2011-04-29		Rules suspended
2011-04-29		Conference committee report 1 : filed in the House
2011-04-26		Senate advisors appointed: M. Young, Hume, Head and Glick
2011-04-26		Senate conferees appointed: Waterman and Randolph
2011-04-25		House advisors appointed: Dermody, Steuerwald and Pierce
2011-04-25		House conferees appointed: McNamara and Battles
2011-04-25		House dissented from Senate amendments
2011-04-11		Returned to the House with amendments
2011-04-11		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 336: yeas 48 and nays 2
2011-04-05		Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
2011-04-05		Amendment 1 (Waterman), prevailed;
2011-04-05		Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-03-31		Committee report: do pass, adopted
2011-02-17		First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters
2011-02-15		Senate sponsors: Senators Waterman and M. Young
2011-02-15		Referred to the Senate
2011-02-15		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 180: yeas 94, nays 0
2011-02-14		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-02-10		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-01-24		Representative Dermody added as coauthor
2011-01-18		First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
2011-01-18		Coauthored by Representative Battles
2011-01-18		Authored by Representative McNamara

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=HB&docno=1416
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN1416.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HB/HB1416.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/EH/EH1416.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1416.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0180.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0336.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0719.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0523.PDF.pdf