Indiana House Bill 1636

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Dynamic choice scholarships. Provides eligible choice scholarship students with the option to receive a dynamic choice scholarship (scholarship). Provides that a scholarship may be used toward certain dynamic education costs. Allows the department of education to: (1) create forms and methods for the administration and oversight of a scholarship; (2) create an account system to accommodate distributions of a scholarship; and (3) audit up to 3% of scholarship accounts annually to protect against fraud or misuse of funds. Provides that a distribution to a scholarship account is considered tax exempt if the distribution is used toward dynamic education costs.

Dynamic choice scholarships.

Rep. Jake Teshka [R]

Rep. Hunter Smith [R]

Rep. Andrew Ireland [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-21	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2025-01-21	House	Authored by Representative Teshka
2025-01-21	House	Coauthored by Representatives Smith H and Ireland

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/house/1636/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1636/HB1636.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1636/fiscal-notes/HB1636.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1636/fiscal-notes/HB1636.01.INTR.FN002.pdf