Indiana Senate Bill 34 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Engrossed on February 15 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-28 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Background checks for school employees. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school shall require an expanded criminal history check and expanded child protection index check on each employee every five years. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school may implement the requirement for updated background checks for current employees over a five year period. Provides that the employee is responsible for costs associated with obtaining the background checks unless the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school agrees to pay the costs. Makes an exception to the provision that an applicant or employee may

Background checks for school employees. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school shall require an expanded criminal history check and expanded child protection index check on each employee every five years. Provides that a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school may implement the requirement for updated background checks for current employees over a five year period. Provides that the employee is responsible for costs associated with obtaining the background checks unless the school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school agrees to pay the costs. Makes an exception to the provision that an applicant or employee may

Sen. James Merritt [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Sen. Karen Tallian [D]
Rep. Robert Behning [R]

2017-02-14 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-25 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-28	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2017-02-15	Senate	Referred to the House
2017-02-14	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Behning
2017-02-14	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 109: yeas 49, nays 1
2017-02-13	Senate	Amendment #3 (Stoops) failed; voice vote
2017-02-13	Senate	Amendment #2 (Tallian) failed; voice vote
2017-02-13	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2017-02-06	Senate	Senator Tallian added as coauthor
2017-02-06	Senate	Senator Buck added as third author
2017-02-02	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2017-01-26	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2017-01-04	Senate	Senator Kruse added as second author
2017-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2017-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senator Merritt

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/34/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/7/b/6/17b6fcec/SB0034.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/b/c/5/6bc5738c/SB0034.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/3/c/a/63ca438f/SB0034.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/f/f/d/bffdd913/SB0034.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/9/5/d/d95dd577/SB0034.03.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/d/7/e/ed7e8eca/SB0034.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/8/d/3/08d31f78/SB0034.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/7/d/7/f7d77e84/SB0034.109.pdf