Indiana Senate Bill 143 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on January 26 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-06 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Study of student performance grades. Requires the department of education (department) and the commission for higher education (commission) to study and submit a report describing as to whether there is any disparity in determining enrollment eligibility in a state educational institution or educational program offered by the state educational institution that is caused by the use of different grading scales by public secondary schools. Requires the department and commission to submit the report to the general assembly. Requires a public secondary school to submit certain information to the department regarding the calculation of a public secondary student's grade. Requires a

Study of student performance grades. Requires the department of education (department) and the commission for higher education (commission) to study and submit a report describing as to whether there is any disparity in determining enrollment eligibility in a state educational institution or educational program offered by the state educational institution that is caused by the use of different grading scales by public secondary schools. Requires the department and commission to submit the report to the general assembly. Requires a public secondary school to submit certain information to the department regarding the calculation of a public secondary student's grade. Requires a

Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Eddie Melton [D]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]
Rep. Edward Clere [R]	Rep. Jeffrey Thompson [R]	Rep. Vernon Smith [D]

2018-01-23 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-01-10 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-06	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2018-01-26	Senate	Referred to the House
2018-01-23	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Thompson and Smith, V.
2018-01-23	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Clere
2018-01-23	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 52: yeas 48, nays 1
2018-01-18	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2018-01-18	Senate	Senator Melton added as coauthor
2018-01-16	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2018-01-11	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2018-01-08	Senate	Senator Kruse added as second author
2018-01-03	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2018-01-03	Senate	Authored by Senator Leising

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2018/bills/senate/143/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/8/0/c/280c6248/SB0143.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/7/2/d/a72d3c9e/SB0143.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/d/5/b/8d5ba03b/SB0143.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/1/8/1/c181ef25/SB0143.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/4/0/2/c4025e4a/SB0143.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/e/0/7/0e076cbc/SB0143.52.pdf