Indiana Senate Bill 178 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 6 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-01-20 - Senators Alting, Qaddoura, Ford J.D. added as coauthors
Pending: Senate Education and Career Development Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Teacher compensation and collective bargaining. Provides that, in calculating whether a school corporation has met the 45% teacher compensation threshold, a school corporation: (1) may include only salaries paid from the state tuition support distributions during the state fiscal year; and (2) shall count the total funds received in state tuition support distributions to the school corporation during the state fiscal year. Provides that a school corporation is not considered to be in deficit financing if the sum of the ending respective cash balance on June 30 of the immediately preceding state fiscal year of: (1) the school corporation's rainy day fund; plus (2) the school corporation's education fund; exceeds an amount equal to 20% of the school corporation's most recently adopted annual budget. Requires a school employer to bargain collectively class size, health and safety matters, and teacher preparation time with an exclusive representative.

Teacher compensation and collective bargaining.

Sen. Jon Ford [R]

Sen. Ronnie Alting [R]

Sen. Fady Qaddoura [D]

Sen. J.D. Ford [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-01-20	Senate	Senators Alting, Qaddoura, Ford J.D. added as coauthors
2022-01-06	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2022-01-06	Senate	Authored by Senator Ford Jon

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2022/bills/senate/178/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/d/b/5/fdb5ea7c/SB0178.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/f/e/7/2fe77bd7/SB0178.01.INTR.FN001.pdf