Indiana Senate Bill 267 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)
Status: Passed on May 7 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-05-07 - Public Law 226
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Dual language immersion; biliteracy. Establishes the dual language immersion pilot program to provide grants to school corporations and charter schools that establish dual language immersion programs in certain foreign languages. Creates the state certificate of biliteracy. Requires that the appropriate designation appear on the student's transcript. Requires the state board of education to adopt rules and to direct the department of education to administer the state biliteracy program. Provides that a school corporation, a charter school, or a nonpublic high school is not required to participate in the biliteracy program.

Dual language immersion; biliteracy. Establishes the dual language immersion pilot program to provide grants to school corporations and charter schools that establish dual language immersion programs in certain foreign languages. Creates the state certificate of biliteracy. Requires that the appropriate designation appear on the student's transcript. Requires the state board of education to adopt rules and to direct the department of education to administer the state biliteracy program. Provides that a school corporation, a charter school, or a nonpublic high school is not required to participate in the biliteracy program.

Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Timothy Lanane [D]	Sen. Earline Rogers [D]	Sen. Mark Stoops [D]
Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Robert Behning [R]	Rep. Terri Jo Austin [D]
Rep. Linda Lawson [D]	Rep. Justin Moed [D]	Rep. Peggy Mayfield [R]

2015-04-28 - Senate - Senate - Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-28 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 (Y: 98 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-04-14 - House - House - Third reading (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2015-04-08 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2015-04-02 - House - House - Committee Vote (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2015-02-03 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 50 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-28 - Senate - Senate Committee on Education & Career Development - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-07	Senate	Public Law 226
2015-05-07	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2015-05-04	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2015-05-01	House	Signed by the Speaker
2015-04-28	Senate	Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 516: yeas 49, nays 0
2015-04-28	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 552: yeas 98, nays 0
2015-04-21	House	House Advisors appointed: Cook, Mayfield, Lawson L and Moed
2015-04-21	House	House Conferees appointed: Behning and Austin
2015-04-21	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2015-04-20	Senate	Senate Advisors appointed: Tomes and Mrvan
2015-04-20	Senate	Senate Conferees appointed: Kruse and Lanane
2015-04-20	Senate	Motion to dissent filed
2015-04-15	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2015-04-14	House	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 416: yeas 95, nays 0
2015-04-13	House	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-04-09	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-04-02	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 127
2015-04-02	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-03-02	House	Representatives Lawson, Moed, Mayfield added as cosponsors
2015-03-02	House	Rule 105.1 suspended
2015-03-02	House	First Reading: referred to Committee on Education
2015-02-06	Senate	Referred to the House
2015-02-04	Senate	Representative Austin added as cosponsor
2015-02-04	Senate	Representative Behning added as sponsor
2015-02-03	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2015-02-03	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 80: yeas 50, nays 0
2015-02-02	Senate	Senator Tomes added as coauthor
2015-02-02	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2015-01-29	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2015-01-22	Senate	Senator Stoops added as coauthor
2015-01-20	Senate	Senator Rogers added as coauthor
2015-01-20	Senate	Senator Lanane added as second author
2015-01-07	Senate	First Reading: referred to Committee on Education & Career Development
2015-01-07	Senate	Authored by Senator Kruse

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/267/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/3/c/7/03c75023/SB0267.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/e/7/9/1e7993fc/SB0267.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/c/2/f/6c2f8140/SB0267.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/a/3/d/3a3d7206/SB0267.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/b/7/7/1b77adb4/SB0267.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/8/f/a/78fafd2e/SB0267.03.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/8/0/5/88050fce/SB0267.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/4/8/3/54834754/SB0267.04.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/9/8/b/d98be4d3/SB0267.05.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/1/6/a/216abfae/SB0267.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/5/6/c/e56ce38b/SB0267.80.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/4/d/7/e4d7c209/SB0267.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/9/d/1/69d1d277/SB0267.03.COMH.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/0/8/b/608bb1c1/SB0267.416.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/e/a/b/6eab86d0/SB0267.552.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/d/1/1/3d113827/SB0267.516.pdf