Indiana Senate Bill 294 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 22 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-28 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Requires the state superintendent of public instruction to develop a form for a probationary teacher's contract. Provides that a school corporation shall hire a teacher who has not previously taught for the school corporation while holding at least an initial practitioner's license on a probationary contract. Specifies the term of a probationary contract is 60 days and requires an evaluation of the probationary teacher by the principal after 30 days, followed by a meeting between the teacher and the principal, with a written report of the evaluation and meeting provided to the superintendent and the probationary teacher. Requires the superintendent to give notice, after the evaluation, to the probationary teacher of the possible termination of the probationary teacher's contract, if necessary. Provides that after 60 days, the school corporation may terminate the probationary teacher's employment or enter into a regular teacher's contract with the probationary teacher. Provides that a probationary teacher whose contract is terminated is not entitled to the due process of a permanent or semipermanent teacher.

Probationary teacher contracts.

Sen. James Banks [R]	Sen. Ronald Grooms [R]	Sen. Travis Holdman [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]
Sen. Scott Schneider [R]	Rep. Milo Smith [R]	Sen. James Tomes [R]	Sen. Carlin Yoder [R]

2011-02-22 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 35 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-28		First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2011-02-22		Cosponsor: Rep. Behning
2011-02-22		House sponsor: Rep. Lehman
2011-02-22		Referred to the House
2011-02-22		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 35 and nays 14
2011-02-21		Senator Banks added as second author
2011-02-21		Senator Banks removed as coauthor
2011-02-17		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-02-15		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-01-12		Senator Smith added as coauthor
2011-01-11		Senator Grooms added as coauthor
2011-01-10		Senators Schneider and Tomes added as coauthors
2011-01-10		Senators Kruse, Banks and Yoder added as coauthors
2011-01-06		First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2011-01-06		Authored by Senator Holdman

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0294
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0294.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0294.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0192.PDF.pdf