Indiana Senate Bill 298 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)
Status: Engrossed on February 17 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]

School employee background checks. Amends the time period by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for noncertificated employment or certificated employment. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check concerning each applicant for noncertificated employment or certificated employment before or not later than two months after the applicant's employment. (Current law requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check before or not later than three months after the applicant's employment.)

School employee background checks. Amends the time period by which a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school must conduct expanded criminal history checks for applicants for noncertificated employment or certificated employment. Requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check concerning each applicant for noncertificated employment or certificated employment before or not later than two months after the applicant's employment. (Current law requires a school corporation, charter school, or nonpublic school to conduct an expanded child protection index check before or not later than three months after the applicant's employment.)

Sen. Ronnie Alting [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]	Sen. Eric Bassler [R]
Sen. Frank Mrvan [D]	Sen. Jon Ford [R]	Sen. Lonnie Randolph [D]	Rep. Robert Behning [R]
Rep. Sheila Klinker [D]	Rep. Sally Siegrist [R]

2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-25 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-28	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2017-02-17	Senate	Referred to the House
2017-02-16	Senate	Cosponsors: Representatives Klinker and Siegrist
2017-02-16	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Behning
2017-02-16	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 129: yeas 48, nays 0
2017-02-14	Senate	Senator Randolph added as coauthor
2017-02-14	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2017-02-06	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2017-01-26	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2017-01-24	Senate	Senator Ford added as coauthor
2017-01-09	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2017-01-09	Senate	Coauthored by Senators Bassler and Mrvan
2017-01-09	Senate	Authored by Senators Alting, Kruse and Leising

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/senate/298/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/4/d/0/3/4d036a44/SB0298.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/4/6/1/94611f2d/SB0298.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/6/9/0/5690427d/SB0298.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/0/3/d/303d0f3f/SB0298.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/0/4/e/b04e2282/SB0298.03.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/2/0/c/f/20cf1c98/SB0298.01.INTR.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/c/d/d/acdd5a65/SB0298.02.COMS.00.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/3/3/9/f3396b2c/SB0298.129.pdf