Indiana Senate Bill 321 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Passed on March 24 2014 - 100% progression
Action: 2014-03-24 - Public Law 35
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

Allows a charter school organizer to notify the department that it wants to receive the tuition support distributions for the state fiscal year 2014-2015 for all of the charter schools that the organizer operates. Provides that the state examiner shall establish guidelines and prescribe reporting requirements for organizers that are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles. Requires the organizer's authorizer to verify to the department that the charter schools are operated by the organizer. Provides that the department shall distribute the tuition support for the verified charter schools to the organizer. Permits the organizer to distribute the tuition support to each charter school it operates in the amounts determined by the organizer. Requires identification numbers and accounts to be used at the organizer and charter school levels. Prohibits an organizer from using tuition support for expenses incurred outside Indiana that are not directly related to the charter school the organizer operates in Indiana. Provides that a student, and the student's siblings, who attends a charter school may attend a different charter school held by the same organizer in subsequent years. Provides that if the state board adopts a rule to assign a category or designation of school improvement to a school corporation the state board shall also assign a category or designation of school improvement to a charter school organizer.

Charter school funding.

Sen. Scott Schneider [R]

Sen. James Banks [R]

Sen. Carlin Yoder [R]

Rep. Jeffrey Thompson [R]

2014-03-13 - Senate - Senate - Conference Committee Report 1 adopted (Y: 35 N: 13 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-03-13 - House - House - Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 adopted (Y: 73 N: 25 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2014-02-27 - House - House Floor - (Y: 86 N: 6 NV: 1 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2014-02-26 - House - House Floor - (Y: 31 N: 61 NV: 5 Abs: 3) [FAIL]
2014-02-20 - House - House Committee on Education - Roll Call 032104 (Y: 10 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2014-02-04 - Senate - Senate Floor - (Y: 35 N: 13 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-02-03 - Senate - Senate Floor - (Y: 30 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-02-03 - Senate - Senate Floor - (Y: 12 N: 35 NV: 1 Abs: 2) [FAIL]
2014-01-30 - Senate - Senate Committee on Appropriations - Roll Call 032102 (Y: 9 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-22 - Senate - Senate Committee on Education and Career Development - Roll Call 032101 (Y: 7 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-03-24	Senate	Public Law 35
2014-03-24	Senate	Signed by the Governor
2014-03-20	Senate	Signed by the President Pro Tempore
2014-03-18	Senate	Signed by the President of the Senate
2014-03-15	House	Signed by the Speaker
2014-03-13	House	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 adopted; Roll Call 521: yeas 73 and nays 25
2014-03-13	Senate	Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1 adopted; Roll Call 447: yeas 35 and nays 13
2014-03-13	House	Representative Thompson added as conferee
2014-03-13	House	Representative Thompson removed as advisor
2014-03-13	House	Representative V. Smith removed as conferee
2014-03-12	Senate	Senator Kruse added as conferee
2014-03-12	Senate	Senator Kruse removed as advisor
2014-03-12	Senate	Senator Rogers removed as conferee
2014-03-06	House	Representative VanDenburgh added as advisor
2014-03-06	House	Representative Errington added as advisor
2014-03-06	House	Representative Battles added as advisor
2014-03-06	House	Representative Huston added as advisor
2014-03-06	House	Representative Thompson added as advisor
2014-03-06	House	Representative V. Smith added as conferee
2014-03-06	House	Representative Behning added as conferee
2014-03-05	Senate	Senator Kruse added as advisor
2014-03-05	Senate	Senator Mrvan added as advisor
2014-03-05	Senate	Senator Yoder added as advisor
2014-03-05	Senate	Senator Rogers added as conferee
2014-03-05	Senate	Senator Schneider added as conferee
2014-03-05	Senate	Senate dissented from House amendments
2014-02-27	House	Returned to the Senate with amendments
2014-02-27	House	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 342: yeas 86 and nays 6
2014-02-26	House	Second reading: engrossed.
2014-02-26	House	SB 321 Amendment #1 (Porter), failed.
2014-02-24	House	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
2014-02-10	House	First Reading: Referred to Education
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative Thompson added as cosponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Representative Behning added sponsor.
2014-02-04	Senate	Referred to the House
2014-02-04	Senate	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 180: yeas 35 and nays 13
2014-02-03	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2014-02-03	Senate	SB 321 Amendment #2 (Schneider), prevailed.
2014-02-03	Senate	SB 321 Amendment #1 (Tallian), failed.
2014-01-30	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, adopted.
2014-01-23	Senate	Committee report: amend do pass, reassigned to Appropriations
2014-01-23	Senate	Senator Yoder added as third author.
2014-01-14	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Education and Career Development
2014-01-14	Senate	Authored by Senator Schneider, Banks.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/321/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/9/e/d/4/9ed4d7b6/SB0321.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/c/f/1/ccf108d8/SB0321.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/8/c/c/78cca08e/SB0321.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/7/8/f/578f8b8f/SB0321.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/8/5/d/b85dd1aa/SB0321.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/1/7/0/d170f951/SB0321.04.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/2/f/7/f2f7488c/SB0321.03.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/b/c/9/1/bc912bd8/SB0321.04.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/5/a/2/05a2831a/SB0321.05.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/4/5/f/e45f7058/SB0321.05.COMH.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/0/7/0/2/0702aef9/SB0321.06.ENRS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/f/f/8/7ff81e9c/SB0321.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/0/c/1/60c1bbb1/SB0321.03.COMS.96.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/3/a/d/53ad0d32/SB0321.03.COMS.97.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/7/7/6/777655c7/SB0321.04.COMS.180.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/c/5/a/7c5a14f0/SB0321.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/d/d/3/8/dd3882a6/SB0321.04.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/7/3/c/2/73c23582/SB0321.05.COMH.307.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/7/6/b/176bdac8/SB0321.05.COMH.342.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/1/5/d/7/15d76c56/SB0321.05.COMH.521.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/e/d/a/1/eda14e22/SB0321.05.COMH.447.pdf