Indiana Senate Bill 326 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 3 2014 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-11 - First Reading: Referred to Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Provides that a school corporation may: (1) instruct students about the history of traditional winter celebrations; (2) allow the use of traditional greetings concerning the celebrations; and (3) display on school property scenes or symbols associated with traditional winter celebrations if certain conditions are met and the scenes or symbols do not include a message that encourages a particular religious belief. Requires the state board of education to develop guidelines to assist school corporations in developing appropriate instruction and displays.

Celebration of winter holidays in schools.

Sen. James Smith [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Michael Young [R]	Sen. James Tomes [R]
Sen. John Waterman [R]

2014-02-03 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: Passed: (Y: 48 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2014-01-22 - Senate - Senate Committee on Education and Career Development - Roll Call 032601 (Y: 7 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-11	House	First Reading: Referred to Education
2014-02-03	Senate	Representative Thompson added sponsor.
2014-02-03	Senate	Third reading: Passed: Roll Call 113: yeas 48 and nays 0
2014-02-03	Senate	Referred to the House
2014-01-27	Senate	Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2014-01-27	Senate	SB 326 Amendment #1 (Smith), prevailed.
2014-01-24	Senate	Senator Tomes added as coauthor.
2014-01-24	Senate	Senator Waterman added as coauthor.
2014-01-23	Senate	Committee report; do pass, adopted
2014-01-15	Senate	Senator R.M. Young added as third author.
2014-01-15	Senate	Senator Kruse added as second author.
2014-01-14	Senate	First Reading: Referred to Education and Career Development
2014-01-14	Senate	Authored by Senator Smith.

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/senate/326/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/3/8/7/d/387dd271/SB0326.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/a/a/7/a/aa7a878c/SB0326.02.COMS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/6/f/3/0/6f30e2a4/SB0326.01.INTR.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/f/3/4/f/f34f5f10/SB0326.03.ENGS.pdf
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/e/e/d/5eedd877/SB0326.02.COMS.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/d/8/7/8d87d783/SB0326.01.INTR.pdf
Roll Call	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/5/8/b/1/58b194b9/SB0326.03.ENGS.113.pdf