Indiana Senate Bill 496 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Enrolled on April 21 2011 - 75% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-04-25 - House advisors appointed: Heuer, Noe and Cheatham
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Requires a school corporation to sell surplus real property to another educational institution if the educational institution is the highest bidder. Requires the state board of education to create a school performance category of pending reorganization. Provides that parents of a school that is in the third or subsequent year of placement in the lowest performance category may petition to reorganize the school by: (1) closing the school and transferring the students to a higher performing school in the same school corporation; (2) providing tuition payments for students to transfer to a higher performing school in another school corporation; or (3) reorganizing the school as a charter school. Requires the governing body of the school corporation to carry out the reorganization if the parents of at least 51% of the students in the school sign the petition. Requires the department of education to place such a school in the pending reorganization performance category. Provides that once a school has been reorganized, another petition for reorganization may not be submitted for at least five years after the school year in which the reorganization takes place.

Parental initiatives for school reorganization.

Sen. James Banks [R]

Sen. Brandt Hershman [R]

Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]

Sen. Carlin Yoder [R]

2011-04-21 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 53 N: 43 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2011-02-22 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 35 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2011-02-21 - Senate - Senate - Amendment 1 (Skinner), failed (Y: 9 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-25		House advisors appointed: Heuer, Noe and Cheatham
2011-04-25		House conferees appointed: Behning and Porter
2011-04-25		Senate advisors appointed: Yoder, Mrvan and Banks
2011-04-25		Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Skinner
2011-04-25		Senate dissented from House amendments
2011-04-21		Returned to the Senate with amendments
2011-04-21		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 626: yeas 53, nays 43
2011-04-12		Representative Noe added as sponsor
2011-04-12		Representative Behning removed as sponsor
2011-04-11		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-04-07		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-03-28		First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2011-02-22		Cosponsors: Reps. Heuer, Porter and Cheatham
2011-02-22		House sponsor: Rep. Behning
2011-02-22		Referred to the House
2011-02-22		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 243: yeas 35 and nays 14
2011-02-21		Amendment 1 (Skinner), failed; Roll Call 179: yeas 16, nays 33
2011-02-21		Second reading: ordered engrossed
2011-02-17		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-01-25		Senator Banks added as coauthor
2011-01-25		Senator Yoder added as third author
2011-01-13		First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2011-01-13		Authored by Senators Kruse and Hershman

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0496
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0496.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0496.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0496.1.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0179.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0243.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0626.PDF.pdf