Indiana Senate Bill 497 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: Enrolled on April 13 2011 - 75% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-04-29 - Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Yoder
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Provides an early graduation scholarship to a student who graduates from high school before grade 12. Requires the state board of education to amend its rules to facilitate graduation from high school in less than seven semesters. Allows a student to participate in an early college, a dual credit, a double up for college, or a dual enrollment program during any grade in high school. Requires the department of education to report early graduation scholarship student information to the state student assistance commission (SSACI). Requires the department of education to transfer tuition support to SSACI for early graduation scholarship students that are accepted at a higher education institution . Provides for the payment of the scholarship by SSACI to the higher education institution from these transfers . Permits a higher education scholarship to be used for fees, books, supplies, and equipment required for courses of instruction. Provides that the unused balance of a scholarship shall be applied to educational costs incurred in a subsequent school year. Provides for the recovery of an unused scholarship.

Higher education scholarship.

Sen. James Banks [R]	Sen. James Buck [R]	Sen. Dennis Kruse [R]	Sen. Jean Leising [R]
Sen. Earline Rogers [D]	Sen. Scott Schneider [R]	Sen. Carlin Yoder [R]

2011-04-13 - House - House - Third reading: passed (Y: 58 N: 37 NV: 3 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2011-02-22 - Senate - Senate - Third reading: passed (Y: 39 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2011-02-21 - Senate - Senate - Amendment 1 (Broden), failed (Y: 6 N: 36 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-29		Senate conferees appointed: Kruse and Yoder
2011-04-29		Senate dissented from House amendments
2011-04-13		Returned to the Senate with amendments
2011-04-13		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 527: yeas 58, nays 37
2011-04-12		Representative Noe added as sponsor
2011-04-12		Representative Behning removed as sponsor
2011-04-12		Amendment 1 (Thompson), prevailed; voice vote
2011-04-12		Amendment 3 (Behning), prevailed; voice vote
2011-04-12		Second reading: amended, 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. Rhoads, Porter and Thompson
2011-02-22		House sponsor: Rep. Behning
2011-02-22		Referred to the House
2011-02-22		Third reading: passed; Roll Call 244: yeas 39 and nays 10
2011-02-21		Amendment 2 (Kruse), prevailed;
2011-02-21		Amendment 1 (Broden), failed; Roll Call 180: yeas 14, nays 36
2011-02-21		Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
2011-02-17		Senator Rogers added as coauthor
2011-02-17		Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
2011-02-14		Committee report: amended, reassigned to Committee on Appropriations
2011-01-20		Senators Buck, Schneider and Leising added as coauthors
2011-01-20		Senator Banks added as third author
2011-01-20		Senator Yoder added as second author
2011-01-13		First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2011-01-13		Authored by Senator Kruse

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.in.gov/apps/lsa/session/billwatch/billinfo?year=2011&session=1&request=getBill&doctype=SB&docno=0497
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/IN/IN0497.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0497.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0497.2.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SB/SB0497.3.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0497.1.html
Text	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/ES/ES0497.2.html
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0180.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Srollcal/0244.PDF.pdf
Roll Call	http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/PDF/Hrollcal/0527.PDF.pdf