Bill Text: IN HB1045 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Formula for choice scholarship transition grants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1045 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-HB1045-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-43.
Synopsis: Formula for choice scholarship transition grants. Changes
the formula for distributing choice scholarship transition grants to
school corporations and charter schools (other than virtual charter
schools) from a distribution based on the school's total tuition support
distribution amount to a per capita distribution based on the number of
students who were granted choice scholarships. Provides that the grants
are distributed in two installments during a year. Indicates that the
amount of a grant is not included in the calculation of previous year
revenue. Moves the formula from a noncode provision enacted in the
2011 budget to the school formula provisions in the Indiana Code.
Effective: January 1, 2012 (retroactive).
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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(1) Any local public school corporation established under Indiana law.
(2) Except as otherwise indicated in this article, a charter school.
(b) For purposes of IC 20-43-13, the term does not include a
virtual charter school.
(1) as basic tuition support;
(2) for honors diploma awards;
(3) for primetime distributions;
(4) for special education grants;
(5) for career and technical education grants; and
(6) for choice scholarship transition grants;
for a particular year exceeds the maximum state distribution for a calendar year, the amount to be distributed for state tuition support under this article to each school corporation during each of the last six (6) months of the year shall be proportionately reduced so that the total reductions equal the amount of the excess.
Chapter 13. Choice Scholarship Transition Grant
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to school corporations other than virtual charter schools.
Sec. 2. The special distribution to school corporations that is authorized by P.L.229-2011, SECTION 9 and based on the difference between:
(1) the total amount distributed as choice scholarships under the choice scholarship program under IC 20-51-4 for eligible individuals who enroll in a private school; and
(2) the amount that school corporations would have received, in the aggregate, if these eligible individuals had remained enrolled in school corporations and had not enrolled in private schools;
shall be made in calendar year 2012 and calendar year 2013 in conformity with this chapter and not according to the formula specified in P.L.229-2011, SECTION 9. A school corporation is not entitled to both a grant under this chapter and a special distribution under P.L.229-2011, SECTION 9 for the same purpose.
Sec. 3. Each year, a school corporation is entitled to a choice scholarship transition grant under this chapter in the amount determined under STEP SEVEN of the following formula:
STEP ONE: Determine the total number of eligible
individuals who:
(A) were counted in the school corporation's ADM of the
previous year;
(B) are not counted in the current ADM of the school
corporation; and
(C) would have been counted in the current ADM of the
school corporation if the eligible individuals had not been
awarded choice scholarships under IC 20-51-4 and instead
had remained enrolled in the school corporation.
STEP TWO: Determine the total amount of choice
scholarships to which the eligible individuals described in
STEP ONE are entitled to receive under IC 20-51-4-4 for the
school year ending in the current calendar year.
STEP THREE: Determine the total additional amount of
basic tuition support to which the school corporation would
have been entitled in the current year (before any reduction
under IC 20-43-2) if the individuals described in STEP ONE
had not been awarded choice scholarships under IC 20-51-4
and instead had remained enrolled in the school corporation.
STEP FOUR: Determine the following:
(A) The sum of the STEP ONE amounts for all school
corporations.
(B) The sum of the STEP TWO amounts for all school
corporations.
(C) The sum of the STEP THREE amounts for all school
corporations.
STEP FIVE: Determine the greater of zero (0) or the result
of:
(A) the sum determined under clause (C) of STEP FOUR;
minus
(B) the sum determined under clause (B) of STEP FOUR.
STEP SIX: Determine the result of:
(A) the STEP FIVE amount; divided by
(B) the sum determined under clause (A) of STEP FOUR.
STEP SEVEN: Determine the result of:
(A) the STEP ONE number; multiplied by
(B) the STEP SIX amount.
Sec. 4. The department shall identify the school corporations
entitled to a grant under this chapter and notify the school
corporations eligible for a grant under this chapter as soon as
practicable after the current ADM of the school corporation is
determined for a calendar year.
Sec. 5. Fifty percent (50%) of the grant determined under this chapter for a school corporation for a year shall be paid in June of that year and the remaining fifty percent (50%) shall be paid in December of that year.
Sec. 6. No part of a grant distributed under this chapter shall be treated as part of the previous year revenue of the school corporation in any year.
