Bill Text: IN HB1074 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Student instructional days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-07 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1074 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1074-Introduced.html
Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1074
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 20-30-2.
Synopsis: Student instructional days. Provides that a school placed in
the highest category or designation of academic performance is not
required to conduct a school year that consists of at least 180 student
instructional days if the school conducts at least an equivalent number
of hours of student instructional time.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
Ober
January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
Introduced
First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1074
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 20-30-2-3; (13)IN1074.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 20-30-2-3, AS ADDED BY P.L.1-2005, SECTION
14, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1,
2013]: Sec. 3. Except as provided in section 3.5 of this chapter, for
each school year, a school corporation shall conduct at least one
hundred eighty (180) student instructional days. Not later than June 15
of each school year, the superintendent of each school corporation shall
certify to the department the number of student instructional days
conducted during that school year.
SOURCE: IC 20-30-2-3.5; (13)IN1074.1.2. -->
SECTION 2. IC 20-30-2-3.5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2013]: Sec. 3.5. (a) This section applies only to a school that has
been placed in the highest performance category or designation
established under IC 20-31-8-3.
(b) A school to which this section applies is not required to conduct one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days in a school year if the governing body establishes a calendar for the school that consists of at least:
(1) nine hundred (900) hours of instructional time, for grades 1 through 6; or
(2) one thousand eighty (1,080) hours of instructional time, for grades 7 through 12.
(c) If a school to which this section applies ceases to be placed in the highest category or designation established under IC 20-31-8-3, the governing body shall establish a calendar for the school for the following school year that consists of at least one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days.
(b) A school to which this section applies is not required to conduct one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days in a school year if the governing body establishes a calendar for the school that consists of at least:
(1) nine hundred (900) hours of instructional time, for grades 1 through 6; or
(2) one thousand eighty (1,080) hours of instructional time, for grades 7 through 12.
(c) If a school to which this section applies ceases to be placed in the highest category or designation established under IC 20-31-8-3, the governing body shall establish a calendar for the school for the following school year that consists of at least one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days.
