Introduced Version




HOUSE BILL No. 1092

_____


DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 20-30-2.

Synopsis: School instructional time. Provides that a school corporation shall conduct at least: (1) 900 hours of instructional time for students in grades 1 through 6; and (2) 1,080 hours of instructional time for students in grades 7 through 12. Modifies the formula for determining the reduction in the August tuition support distribution to a school corporation that fails to conduct the minimum number of student instructional days during a school term. Provides a formula for determining the minimum number of days in a school year.

Effective: July 1, 2010.



Dvorak


    January 5, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.




Introduced

Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)


PRINTING CODE. Amendments: Whenever an existing statute (or a section of the Indiana Constitution) is being amended, the text of the existing provision will appear in this style type, additions will appear in this style type, and deletions will appear in this style type.
Additions: Whenever a new statutory provision is being enacted (or a new constitutional provision adopted), the text of the new provision will appear in this style type. Also, the word NEW will appear in that style type in the introductory clause of each SECTION that adds a new provision to the Indiana Code or the Indiana Constitution.
Conflict reconciliation: Text in a statute in this style type or this style type reconciles conflicts between statutes enacted by the 2009 Regular and Special Sessions of the General Assembly.

HOUSE BILL No. 1092


    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; (10)IN1092.1.1. -->     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, 2010]: Sec. 3. For each school year, a school corporation shall conduct at least: one hundred eighty (180) student instructional days.
         (1) nine hundred (900) hours of instructional time for grades 1 through 6; and
        (2) one thousand eighty (1,080) hours of instructional time for grades 7 through 12.
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 20-30-2-4; (10)IN1092.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 20-30-2-4, AS ADDED BY P.L.1-2005, SECTION 14, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 4. If a school corporation fails to conduct the minimum number of student instructional days during a school year as required under section 3 7 of this chapter, the department shall reduce the August tuition support distribution to that school corporation for a

school year by an amount determined as follows:
        STEP ONE: Determine the remainder of: (A) the amount of the total tuition support allocated to the school corporation for the particular school year; minus         (B) that part of the total tuition support allocated to the school corporation for that school year with respect to student instructional days one hundred seventy-six (176) through one hundred eighty (180). the amount of the total tuition support allocated to the school corporation for each day of the particular school year.
        STEP TWO: Subtract the number of student instructional days that the school corporation conducted from one hundred eighty (180). the number for days required under section 7 of this chapter.
        STEP THREE: Determine the lesser of five (5) or the remainder determined under STEP TWO. Multiply the amount determined under STEP ONE by the remainder determined under STEP TWO.
        STEP FOUR: Divide the amount subtracted under STEP ONE(B) by five (5).
        STEP FIVE: Multiply the quotient determined under STEP FOUR by the number determined under STEP THREE.
        STEP SIX: Subtract the number determined under STEP THREE from the remainder determined under STEP TWO.
        STEP SEVEN: Divide the remainder determined under STEP ONE by one hundred seventy-five (175).
        STEP EIGHT: Multiply the quotient determined under STEP SEVEN by the remainder determined under STEP SIX.
        STEP NINE: Add the product determined under STEP FIVE to the product determined under STEP EIGHT.

SOURCE: IC 20-30-2-7; (10)IN1092.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 20-30-2-7, AS ADDED BY P.L.1-2005, SECTION 14, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 7. The minimum length for number of days in a school term is nine (9) months. determined as follows:
        (1) For grades 1 through 6:
            STEP ONE: Subtract nine hundred (900) from the total annual number of instructional hours conducted by a school corporation in grades 1 through 6.
            STEP TWO: Divide the remainder determined in STEP ONE by ten (10).
            STEP THREE: Subtract the quotient determined in STEP TWO from one hundred eighty (180).
            STEP FOUR: Round the remainder determined in STEP

THREE down to the nearest whole number.
        (2) For grades 7 through 12:
            STEP ONE: Subtract one thousand eighty (1,080) from the total annual number of instructional hours conducted by a school corporation in grades 7 through 12.
            STEP TWO: Divide the remainder determined in STEP ONE by twelve (12).
            STEP THREE: Subtract the quotient determined in STEP TWO from one hundred eighty (180).
            STEP FOUR: Round the remainder determined in STEP THREE down to the nearest whole number.