Bill Text: IN HB1309 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State board of education and roundtable.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-14 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1309 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2013-HB1309-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-19.
Synopsis: State board of education and roundtable. Requires the state
board of education to elect a member to serve as vice chairperson, who:
(1) presides over meetings in the absence of the state superintendent of
public instruction; and (2) may call meetings, set and amend agendas,
arrange for witnesses, and carry out other administrative functions
related to the meetings of the state board. Provides that the
commissioner for higher education serves as a third cochairperson of
the education roundtable. (Under current law, the governor and state
superintendent of public instruction serve as cochairpersons.) Provides
that a majority of the cochairpersons acting together carry out the
administrative functions related to the meetings of the roundtable.
Adds the commission for higher education to the persons who receive
the recommendations of the roundtable.
Effective: July 1, 2013.
January 14, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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(1) shall preside over meetings in the chairperson's absence; and
(2) may:
(A) call meetings;
(B) set and amend agendas;
(C) arrange for witnesses; and
(D) carry out any other administrative function as it relates to meetings of the state board.
call of a majority of the cochairpersons. A majority of the
cochairpersons, acting together, may:
(1) call meetings;
(2) set and amend agendas;
(3) arrange for witnesses; and
(4) carry out any other administrative function as it relates to
meetings of the roundtable.
(b) A quorum of the roundtable must be present to conduct business.
A quorum consists of a majority of the voting members appointed to
the roundtable. The roundtable may not take an official action unless
the official action has been approved by at least a majority of the voting
members appointed to serve on the roundtable.
(1) The governor.
(2) The state superintendent.
(3) The general assembly.
(4) The state board.
(5) The commission for higher education.
(b) The recommendations to the general assembly must be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6.