Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1315
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 20-43; IC 20-51-4-12.
Synopsis: Choice scholarship funding. Provides for an advance
distribution of state tuition support to school corporations in the first
six months of a year to eliminate the effect of fiscal year and calendar
year limits on distributions. Makes an appropriation for the advance.
Limits the amount of choice scholarships to the amount that state
tuition support payments are reduced by the transfer of students from
a school corporation or charter school to a private school.
Effective: July 1, 2011 (retroactive); January 1, 2012 (retroactive).
Truitt
January 10, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced
Second Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2012)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1315
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education and to make an appropriation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 20-43-1-8.7; (12)IN1315.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 20-43-1-8.7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JANUARY 1, 2012 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 8.7. "Choice
scholarship" refers to a scholarship granted under IC 20-51-4.
SOURCE: IC 20-43-2-8; (12)IN1315.1.2. -->
SECTION 2. IC 20-43-2-8 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A
NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JANUARY 1, 2012 (RETROACTIVE)]:
Sec. 8. (a) This section
applies if the amount of state tuition support distributed to school
corporations would otherwise be reduced in the first six (6) months
of a calendar year in order to pay or encumber an amount for
choice scholarships under IC 20-51 from the amount appropriated
for distribution for tuition support in the state fiscal year ending
in that calendar year.
(b) Subject to subsection (c), the department shall make an
advance distribution of state tuition support to school corporations
in the first six (6) months of the calendar year from payments the
school corporations would otherwise receive in the second six (6)
months in the calendar year.
(c) The total amount advanced under this section in a calendar
year may not exceed the greater of zero (0) or the result of:
(1) the total amount of choice scholarships granted to students
described in subdivision (2) in the state fiscal year ending in
the first six (6) months of the calendar year; minus
(2) five-tenths (0.5) of the total amount of state tuition support
that would have been paid in the calendar year for students
who:
(A) were counted in the current ADM of a school
corporation in the previous calendar year; and
(B) were not counted in the current ADM of the school
corporation in the current calendar year because the
students attended an eligible school on a choice
scholarship.
(d) There is appropriated a sufficient amount to the department
from the state general fund to make the advances required by this
section, beginning January 1, 2012, and ending June 30, 2013.
SOURCE: IC 20-51-4-12; (12)IN1315.1.3. -->
SECTION 3. IC 20-51-4-12 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
1, 2011 (RETROACTIVE)]: Sec. 12. (a) Not more than the total
amount of state tuition support that would have been paid in the
current calendar for students who:
(1) were counted in the current ADM of a school corporation
in the previous calendar year; and
(2) were not counted in the current ADM of the school
corporation in the current calendar year because the students
attended an eligible school on a choice scholarship;
may be paid or encumbered from the appropriation for
distribution for tuition support for the state fiscal year ending in
the current calendar year.
(b) A determination under IC 4-13-2-18 or another law that the
amount available for choice scholarships under this chapter for the
remainder of the term of an appropriation or for any allotment
period will be less than the amount estimated or allotted for the
choice scholarships may not be the basis for reducing state tuition
support distributions to school corporations and charter schools.
The department shall proportionately reduce each choice
scholarship granted under this chapter to eliminate the shortfall.
SOURCE: ; (12)IN1315.1.4. -->
SECTION 4.
An emergency is declared for this act.