Bill Text: IN HB1341 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Special education grants.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-16 - SECTION 4 effective 04/26/2011 [HB1341 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-HB1341-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-43-1; IC 20-43-7-9.
Synopsis: Special education grants. Requires a school corporation,
including a charter school, to expend a proportionate share of its state
special education grant on providing special education services to
parentally placed nonpublic school students with disabilities.
Effective: Upon passage; January 1, 2011 (retroactive).
January 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
Indiana law. For students at least three (3) years of age and less
than six (6) years of age, nonpublic schools are schools that meet
the definition of an elementary school in 511 IAC 7-32-33.
(b) In determining compliance with this section, a school corporation may include state special education grant expenditures on the following:
(1) Activities and services for which the school corporation may expend federal grants under Part B of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.).
(2) Child find activities, including the cost of initial educational evaluations and reevaluations.
(c) A school corporation shall maintain sufficient and accurate records to demonstrate compliance with this section.
(d) The state board shall adopt rules to implement this section, including, but not limited to, reporting requirements, monitoring, and consequences for noncompliance. The consequences may include requiring expenditure of additional state funds in a subsequent year if the school fails to expend the requisite amount in a prior year.
(b) A temporary rule adopted under this SECTION expires on the occurrence of the earliest of the following:
(1) The date specified in the temporary rule.
(2) The date that another temporary rule or permanent rule supersedes or repeals the previously adopted temporary rule.
(3) July 1, 2013.
(c) This SECTION expires July 1, 2013.