Bill Text: IN HB1381 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Academic helpers program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1381 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2011-HB1381-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1381

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 20-33-6.5.

Synopsis: Academic helpers program. Creates the helpers enhance learning potential program to provide academic help for public school students in grades 1 through 3. Makes an appropriation.

Effective: July 1, 2011.

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Thompson

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    January 18, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1381

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    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 20-33-6.5; (11)IN1381.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 20-33-6.5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]:
     Chapter 6.5. Helpers Enhance Learning Potential Program
    Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all public schools, including charter schools that enroll students in grades 1 through 3.
     Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "program" refers to the helpers enhance learning potential program established under section 3 of this chapter.
    Sec. 3. The helpers enhance learning potential program is established to provide effective academic help for students enrolled in grades 1 through 3. The program shall be administered by the department. The department shall develop application forms and program criteria to implement this section.
    Sec. 4. (a) The department may issue a grant from the state general fund to a school corporation for each school within the school corporation that implements an approved helpers enhance

learning potential program not to exceed two dollars ($2) for each grade 1, 2, and 3 student within an applicable school. The department may approve a program that is substantially similar to a helpers enhance learning potential program that existed prior to July 1, 2011.
    (b) There is appropriated a sufficient amount to the department from the state general fund to implement this chapter.
    Sec. 5. The department may identify and include on the department's Internet web site model helpers enhance learning potential programs for schools to follow in order to comply with this chapter.
    Sec. 6. The department must include on the department's Internet website the following information:
        (1) the name of each school awarded a grant under this chapter; and
        (2) the completed application submitted to the department for each school described under subdivision (1).
     Sec. 7. The department may require any accountability measures it deems necessary to comply with this chapter.
     Sec. 8. The department shall develop guidelines to implement this chapter.