Bill Text: IN HB1508 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Student instructional time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-20 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1508 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2011-HB1508-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1508

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 20-30-2.

Synopsis: Student instructional time. Provides that a school year consists of at least 920 hours for grades 1 through 6, and 1,100 hours for grades 7 through 12. Amends the formula for determining a reduction in tuition support for a school corporation that does not conduct the minimum number of hours and a provision concerning the waiver from the reduction.

Effective: July 1, 2011.

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    January 20, 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. 1508

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    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; (11)IN1508.1.1. -->     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, 2011]: Sec. 3. For each school year, a school corporation shall conduct at least: one hundred eighty (180)
         (1) for students in grades 1 through 6, nine hundred twenty (920); and
        (2) for students in grades 7 through 12, one thousand one hundred (1,100);
student instructional days. hours. 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 hours conducted during that school year.

SOURCE: IC 20-30-2-4; (11)IN1508.1.2. -->     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, 2011]: Sec. 4. If a school corporation fails to conduct the minimum number of student instructional days hours during a school year as required under section 3 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). hours:
                 (i) eight hundred eighty (880) through nine hundred twenty (920), for grades 1 through 6; and
                (ii) one thousand fifty-six (1,056) through one thousand one hundred (1,100), for grades 7 through 12.
        STEP TWO: Subtract the number of student instructional days hours in grades 1 through 6 and grades 7 through 12 that the school corporation conducted from: one hundred eighty (180).
             (A) nine hundred twenty (920), for grades 1 through 6; and
            (B) one thousand one hundred (1,100), for grades 7 through 12.
        STEP THREE: Determine the lesser of: five (5)
            (A) thirty-five (35), for grades 1 through 6, or forty-two (42), for grades 7 through 12; or
             (B) the remainder determined under STEP TWO.
        STEP FOUR: Divide the amount subtracted under STEP ONE(B) by: five (5).
            (A) thirty-five (35), for grades 1 through 6; or
            (B) forty-two (42), for grades 7 through 12.
        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).
             (A) eight hundred eighty (880), for grades 1 through 6; and
            (B) one thousand fifty-six (1,056), for grades 7 through 12.
        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 20-30-2-5; (11)IN1508.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 20-30-2-5, AS ADDED BY P.L.1-2005, SECTION 14, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 5. The department may grant a waiver of the penalty

imposed under section 4 of this chapter for a particular number of canceled student instructional days hours if:
        (1) the school corporation applies to the department for a waiver of the penalty imposed under section 4 of this chapter for a specific number of canceled student instructional days; hours; and
        (2) each of the particular number of student instructional days hours requested to be waived under this section was canceled due to extraordinary circumstances.