Bill Text: IN SB0171 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: School start date and calendar.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-03 - Third reading: failed for lack of constitutional majority; Roll Call 73: yeas 23 and nays 25 [SB0171 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-SB0171-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-30-2-9.
Synopsis: School start date and calendar. Prohibits public schools and
accredited nonpublic schools from beginning student instructional days
for the school year before the Tuesday after the first Monday in
September (Labor Day) and from ending after June 10 of the following
year, beginning with the 2013-2014 school year. Provides that a
governing body may establish a beginning date before Labor Day or an
end date for a school year that is later than June 10 for year-round
schools, schools with balanced calendars, and schools that coordinate
calendars with a postsecondary educational institution following public
hearings and a majority vote of the governing body. Provides that a
governing body may not schedule student instructional days while the
state fair is held. Makes the change effective for collective bargaining
agreements and contracts negotiated after June 30, 2013.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 5, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
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(b) This section applies only to a contract entered into or renewed by a governing body after June 30, 2013.
(c) Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, the student instructional days that make up a school year may not:
(1) begin before the Tuesday after Labor Day, the first Monday in September; and
(2) end after June 10 of the following year.
(d) This subsection applies to a year-round school that has a calendar in which a break between instructional days does not exceed six (6) weeks, a school that has a balanced calendar of quarters, and a school that coordinates the school's calendar with
that of a postsecondary educational institution. Notwithstanding
subsection (c), a governing body may begin a school year before
Labor Day or end a school year after June 10 at a school to which
this subsection applies if:
(1) the governing body gives notice and holds at least two (2)
public hearings at which public testimony must be allowed on
the issue; and
(2) at a third public hearing, a majority of the members of the
governing body vote to establish a beginning date for the
school year that is before Labor Day or an ending date for the
school year that is after June 10, or both.
(e) A governing body may not schedule student instructional
days on any day during which the state fair is held.
