Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1287

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 21-3-1.6; IC 21-3-1.8-3; P.L.273-1999, SECTION 147.

Synopsis: Vocational education funding. Reinstates the 2000 formula used to determine vocational education funding for 2001. Reenacts repealed statutes.

Effective: January 1, 2001.





Hoffman




    January 11, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.







Introduced

Second Regular Session 111th General Assembly (2000)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1287



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education finance.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 21-3-1.6-3.3; (00)IN1287.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 21-3-1.6-3.3 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001]: Sec. 3.3. (a) The additional count for each pupil participating in a program is set out in the following table. The additional count of the school corporation for any category is the aggregate additional counts of its eligible pupils in that category enrolled in the school corporation.
TABLE

    VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS:    Additional Count
    Agriculture A (1/2 day)        0.38
    Agriculture B (1 period per day)        0.19
    Distributive education        0.33
    Health occupations (laboratory)        0.33
    Consumer and homemaking
     (1 period per day)        0.14
    Occupational home economics
     (laboratory)        0.33
    Business education (laboratory)        0.33
    Industrial education A (1/2 day)        0.48
    Industrial education B
     (2 periods per day)        0.33
    Cooperative education (all areas)        0.28
    Area school participation
     (in addition to the above)        0.09
    (b) Participation does not require participation to the extent of full-time equivalency. The Indiana state board of education shall adopt rules further defining the nature and extent of participation and the type of program qualifying for application of the table in subsection (a). No additional count shall be made on any program set out in the table that has not been approved by the Indiana state board of education or where the student is not participating to the extent required by any rule of the board.
    (c) This section expires January 1, 2002.

SOURCE: IC 21-3-1.6-3.4; (00)IN1287.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 21-3-1.6-3.4 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001]: Sec. 3.4. (a) The additional count for each pupil participating in technology preparation programs is set out below. The additional count of the school corporation for this category is the aggregate additional counts of its eligible pupils in this category enrolled in the school corporation.
    TECHNOLOGY PREPARATION PROGRAMS 0.33
    (b) Participation does not require participation to the extent of full-time equivalency. The Indiana state board of education shall adopt rules further defining the nature and extent of participation and the type of program qualifying for application of subsection (a). No additional count shall be made on any program set out in subsection (a) that has not been approved by the Indiana state board of education or where the student is not participating to the extent required by any rule of the board.
    (c) For purposes of IC 21-3-1.8-3, "additional pupil count" of a school corporation or comparable language includes the aggregate of the additional counts of the school corporation for pupils as set out under subsection (a).

    (d) This section expires January 1, 2002.
SOURCE: IC 21-3-1.8-3; (00)IN1287.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 21-3-1.8-3 , AS AMENDED BY P.L.273-1999, SECTION 143, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001]: Sec. 3. In addition to the amount a school corporation is entitled to receive in tuition support, each school corporation is entitled to receive a grant for vocational

education programs. The amount of the vocational education grant is the product of:
        (1) the school corporation's additional pupil count for the year for vocational education programs; multiplied by
        (2) for 2000, one thousand six hundred thirty-eight dollars ($1,638) and for 2001, one thousand six hundred eighty dollars ($1,680).

SOURCE: IC 21-3-1.8-3; (00)IN1287.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. IC 21-3-1.8-3 IS REPEALED [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2002].
SOURCE: ; (00)IN1287.1.5. -->     SECTION 5. [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001] P.L.273-1999, SECTION 147, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 147. THE FOLLOWING ARE REPEALED [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001]: IC 21-2-12-3.1; IC 21-3-1.6-3; IC 21-3-1.6-3.2. IC 21-3-1.8-3.
SOURCE: ; (00)IN1287.1.6. -->     SECTION 6. [EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001] Notwithstanding the effective date of January 1, 2001, for IC 21-3-12 , as added by P.L.273-1999, SECTION 146, the vocational education formula in this act shall be used for 2001.