Citations Affected: IC 21-3.
Synopsis: Academic honors diploma awards. Requires a school
corporation to use money received as an academic honors diploma
award for expenditures directly related to the school corporation's
academic honors diploma program or programs for high ability
students. Requires a school corporation to submit a report to the
department of education concerning how the award money was spent.
Effective: July 1, 2003.
January 7, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
January 16, 2003, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education.
SECTION 1. IC 21-3-1.7-9.8, AS AMENDED BY P.L.291-2001,
SECTION 98, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
JULY 1, 2003]: Sec. 9.8. (a) In addition to the distributions under
sections 8, 9.5, and 9.7 of this chapter, a school corporation is eligible
for an honors diploma award in the amount determined under STEP
TWO of the following formula:
STEP ONE: Determine the number of the school corporation's
eligible pupils who successfully completed an academic honors
diploma program in the school year ending in the previous
calendar year.
STEP TWO: Multiply the STEP ONE amount by
(1) nine hundred forty-four dollars ($944) in 2002; and
(2) nine hundred sixty-three dollars ($963). in 2003.
(b) Each year the governing body of a school corporation may use
the money that the school corporation receives for an honors diploma
award under this section to give nine hundred forty-four dollars ($944)
in 2002 and nine hundred sixty-three dollars ($963) in 2003 to each
eligible pupil in the school corporation who successfully completes an
academic honors diploma program in the school year ending in the
previous calendar year. (b) An amount received by a school corporation as an honors
diploma award may be used only for:
(1) staff training, program development, equipment and
supply expenditures, or other expenses directly related to the
school corporation's academic honors diploma program; and
(2) the school corporation's program for high ability students.
(c) The governing body of a school corporation shall submit an
annual report to the department of education that summarizes the
programs and services provided with the money received under
this section. A governing body that does not submit a report under
this subsection for a school year is not eligible to receive an award
under this section for the following school year until the report has
been submitted.