MADAM PRESIDENT:
The Senate Committee on Rules and Legislative Procedure, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 138,
has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the
recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:
Delete the title and insert the following:
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
higher education.
Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the
following:
SOURCE: IC 20-12-5.5-2; (05)AM013401.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 20-12-5.5-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS
FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2005]: Sec. 2. (a) In addition to
projects authorized by the general assembly, the trustees of each higher
education institution may engage in any of the following projects so
long as there are funds available for the project and the project meets
any of the applicable conditions:
(1) Each project to construct buildings or facilities of a cost
greater than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), or to
purchase or lease-purchase land, buildings, or facilities the
principal value of which exceeds one two hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000), ($200,000), must be reviewed by the
commission for higher education and approved by the governor
upon recommendation of the budget agency. If any part of the
cost of the project as specified in section 3 of this chapter is paid
by state appropriated funds or by mandatory student fees
assessed all students and if the project is to construct buildings
or facilities of a cost greater than five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000), or to purchase or lease-purchase land, buildings, or
facilities the principal value of which exceeds three hundred
thousand dollars ($300,000), the project must also be approved
by the general assembly. Nothing herein limits the trustees in
supplementing projects approved by the general assembly from
gifts or other available funds so long as approval for the
expansion of projects is given by the governor on review by the
commission for higher education and recommendation of the
budget agency.
(2) Each repair and rehabilitation project must be reviewed by
the commission for higher education and approved by the
governor, on recommendation of the budget agency, if the cost
of the project exceeds five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)
and if any part of the cost of the project is paid by state
appropriated funds or by mandatory student fees assessed all
students. If no part of the cost of the repair and rehabilitation
project is paid by state appropriated funds or by mandatory
student fees assessed all students, the review and approval
requirements of this subdivision apply only if the project exceeds
one million dollars ($1,000,000).
(3) Each project to lease, other than a project to lease-purchase,
a building or facility must be reviewed by the commission for
higher education and approved by the governor, on
recommendation of the budget agency, if the annual cost of the
project exceeds fifty one hundred thousand dollars ($50,000).
($100,000).
(b) The review and approval requirements of subsection (a)(1) do
not apply to a project to construct buildings or facilities or to purchase
or lease-purchase land, buildings, or facilities if the project involves the
expansion or improvement of housing for students undertaken entirely
by a fraternity or sorority at the state educational institution.
(Reference is to SB 138 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill be reassigned to the Senate Committee on Appropriations.