YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Insurance , to which was referred House Bill 1311 , has had
the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House 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
education and to make an appropriation.
assembly, gifts, bequests, and other sources of funding.
Sec. 5. The expenses of administering the fund shall be paid
from money in the fund.
Sec. 6. The treasurer of state shall invest the money in the fund
not currently needed to meet the obligations of the fund in the same
manner as other public money may be invested. Interest that
accrues from these investments shall be deposited in the fund.
Sec. 7. (a) Money in the fund at the end of a state fiscal year does
not revert to the state general fund.
(b) There is annually appropriated to the department from the
fund an amount sufficient for the purposes of this chapter.
Sec. 8. (a) A school corporation may at any time apply to the
department for funding from the fund to pay for a hearing aid that
is:
(1) prescribed:
(A) by a physician who is licensed under IC 25-22.5; and
(B) to a hearing impaired student of the school
corporation; and
(2) prescribed, fitted, and dispensed for the student by an
audiologist who is licensed under IC 25-35.6.
(b) The department shall, upon receipt of an application made
under subsection (a), provide payment from the fund for the
hearing aid.
Sec. 9. The department shall give funding priority to
applications under this chapter for students who are less than
fourteen (14) years of age.
Sec. 10. (a) The department shall create a hearing aid
refurbishing program through which hearing aids that are no
longer used by school corporation students and other individuals
are collected and refurbished for the use of other individuals.
(b) The department may enter into an agreement with another
organization to implement this section.
and when so amended that said bill do pass.