YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Education , to which was referred House Bill 1358 , 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:
petition does not exceed the number of students in the
household who attend the charter school that is a designated
school.".
Page 4, line 36, delete "(b)" and insert " (c)".
Page 4, line 36, delete "subsection (a)," and insert " subsections (a)
and (b),".
Page 4, line 39, delete "(c)" and insert " (d)".
Page 4, line 39, delete "subsection (a)," and insert " subsections (a)
and (b),".
Page 4, line 41, after "in the" insert " designated".
Page 5, line 30, after "the" insert " conversion charter".
Page 6, between lines 10 and 11, begin a new paragraph and insert:
" Chapter 7. Transfer of the Operation of a Charter School
Sec. 1. (a) After the state board has approved a petition to
transfer the operation of a charter school that is a designated
school to the school corporation whose attendance area includes
the location of the charter school that is a designated school:
(1) notwithstanding any other law, the charter of the
designated school is revoked on the date established in section
2 of this chapter;
(2) the charter school that is a designated school and the
governing body of the school corporation shall work together
to resolve issues relating to the transfer of the operation of the
school; and
(3) unless the governing body of the school corporation and
the charter school otherwise agree, the governing body of the
school corporation whose attendance area includes the
location of the charter school must offer to purchase the
charter school that is a designated school, and the amount of
the offer must include:
(A) a debt relating to the charter school that is authorized
by the state board under IC 20-52-8-1; and
(B) either:
(i) for a school building obtained by a charter school
under IC 20-26-7-1, the costs for improvements made by
the charter school that is a designated school to the
school building, determined in the manner prescribed by
the state board; or
(ii) for a school building that was not obtained by a
charter school under IC 20-26-7-1, the value of the
school building based upon an appraisal of the property.
(b) If the charter school that is a designated school refuses the
offer to purchase the school building under subsection (a), the
governing body of the school corporation shall provide educational
service to the students of the charter school at a location
determined by the governing body of the school corporation.
Sec. 2. Unless the petition specifies otherwise or the state board
specifies a different date, the transfer of the operation of a charter
school that is a designated school to a school corporation becomes
effective on the first day of the school year that begins in the
calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which
the petition was approved.
Sec. 3. The charter school that is a designated school shall share
all student records with the school corporation to which the
operation of the school has been transferred.
Sec. 4. (a) A conversion charter school shall accept all students
who attended the school before its conversion and who wish to
attend the conversion charter school.
(b) Students who attended the conversion charter school before
the school's conversion and who do not wish to attend the
conversion charter school shall be assigned to other schools
operated by the school corporation.".
Page 6, line 11, delete "Chapter 7," and insert " Chapter 8.".
Page 6, after line 23, begin a new line block indented and insert:
" (6) Requirements for the transfer of the operation of a
charter school that is a designated school to a school
corporation, including the types of debts that a school
corporation must include in an offer to purchase a charter
school building under IC 20-52-7-1.
reorganized political subdivision either through the adoption of
substantially identical resolutions adopted by each of the fiscal
bodies or, if authorized in the plan of reorganization, through a
joint board established under an agreement of the fiscal bodies on
which the members of each of the fiscal bodies are represented;
and
(2) if the reorganized political subdivision will have elected
offices and different election districts than any of the reorganizing
political subdivisions, the legislative bodies of the reorganizing
political subdivisions shall establish the election districts either
through the adoption of substantially identical resolutions adopted
by each of the legislative bodies or, if authorized in the plan of
reorganization, through a joint board established under an
agreement of the legislative bodies on which the members of each
of the legislative bodies are represented.
(b) This subsection applies to two (2) or more school corporations
that participate in a reorganization in which the voters approve a plan
of reorganization in a general election and the plan of reorganization
provides for the reorganization to become effective for property taxes
first due and payable in the immediately following calendar year. The
participating school corporations may publish notices, hold public
hearings, and take final action for the adoption of property tax levies,
property tax rates, and a budget for the reorganized school corporation
after the voters approve the plan of reorganization. The alternative
schedule must comply with the following:
(1) Each participating school corporation shall give notice by
publication to taxpayers of:
(A) the estimated budget;
(B) the estimated maximum permissible levy;
(C) the current and proposed tax levies of each fund; and
(D) the amounts of excessive levy appeals to be requested;
for the ensuing year. The notice must be published twice in
accordance with IC 5-3-1 with the first publication at least ten
(10) days before the date fixed for the public hearing and with the
last publication not later than November 24 of the year the public
question is approved by the voters.
(2) Each participating school corporation must conduct a public
hearing on the proposed tax levies, tax rates, and budget at least
ten (10) days before the date the participating school corporation
adopts the proposed tax levies, tax rates, and budget.
(3) The governing body of each participating school corporation
must meet to fix the tax levies, tax rates, and budget for the
ensuing year before December 6 of the year the public question
is approved by the voters.
(4) The county auditor shall certify the adopted property tax
levies, property tax rates, and budget for the reorganized school
corporation to the department of local government finance before
December 8 in the year in which the public question is approved
by the voters.
The department of local government finance may adjust any other
applicable time limit specified in IC 6-1.1-17 to be consistent with this
section. However, the department of local government finance is
expressly directed to complete the duties assigned to it under
IC 6-1.1-17-16 with respect to the submitted property tax levies,
property tax rates, and budget not later than February 15 in the ensuing
year.
(c) If a school is converted into a charter school under IC 20-24-11,
IC 20-52-5, the charter school must, before December 1 of each year,
publish its estimated annual budget for the ensuing year in accordance
with IC 5-3-1.".
(Reference is to HB 1358 as introduced.)
and when so amended that said bill do pass.