Citations Affected:
IC 21-3-1.9.
Synopsis: Excessive education grants. Provides that a school
corporation offering vocational education through the Greencastle Area
30 Career Center is not required to repay excessive vocational
education grants or alternative education grants received before July 1,
1999.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 11, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
education finance.
SECTION 1.
IC 21-3-1.9
IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
AS A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
UPON PASSAGE]:
Chapter 1.9. Excessive Vocational Education and Alternative
Education Grants
Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a school corporation that offers
vocational education through programs offered by the Greencastle
Area 30 Career Center.
Sec. 2. If an audit conducted by the department of education
before January 1, 2000, determines that a vocational education
grant or an alternative education grant received by a school
corporation described in section 1 of this chapter before July 1,
1999, exceeded the amount of the grant to which the school
corporation was entitled, the school corporation's obligation to
repay the amount of the excessive vocational educational grant or
the excessive alternative education grant is forgiven and released.
SECTION 2. An emergency is declared for this act.