SB 501-1_ Filed 02/21/2002, 09:51

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COMMITTEE REPORT


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                                                        NO:
0

MR. SPEAKER:

    Your Committee on       Rules and Legislative Procedures     , to which was referred       Senate Bill 501     , 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.

SOURCE: Page 1, line 1; (02)CR050102.1. -->     Page 1, between the enacting clause and line 1, begin a new paragraph and insert:
SOURCE: IC 20-12-8-1; (02)CR050102.1. -->     "SECTION 1. IC 20-12-8-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2002]: Sec. 1. (a) The trustees of Indiana University, the trustees of Purdue University, Indiana State University board of trustees, the University of Southern Indiana board of trustees, and the Ball State University board of trustees are authorized and empowered, from time to time, if the governing boards of these corporations find that a necessity exists, to erect, construct, reconstruct, extend, remodel, improve, complete, equip, furnish, operate, control and manage:
        (1) dormitories and other housing facilities for single and married students and school personnel;
        (2) food service facilities;
        (3) student infirmaries and other health service facilities including revenue-producing hospital facilities serving the general public, together with parking facilities and other appurtenances in connection with any of the foregoing; or
        (4) parking facilities in connection with academic facilities; or
        (5) medical research facilities associated with a school of medicine, if the facilities will generate revenue from state, federal, local, or private gifts, grants, contractual payments, or reimbursements in an amount that is reasonably expected to at least equal the annual debt service requirements of the bonds for the facility for each fiscal year that the bonds are outstanding;

at or in connection with Indiana University, Purdue University, Indiana State University, the University of Southern Indiana, and Ball State University, for the purposes of the respective institutions. These corporations are also authorized and empowered to acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, gift or otherwise, any property, real or personal, that in the judgment of these corporations is necessary for the purposes set forth in this section. The corporations may improve and use any property acquired for the purposes set forth in this section.
    (b) Title to all property so acquired, including the improvements located on the property, shall be taken and held by and in the name of the corporations. If the governing board of any of these corporations determines that real estate, the title to which is in the name of the state, for the use and benefit of the corporation or institution under its control, is reasonably required for any of the purposes set forth in this section, the real estate may, upon request in writing of the governing board of the corporation to the governor of the state and upon the approval of the governor, be conveyed by deed from the state to the corporation. The governor shall be authorized to execute and deliver the deed in the name of the state, signed on behalf of the state by the governor, attested by the auditor of state and with the seal of the state affixed to the deed.
SOURCE: IC 20-12-75-12; (02)CR050102.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 20-12-75-12 , AS ADDED BY P.L.273-1999, SECTION 203, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 12. (a) A community college policy committee shall be created to:
        (1) oversee the implementation of the community college system, including the selection of the sites at which the community

college system will be offered and the timetable for implementing these sites;
        (2) review the broad policies and principles to be used to carry out and guide the implementation; and
        (3) serve as a communication link among the two (2) boards of trustees and the commission for higher education with regard to implementing the community college system.
    (b) The community college policy committee shall not exercise any powers that have been assigned to the Vincennes University board of trustees, the Ivy Tech State College state board of trustees, or the commission for higher education.
    (c) The community college policy committee consists of three (3) members of the Vincennes University board of trustees, three (3) members of the Ivy Tech State College state board of trustees, and five (5) members appointed by the governor. The president of Vincennes University, the president of Ivy Tech State College, and the commissioner for higher education shall serve as ex officio members of the community college policy committee.
     (d) Notwithstanding any law, Vincennes University and Ivy Tech State College may not take any action, including the spending of any funds, that frustrates the goals of the community college system.

SOURCE: ; (02)CR050102.3. -->     SECTION 3. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2002] The trustees of Indiana University are authorized to issue bonds under IC 20-12-8 , subject to approvals required in IC 20-12-6 and IC 20-12-5.5 , for the purpose of funding the costs of acquisition and renovation of the University Place Hotel on the Indianapolis Campus, and to acquire and renovate the hotel facility, so long as the principal costs of any bonds issued do not exceed thirty million dollars ($30,000,000). For purposes of this SECTION, "principal costs" of the bonds include all acquisition, renovation, installation, planning, and other related costs, but do not include additional costs incidental to the financing that may also be financed in addition thereto. Bonds issued under the authority of this SECTION are not entitled to fee replacement appropriations. ".
SOURCE: Page 2, line 1; (02)CR050102.2. -->     Page 2, between lines 1 and 2, begin a new line block indented and

insert:
        " (4) Vincennes University.".
    Page 2, delete lines 10 through 20, begin a new paragraph and insert:
    " (f) The budget agency may not enter into a sublease under subsection (e) unless the following conditions are met:
        (1) The total:
            (A) acquisition;
            (B) construction;
            (C) initial installation; and
            (D) initial equipping;
        costs for the Columbus Learning Center that are to be financed through lease rental revenue bonds is twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) or less, excluding amounts necessary to provide money for debt service reserves, credit enhancement, or other costs incidental to the issuance of bonds.
        (2) The director of the budget agency has certified in writing to the legislative council that there is an unmet higher education need that the Columbus Learning Center will correct.
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    Page 2, between lines 35 and 36, begin a new paragraph and insert:

SOURCE: ; (02)CR050102.5. -->     "SECTION 5. [EFFECTIVE UPON PASSAGE] The board of trustees of Vincennes University may issue and sell bonds under IC 20-12-6 , subject to the approvals required by IC 20-12-5.5 and IC 23-13-18 , for a Technology Building, a Performing Arts Center, and a Recreation Building, so long as the sum of principal costs of any bonds authorized by this act for those projects, excluding amounts necessary to provide money for debt service reserves, credit enhancement, or other costs incidental to the issuance of the bonds, does not exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000). The projects are eligible for fee replacement.
SOURCE: ; (02)CR050102.6. -->     SECTION 6. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2002] (a) The provisions of this SECTION apply notwithstanding P.L. 291-2001.
    (b) The trustees of Vincennes University and Ivy Tech State College, and their respective institutions, are no longer subject to the requirement that they not increase the total Indiana resident student tuition fees and academic facilities fees in exchange for

certain appropriations under P.L. 291-2001, SECTION 5. The requirement to freeze tuition and fees as a condition of receiving their respective total operating expense appropriation for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, is void.
    (c) This SECTION expires July 1, 2003.
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    Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
    (Reference is to SB 501 as printed February 1, 2002.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass.

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Representative Moses


CR050102/DI 69    2002