SB 501-1_ Filed 02/21/2002, 09:51
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COMMITTEE REPORT
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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. ".
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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.".
Page 2, between lines 35 and 36, begin a new paragraph and insert:
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"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.".
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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