Indiana House Bill 1659

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-21 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Ethics implementation fund. Establishes the ethics implementation fund (fund) for the purpose of providing grants to course providers that offer ethics training courses for teachers. Charges the department of education (department) with administering the fund. Requires the department to create authorization and approval processes. Requires the department to create guidelines to provide professional development credit to teachers who have successfully completed an ethics training course. Makes an appropriation.

Ethics implementation fund.

Rep. Beau Baird [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-21	House	First reading: referred to Committee on Education
2025-01-21	House	Authored by Representative Baird

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/house/1659/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1659/HB1659.01.INTR.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/house/bills/HB1659/fiscal-notes/HB1659.01.INTR.FN001.pdf