Indiana Senate Bill 255

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2025-01-29 - Referred to the House
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

Education matters. Requires the department of education to grant an initial practitioner license to an individual who: (1) holds a bachelor's degree with a major in any combination of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics; (2) successfully completes a total of at least nine academic credits regarding certain instruction in teaching; and (3) meets other specified requirements. Requires a principal to allow a student who is enrolled in a public secondary school to receive religious instruction for a period or periods that do not exceed the amount of time that is equivalent to attending one elective course at the public secondary school during the week. (Current law provides for a period or periods of not more than 120 minutes in total in any week.) Changes certain requirements regarding the reporting of a bullying "incident" to the reporting of a bullying "investigation". Requires discipline rules to include a provision to make a reasonable attempt to notify both the parent of a targeted student and the parent of an alleged perpetrator that the school is investigating a possible incident of bullying before the end of the calendar day on which the school is made aware of the possible incident of bullying.

Education matters.

Sen. Spencer Deery [R]	Sen. Linda Rogers [R]	Sen. Tyler Johnson [R]	Sen. J.D. Ford [D]
Sen. Shelli Yoder [D]	Rep. Michelle Davis [R]	Rep. Kendell Culp [R]

2025-01-28 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 49 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-29	Senate	Referred to the House
2025-01-28	Senate	Senator Yoder added as coauthor
2025-01-28	Senate	Cosponsor: Representative Culp
2025-01-28	Senate	House sponsor: Representative Davis
2025-01-28	Senate	Third reading: passed; Roll Call 30: yeas 49, nays 0
2025-01-27	Senate	Second reading: ordered engrossed
2025-01-23	Senate	Committee report: do pass, adopted
2025-01-21	Senate	Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
2025-01-16	Senate	Senator Johnson T added as third author
2025-01-16	Senate	Senator Rogers added as second author
2025-01-13	Senate	First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
2025-01-13	Senate	Authored by Senator Deery

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/255/details
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/SB0255.01.INTR.pdf
Text	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/SB0255.02.COMS.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/fiscal-notes/SB0255.01.INTR.FN001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/votesheets/SB0255.01.INTR.03.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/committee-reports/SB0255.01.INTR.CRS001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/fiscal-notes/SB0255.02.COMS.FN001.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/fiscal-notes/SB0255.02.COMS.FN002.pdf
Supplement	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/fiscal-notes/SB0255.02.COMS.FN003.pdf
Roll Call	https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/124/2025/senate/bills/SB0255/rollcalls/SB0255.30_S.pdf