Bill Text: IN HB1249 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Higher education scholarship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-12 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [HB1249 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-HB1249-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 21-12-10.
Synopsis: Higher education scholarship. Provides an early graduation
scholarship to a student who graduates from high school before grade
12. Requires the state board of education to amend its rules to facilitate
graduation from high school in less than seven semesters. Makes an
appropriation.
Effective: Upon passage.
January 12, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
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Chapter 10. Early Graduation Scholarship
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "publicly supported school" means the following:
(1) A school corporation (as defined in IC 20-18-2-16(a)).
(2) A charter school (as defined in IC 20-24-1-4).
(3) A high school maintained by a state educational institution under IC 20-24.5 or another law.
Sec. 2. The general assembly finds that, when a student graduates from high school in three (3) years or less and does not require a publicly supported school to provide educational services in a fourth year, the educational goals of the state and its publicly supported schools are better served by distributing to the graduating student part of the state tuition support money that publicly supported schools would otherwise receive to help pay the
tuition and other necessary fees and charges that are incurred by
the graduating student at an approved postsecondary educational
institution.
Sec. 3. The early graduation scholarship program is established.
The commission shall administer the early graduation scholarship
program.
Sec. 4. An individual is eligible for an early graduation
scholarship if the individual:
(1) is a resident of Indiana, as defined by the commission;
(2) attended a publicly supported secondary school on a
full-time equivalency basis (as defined in IC 20-43-1-14) for at
least the last two (2) semesters before the individual
graduated from high school;
(3) had legal settlement (as defined in IC 20-18-2-11) in
Indiana for at least the last two (2) semesters before the
individual graduated from high school;
(4) met at least the minimum requirements set by the Indiana
state board of education for granting a high school diploma
by the end of grade 11 (including any summer school courses
completed before July 1 of a year) and was awarded after
December 31, 2010, a high school diploma by the publicly
supported secondary school that the individual last attended
for course credits earned before the end of grade 11;
(5) was not enrolled in a publicly supported school for any
part of grade 12;
(6) applies to the commission for an early graduation
scholarship in the manner specified by the commission; and
(7) within five (5) months after graduating from high school,
becomes a student in good standing at an approved
postsecondary educational institution and is engaged in a
program that will lead to an approved postsecondary degree
or credential.
Sec. 5. Graduation from a nonstandard course and curriculum
program or a program for high ability students that has been
granted a waiver by the Indiana state board of education shall be
treated as meeting the minimum requirements set by the state
board of education for granting a high school diploma.
Sec. 6. (a) A publicly supported school shall submit to the
department the name of each individual described in section 4(1)
through 4(3) of this chapter.
(b) The department shall submit to the commission the
information submitted under subsection (a) and any other
supporting information requested by the commission on the
schedule and in the form specified by the commission.
Sec. 7. The amount of an early graduation scholarship is three
thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).
Sec. 8. An early graduation scholarship awarded under this
chapter shall be applied to tuition and other necessary fees and
charges that are incurred by an individual before applying any
other grant or scholarship under this article. The amount of an
early graduation scholarship awarded under this chapter shall not
be considered as a financial resource in a determination of the
amount of any grant or scholarship under this article or, except as
required by federal law, the amount of any other grant or
scholarship administered by the commission.
Sec. 9. An individual to whom the commission has issued an
early graduation scholarship may apply for enrollment as a student
in any approved postsecondary educational institution. However,
the institution is not required to accept the applicant for
enrollment, and the institution may require compliance with its
own admissions requirements. If the approved postsecondary
educational institution accepts the applicant, the institution shall
give written notice to the commission. The institution is entitled to
the payments of tuition and other necessary fees and charges
provided by the early graduation scholarship that are incurred by
the applicant. The institution shall provide facilities and instruction
to the applicant on the same terms as to other students.
Sec. 10. The budget agency shall, at the time of a distribution of
state tuition support, transfer to the early graduation scholarship
fund an amount equal to the amount withheld from the distribution
to school corporations under this chapter.
Sec. 11. (a) The department of education shall reduce the total
amount of state tuition support distributed under IC 20-43 to
publicly supported schools in the year that an early graduation
scholarship is awarded under this chapter by the amount of the
early graduation scholarships awarded in that year.
(b) The department of education shall allocate a reduction
under subsection (a) and reduce the amount of state tuition support
distributed to a particular publicly supported school for the year
an early graduation scholarship is awarded under this chapter only
to the extent that the publicly supported school received a greater
distribution of state tuition support in any year that is attributable
under IC 20-43-4-7, IC 20-43-10, or another provision of IC 20-43
to counting the recipient of an early graduation scholarship in the
current ADM of the publicly supported school in the last year that
the recipient attended the publicly supported school.
(c) The commission shall submit the information needed to
comply with this section to the department of education.
(b) The Indiana state board of education may adopt temporary rules in the manner provided for adopting an emergency rule under IC 4-22-2-37.1 to implement this SECTION and IC 21-12-10, as added by this act. A temporary rule adopted under this SECTION expires on the earliest of the following:
(1) The date specified in the temporary rule.
(2) The date another temporary rule or a permanent rule repeals or supersedes the previously adopted temporary rule.
(3) July 1, 2012.
(c) This SECTION expires July 1, 2012.
