Bill Text: IN SB0182 | 2012 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: State educational institutions; credit transfers.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-03-16 - Signed by the Governor [SB0182 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-SB0182-Engrossed.html
Citations Affected: IC 21-18; IC 21-42.
Synopsis: State educational institutions; credit transfers. Requires the
commission for higher education to create a common course numbering
system, into which each state educational institution shall map its own
course numbers, for courses in the core transfer library. Requires state
educational institutions to create a statewide transfer general education
core to be implemented by May 15, 2013. Provides that an individual
who holds an associate degree is considered to have met at least 30
semester credit hours of the general education requirements for a
bachelor's degree. Requires a state educational institution to accept an
associate degree from another state educational institution as credit
toward a related bachelor's degree.
Effective: July 1, 2012.
(HOUSE SPONSORS _ KARICKHOFF, TURNER, KLINKER, PORTER)
January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
January 26, 2012, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
January 30, 2012, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
January 31, 2012, read third time, passed. Yeas 50, nays 0.
February 9, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
February 14, 2012, reported _ Do Pass.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
higher education.
(1) not later than December 1, 2012, create and report to the commission for higher education a statewide transfer general
education core, to be implemented not later than May 15,
2013. The core must be based upon a set of core competencies,
translated into at least thirty (30) semester credit hours of
comparable general education courses, that in areas agreed upon
by the state educational institutions, which apply for credit
toward undergraduate degrees, including associate degrees
and baccalaureate degrees at all campuses of state educational
institutions; and are eligible to be earned by a student to fulfill
graduation requirements at each state educational institution.
(2) jointly establish statewide standards for use by all state
educational institutions to document an individual's
completion of the statewide transfer general education core on
the individual's transcripts.
(b) If an individual does not complete the statewide transfer general education core of a state educational institution before transferring to another state educational institution, the individual must complete the statewide transfer general education core required by the state educational institution to which the individual has transferred. The state educational institution to which the individual has transferred shall award credit to the individual for courses the individual has satisfactorily completed, based on the course to course equivalencies of the core transfer library established under IC 21-42-5.
(c) An individual who holds an associate of arts or associate of science degree approved by the commission who is admitted to a four (4) year state educational institution is considered to have met at least thirty (30) semester credit hours of the state educational institution's general education requirement.
