Bill Text: IN SB0198 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Choice scholarship eligibility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-26 - Committee report: do pass, reassigned to Committee on Appropriations [SB0198 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2012-SB0198-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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SENATE BILL No. 198

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 20-51-1-4.5.

Synopsis: Choice scholarship eligibility. Removes the requirement that a student must attend a public school for at least two semesters immediately prior to receiving the choice scholarship.

Effective: July 1, 2012.

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Eckerty

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    January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career Development.

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Introduced

Second Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2012)

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SENATE BILL No. 198

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 20-51-1-4.5; (12)IN0198.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 20-51-1-4.5, AS ADDED BY P.L.92-2011, SECTION 5, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2012]: Sec. 4.5. "Eligible individual" refers to an individual who:
        (1) has legal settlement in Indiana;
        (2) is at least five (5) years of age and less than twenty-two (22) years of age on the date in the school year specified in IC 20-33-2-7;
        (3) either has been or is currently enrolled in an accredited school;
        (4) is a member of a household with an annual income of not more than one hundred fifty percent (150%) of the amount required for the individual to qualify for the federal free or reduced price lunch program; and
        (5) either:
            (A) was enrolled attended in grade 1 through 12 in a public or nonpublic school corporation that did not charge the individual transfer tuition for at least two (2) semesters that

satisfies a child's obligation under IC 20-33-2 for compulsory attendance at a school immediately preceding the first semester for which the individual receives a choice scholarship under IC 20-51-4; or
            (B) received a scholarship from a scholarship granting organization under IC 20-51-3 or a choice scholarship under IC 20-51-4 in a preceding school year, including a school year that does not immediately precede a school year in which the individual receives a scholarship from a scholarship granting organization under IC 20-51-3 or a choice scholarship under IC 20-51-4.