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IN HB1363
Bill
Status
1/12/2016
Primary Sponsor
Robert Morris
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AI Summary
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Reduces minimum student instructional days from 180 to 175 days per school year beginning in the 2017-2018 school year.
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Establishes that student instructional days must begin the Tuesday after Labor Day and end the Friday before Memorial Day, starting with the 2017-2018 school year.
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Repeals penalty provisions that previously reduced state tuition support for school corporations failing to conduct the minimum 180 instructional days.
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Removes waiver provisions that allowed the department to grant waivers for canceled instructional days due to extraordinary circumstances.
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Effective July 1, 2016.
Legislative Description
School calendar. Requires, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, a school corporation to conduct at least 175 student instructional days in a school year. (Currently, a school corporation is required to conduct at least 180 student instructional days.) Provides, beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, that student instructional days begin the Tuesday after Labor Day (the first Monday in September) and end the Friday before Memorial Day (the last Monday in May). Repeals sections concerning a penalty for conducting fewer than 180, but more than 175, student instructional days and deletes a reference to one of those sections in the
Last Action
Representative Lucas added as coauthor
1/21/2016