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IN SB0504
Bill
AI Summary
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Defines "applicable nonpublic school" as any nonpublic school with one or more employees, effective July 1, 2017.
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Expands educational service centers to serve charter schools and applicable nonpublic schools in addition to school corporations, allowing voluntary cooperation on programs including curriculum development, special education, technology, career and technical education, and purchasing.
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Permits school corporations, charter schools, and applicable nonpublic schools to pool resources for liability insurance, property insurance, worker's compensation, and health insurance through regulated trusts with stop loss insurance at 125% of expected claims.
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Authorizes individual or joint aggregation of natural gas commodity purchases and consolidation of purchases for school buses, vehicles, food services, facilities management, transportation, and instructional materials among school corporations, charter schools, and applicable nonpublic schools.
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Allows shared services arrangements for administrative functions (finance, payroll, human resources, transportation, food service) between school corporations, charter schools, applicable nonpublic schools, and government units without requiring school mergers or loss of curriculum control.
Legislative Description
Programs and services for charter schools. Requires that educational service centers provide services to a participating charter or certain nonpublic schools upon the request of the charter school. (This is in addition to current law that requires educational service centers to provide services to a participating school corporation upon request of the school corporation.) Allows charter schools or certain nonpublic school individually, in collaboration with other school corporations, charter schools, nonpublic schools or school corporations and charter schools or nonpublic schools acting jointly, and through the educational services centers, to undertake action to reduce noninstructional expenditures and allocate the resulting
Last Action
Public Law 126
4/21/2017