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IN HB1586
Bill
Status
1/22/2019
Primary Sponsor
Lisa Beck
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AI Summary
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Public schools must provide curricular materials (textbooks) to all students at no cost, eliminating the existing rental fee system that allowed schools to charge up to 25% of retail price annually
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Creates a new state Curricular Materials Fund administered by the Indiana Department of Education to reimburse public schools for textbook costs, funded through legislative appropriations, donations, federal grants, and investment earnings
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Department of Education must determine a uniform per-student cost amount for curricular materials by July 1 each year and distribute funds to schools by July 15, with pro rata distributions if funding is insufficient
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Schools must deposit reimbursements into a separate curricular materials fund that does not revert at year-end; schools may still charge rental fees to nonpublic school students
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Effective date: July 1, 2019
Legislative Description
Free textbooks. Requires public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost. Establishes the curricular materials fund (fund) to provide state reimbursements for costs incurred by public schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost. Provides that the department of education shall administer the fund. Provides that money in the fund is continually appropriated.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Education
1/22/2019