The 2025 legislative session is more likely to convey massive adjustments to Indiana colleges, from how they obtain funding, to what college students be taught and the way lecturers educate.
As a part of our protection this yr, Chalkbeat Indiana is monitoring this yr’s largest training payments as they transfer by way of the statehouse.
Beneath are payments that will make substantial adjustments to insurance policies affecting Indiana college students and lecturers. Meaning typically, we’re not together with payments that make minor adjustments to current grants and applications, or to the make-up of state commissions and governing our bodies.
This web page might be up to date weekly on Fridays all through the session. A full listing of payments is out there on the Common Meeting web site. Among the invoice descriptions beneath come from the Common Meeting.
This yr, payments should obtain a 3rd studying of their originating chamber by Feb. 20, or else they’ll be thought of lifeless earlier than they transfer to the alternative chamber. Then, they have to obtain a 3rd studying within the reverse home by April 15.
Extra details about how a invoice turns into a legislation is out there right here. You can too discover extra data on the 2 training committees right here.
This yr is an extended finances session, which suggests lawmakers should adjourn by April 29.
Schooling payments within the Indiana Senate
Senate lawmakers had till Jan. 9 to file payments. Nevertheless, there may be usually a delay within the payments being posted on-line. We are going to replace this listing as these grow to be out there.
SB 11: Minor entry and use of social media
Description: Parental consent for social media use for these beneath 16 years outdated
Standing: Heard within the Committee on Judiciary on Jan. 8. Held for amendments and vote subsequent Wednesday, Jan 15.
SB 16: Expulsion and suspension.
Description:New necessities and restrictions for suspension and expulsion in public colleges, together with that college students might solely be suspended or expelled if it’s obligatory to attenuate bodily hurt and faculty disruption. Requires colleges to supply providers to suspended college students.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth
Description:Reduces hours and necessities to obtain required literacy endorsement for licensure renewal
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 36: Counselor time with ratio exemption.
Description:Mandates that in 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 a college shall be certain that not less than 60% of a college counselor’s time is dedicated to offering direct providers to college students. In 2027-2028, that goes as much as 80%.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 67: Secured college security grants.
Description:Grant from the secured college fund for use to supply funding for college workers to obtain youth violence early intervention coaching. Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
SB 110: Faculty based mostly well being facilities.
Description:Requires DOE and DOH to determine a program to assist colleges set up well being facilities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth. SB 132: Childhood weight problems research matters.
Description: Establishes the childhood weight problems fee as a brief fee to review childhood weight problems.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Household and Youngsters Companies.
Description: Stipulates that the federal government might not intervene in a guardian’s proper to direct the upbringing of their baby — except there’s a compelling governmental curiosity. It additionally specifies that the invoice can’t be construed to permit a guardian to entry medical care for his or her baby that the kid will not be legally allowed to have, resembling puberty blockers and different gender-affirming care at the moment banned for minors in Indiana, based on examples given in committee.
Standing: Heard within the Committee on Judiciary on 1/8. Held for amendments and vote subsequent Wednesday 1/15. SB 168: Resident tuition.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive colleges eligible to pay the resident price for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth .
SB 213: Okay-12 training funding.
Description: Establishes a $65,000 minimal wage for lecturers, raises the revenue cap to take part within the On My Means Pre-Okay program, specifies will increase for college funding, appropriates funding for instructor recruitment and retention.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
Description: Offers {that a} political motion committee (PAC) might not make whole annual contributions in extra of an mixture of $5,000 apportioned in any method to a selected candidate for a college board workplace.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Elections
Description: Requires a college employer to debate sure objects with the unique consultant of certificated workers.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth
SB 230: Collective bargaining.
Description: Requires a college employer to collectively discount with the unique consultant of certificated workers applications and issues associated to high school security and related working circumstances.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth .
Description: Prohibits state companies and academic establishments from taking actions that the invoice defines as associated to range, fairness, and inclusion, together with holding coaching or influencing the composition of workers as regards to race, intercourse, shade, or ethnicity. Bans state entities from selling opinions on an inventory of 16 ideas together with bias, allyship, cultural appropriation, microaggressions, social justice, heteronormativity, and gender idea. Prohibits entities from utilizing funds for a Range, Fairness, and Inclusion workplace or officer. Permits the state Legal professional Common to compel companies to conform. Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth.
Description: Amends provisions that permit college companies to supply a supplemental cost to lecturers in extra of negotiated wage and permits districts to exclude income from bargaining for this goal.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth
SB 255: Schooling issues – licensing, non secular instruction, bullying.
Description:
- Permits secondary college students to obtain non secular instruction throughout the college day equal to the time spent attending an elective course.
- Requires the Division of Schooling to grant preliminary practitioner licenses to people who maintain levels in STEM topics and have accomplished a sure variety of educating programs.
- Requires colleges to tell the mother and father of each the sufferer and perpetrator in a bullying incident earlier than the top of the day that the varsity was made conscious of the bullying.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth
SB 257: Civic training – required and prohibited ideas.
Description: Requires colleges that educate American historical past and authorities to show rules of the Declaration of Independence, the Invoice of Rights, and the Structure of the USA. Prohibits this instruction from educating that the nationwide identification or tradition has been established by racial identification or racial discrimination, gender identification or gender discrimination, victimization, class wrestle, a hierarchy of privileges, or systemic exclusion.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling and Profession Growth
SB 287: Partisan college boards.
Description: Requires candidates for college board workplaces to be nominated in the identical method as candidates for all different elected workplaces are nominated. Modifies the annual quantity that the governing physique of a college company might pay a member of the governing physique from $2,000 to an quantity to not exceed 10% of the bottom beginning wage of a instructor employed by the varsity company.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Elections.
SB 289: Nondiscrimination in employment and training.
Description: Requires state entities and public colleges to publish coaching supplies associated to nondiscrimination and variety, fairness, and inclusion. Prohibits these entities from requiring workers and college students to affirm beliefs that any specific race, intercourse, ethnicity, faith, or nationwide origin is superior to every other, or will be blamed for the previous actions of people who share the identical traits. Creates a grievance course of.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Schooling payments within the Indiana Home
Home lawmakers have till Jan. 14 to file payments. We are going to replace this listing after the submitting deadline.
HB 1041: Scholar eligibility in interscholastic sports activities.
Description: Prohibits transgender ladies from enjoying on ladies’s sports activities groups on the college degree, and requires out-of-state groups to inform Indiana groups if a trans athlete is allowed to play on a ladies’s crew.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1045: Trainer compensation
Description: Consists of college social staff and faculty psychologists within the definition of “instructor” for functions of the requirement for college companies to expend a sure proportion quantity of state tuition help on instructor compensation.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1064: Faculty athletic occasions.
Description: Requires a college company to supply a money cost choice at athletic occasions
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1069: Tuition caps.
Description: Requires that, aside from price of residing changes, the schooling price and obligatory charges at specified postsecondary academic establishments might not improve from the time the scholar initially enrolls till the scholar graduates for an undergraduate scholar who’s an Indiana resident.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1070: Starvation-free campus grant program.
Description: Establishes the hunger-free campus grant program to supply grants to state academic establishments for functions of addressing meals insecurity amongst college students
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1071: Resident tuition price.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive colleges eligible to pay the resident price for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1102: Contracting for preschool applications.
Description: Removes language proscribing college companies from coming into right into a contract with a religiously affiliated nonprofit preschool program.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1136: Faculty company reorganization.
Description: Offers that, if greater than 50% of scholars who’ve authorized settlement in a college company have been enrolled in a college that isn’t operated by the varsity company on the 2024 fall common every day membership depend date, the varsity company should be dissolved and all public colleges of the varsity company should be transitioned to working as constitution colleges.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1160: Scholar immunizations.
Description: Offers {that a} scholar enrolled in a well being occupation training program might not be required to obtain an immunization as a situation of medical coaching or medical expertise required by this system when the scholar has a medical or non secular exemption.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1163: Faculty wellness grant fund.
Description: Establishes the varsity wellness grant fund to supply grants to high school companies to help native wellness initiatives developed by the varsity company.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1164: Faculty transportation.
Description: Offers that the governing physique of a college company should reduce or get rid of college bus route stops that require a scholar to cross sure roads.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1173: Ban on college practices.
Description: Offers {that a} state college might not examine or self-discipline scholar speech regarding politics, affiliations, perceived bias, prejudice, stereotypes, or intolerance, so long as the speech is protected beneath the First Modification. Bans universities from contemplating a scholar’s race for admission, monetary support, or scholarships.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1195: Pornographic materials.
Description: Requires college governing our bodies to undertake procedures permitting neighborhood members to request that sexually specific materials be faraway from colleges. Requires colleges to make catalogues of all curricular and library supplies out there on-line.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1201: Schooling issues.
Description: An omnibus invoice centered on absenteeism and commencement.
- Requires the Division of Schooling to create an inventory of finest practices for scholar self-discipline and to scale back persistent absenteeism, and to review colleges’ rationale for excused absences and unexcused absences, in addition to suspensions and expulsions classes.
- Establishes the Indiana subsequent technology highschool success grant program, which provides grants to public excessive colleges which have nonwaiver commencement charges beneath the state common.
- Requires public colleges to make use of the division’s early warning dashboard and take applicable intervention measures concerning college students with attendance points. Requires a public college to carry an attendance convention not later than 10 tutorial days (as a substitute of 5 tutorial days) after the scholar’s fifth absence.
- Prohibits a public college from expelling or suspending a scholar solely as a result of the scholar is chronically absent or a ordinary truant.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1207: Area science and know-how grant program.
Description: Establishes the house science and know-how grant program to supply grants to private and non-private colleges to develop and implement academic alternatives centered on atmospheric and outer house exploration.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1210: Scholar habits.
Description: Establishes the behavioral well being fund for the aim of bettering funding for individualized teaching programs which have a behavioral intervention plan element for sure colleges. Offers a process for a principal to position an aggressive scholar, who has been faraway from a category, into the aggressive scholar’s authentic class, one other applicable class or placement, or in-school suspension.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1222: Resident price tuition.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive colleges eligible to pay the resident price for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1229: Native authorities finance.
Description: Abolishes property taxes and proposes a brand new payment and funding construction for colleges to offset misplaced income.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
HB 1230: Faculty board elections.
Description: Every college board candidate’s political occasion should be displayed on the poll.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1231: Show of the Ten Commandments.
Description: Requires every college company to show the textual content of the Ten Commandments in every college library and classroom.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1246: Complete scholar help program.
Description: Establishes the great scholar help program for the needs of funding the formation and staffing of college based mostly and district degree complete scholar help groups, and bettering staffing ratios for scholar help personnel.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1253: Little one care adjustments.
Description: Numerous adjustments to childcare necessities, together with eradicating the requirement that youngsters receiving care from a college should be youngsters of scholars or workers.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Household, Youngsters and Human Affairs
HB 1256: School financial savings tax credit score.
Description: Will increase the school financial savings tax credit score.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1258: Trainer compensation.
Description: States that after June 30, 2026, a college company shall expend an quantity for instructor compensation that isn’t lower than an quantity equal to 70% (as a substitute of 62%) of the state tuition help distributed to the varsity company
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1285: Particular training.
Description: Makes a number of adjustments to particular training practices, together with:
- Establishes the particular training classroom grant program.
- Requiring colleges to have digital recording gear in particular training school rooms and different areas.
- Requires colleges to make use of not less than one behavioral interventionist.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Schooling.
HB 1303: Intercourse ed
Description: Specifies that if a college offers sexual well being training, the instruction should be complete.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
HB 1306: Classroom provides tax credit score.
Description: Will increase the utmost quantity of the revenue tax credit score for classroom provides from $100 to $300.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
HB 1321: Social media use by minors.
Description: Prohibits social media use by minors with out parental permission.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
HB 1326: Scholar and educating scholarships.
Description: Removes the revenue requirement and lowers the age threshold for a scholar to obtain a scholarship from a Scholarship Granting Group to attend a nonpublic college. Additionally makes adjustments to educating scholarships.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Schooling.
Aleksandra Appleton covers Indiana training coverage and writes about Okay-12 colleges throughout the state. Contact her at [email protected].
