The 2025 legislative session is prone to deliver huge adjustments to Indiana colleges, from how they obtain funding, to what college students study and the way lecturers train.
As a part of our protection this yr, Chalkbeat Indiana is monitoring this yr’s greatest schooling payments as they transfer by the statehouse.
Under are payments that may make substantial adjustments to insurance policies affecting Indiana college students and lecturers. Which means typically, we’re not together with payments that make minor adjustments to current grants and packages, 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 record of payments is out there on the Common Meeting web site. A few of 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-about useless earlier than they transfer to the other 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 regulation is out there right here. You too can discover extra data on the 2 schooling committees right here.
This yr is an extended finances session, which implies lawmakers should adjourn by April 29.
Training payments within the Indiana Senate
Senate lawmakers had till Jan. 9 to file payments. Nevertheless, there may be typically a delay within the payments being posted on-line. We are going to replace this record as these develop into accessible.
SB 11: Minor entry and use of social media
Description: Parental consent for social media use for these beneath 16 years previous
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 could solely be suspended or expelled if it’s essential to attenuate bodily hurt and faculty disruption. Requires colleges to offer providers to suspended college students.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement
Description:Reduces hours and necessities to obtain required literacy endorsement for licensure renewal
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement.
SB 36: Counselor time with ratio exemption.
Description:Mandates that in 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 a college shall make sure that no 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 Training and Profession Improvement.
SB 67: Secured faculty security grants.
Description:Grant from the secured faculty fund for use to offer funding for college workers to obtain youth violence early intervention coaching. Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement.
SB 110: College 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 Training and Profession Improvement. SB 132: Childhood weight problems examine matters.
Description: Establishes the childhood weight problems fee as a short lived fee to review childhood weight problems.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Household and Kids Providers.
Description: Stipulates that the federal government could not intrude in a dad or mum’s proper to direct the upbringing of their little one — until there’s a compelling governmental curiosity. It additionally specifies that the invoice can’t be construed to permit a dad or mum to entry medical care for his or her little one that the kid shouldn’t be legally allowed to have, reminiscent of puberty blockers and different gender-affirming care at present banned for minors in Indiana, in response to 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 fee for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement .
SB 213: Okay-12 schooling funding.
Description: Establishes a $65,000 minimal wage for lecturers, raises the earnings cap to take part within the On My Manner Pre-Okay program, specifies will increase for college funding, appropriates funding for instructor recruitment and retention.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
Description: Supplies {that a} political motion committee (PAC) could not make complete 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 gadgets with the unique consultant of certificated workers.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement
SB 230: Collective bargaining.
Description: Requires a college employer to collectively discount with the unique consultant of certificated workers packages and issues associated to highschool security and related working situations.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement .
Description: Prohibits state businesses 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 close to race, intercourse, colour, 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 Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion workplace or officer. Permits the state Legal professional Common to compel businesses to conform. Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement.
SB 249: Instructor compensation
Description: Amends provisions that permit faculty firms to offer a supplemental cost to lecturers in extra of negotiated wage and permits districts to exclude income from bargaining for this objective.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Training and Profession Improvement
SB 255: Training issues – licensing, spiritual instruction, bullying.
Description:
- Permits secondary college students to obtain spiritual instruction through the faculty day equal to the time spent attending an elective course.
- Requires the Division of Training 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 dad and mom of each the sufferer and perpetrator in a bullying incident earlier than the tip of the day that the college was made conscious of the bullying.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement
SB 257: Civic schooling – required and prohibited ideas.
Description: Requires colleges that train American historical past and authorities to show rules of the Declaration of Independence, the Invoice of Rights, and the Structure of america. Prohibits this instruction from educating that the nationwide id or tradition has been established by racial id or racial discrimination, gender id or gender discrimination, victimization, class battle, a hierarchy of privileges, or systemic exclusion.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training and Profession Improvement
SB 287: Partisan faculty 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 could 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 college company.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Elections.
SB 289: Nondiscrimination in employment and schooling.
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 explicit race, intercourse, ethnicity, faith, or nationwide origin is superior to some other, or might be blamed for the previous actions of people who share the identical traits. Creates a criticism course of.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Training payments within the Indiana Home
Home lawmakers have till Jan. 14 to file payments. We are going to replace this record after the submitting deadline.
HB 1041: Pupil eligibility in interscholastic sports activities.
Description: Prohibits transgender ladies from enjoying on ladies’s sports activities groups on the college stage, and requires out-of-state groups to inform Indiana groups if a trans athlete is allowed to play on a ladies’s workforce.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1045: Instructor compensation
Description: Consists of faculty social staff and faculty psychologists within the definition of “instructor” for functions of the requirement for college firms to expend a sure share quantity of state tuition help on instructor compensation.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1064: College athletic occasions.
Description: Requires a college company to supply a money cost choice at athletic occasions
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1069: Tuition caps.
Description: Requires that, aside from price of dwelling changes, the tutoring fee and necessary charges at specified postsecondary academic establishments could not enhance from the time the coed initially enrolls till the coed graduates for an undergraduate scholar who’s an Indiana resident.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1070: Starvation-free campus grant program.
Description: Establishes the hunger-free campus grant program to offer grants to state academic establishments for functions of addressing meals insecurity amongst college students
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1071: Resident tuition fee.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive colleges eligible to pay the resident fee for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1102: Contracting for preschool packages.
Description: Removes language limiting faculty firms from coming into right into a contract with a religiously affiliated nonprofit preschool program.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1136: College company reorganization.
Description: Supplies that, if greater than 50% of scholars who’ve authorized settlement in a college company had been enrolled in a college that isn’t operated by the college company on the 2024 fall common day by day membership rely date, the college company should be dissolved and all public colleges of the college company should be transitioned to working as constitution colleges.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1160: Pupil immunizations.
Description: Supplies {that a} scholar enrolled in a well being occupation schooling program will not be required to obtain an immunization as a situation of scientific coaching or scientific expertise required by this system when the coed has a medical or spiritual exemption.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1163: College wellness grant fund.
Description: Establishes the college wellness grant fund to offer grants to highschool firms to help native wellness initiatives developed by the college company.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1164: College transportation.
Description: Supplies that the governing physique of a college company should reduce or get rid of faculty bus route stops that require a scholar to cross sure roads.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1173: Ban on college practices.
Description: Supplies {that a} state college could 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 assist, or scholarships.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1195: Pornographic materials.
Description: Requires faculty governing our bodies to undertake procedures permitting group members to request that sexually express materials be faraway from colleges. Requires colleges to make catalogues of all curricular and library supplies accessible on-line.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1201: Training issues.
Description: An omnibus invoice targeted on absenteeism and commencement.
- Requires the Division of Training to create an inventory of finest practices for scholar self-discipline and to cut back power 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 supplies 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 faculty to carry an attendance convention not later than 10 tutorial days (as an alternative of 5 tutorial days) after the coed’s fifth absence.
- Prohibits a public faculty from expelling or suspending a scholar solely as a result of the coed is chronically absent or a routine truant.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1207: Area science and expertise grant program.
Description: Establishes the area science and expertise grant program to offer grants to private and non-private colleges to develop and implement academic alternatives targeted on atmospheric and outer area exploration.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1210: Pupil conduct.
Description: Establishes the behavioral well being fund for the aim of enhancing funding for individualized teaching programs which have a behavioral intervention plan part for sure colleges. Supplies a process for a principal to put 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 Training.
HB 1222: Resident fee tuition.
Description: Would make undocumented college students who’ve graduated from Indiana excessive colleges eligible to pay the resident fee for tuition at state universities.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1229: Native authorities finance.
Description: Abolishes property taxes and proposes a brand new charge and funding construction for colleges to offset misplaced income.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Methods and Means.
HB 1230: College board elections.
Description: Every faculty board candidate’s political social gathering should be displayed on the poll.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1231: Show of the Ten Commandments.
Description: Requires every faculty company to show the textual content of the Ten Commandments in every faculty library and classroom.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1246: Complete scholar help program.
Description: Establishes the excellent scholar help program for the needs of funding the formation and staffing of faculty based mostly and district stage complete scholar help groups, and enhancing staffing ratios for scholar help personnel.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1253: Youngster care adjustments.
Description: Varied adjustments to childcare necessities, together with eradicating the requirement that kids receiving care from a college should be kids of scholars or workers.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Household, Kids and Human Affairs
HB 1256: School financial savings tax credit score.
Description: Will increase the faculty financial savings tax credit score.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1258: Instructor 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 an alternative of 62%) of the state tuition help distributed to the college company
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1285: Particular schooling.
Description: Makes a number of adjustments to particular schooling practices, together with:
- Establishes the particular schooling classroom grant program.
- Requiring colleges to have digital recording tools in particular schooling lecture rooms and different areas.
- Requires colleges to make use of no less than one behavioral interventionist.
Standing: Referred to the Committee on Training.
HB 1303: Intercourse ed
Description: Specifies that if a college offers sexual well being schooling, the instruction should be complete.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Training.
HB 1306: Classroom provides tax credit score.
Description: Will increase the utmost quantity of the earnings 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: Pupil and educating scholarships.
Description: Removes the earnings requirement and lowers the age threshold for a scholar to obtain a scholarship from a Scholarship Granting Group to attend a nonpublic faculty. Additionally makes adjustments to educating scholarships.
Standing: Referred to Committee on Training.
Aleksandra Appleton covers Indiana schooling coverage and writes about Okay-12 colleges throughout the state. Contact her at aappleton@chalkbeat.org.