SB34 (Walker) – Confidential public pension information. – DOES APPLY TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

• Provides that the Indiana retirement system may disclose member financial records of a member of the public employees’ retirement fund or the teachers’ retirement fund to the member’s employer or a designated representative of the member’s employer, if the person agrees to: (1) maintain the confidentiality of the information; and (2) use the information solely for the purpose of administering the applicable fund or providing retirement counseling to the member. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the pension management oversight commission.)
• Read and referred to the Committee on Pensions and Labor on 1/4/12

SB83 (Leising) – Cursive writing in school curriculum. - A PORTION DOES APPLY TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

• Requires each school corporation to include cursive writing in the curriculum of the school corporation. Requires an accredited nonpublic school that participates in the choice scholarship program to include cursive writing in the school’s curriculum.
• Read and referred to the Education Committee on 1/4/12

SB84 (Leising) – Class basketball.  – DOES NOT APPLY TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

• Provides that a school corporation may participate in an interscholastic athletics association only if the association does not conduct boys’ or girls’ interscholastic basketball games in which the teams are divided into classes.
• Read and referred to the Public Policy Committee on 1/4/12

SB89 (Kruse) – Teaching of creation science. – DOES NOT APPLY TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

• Provides that the governing body of a school corporation may require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science, within the school corporation.
• NOTE: “may require” not “shall require”
• Read and referred to the Education Committee on 1/4/12

SB122 (Becker) – Performance contracts to sing national anthem. – DOES APPLY TO CHARTER SCHOOLS

• Provides that all public schools, charter schools, schools receiving public scholarships, and institutions of higher education must enter into an agreement with any person or group performing the national anthem at any event sponsored by the school that is open to the public to ensure standards for the performance. Provides for enforcement measures and a fine for not meeting the standards set.
• Read and referred to the Education Committee on 1/4/12

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