| 1 | 1 | | *HR1505* |
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| 2 | 2 | | Introduced Version |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE |
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| 4 | 4 | | RESOLUTION No. ___ |
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| 5 | 5 | | Introduced by: Porter |
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| 6 | 6 | | ____________________________________ |
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| 7 | 7 | | 1 A HOUSE RESOLUTION urging the Legislative Council |
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| 8 | 8 | | 2 to assign to the Interim Study Committee on Fiscal Policy the |
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| 9 | 9 | | 3 task of studying ways to improve the complexity grant in the |
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| 10 | 10 | | 4 school funding formula and ways to ensure that the school |
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| 11 | 11 | | 5 funding formula enables Indiana's public schools to provide an |
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| 12 | 12 | | 6 adequate education to all of Indiana's public school students. |
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| 13 | 13 | | 7 Whereas, The Indiana General Assembly has long |
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| 14 | 14 | | 8 recognized that some children face language barriers and |
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| 15 | 15 | | 9 economic disadvantages when entering Indiana's public school |
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| 16 | 16 | | 10 system and has responded by providing an enhancement to the |
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| 17 | 17 | | 11 school funding formula known as the complexity grant; |
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| 18 | 18 | | 12 Whereas, It is critical that the state of Indiana maximize the |
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| 19 | 19 | | 13 effectiveness of the complexity grant in educating children |
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| 20 | 20 | | 14 facing language barriers and economic disadvantages; |
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| 21 | 21 | | 20222184 |
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| 22 | 22 | | HR 1505/DI 92 2022 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | 1 Whereas, It is not enough for the Indiana General Assembly |
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| 24 | 24 | | 2 to comply with the mandate of Article 8, Section 1 of the |
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| 25 | 25 | | 3 Constitution of the State of Indiana by providing a uniform |
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| 26 | 26 | | 4 system of common schools that are tuition free and equally |
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| 27 | 27 | | 5 open to all; |
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| 28 | 28 | | 6 Whereas, It is critical that the Indiana General Assembly |
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| 29 | 29 | | 7 enact a school funding formula that provides an adequate |
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| 30 | 30 | | 8 education to all students attending Indiana's public schools; |
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| 31 | 31 | | 9 and |
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| 32 | 32 | | 10 Whereas, It is necessary for the Interim Study Committee on |
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| 33 | 33 | | 11 Fiscal Policy to examine the school funding formula and study |
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| 34 | 34 | | 12 ways to improve the complexity grant and ways to ensure that |
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| 35 | 35 | | 13 the school funding formula enables Indiana's public schools to |
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| 36 | 36 | | 14 provide an adequate education to all of Indiana's public school |
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| 37 | 37 | | 15 students: Therefore, |
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| 38 | 38 | | 16 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the |
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| 39 | 39 | | 17 General Assembly of the State of Indiana: |
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| 40 | 40 | | 18 SECTION 1. That the House of Representatives urges the |
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| 41 | 41 | | 19 Legislative Council to assign to the Interim Study Committee |
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| 42 | 42 | | 20 on Fiscal Policy the task of studying ways to improve the |
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| 43 | 43 | | 21 complexity grant and ways to ensure that the school funding |
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| 44 | 44 | | 22 formula enables Indiana's public schools to provide an adequate |
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| 45 | 45 | | 23 education to all of Indiana's public school students. |
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| 46 | 46 | | 24 SECTION 2. That copies of this resolution be transmitted by |
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| 47 | 47 | | 25 the Principal Clerk of the House of Representatives to each |
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| 48 | 48 | | 26 member of Personnel Subcommittee of the Legislative Council |
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| 49 | 49 | | 27 and the Executive Director of the Legislative Services Agency. |
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| 50 | 50 | | 20222184 |
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| 51 | 51 | | HR 1505/DI 92 2022 |
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