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January 18, 2024
HOUSE BILL No. 1042
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DIGEST OF HB 1042 (Updated January 17, 2024 2:12 pm - DI 140)
Citations Affected: IC 21-12.
Synopsis: Transition to teaching scholarships. Provides that any
balance in the next generation Hoosier educators scholarship fund
remaining after the award of next generation Hoosier educators
scholarships for a fiscal year may be used to fund additional transition
to teaching scholarships. Removes a provision concerning the
reduction of scholarships if certain limits are exceeded.
Effective: July 1, 2024.
Heine, Goodrich, Jordan, Klinker
January 8, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
January 11, 2024, reported — Do Pass. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
pursuant to Rule 127.
January 18, 2024, reported — Do Pass.
HB 1042—LS 6221/DI 143 January 18, 2024
Second Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2024)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1042
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
higher education.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 21-12-16-8.5, AS ADDED BY P.L.242-2023,
2 SECTION 5, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 JULY 1, 2024]: Sec. 8.5. (a) Subject to subsection (b), if an applicant
4 meets the requirements under section 5.5 of this chapter, the
5 commission may award a one (1) time nonrenewable scholarship to the
6 applicant in an amount of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for
7 transition to teaching program and initial practitioner licensure costs
8 under IC 20-28-4.
9 (b) The total annual amount of scholarships awarded by the
10 commission under this section may not exceed one million dollars
11 ($1,000,000). If the total amount of scholarships exceeds the limit
12 under this subsection, the commission shall reduce the scholarships
13 awarded under subsection (a) in a manner prescribed by the
14 commission.
15 (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), any balance in the next
16 generation Hoosier educators scholarship fund established by
17 section 3 of this chapter remaining after the commission has
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1 awarded next generation Hoosier educators scholarships for a
2 fiscal year may be used to fund additional transition to teaching
3 scholarships as described in section 5.5 of this chapter.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Education, to which was referred
House Bill 1042, has had the same under consideration and begs leave
to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that said
bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1042 as introduced.)
BEHNING
Committee Vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was
referred House Bill 1042, has had the same under consideration and
begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1042 as printed January 11, 2024.)
THOMPSON
Committee Vote: Yeas 23, Nays 0
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