*ES0048.1*
February 22, 2024
ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL No. 48
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DIGEST OF SB 48 (Updated February 21, 2024 11:20 am - DI 140)
Citations Affected: IC 21-49.
Synopsis: State educational institution information. Requires a state
educational institution to prominently display hyperlinks to certain
college scorecard information on the state educational institution's
website and degree web pages.
Effective: July 1, 2024.
Doriot, Raatz, Garten, Alexander,
Dernulc, Leising, Goode, Rogers,
Baldwin, Bohacek, Tomes, Byrne,
Crane, Walker G, Messmer, Holdman,
Buck, Niezgodski, Koch, Deery,
Donato, Bassler, Johnson T, Zay,
Buchanan, Alting, Crider, Charbonneau,
Walker K, Freeman, Hunley, Gaskill
(HOUSE SPONSORS — TESHKA, BEHNING, DAVIS, SPEEDY)
January 8, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career
Development.
February 1, 2024, amended, reported favorably — Do Pass.
February 5, 2024, read second time, ordered engrossed. Engrossed.
February 6, 2024, read third time, passed. Yeas 48, nays 0.
HOUSE ACTION
February 12, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Education.
February 22, 2024, reported — Do Pass.
ES 48—LS 6251/DI 143 February 22, 2024
Second Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2024)
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ENGROSSED
SENATE BILL No. 48
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 21-49-5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS
2 A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
3 1, 2024]:
4 Chapter 5. Display of Information by State Educational
5 Institutions
6 Sec. 1. A state educational institution shall do the following:
7 (1) Prominently display on the home page of the state
8 educational institution's website a hyperlink to the state
9 educational institution's profile on the United States
10 Department of Education's college scorecard.
11 (2) Prominently display on the web page of each associate,
12 bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree offered by the state
13 educational institution a hyperlink to the state educational
14 institution's scorecard on the United States Department of
15 Education's college scorecard for the applicable associate,
16 bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Madam President: The Senate Committee on Education and Career
Development, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 48, has had the
same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the
Senate with the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as
follows:
Page 1, line 1, delete "IC 21-49-3" and insert "IC 21-49-5".
Page 1, line 4, delete "3. Disclosures" and insert "5. Display of
Information".
Page 1, line 4, delete "of".
Page 1, delete line 5.
Page 1, line 6, delete "(a)".
Page 1, line 6, delete "shall publish on the" and insert "shall do the
following:
(1) Prominently display on the home page of the state
educational institution's website a hyperlink to the state
educational institution's profile on the United States
Department of Education's college scorecard.
(2) Prominently display on the web page of each associate,
bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree offered by the state
educational institution a hyperlink to the state educational
institution's scorecard on the United States Department of
Education's college scorecard for the applicable associate,
bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree.".
Page 1, delete lines 7 through 17.
Delete page 2.
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to SB 48 as introduced.)
RAATZ, Chairperson
Committee Vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Education, to which was referred
Senate Bill 48, 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 SB 48 as printed February 2, 2024.)
BEHNING
Committee Vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0
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