HB 1266 changesDepartment of education and education matters.

What changed

+1376 / −1527 words · LargeConfidence: high

This version transforms HB 1266 from an engrossed bill with extensive committee amendments into a finalized enrolled act by removing all legislative procedural elements (preamble digests, committee reports, markup instructions, voting records, and appendices) and adding new substantive provisions. The most material changes establish federal alignment for scholarship tax credit programs by creating eligibility criteria tied to IRS Section 501(c)(3) status and Section 25F provisions, requiring the Department of Education to maintain year-round applications and submit certified lists to the U.S. Treasury Secretary. The bill also adds a comprehensive framework for workforce Pell grant administration coordinated between the governor, education department, and higher education commission, including certification processes and data reporting requirements. Career and technical education oversight shifts from an enrollment grant formula to a program designation framework with regional petition processes. Legislative cleanup includes removing extensive committee amendments regarding charter school referendum distributions, assessment reporting deadlines, and mental health graduate program feasibility studies, while adding standard enrolled act formatting and an emergency clause for immediate effectiveness.

Change log

• PREAMBLE >cont.

  removedhigh confidence

  Preamble language describing bill's 18 substantive provisions removed

  The continuation of the bill's preamble has been entirely removed. This preamble section previously enumerated topics 11 through 18 that the bill addresses, including oversight of career and technical education program designation, teacher appreciation grants, charter school referendum distributions, choice scholarship petitions, proprietary education board membership, career specialist permits, emergency permit renewals, transition to teaching qualifications, statewide assessment item release requirements, career scholarship account transportation matching requirements, postsecondary career and technical education provisions, and mental/behavioral health graduate degree program feasibility studies. The removal of this descriptive text does not necessarily affect the substantive provisions themselves, which appear in the bill's operative sections.

• PREAMBLE >cont.

  removedhigh confidence

  Technical/conforming change

  This removes standard legislative formatting instructions and the formal bill title page that typically appear at the beginning of bills. These are procedural elements that do not alter substantive law.

• APPENDIX

  removedhigh confidence

  Emergency declaration and committee report with career specialist permit amendments removed

  The entire appendix containing procedural elements has been removed. This appendix included an emergency declaration for the act and a committee report from the House Education Committee. The committee report contained amendments to IC 20-28-5-21 regarding career specialist permit eligibility requirements for secondary school teachers, including provisions for bachelor's degree holders with occupational experience, aviation ground instruction teachers, and flight instruction teachers.