HB 1266 IN

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Makes various changes to education provisions concerning the following: (1) Creating a teaching and learning framework for the implementation of mathematics academic standards. (2) Development of a data science math pathway. (3) Submission of a report to the general assembly concerning recommendations on strategies to support academically and fiscally underperforming schools, and interventions as necessary. (4) Evaluating, approving, and publishing high quality curricular materials time lines. (5) Local board membership for a local centralized school facilities board and local student transportation board. (6) Salary differentiation regarding teachers who possess a literacy endorsement. (7) Amounts expended in participating in an interlocal agreement included in determining amounts school corporations expend on full-time teacher salaries for purposes of teacher salary minimum funding requirements. (8) Summer school program and reimbursement administration. (9) Criteria required for eligibility of a waiver for conducting four day school weeks. (10) Oversight of career and technical education program designation. (11) Uses of teacher appreciation grants. (12) The calculation of operating referendum distributions and school safety referendum distributions to charter schools with regard to virtual instruction. (13) Petitions regarding reconsidering payments of choice scholarships. (14) Membership of the board for proprietary education. (15) The effective date regarding the changes to the definition of "eligible choice scholarship student". (16) Career specialist permit eligibility. Provides that an emergency permit may be renewed up to two times to an individual enrolled in an alternative teacher certification program if the program provides documentation verifying the individual's good standing in the program to the department of education. Creates a new qualification option for a transition to teaching program participant who seeks to obtain a license to teach in grades 5 through 12. Removes a provision that provides that the department may not release less than 10 items per subject matter level per grade level regarding the statewide summative assessment. Removes a requirement that for a parent or student to use a career scholarship account (CSA) annual grant amount for costs related to transportation a CSA participating entity must pay a matching amount for the transportation costs. Requires each state educational institution that offers a two year graduate degree program in mental or behavioral health to evaluate the graduate degree program to determine the feasibility of providing the program in a specifically structured manner to allow full-time students to complete the program within: (1) one year; or (2) five years if the program is combined with a baccalaureate degree program. Requires the Indiana department of education to elect to participate as a covered state in the federal tax credit scholarship program for elementary and secondary education under Section 25F of the Internal Revenue Code (enacted in Public Law 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025). Makes conforming changes to the school scholarship tax credit in current law. Requires the governor and the department of workforce development, in consultation with the commission for higher education, to: (1) establish a process to identify eligible workforce training programs; (2) establish a process for institutions and programs to apply for recognition as an eligible workforce training program; (3) coordinate certain workforce training matters; and (4) require eligible workforce training programs to provide certain datasets to the department. Provides that the department of workforce development must maintain alignment with federal rules governing workforce Pell grants. Repeals certain provisions concerning postsecondary career and technical education.

• Robert Behning Republican · author
• Jeff Raatz Republican · sponsor
• Tyler Johnson Republican · sponsor

1. Jan 6, 2026 First reading: referred to Committee on Education · lower
2. Jan 6, 2026 Authored by Representative Behning · lower
3. Jan 6, 2026 Coauthored by Representative McGuire · lower
4. Jan 8, 2026 Recommitted to Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to House Rule 126.3 · lower
5. Jan 8, 2026 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted · lower
6. Jan 14, 2026 Representative Klinker added as coauthor · lower
7. Jan 22, 2026 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted · lower
8. Jan 27, 2026 Amendment #1 (Burton) motion withdrawn · lower
9. Jan 27, 2026 Second reading: ordered engrossed · lower
10. Jan 28, 2026 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 136: yeas 90, nays 1 · lower
11. Jan 28, 2026 Senate sponsors: Senators Raatz, Johnson T · lower
12. Jan 29, 2026 Referred to the Senate · lower
13. Feb 2, 2026 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development · upper
14. Feb 12, 2026 Committee report: amend do pass adopted; reassigned to Committee on Appropriations · upper
15. Feb 19, 2026 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted · upper
16. Feb 19, 2026 Senator Randolph added as cosponsor · upper
17. Feb 23, 2026 Amendment #1 (Yoder) prevailed; voice vote · upper
18. Feb 23, 2026 Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed · upper
19. Feb 24, 2026 Returned to the House with amendments · upper
20. Feb 24, 2026 Motion to dissent filed · lower
21. Feb 24, 2026 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 246: yeas 47, nays 0 · upper
22. Feb 24, 2026 House dissented from Senate amendments · lower
23. Feb 25, 2026 House advisors appointed: Payne, Cash, DeLaney, Klinker, Pfaff · lower
24. Feb 25, 2026 Senate advisors appointed: Johnson T, Ford J.D. · upper
25. Feb 25, 2026 Senate conferees appointed: Raatz, Hunley · upper
26. Feb 25, 2026 House conferees appointed: Behning, Smith V · lower
27. Feb 27, 2026 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 334: yeas 28, nays 19 · upper
28. Feb 27, 2026 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 425: yeas 66, nays 30 · lower
29. Feb 27, 2026 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate · upper
30. Feb 27, 2026 CCR # 1 filed in the House · lower
31. Feb 27, 2026 Senator Goode added as conferee · upper
32. Feb 27, 2026 Senator Hunley removed as conferee · upper
33. Feb 27, 2026 Representative Greene added as conferee · lower
34. Feb 27, 2026 Representative Smith V removed as conferee · lower
35. Mar 5, 2026 Signed by the President Pro Tempore · upper
36. Mar 12, 2026 Public Law 159 · lower
37. Mar 3, 2026 Signed by the Speaker · lower
38. Mar 12, 2026 Signed by the Governor · executive
39. Mar 2, 2026 Signed by the President of the Senate · upper