Senate GOP Budget Proposal Adds K-12 Funds For Poverty, Less For School Choice
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Sens. Eric Bassler (R-Washington), left, and Ryan Mishler (R-Bremen), right, present the Senate Republican two-year state budget proposal.
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Indiana Senate Republicans unveiled their $36 billion two-year state budget proposal Thursday – making a number of changes to the House’s K-12 funding plan and focusing heavily on one-time spending.
The Senate version of the proposed K-12 funding plan dials back school choice programs favored by the House and increases funding for students in poverty.
It’s part of the Senate’s overall effort to double the amount of new dollars for K-12 spending at $875 million compared to the House’s $438 million proposed increase. Total K-12 support for the two-year budget is set at $15.4 billion, or 50 percent of the state’s total general fund spending.
Feb 17, 2021 / 04:23 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) News 8’s David Williams reports lawmakers in the Indiana House have voted to override a 2020 veto by Gov. Eric Holcomb, making the measure into law.
Senate Bill 148 from the 2020 General Assembly would prevent individual cities from taking action on landlord and tenant matters, including expedited evictions and regulating rental properties.
In 2020, the state Senate voted 29-19 in favor of a House-Senate agreement on the bill, which the House later approved 64-32, before the legislative session adjourned March 12. Both the House and Senate had Republican supermajorities, both in 2020 and again in 2021. The Republican governor vetoed the measure on March 25, citing the emerging coronavirus pandemic as one concern.
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