Legislation

For questions regarding the Commission for Higher Education's legislative agenda, please contact Joshua Garrison, Associate Commissioner for Legislation and Program Implementation, at JGarrison@che.in.gov or Greg Harrell, Director, GHarrell@che.in.gov.

2022

• 2022 Legislative Summary
• 2022 Legislative Implementation
• SEA 388 – Foreign Gift Reporting

2021

• Campus Free Speech Report

2020

2020 Legislative Summary

2019

2019 Legislative Summary
2019 Legislative Implementation Tasks

• HEA 1002: Career and Technical Education
  • Workforce Ready Grant Expansion
  • Let Indiana Work for You
    • Implementation Plan
  • School Accountability Panel
• HEA 1009: Teacher Residency Pilot Program
• SEA 216: Educational Cost Exemptions
  • Legislative Guidance
• HEA 1245: Various Higher Education Matters
  • FAFSA Data Sharing Agreements
    • Legislative Guidance
    • FAFSA Completion Project Data Sharing Agreement
• SEA 438: Various Education Matters
  • Dual Credit Advisory Council
• HEA 1629: Various Education Matters
  • EARN Indiana Expansion
  • FAFSA Notification
    • Spanish Version

2018

2018 Legislative Summary

• HEA 1002: Workforce Funding and Programs
  • Workforce Ready Grant Expansion
  • EARN Indiana Expansion
• SEA 50: Governor's Workforce Cabinet
  • Governor's Workforce Cabinet website
• HEA 1074: Various Higher Education Matters
  • College-Level Scholar Success Program
  • State Financial Aid Policy Changes
• HEA 1047: Education Benefits for Veterans
• HEA 1426: Education Matters
  • Core 40 Math Opt-Out Consent Form

2017

2017 Legislative Summary

• HEA 1001: Biennial Budget
  • Performance Funding Review
  • Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities in Muncie Report
• SEA 198: Workforce Development
  • Workforce Ready Grant (Next Level Jobs)
• HEA 1281: Various Higher Education Matters
  • Financial Aid Reinstatement
  • Prior Learning Assessment and Financial Aid
    • Legislative Guidance
    • PLA Financial Aid Approval Template
  • Reverse Transfer Study
• HEA 1003: Student Assessments
  • ILEARN
  • Graduation Pathways
• SEA 412: 529 Asset Exemption

2016

2016 Legislative Summary

• HEA 1002: Next Generation Hoosier Educators Scholarship
  • Implementation of the Next Generation Hoosier Educators Scholarship
  • Recruiting and Retaining High Achievers for the Teaching Profession: Options Beyond Financial Aid (Prepared by Thomas P. Miller and Associates)
  • Next Generation Hoosier Educators Scholarship website
• HEA 1248: State Financial Aid Policy Changes
  • State Financial Aid Manual
• HEA 1370: Dual Credit Teachers
  • HLC Extension Application
  • HLC Extension Approval
• SR 33: Agricultural Law Program Feasibility
  • Feasibility of an Agricultural Law Program offered by Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law & Purdue University College of Agriculture

2015

2015 Legislative Summary

• HEA 1001: Biennial Budget
  • Return and Complete (You Can. Go Back.)
    • Institutional Guidance for Return and Complete
    • Institutional Guidance at a Glance
  • STEM Teacher Recruitment Grant
• HEA 1042: Truth in Lending
  • Legislative Guidance
  • Letter Mail Merge Template
  • PDF Fillable Template
• HEA 1333: National Guard Supplemental Grant
• SEA 509: Adult Student Grant

2014

None. See the 2014 Legislative Summary for other legislation of note.

2013

2013 Legislative Summary

• HEA 1001: Biennial Budget
  • Student-Teaching Stipend Program for High-Need Fields
  • Student Teaching Stipend for Minorities
• SEA 182: Single Articulation Pathways
  • Transfer Single Articulation Pathways Binder
  • Transfer Single Articulation Pathways Presentation
  • Statewide Transfer General Education Core Binder
• HEA 1341: Common Electronic High-School Transcript and College Application
  • Transcript Requirements and Guidance
  • TransferIN website
• HEA 1348: Administration of Scholarships and Grants
  • Credit Completion Requirements
  • Degree Maps
    • Institutional Guidance for Degree Map
    • Institutional Guidance at a Glance
  • Frank O’Bannon and 21st Century Scholarship Amounts
    • Frank O'Bannon Grant website
    • 21st Century Scholars website
• HEA 1312: EARN Indiana program (formerly state work study)
  • EARN Indiana website
  • IndianaINTERNnet
• HEA 1002: Indiana Career Council
  • Indiana Workforce Intelligence System (IWIS) website