Weekly Statehouse Update: School Choice Expansion, Defund The Police Ban Rejected
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School voucher expansion clears the House. The Senate passes a bill to more harshly penalize rioters. And a measure banning “defund the police” is soundly rejected.
Here’s what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse.
Controversial legislation that would create Indiana s first educational savings account program and expand the eligibility of state-funded private school vouchers to families with double the state s median income passed out of the House Tuesday.
Under the expansion, families making double the state’s median income would now be eligible for those vouchers. And voucher expansion would take up about a third of House Republicans’ proposed increase in K-12 school funding in the next state budget.
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(Indianapolis, Ind.) - Indiana Senate Democrats and Indiana Senate Republicans have announced their 2021 legislative priorities.
On Tuesday, Senate Democratic Leader Greg Taylor (D-Indianapolis) and members of the Senate Democratic Caucus outlined the four main tenets of their 2021 agenda, which consists of:
Raise the minimum wage so that all Hoosiers can earn a living wage
Boost workers compensation benefits that haven t increased in over five years
Support the IBLC justice reform agenda, especially banning no-knock warrants and chokehold maneuvers
Expand access to voting by allowing no-excuse absentee voting and ballot drop boxes These priorities that we shared today have always been important to the lives of Hoosiers and should be the priorities of all members of the General Assembly, Sen. Taylor said. However, this pandemic quickly and overwhelmingly showed how our public policy is la