A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring and recognizing the 2018 to 2019 winners of the Student Soybean Product Innovation Competition.
Provides that the reading plan established by the department of education, in conjunction with the state board of education, must provide flexibility to school corporations and schools in the manner the school corporation or school offers determinant evaluations. Authorizes school corporations or schools to make determinant evaluations in a manner other than providing a one time assessment. Voids the administrative rule establishing a reading plan and requiring the administration of IREAD 3. Makes conforming amendments.
Provides that the Indiana utility regulatory commission (IURC) may adopt rules necessary to administer the Indiana universal service fund (IUSF), including rules to: (1) adjust the amount of the surcharge percentage required to be collected by communications service providers and remitted to the IUSF; and (2) establish the types of communications service providers that are required to assess a surcharge for remittance to the IUSF. Provides that the IURC may, to the extent not prohibited by federal law, require a provider of interconnected voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) service to collect and remit to the IUSF a surcharge on the provider's revenue from intrastate use of the provider's interconnected VOIP service. Provides that a communications service provider, including a provider of broadband service through fiber optic cable, has access to public rights-of-way as a public utility for purposes of federal law exempting public utilities from payment of fair market value for use of public rights-of-way acquired with federal mass transportation funds. Allows use of the I-Light network for provision of communications service to unserved areas, subject to rules adopted by the office of community and rural affairs to: (1) define unserved areas for purposes of the rules; and (2) establish an application process to receive and evaluate proposals by communications service providers for use of I-Light to provide communications service to unserved areas. Provides that a fee owner of a right-of-way or a possessor of an easement: (1) is not entitled to compensation; (2) may not charge a fee of any kind; and (3) may not unreasonably deny authorization; for construction, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure by public and municipally owned utilities, including communications service providers, to the extent that the construction, operation, or maintenance does not interfere with the ordinary and normal use of the right-of-way or easement. Provides that the department of transportation, when issuing a permit for excavation or obstruction of a street, highway, or right-of-way: (1) may not require provision of a bond or cash deposit in an amount greater than $10,000 for each area designated in the permit; and (2) must accept a blanket bond in satisfaction of the bond requirement. Makes a technical correction.
Provides that a county executive may submit a notice to remove a historic bridge from the register of Indiana historic sites and historic structures and that the division of historic preservation and archeology must remove the bridge from the register upon receipt of the notice.
Provides a one time exclusion from Indiana adjusted gross income of an amount that was withdrawn by a taxpayer from an account owned by the taxpayer under an Indiana education savings program and that was never expended for purposes of an Indiana education savings program. Provides that the withdrawal is not subject to certain repayment or penalty provisions.
