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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
establish:
(1) the number of transfer students the school corporation has
the capacity to accept in each grade level; and
(2) the date by which requests to transfer into the school
corporation must be received by the governing body.
(c) After establishing the date under subsection (b)(2), the
governing body shall:
(1) publish the date on the school corporation's Internet web
site; and
(2) report the date to the department.
(d) The department shall publish the dates received from school
corporations under subsection (c)(2) on the department's Internet
web site.
(e) A student to whom this section applies may not request to
transfer under this section primarily for athletic reasons to a
school corporation in which the student does not have legal
settlement.
(f) If the number of requests to transfer into a school
corporation received by the date established for the school
corporation under subsection (b)(2) exceeds the capacity
established for the school corporation under subsection (b)(1), each
timely request must be given an equal chance to be accepted, with
the exception that a student described in subsection (h) shall be
given priority. The governing body must determine which students
will be admitted as transfer students to each school building and
each grade level within the school corporation by a random
drawing in a public meeting.
(g) Except as provided in subsections (i), (j), and (k), the
governing body of a school corporation may not deny a request for
a student to transfer into the school corporation based upon the
student's academic record, scores on ISTEP tests, disciplinary
record, or disability, or upon any other factor not related to the
school corporation's capacity.
(h) Except as provided in subsections (i), (j), and (k), the
governing body of a school corporation may not deny a request for
a student to transfer into the school corporation if the student
requesting to transfer:
(1) is a member of a household in which any other member of
the household is a student in the transferee school; or
(2) has a parent who is an employee of the school corporation.
(i) A governing body of a school corporation may limit the
number of new transfers to a school building or grade level in the
school corporation:
(1) to ensure that a student who attends a school within the
school corporation as a transfer student during a school year
may continue to attend the school in subsequent school years;
and
(2) to allow a student described in subsection (h) to attend a
school within the school corporation.
(j) Notwithstanding subsections (g) and (h), a governing body of
a school corporation may deny a request for a student to transfer
to the school corporation, or establish terms or conditions for
enrollment that prevent a student from enrolling in a school, if the
student has been suspended (as defined in IC 20-33-8-7) or expelled
(as defined in IC 20-33-8-3) during the twelve (12) months
preceding the student's request to transfer under this section:
(1) for ten (10) or more school days;
(2) for a violation under IC 20-33-8-16;
(3) for causing physical injury to a student, a school employee,
or a visitor to the school; or
(4) for a violation of a school corporation's drug or alcohol
rules.
For purposes of subdivision (1), student discipline received under
IC 20-33-8-25(b)(7) for a violation described in subdivisions (2)
through (4) shall be included in the calculation of the number of
school days that a student has been suspended.
(k) The governing body of a school corporation with a school
building that offers a special curriculum may require a student
who transfers to the school building to meet the same eligibility
criteria required of all students who attend the school building that
offers the special curriculum.
(l) The parent of a student for whom a request to transfer is
made is responsible for providing the school corporation to which
the request is made with records or information necessary for the
school corporation to determine whether the request to transfer
may be denied under subsection (j).
(m) A school corporation that has adopted a policy to not accept
student transfers after June 30, 2013, is not prohibited from
enrolling a transfer student who attended a school within the
school corporation during the 2012-2013 school year.
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