Note: This version of section effective until 1-1-2025. See also following version of this section, effective 1-1-2025.

     Sec. 2. (a) A governing body or an organizer of a charter school may purchase from a publisher any curricular material selected by the proper local officials. The governing body or the organizer of a charter school may not rent the curricular materials to students enrolled in any public school.

     (b) A governing body may rent curricular materials to students enrolled in any nonpublic school that is located within the attendance unit served by the governing body. An organizer of a charter school may rent curricular materials to students enrolled in any nonpublic school.

     (c) A governing body or an organizer of a charter school may negotiate the rental rate for the curricular materials rented to any nonpublic school under subsection (b).

     (d) A governing body shall collect and deposit the amounts received from the rental of curricular materials to a nonpublic school into the curricular materials account, in accordance with IC 20-40-22-9, in equal amounts for each public school of the school corporation.

     (e) An organizer of a charter school shall deposit all money received from the rental of curricular materials to a nonpublic school into the charter school’s curricular materials account described in IC 20-40-22-9.

     (f) This section does not limit other laws.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-10.1-10-2.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.73-2011, SEC.9; P.L.286-2013, SEC.61; P.L.233-2015, SEC.151; P.L.201-2023, SEC.164.