§ 21-28-5-13 — Higher education statewide telecommunications fund; establishment

Indiana § 21-28-5-13

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 21: HIGHER EDUCATION
• Art. 28: STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS:
• Ch. 5: Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System

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(a) The higher education statewide
telecommunications fund is established as a special and distinct fund.
Expenditures from the fund may be made only for the following:
(1) Payments by the participating educational institutions for the
use of a transmission system or the lease, purchase, rental, or
production of information in a designated electronic format.
(2) Studies regarding the possibilities of extending the use of the
transmission system:
(A) to state educational institutions or private postsecondary
educational institutions in Indiana that are not participating
educational institutions; and
(B) for post-high school and other educational uses.
(3) The expenses of coordinating, planning, and supervising the
use of the transmission system and the information in the
designated electronic format.
(4) Equipment for the originating and receiving of instructional
communication and educational information by means of the
transmission system and the information in the designated
electronic format.
(b) The state comptroller shall pay, as needed, from the fund
amounts to the board of trustees of Indiana University as agent for the
participating educational institutions.
(c) The board of trustees of Indiana University, as agent, shall apply
the funds to the payment of items as payment becomes due from the
fund.
[Pre-2007 Higher Education Recodification Citation:
20-12-12-6.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2007, SEC.269. Amended by P.L.9-2024, SEC.434.