Committee reviews House Bill 1002 to repeal duplicative education code, shift nonfederal trainings to local control

At a hearing of the Senate Education and Career Development Committee, Representative Bob Behning presented House Bill 1002, a broad cleanup of Indiana Code Title 20 that would repeal unfunded line items, remove duplicative or permissive "may" provisions and shift many non‑federal training requirements to local school corporations.

The bill’s sponsor, House Representative Bob Behning, said the measure aims to simplify statutes and return decisionmaking to local officials. "If you may do it, I don't need to tell you that you may do it," Behning told the committee, describing the project as an effort to eliminate unnecessary statutory language. He said the bill repeals roughly 35,000 words in Title 20 and removes advisory boards that have not been active in recent years,…