Sec. 1. (a) An individual is an eligible pupil if the individual is a pupil enrolled in a school corporation and:
(1) the school corporation has the responsibility to educate the pupil in its public schools without the payment of tuition;
(2) subject to subdivision (6), the school corporation has the responsibility to pay transfer tuition under IC 20-26-11 because the pupil is:
(A) transferred for education to another school corporation; or
(B) placed in an out-of-state institution or facility by or with the consent of the department of child services;
(3) the pupil is enrolled in a school corporation as a transfer student under IC 20-26-11-6 or entitled to be counted for ADM purposes as a resident of the school corporation when attending its schools under any other applicable law or regulation;
(4) the pupil is twenty-two (22) years of age or less;
(5) the state is responsible for the payment of transfer tuition to the school corporation for the pupil under IC 20-26-11; or
(6) all of the following apply:
(A) The school corporation is a transferee corporation.
(B) The pupil does not qualify as a qualified pupil in the transferee corporation under subdivision (3) or (5).
(C) The transferee corporation's attendance area includes a state licensed private or public health care facility or child care facility where the pupil was placed:
(i) by or with the consent of the department of child services;
(ii) by a court order;
(iii) by a child placing agency licensed by the department of child services;
(iv) by a parent or guardian under IC 20-26-11-8; or
(v) by or with the consent of the department under IC 20-35-6-2.
(b) For purposes of a career and technical education grant, an eligible pupil includes a student enrolled in a charter school.
[Pre-2006 Recodification Citation: 21-3-1.6-1.1(j).]
As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.166. Amended by P.L.159-2007, SEC.4; P.L.234-2007, SEC.136; P.L.3-2008, SEC.124; P.L.146-2008, SEC.487; P.L.165-2021, SEC.161.