Senator Mike Delph's 2013 Legislative Survey

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BUDGET

1. Indiana is projected to have a budget surplus next year. Do you favor A) returning the surplus to taxpayers, or B) using it to increase funding for state services?

DOLLARS FOLLOWING THE CHILD

2. If a student changes schools during the year, would you support or oppose redirecting the state education funding to the student’s new school?

FLEXIBILITY FOR HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOLS

3. Do you support or oppose rewarding the highest performing schools by exempting them from certain regulations to help promote innovation in the classroom?

PERFORMANCE FUNDING FOR K-12

4. Do you support or oppose giving the highest-achieving schools extra state funding in order to incentivize school improvement?

SCHOOL CORPORATION TAKEOVERS

5. Do you support or oppose allowing the state to intervene in failing school districts to improve their performance, as the state can do now for individual schools?

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

6. Do you support or oppose increasing state spending to create a state financial-aid program to help low-income families pay for preschool?

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

7. Do you think the state should increase spending to provide more vocational and technical education in public schools?

SCHOOL ABSENCE STANDARDS

8. Do you support or oppose statewide school standards defining excused and unexcused absences, to ensure that all students’ absences are treated equally?

PHYSICAL RESTRAINTS ON STUDENTS

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9. Do you support or oppose the state establishing rules for the appropriate use of physical restraint on students in schools?

MARRIAGE PROTECTION AMENDMENT

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10. Do you support or oppose holding a statewide vote to amend the state constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman?

SENTENCING REFORM

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11. Do you support or oppose changing how Indiana categorizes felonies in order to better match the punishment for crimes of similar severity?

FIGHTING METH

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12. Do you support or oppose requiring a prescription to buy cold medicines containing certain drugs, in order to curb their use in making illegal methamphetamine?

DNA COLLECTION

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13. Do you support or oppose requiring law enforcement to collect a DNA sample from criminal suspects in addition to their fingerprints?

PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

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14. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Indiana can expand Medicaid to cover more Hoosiers, but it would cost taxpayers over $1.4 billion by 2020. Do you support or oppose expanding Medicaid?

DCS HOTLINE

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15. Do you support or oppose allowing professionals like police and teachers to report child abuse directly to local caseworkers rather than to a statewide hotline?

DCS STAFF

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16. Do you support or oppose increasing state spending to hire more staff for the state’s child-abuse reporting hotline, in order to reduce wait times?

COLLEGE PERFORMANCE FUNDING

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17. Do you support or oppose giving more state funding to public colleges that meet performance goals like improving on-time graduation rates?

PRISONER EDUCATION CREDIT TIME

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18. Do you support or oppose tightening the rules that allow prison inmates to have their sentences reduced if they earn college degrees while incarcerated?

MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

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19. Do you support or oppose a constitutional amendment defining marriage between one man and one woman?

MASS TRANSIT

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20. Do you support or oppose a local or state tax increase for a comprehensive Central Indiana regional mass transit system?

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