Senator Brandt Hershman's 2013 Legislative Survey

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1. Indiana is projected to have a budget surplus next year. Do you favor A) returning the surplus to taxpayers, B) increasing funding for state services, C) increasing funding for k-12 education, D) increasing funding for college student assistance or E) Other? *If you choose “E) Other,” please leave suggestions in my comment box at the end of this survey.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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9. 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?

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

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11. 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?

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

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13. Under Obamacare, Indiana can expand Medicaid to provide health-care coverage for more low-income Hoosiers, but doing so would cost state taxpayers over $1.4 billion by 2020. Do you support or oppose expanding Medicaid?

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14. 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?

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

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

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