Senator Jean Leising's 2013 Legislative Survey

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

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

3. Under federal healthcare reform, 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?

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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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 tightening the rules that allow prison inmates to have their sentences reduced if they earn college degrees while incarcerated?

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13. Do you support or oppose a review of Indiana’s mental health system to assist families of troubled children?

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14. Do you support or oppose the elimination of elected county commissioners?

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15. Do you support or oppose the elimination of elected township trustees and advisory boards?

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