1. (a) Subject to subsection (c), the state board and the governing body of a school corporation must enter into a contract that complies with this chapter to designate a school corporation as a freeway school corporation or a school within a school corporation as a freeway school if a school corporation:

   1. (1) petitions the state board for designation as a freeway school corporation or to have a school within the school corporation designated as a freeway school; and
   2. (2) agrees to comply with this chapter.

2. (b) A school corporation becomes a freeway school corporation and a school becomes a freeway school when the contract is signed, before July 1, 2020, by:

   1. (1) the state superintendent of public instruction, acting for the state board after a majority of the members of the state board have voted in a public session to enter into the contract; and
   2. (2) the president of the governing body of the school corporation, acting for the governing body of the school corporation after a majority of the members of the governing body have voted in a public session to enter into the contract.

3. (c) The state board and the governing body of a school corporation may not enter into, renew, or otherwise extend a contract under this chapter after June 30, 2020.

   [Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-62-4.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.92-2020, SEC.34; P.L.43-2021, SEC.79.