Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Education
Room:     423
Date:    Thursday, February 2, 2006
Time:    7:45 AM



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         SB 120     increase general funding for school districts, to impose a temporary limit on the growth of state general fund spending, and to suspend the transfer of moneys from the general fund to the budget reserve fund and to the property tax reduction fund.
             Senators Nesselhuf, Bartling, Hanson (Gary), Hundstad, Kloucek, Koetzle, Moore, Peterson (Jim), Sutton (Dan), and Two Bulls and Representatives Hargens, Bradford, Dennert, Elliott, Gassman, Gillespie, Glenski, Glover, Haley, Halverson, Kroger, Lange, Miles, Roberts, Sigdestad, Street, Thompson, Valandra, and Van Norman

         SB 169     require the development of school safety plans and to require the conduct of lockdown drills in schools.
             Senators Smidt, Earley, and Lintz and Representatives Sebert, Frost, and Rounds

         SB 170     establish and appropriate money to the 21st Century Education Fund, to increase funding for education, and to revise the index factor in the state aid to education formula.
             Senators Knudson, Adelstein, Dempster, Duniphan, Gray, Hansen (Tom), Kooistra, McCracken, Olson (Ed), and Sutton (Duane) and Representatives Deadrick, Cutler, Hills, Jerke, McLaughlin, Nelson, Putnam, and Willadsen

         SB 134     revise state aid to education to include aid to sparse school districts.
             Senator Bogue

NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

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ED OLSON, Chair