Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Education
Room:     468
Date:    Friday, February 2, 2007
Time:    10:00 AM



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         HB 1198     repeal the implementation of prospective mandates that children attend kindergarten and that kindergarten programs be a minimum length.
             Representatives DeVries, Brunner, Davis, Hackl, Howie, and Olson (Betty) and Senators Greenfield, Duenwald, Maher, McNenny, and Schmidt (Dennis)

         HB 1230     prohibit the Board of Regents from increasing the rate of tuition paid by full-time, undergraduate students under certain circumstances.
             Representatives Moore and Peters and Senators Hanson (Gary) and Napoli

         HB 1241     allow the Board of Regents to sell certain used computers through university bookstores.
             Representatives Olson (Russell), DeVries, Gassman, Gilson, Halverson, Haverly, Hills, Jerke, Kirkeby, Krebs, McLaughlin, Novstrup (David), Olson (Ryan), Rausch, Steele, Weems, and Wick and Senators McCracken and Koetzle

         HB 1233     revise the publishing requirement for school board vacancies in newly created school districts, to revise the deadline by which candidates for new school boards must file nominating petitions, and to declare an emergency.
             Representatives Deadrick and Juhnke and Senators Gant and Garnos

         HB 1236     allow the Department of Education to enter into certain enrollment agreements with the State of Iowa.
             Representatives Dykstra, Gillespie, Krebs, and McLaughlin and Senators Albers, Abdallah, and Olson (Ed)

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.

BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

         HB 1215     require the South Dakota State Library to continue to circulate popular books to citizens.
             Representatives Van Norman, Bradford, Elliott, Sigdestad, and Thompson and Senator Kloucek

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PHYLLIS M. HEINEMAN, Chair