Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Education
Room:     423
Date:    Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Time:    8:30 AM



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         HB 1266*     allow a home school student to partially enroll in the student's resident school district or in another school district under certain circumstances and to clarify certain testing requirements for students who are partially enrolled.
             Representatives Brunner, Buckingham, DeVries, Hackl, Heineman, Howie, Hunt, Novstrup (Al), and Novstrup (David) and Senators Napoli and Lintz

         HB 1277     allow temporary contractual agreements between certain school districts to exist for an additional year.
             Representatives Olson (Ryan), Novstrup (Al), and Rounds and Senators Gray and Garnos

         HCR 1006     Encouraging the Board of Regents to approve the creation of a Mandarin Chinese major curriculum at Northern State University.
             Representatives Sigdestad, Burg, Davis, Dennert, Dykstra, Elliott, Faehn, Feinstein, Gassman, Gillespie, Gilson, Hackl, Halverson, Hargens, Hills, Hunt, Lucas, Lust, McLaughlin, Moore, Nelson, Novstrup (Al), Novstrup (David), Rounds, Street, and Thompson and Senators Hoerth, Bartling, Duenwald, Hansen (Tom), Hanson (Gary), Hundstad, Kloucek, Peterson (Jim), Sutton, and Turbak

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