Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Education
Room:     423
Date:    Thursday, February 22, 2007
Time:    7:45 AM



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         HB 1141*     create the health and safety facility equity program to assist certain school districts with critical need for capital construction.
             Representatives Buckingham, Hackl, Kirkeby, Miles, Olson (Betty), Weems, and Wick and Senators Napoli, Greenfield, Jerstad, Katus, and Olson (Ed)

         HB 1205*     provide funds to the state technical institutes.
             Representatives Peters, Dennert, Halverson, Haverly, Kirkeby, Rausch, Street, and Tidemann and Senators Gant, Napoli, and Smidt (Orville)

         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 1279*     create a task force to study permanent funding options for the state technical institutes, to provide for its composition, and to declare an emergency.
             Representatives Haverly, Burg, Rausch, and Tidemann and Senators Smidt (Orville), Apa, Greenfield, and Koetzle

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