Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Education
Room:    413
Date:    Monday, February 22, 2010
Time:    7:45 AM



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        HB 1168     require children to attend school until age sixteen rather than age eighteen.
            Representatives Noem, Bolin, Cronin, Faehn, Frerichs, Greenfield, Jensen, Killer, Kirkeby, Kirschman, Kopp, Lederman, Olson (Betty), Rausch, Rave, Romkema, Russell, Schrempp, Solum, Turbiville, Vanneman, and Verchio and Senators Howie, Peterson, Rhoden, and Schmidt

        SB 63*     provide for the establishment of a pilot charter school in South Dakota if the Department of Education receives a federal grant to fund it.
            The Committee on Education at the request of the Department of Education

        SB 121*     require the Department of Education to establish certain programs for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.
            Senators Ahlers, Bartling, Garnos, and Tieszen and Representatives Thompson, Blake, Gosch, Hoffman, Hunhoff (Bernie), Peters, Sorenson, Steele, and Vanderlinde

        SB 145*     revise certain qualifications for the South Dakota opportunity scholarship program.
            Senators Merchant, Ahlers, Jerstad, Nelson, and Tieszen and Representatives Romkema, Engels, Fargen, Feinstein, Frerichs, Hamiel, Iron Cloud III, Kirkeby, McLaughlin, Moser, Schlekeway, Solum, Sorenson, Vanderlinde, and Verchio

        BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

        HB 1181     eliminate the consolidation incentives for any school districts that consolidate after July 1, 2010.
            Representatives McLaughlin, Brunner, Kirkeby, Peters, Romkema, Schlekeway, Sly, Turbiville, and Wink and Senators Tieszen, Abdallah, Bradford, Dempster, and Nelson

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        ED MCLAUGHLIN, Chair