Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Education
Room:     412
Date:     Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Time:     10:00 AM



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Motion to refer HB 1086 to the Committee on House State Affairs.
Dr. Rick Melmer, Secretary, Department of Education will review academic data.

         HB 1147     allow the small school adjustment in the state aid to education formula to increase in value each year based upon the per student allocation.
             Representatives Novstrup (Al), DeVries, Elliott, Gassman, Hargens, Jerke, Moore, Nelson, Olson (Betty), Street, and Vanneman and Senators Bartling, Greenfield, Hoerth, and Turbak Berry

         HB 1150     provide for the recall of certain school district officials.
             Representatives Krebs, Faehn, Gillespie, Hunt, Weems, and Wick and Senators Hauge, Abdallah, Albers, and Olson (Ed)

         HB 1153     establish requirements and procedures for the certification of parent-taught driver education courses and to allow parents to teach driver education to their qualified children.
             Representatives Steele, Brunner, DeVries, Hargens, Miles, Novstrup (Al), Novstrup (David), Olson (Russell), Rhoden, Vanneman, and Willadsen and Senators Garnos, Abdallah, Greenfield, Lintz, and McNenny

         HB 1186     revise the eligibility requirements for the opportunity scholarship by allowing a student to take the ACT or SAT test after graduating from high school.
             Representatives Weems, Buckingham, Dennert, Dreyer, Faehn, Feinstein, Gilson, Hackl, Heineman, Hills, Juhnke, Krebs, Lucas, Noem, Novstrup (Al), Novstrup (David), Olson (Russell), Pederson (Gordon), Peters, Pitts, Rausch, Thompson, Tidemann, Turbiville, Wick, and Willadsen and Senators Greenfield, Albers, Dempster, Gant, Garnos, Gray, Hanson (Gary), Maher, McNenny, Napoli, Olson (Ed), Peterson (Jim), and Smidt (Orville)

         BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

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         PHYLLIS M. HEINEMAN, Chair