SOUTH DAKOTA SENATE
EIGHTY-THIRD SESSION

Bob Gray
President Pro tempore   		Dennis Daugaard
PRESIDENT  
Trudy Evenstad
Secretary  
Calendar
Friday, February 29, 2008
34th Legislative Day
SENATE CONVENES AT 9:30 AM

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MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEES APPOINTED THAT HAVE NOT REPORTED

SB 187      revise the general education state aid formula for purposes of increasing teachers' salaries.
     Enhance education in South Dakota.

Senate Committee: Knudson, Gray, Heidepriem
House Committee: Rhoden, Deadrick, Hargens

HB 1076      revise the funding for K-12 education.
     Exempt certain school districts from the requirement to reorganize due to low enrollment.

House Committee: Putnam, Gillespie, Turbiville
Senate Committee: Albers, McCracken, Nesselhuf

HB 1120     revise the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district.

House Committee: Rave, Dykstra, Gillespie
Senate Committee: McNenny, Lintz, Peterson (Jim)

HB 1124     (Amended HJ 587, 589, 592) enhance education in the state and to make an appropriation therefor.
     Establish a classification system, an evaluation system, and minimum annual salaries for certified teachers and school service specialists, to establish the Certified Teacher and School Service Specialist Classification and Evaluation System Advisory Board, and to revise certain provisions relating to teacher tenure.
     Enhance education in South Dakota.

House Committee: Rhoden, Deadrick, Hargens
Senate Committee: Knudson, Gray, Heidepriem

HB 1300      require the Department of Education to develop a framework for a high school for the twenty-first century, and to require high schools to report on activities and results relative to that framework.
     Require the Department of Education to develop a framework for a high school for the twenty-first century, and to require high schools to report on activities and results relative to that framework.
     Revise certain provisions related to the payment of additional funds to consolidated school districts.
     Revise certain provisions related to school district reorganization and to the payment of additional funds to consolidating school districts, and to revise the general state aid to education formula for the purpose of increasing teachers salaries.

House Committee: Rhoden, Deadrick, Hargens
Senate Committee: Knudson, Gray, Heidepriem

LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATIONS

HC 1027     (HJ p. 775) Honoring Jeff Berndt for being selected as the South Dakota Advanced Placement Teacher of the Year.
HC 1028     (HJ p. 776) Honoring Emma Wang for earning a Siemens Foundation Award for excelling in math and science.
HC 1029     (HJ p. 776) Honoring Daniel Parrott for earning a Siemens Foundation Award for excelling in math and science.
HC 1030     (HJ p. 777) Honoring eleven top seniors from Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls as finalists for the Merit Scholarship Awards.
HC 1031     (HJ p. 777) Congratulating the town of Epiphany on the 125th anniversary celebration of its founding.
HC 1032     (HJ p. 778) Congratulating the town of Canova on the 125th anniversary celebration of its founding.
HC 1033     (HJ p. 779) Honoring Dora Brugier of Eagle Butte for her lifelong civic contributions as a Lakota storyteller, deacon, grandmother, aunt, mother, and community leader.
HC 1034     (HJ p. 779) Honoring Sue Horstmeyer for her years of dedicated service to the South Dakota education system.
HC 1035     (HJ p. 780) Honoring Sarah Thvedt as a distinguished finalist for the Prudential Spirit of Community Award.


HC 1036     (HJ p. 781) Congratulating the town of Artesian on the 125th anniversary of its founding.
HC 1037     (HJ p. 781) Commending and honoring Casimir Ziolkowski for pushing forward with his father's dream of the Crazy Horse Memorial.

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