Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Education
Room:     413
Date:     Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Time:     7:45 AM



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         HB 1297      revise the criteria required for minor boundary changes of school districts.
             Representative Rave

         HB 1149      allow a person or entity to offer postsecondary education credit in South Dakota while seeking accreditation from a recognized accrediting agency.
             Representatives Brunner, Bolin, Feickert, Jensen, Juhnke, Kirkeby, Moser, Novstrup (David), Olson (Betty), Rausch, Rave, Russell, and Verchio and Senators Howie, Abdallah, Bradford, Garnos, Novstrup (Al), Rhoden, and Schmidt

         HB 1293      provide for the establishment of school administration regions and to provide for the sharing of certain school administrators and school service specialists among school districts.
             Representatives Lust, Bolin, Dreyer, Gosch, Kirkeby, Kopp, Krebs, McLaughlin, Moser, Novstrup (David), Peters, Schlekeway, Sly, Solum, Steele, and Turbiville and Senators Adelstein, Haverly, Howie, Novstrup (Al), and Schmidt

         HB 1257      provide for the right to possess a firearm on the campuses of public institutions of higher education.
             Representatives Brunner, Deadrick, Greenfield, Juhnke, Kirkeby, Kopp, Krebs, Lederman, Olson (Betty), Russell, and Verchio and Senators Schmidt, Gant, Howie, Kloucek, and Maher

         HB 1295      authorize the establishment of charter schools.
             Representatives Killer, Blake, Burg, Dennert, Elliott, Engels, Fargen, Feickert, Frerichs, Gibson, Greenfield, Hunhoff (Bernie), Iron Cloud III, Juhnke, Kirschman, Lange, Nygaard, Schrempp, Solberg, Sorenson, Street, and Vanderlinde and Senators Bradford, Ahlers, Heidepriem, Hundstad, Maher, and Nesselhuf

         HB 1254      revise the funding of elementary and secondary education and to increase the required minimum size of a school district.
             Representatives McLaughlin, Bolin, Brunner, Dreyer, Gosch, Hunt, Kirkeby, Kopp, Krebs, Lust, Romkema, Schlekeway, Sly, and Turbiville and Senators Adelstein, Haverly, and Tieszen

         BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

         HB 1198      allow school districts to charge students a fee to participate in interscholastic activities for which no academic credit is earned.
             Representatives Kirkeby, Brunner, Gibson, Gosch, Jensen, Lederman, McLaughlin, Moser, Nygaard, Olson (Betty), Sly, Steele, and Verchio and Senators Bradford, Adelstein, Gant, Haverly, Howie, Kloucek, Rhoden, and Schmidt

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         ED MCLAUGHLIN, Chair