Committee Agenda

Committee:    House Education
Room:    412
Date:    Tuesday, February 6, 2001
Time:    7:00 PM



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         SB 117*     revise certain provisions related to background checks for school district employees.
             Senators Sutton (Dan), Ham, McIntyre, and Olson (Ed) and Representatives Garnos, Gillespie, Kooistra, Olson (Mel), and Slaughter

         HB 1264     create a school consolidation commission, revise state aid to education, and to appropriate money to increase teacher's salaries.
             Representative Richter and Senator McCracken

         HB 1294     provide a financial incentive for school districts to consolidate.
             Representatives Teupel, Garnos, Juhnke, and McCoy and Senators Apa, Kleven, and Whiting

         HB 1007     revise the index factor in the state aid to education formula.
             Representatives Brown (Richard) and Pummel and Senators Munson, Brosz, Everist, Hutmacher, McIntyre, and Reedy at the request of the Interim Education Committee

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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SCOTT ECCARIUS, Chair