House Committee on Education
May 10, 2017
9:00 a.m.
Room 1
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
DISCUSSION OF LEGISLATION
HCR7
N.LANDRY
SCHOOLS/FINANCE-MFP
- Provides for legislative approval of the MFP formula for FY 2017-18 (EN +$80,832,311 GF EX See Note)
HB34
PUGH
HIGHER EDUCATION
- (Constitutional Amendment) Relative to management of public postsecondary education, abolishes the Board of Regents and the management boards and transfers their powers, duties, and responsibilities to a newly created Louisiana Postsecondary Education Board of Trustees (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
HB113
BROADWATER
STUDENT/TUITION
- Extends, with limitations, the authority of public postsecondary education management boards to establish and increase student fees (EN INCREASE SG RV See Note)
HB117
FOIL
TOPS
- Raises the minimum grade point average required for initial eligibility for a Taylor Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) Opportunity Award (EG DECREASE GF EX See Note)
HB122
PIERRE
COLLEGES/ADMISSIONS
- Prohibits questions regarding criminal history on an initial application for admission to a public postsecondary education institution (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
HB133
EDMONDS
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Requires each public postsecondary education management board to develop a centralization plan and a cooperative unification plan and submit them to the legislature (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB239
BOUIE
SCHOOLS/CHARTER
- Requires certain charter school information to be submitted by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and ceases authorization of charter schools pending certification of such information
HB242
EMERSON
SCHOOLS/CHARTER
- Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and local public school boards to send certain information relative to independent evaluations of charter proposals to charter applicants
HB342
BROADWATER
HIGHER EDUCATION
- (Constitutional Amendment) Abolishes the Board of Regents and transfers certain board powers, duties, and responsibilities to a newly created board (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
HB390
GARY CARTER
TOPS
- Provides relative to TOPS award amounts and for procedures for reducing award amounts in the event of insufficient funding (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB528
BROADWATER
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Provides relative to the outcomes-based funding formula for public postsecondary education (RE SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
SB71
DONAHUE
TOPS
- Provides relative to TOPS award amounts. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
OTHER BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT