House Committee on Education
May 8, 2018
9:30 a.m.
Room 1
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
DISCUSSION OF LEGISLATION
HR170
P.SMITH
CHILDREN/ABUSE
- Requests the State Bd. of Elementary and Secondary Education to require public school governing authorities to adopt policies to address sexual abuse by children in schools
HCR82
BAGLEY
TEACHERS
- Creates a task force to study issues relative to the employment of retired teachers to meet teacher shortages in public schools
SB253
MILKOVICH
SCHOOLS
- Provides relative to school employee participation in student-initiated prayer. (gov sig)
SB303
MILKOVICH
SCHOOLS
- Provides relative to bullying. (gov sig)
SB310
CLAITOR
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
- Provides relative to the collection and reporting of certain data regarding students with exceptionalities. (gov sig) (EG1 NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
SB452
MORRISH
TOPS
- Changes certain TOPS initial eligibility requirements and provides relative to the sharing of certain student data. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
SB465
W.BISHOP
STUDENTS
- Provides relative to student discipline. (gov sig)
SB512
GATTI
SCHOOLS
- Provides relative to school employee participation in student-initiated prayer. (gov sig)
SB562
BOUDREAUX
SCHOOLS
- Provides relative to virtual schools. (gov sig) (OR NO IMPACT See Note)
SCR8
MORRELL
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
- Requests the Dept. of Education to investigate the feasibility and cost of installing silent alarms in all elementary and secondary school classrooms.
SCR48
MORRISH
BESE
- Provides for legislative approval of the MFP formula for the 2018-2019 Fiscal Year. (EN +$3,045,000 SD EX See Note)
SCR76
JOHNS
BESE
- Requests BESE to ascertain whether all public, approved nonpublic, and charter school teachers, school counselors, principals, and other school administrators for whom suicide awareness training is deemed beneficial are in compliance with the Jason Flatt Act.
OTHER BUSINESS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT