Senate Committee on Education
April 24, 2024
1:00 pm
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room

Adjourned
 



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CALL TO ORDER

ROLL CALL

APPROVAL OF MINUTES
 April 17, 2024

LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
 SB213JENKINSSCHOOLS - Provides sick leave for school employees under certain circumstances. (gov sig) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX)
 SB314BARROWWOMEN - Provides tuition and fee exemptions at public postsecondary education institutions for Louisiana women of a certain age. (gov sig) (OR DECREASE SG RV See Note)
 SB294HODGESSTUDENTS - Confirms the protections of free speech and First Amendment protected activities on college and university campuses. (gov sig)
 SB433EDMONDSEDUCATION DEPARTMENT - Requires the Dept. of Education to establish an online Early Childhood Education Data Dashboard. (8/1/24) (EG +$622,729 GF EX See Note)
 SB475ROBERT OWENSCHOOLS - Allows the Health Education course to be offered virtually under certain circumstances. (gov sig)
 HCR14MELERINESCHOOLS - Requests that the state Department of Education study the potential effects of alternative school calendar options on student academic achievement
 HCR17SCHLEGELSCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES - Requests the state Department of Education, Department of Children and Family Services, and Louisiana Department of Health to collaborate to increase mental health counseling in public schools
 HB20RISERLIBRARIES - Provides relative to administration of funds of the Catahoula Parish Library
 HB78CARVERSCHOOLS/CHARTER - Authorizes initial proposals for charter schools with corporate partners to be made to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education as Type 2 charter school proposals (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV)
 HB143BACALASCHOOLS/FINANCE-MFP - Authorizes the state superintendent to provide for a chief operating officer to make recommendations relative to the financial practices of local school systems failing to comply with the MFP's minimum instructional expenditure requirement (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
 HB153BACALAEDUCATION/SPECIAL - Provides relative to special education (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
 HB197CARVERSUNSET LAW - Provides relative to the re-creation of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism
 HB551BRASSCURRICULA - Revises the membership and duties of the Dual Enrollment Framework Task Force
 HB694BOYDCULTURE/REC/TOUR - Establishes the Louisiana Music Commission within the Department of Culture Recreation and Tourism (EN SEE FISC NOTE SG EX)

CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE

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