Senate Standing Committee on Education

Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 152-S

Committee Agenda
Committee Minutes
Testimony
Miscellaneous Documents
2012 Action Index

Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Bills In Committee
SB18 - School districts; finance; at-risk funds; limits on use.
SB19 - School districts; finance; KPERS weighting.
SB20 - School districts; at-risk pupils; age limit.
SB22 - School districts; finance; transportation state aid.
SB27 - School districts; finance; bilingual weighting based on program enrollment.
SB32 - School districts; finance; at-risk weighting calculated on FTE basis.
SB57 - School districts; amendments to base state aid per pupil for local option budget purposes.
SB68 - Creating the Kansas healthy youth act.
SB70 - Limitation on entitlement to capital improvement state aid.
SB75 - Dyslexia and other reading problems; requiring certain testing.
SB144 - Providing bus transportation for school children subjected to hazardous walking conditions.
SB153 - Authorizing contributions to accounts under the Kansas individual data on students program.
SB202 - School districts; purpose of state aid to public schools.
SB228 - Continuation of statewide tax levy for public schools.
SB230 - Creating the relevant efficient academic learning education act.
SB278 - Amendments to school anti-bullying law.
SB350 - Graduated increases in base state aid per pupil.
SB361 - Creating the excellence in education act.
SB364 - Changes to the school finance formula.
SB377 - Excellence in education act; teacher certification; school employee performance and evaluation.
SB392 - Community college; use of internet as official publication of required notices.
SB393 - Substitute for SB 393 by Committee on Education -- Amendments regarding career technical education for secondary students.
SB401 - Granting in-state tuition to military veterans.
SB410 - School districts; requirements regarding identification of pupils with dyslexia and provision of services for such pupils.
SB448 - Authorizing the payment for paraprofessional services by school districts to the state school for the deaf and the state school for the blind.
SB450 - School finance; amendment to base state aid per pupil; increasing state prescribed percentage for local option budget for fiscal years 2013 and 2014.
HB2018 - School districts; finance; high density at-risk weighting.
HB2269 - School districts; finance; amendments to funding formula.
HB2444 - Grades K-12; use of seclusion and restraint of students with disabilities; reporting thereof.
HB2634 - Substitute HB 2634 by Committee on Education -- School employee performance and evaluation; professional development.

Sponsored Bills
SB17 - Increasing campaign contribution limits for candidates for the state board of education.
SB27 - School districts; finance; bilingual weighting based on program enrollment.
SB68 - Creating the Kansas healthy youth act.
SB69 - Requiring school districts to adopt policies against dating violence.
SB75 - Dyslexia and other reading problems; requiring certain testing.
SB111 - Postponing effective date of minimum and maximum calculations of special education state aid.
SB143 - Amendments relating to postsecondary technical education; creating the postsecondary tiered technical education state aid act.
SB144 - Providing bus transportation for school children subjected to hazardous walking conditions.
SB278 - Amendments to school anti-bullying law.
SB361 - Creating the excellence in education act.
SB364 - Changes to the school finance formula.
SB377 - Excellence in education act; teacher certification; school employee performance and evaluation.
SB393 - Substitute for SB 393 by Committee on Education -- Amendments regarding career technical education for secondary students.
SB410 - School districts; requirements regarding identification of pupils with dyslexia and provision of services for such pupils.
HB2004 - Senate Substitute for Substitute for House Bill 2004 by Committee on Education -- Authorizing certain contributions under the low-income family postsecondary savings account incentive program.
HB2200 - Senate Substitute for HB 2200 by Committee on Education -- School finance; amendment to base state aid per pupil; increasing state prescribed percentage for local option budget.
HB2251 - Senate Substitute for HB 2251 by Committee on Education -- Continuation of statewide tax levy for public schools.