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1998 SESSION

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HB 434 Programs designed to promote educational opportunities.

Introduced by: W. W. Bennett, Jr. | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Programs designed to promote educational opportunities. Revises the statewide voluntary pupil-teacher ratio and class size reduction programs for grades K-3 in schools with high concentrations of at-risk pupils to bring schools with at least 50 percent free lunch participation from the current 18 to one pupil-teacher ratio to a 15 to one ratio and to reduce individual class sizes from 22 to 20 in these schools. This measure is a recommendation of the HJR 196 Commission on the Future of Public Education.

FULL TEXT

• 01/15/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 982169128  pdf
• 02/17/98  House: Printed as engrossed 982169128-E  pdf

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/15/98  House: Presented & ordered printed 982169128
• 01/15/98  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 01/21/98  House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 1
• 02/06/98  House: Reported from Education with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
• 02/06/98  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/14/98  House: Reported from Appropriations with amd. (29-Y 0-N)
• 02/15/98  House: Read first time
• 02/16/98  House: Passed by for the day
• 02/17/98  House: Read second time
• 02/17/98  House: Committee amendment agreed to
• 02/17/98  House: Engrossed by House as amended
• 02/17/98  House: Printed as engrossed 982169128-E
• 02/17/98  House: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/17/98  House: Passed House (79-Y 20-N)
• 02/17/98  House: VOTE: PASSAGE (79-Y 20-N)
• 02/17/98  House: Communicated to Senate
• 02/19/98  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/19/98  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/20/98  Senate: Assigned to Ed. & Health sub-committee: Public Education
• 02/26/98  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N)
• 02/26/98  Senate: Rereferred to Finance
• 03/04/98  Senate: Stricken from docket by Finance by voice vote