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1998 SESSION
SB 168 Business and education partnerships.
Introduced by: Emily Couric | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Business and education partnerships. Establishes the Business and Education Grants Program and Fund, from such funds as may be appropriated for the purpose and from gifts, donations, grants, bequests, etc., to support 16 matching grants to be awarded annually on a competitive basis to school divisions, with two grants for each superintendent's region, to support innovative partnerships between school divisions and local business and industry and a special nonreverting fund within the state treasury known as the Business and Education Grants Fund ("the Fund"). The Fund will be established on the books of the Comptroller, and any moneys remaining in such Fund at the end of the biennium will not revert to the general fund but will remain in the Fund. Interest earned on such funds shall remain in the Fund and be credited to it.
The State Treasurer shall administer and manage the Fund, subject to the authority of the Board of Education to provide for its disbursement. The Board shall establish criteria for making grants from the Fund, which shall include priorities for initiatives that consider curriculum revisions integrating theory and application, an accelerated academic program for all students, heightened sensitivity to student potential, interdisciplinary cooperation among teachers in planning and instruction, family involvement, additional assistance for students to meet curriculum standards, the identification of business needs, new ideas for preparing skilled employees, and creative ways to use existing resources. The Board may issue such guidelines governing the Program as it deems necessary and appropriate.
This measure was a recommendation of the HJR 196 Commission on the Future of Public Education.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/98 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 982168128 pdf
- 02/16/98 Senate: Committee substitute printed 986813635-S1 pdf
- 03/18/98 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB168ER) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/98 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 982168128
- 01/14/98 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/98 Senate: Reported from Ed. & H. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/98 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 02/16/98 Senate: Reported from Finance (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/98 Senate: Committee substitute printed 986813635-S1
- 02/17/98 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/98 Senate: VOTE: (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/98 Senate: Read second time
- 02/17/98 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/17/98 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 986813635-S1
- 02/17/98 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 986813635-S1
- 02/17/98 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/98 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/98 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/98 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/17/98 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/19/98 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/98 House: Read first time
- 02/20/98 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/20/98 House: Assigned to Education sub-committee: 1
- 02/27/98 House: Reported from Education (24-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/98 House: Read second time
- 03/03/98 House: Read third time
- 03/03/98 House: Passed House (94-Y 5-N)
- 03/03/98 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 5-N)
- 03/03/98 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 03/03/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/04/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/05/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/06/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/09/98 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/10/98 House: Read third time
- 03/10/98 House: Passed House (56-Y 42-N)
- 03/10/98 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (56-Y 42-N)
- 03/18/98 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB168ER)
- 03/25/98 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/25/98 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/26/98 Senate: Signed by President
- 04/16/98 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/16/98 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 04/22/98 Senate: Motion to pass in enrolled form rejected (19-Y 20-N)
- 04/22/98 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE-ENROLLED BILL R (19-Y 20-N)
- 04/22/98 Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto