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From the ECS State Policy Database 2000 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2000. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All." Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary Accountability PA Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Interscholastic Athletic Accountability S.B. 1403 Establishes Pennsylvania Athletic Oversight Council; provides for interscholastic accountability; provides for transportation, education empowerment definitions and lists and districts; provides for empowerment pilot program.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Statewide Testing S.B. 1139 States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Bo... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Oversight S.B. 280 Requires the Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee to advise and monitor the Office of Education Accountability.... More... Accountability--Accreditation CO Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 State Board Accreditation of Schools H.B. 1219 Concerns accreditation by the State Board of Education; provides that the Board of Education will appraise and accredit school districts in this state and submit recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly for improvements in education.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Accreditation Standards H.B. 2474 Provides for the adoption of administrative rules; requires school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies relating to health services, media services programs and guidance programs as part of the accreditation standards applicable to scho... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Transfer of Credits, Accreditation H.B. 987 Provides that the Board of Education recognizes, for purposes of facilitating the transfer of academic credits for students who have attended private schools and are now enrolling in public schools and to satisfy the accreditation requirement for an exemption ... More... Accountability--Measures/Indicators CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 School Accountability Report Card S.B. 1632 Requires the State Department of Education to develop and recommend for adoption a standardized template for the school accountability report card, as specified, and definitions for the elements required to be included in the school accountability report card.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Statewide Testing S.B. 1139 States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Bo... More... Accountability--Reporting Results CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 School Accountability Report Card S.B. 1632 Requires the State Department of Education to develop and recommend for adoption a standardized template for the school accountability report card, as specified, and definitions for the elements required to be included in the school accountability report card.... More... UT Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Establishment of U-PASS Assessment Program H.B. 177 Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for stud... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 State Report on Education Outcomes S.B. 387 Requires the Secretary of Education to provide a graduate follow up study each year to the Governor and to the General Assembly. Provides the report must show the dropout rate among seniors in Delaware high schools and the enrollment in a post-secondary instit... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 State Accountability System S.B. 2837 Requires the Department of Education to implement the educational accountability system for Hawaii's public schools; requires Department of Education to develop a collaborative process with stakeholders, including representatives of affected bargaining units, ... More... IL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Safety, School Report Cards, Background Checks, Summer School H.B. 4587 Public Act No. 91-4587; Amends the School Code to provide that the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program shall provide funding for school report cards and criminal background investigations; adds the Summer Bridges program to the progra... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Recognition for Full Inclusion S.B. 2745 Direct the State Department of Education to provide an annual recognition program for schools for providing full inclusion of children with disabilities in all aspects of academic and extracurricular activities.... More... CO Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Accountability S.B. 186 Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; specifies the methodology for such evaluation; requires the department to develop a comprehensive data collection and repor... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Education Oversight Committee & Office of Education Accountability H.B. 1187 The Governor may appoint study commissions as he deems appropriate to study education questions, issue findings and make recommendations to the Education Coordinating Council. This provision will go into effect upon signature to allow the current Education Ref... More... IN Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Reports to the Public; Kindergarten S.B. 489 Requires the mailing, instead of publishing, of the school corporation performance report; provides that a child must be at least five years of age on July 1 of the 2000-2001 school year or any subsequent school year to officially enroll in a kindergarten prog... More... Accountability--Rewards UT Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Establishment of U-PASS Assessment Program H.B. 177 Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for stud... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Underperforming Schools - Assistance and Incentives H.B. 5737 Concerns underperforming schools; provides grants for boards of education with schools in need of improvement; provides for partnerships with public libraries; provides for actions necessary to become accredited; improves literacy and parental involvement; pro... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Florida's Accountability System H.B. 63 Requires each school district with school designated as performance grade category F to permit transfer of teachers with certain qualifications; provides bonuses for certain teachers; requires Education Commissioner to adopt rules to define teaching mastery; r... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Financial Rewards for Schools and Boards S.B. 122 Establishes the Governor's Academic Achievement Program; provides financial rewards to public schools and local boards of education that improve their academic status.... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Incentives for Low-Performing Schools S.B. 2488 Empowers and directs the State Board of Education to establish and implement an improving and high performing schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in thei... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Financial Incentives for Schools H.B. 1134 Establishes and implements a superior-performing and exemplary schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in their classification; provides for school improveme... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Education Oversight Committee & Office of Education Accountability H.B. 1187 The Governor may appoint study commissions as he deems appropriate to study education questions, issue findings and make recommendations to the Education Coordinating Council. This provision will go into effect upon signature to allow the current Education Ref... More... NM Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Intervention, Incentives S.B. 40 Relates to interventions for school improvements; changes the distribution of the incentives for school improvement fund.... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Extended School Year for Low-Performing Schools S.B. 1387 Extends the date of repeal of existing law authorizing the Compton Unified School District to identify low-performing schools in the district and make pupils in K-12 in those schools eligible for extended school year instruction, to 1/1/2002.... More... UT Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Establishment of U-PASS Assessment Program H.B. 177 Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for stud... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Possible Change In the School Calendar A.B. 2162 Adjusts the prescribed dates, and would provide that the school action plan pursuant to the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program may propose to increase the number of instructional days and may propose to increase up to a full 12 months the a... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Underperforming Schools - Assistance and Incentives H.B. 5737 Concerns underperforming schools; provides grants for boards of education with schools in need of improvement; provides for partnerships with public libraries; provides for actions necessary to become accredited; improves literacy and parental involvement; pro... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Assessment S.B. 491 Modifies the Oklahoma School Testing Program by administering a norm-referenced test in the third-grade beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to continue until the third-grade criterion-referenced test (CRT) is implemented. Field testing of the third grade... More... PA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Accountability, Funding S.B. 652 Act No. 16 of 2000., Amends the Public School Code. Provides funding for basic education, services to nonpublic schools, special education, professional development, school lunch and breakfast programs, higher education, full-time student community college rei... More... FL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Extracurricular Eligibility S.B. 92 Relates to student standards for participation in interscholastic extracurricular student activities; relates to the grade point average of students participating in interscholastic extracurricular activities; requires execution of a contract if a student fall... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Financial Incentives for Schools H.B. 1134 Establishes and implements a superior-performing and exemplary schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in their classification; provides for school improveme... More... WV Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Determining High Quality H.B. 4674 Relates to high quality education programs and standards, efficiency standards and indicators, performance measures, the process for improving education, education performance audits, the office of education performance audits, on-site reviews, assessment and ... More... CO Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Accountability S.B. 186 Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; specifies the methodology for such evaluation; requires the department to develop a comprehensive data collection and repor... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Administrative Salaries and Performance of Schools H.B. 1187 The state will reduce funding for all administrative salaries of schools which are deemed to be failing for three years and who have not implemented interventions. However, these schools shall continue to earn funds for nurses, secretaries, visiting teachers, ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Education Oversight Committee & Office of Education Accountability H.B. 1187 The Governor may appoint study commissions as he deems appropriate to study education questions, issue findings and make recommendations to the Education Coordinating Council. This provision will go into effect upon signature to allow the current Education Ref... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Accountability - Rewards/Sanctions Component H.B. 1187 If a school is consistently underperforming, the local board of education may request from a RESA an instructional care team. RESAs must develop a registry of potential instructional care team members. Each RESA shall provide rules and regulations for the purc... More... NM Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Intervention, Incentives S.B. 40 Relates to interventions for school improvements; changes the distribution of the incentives for school improvement fund.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Fees for Repeated Classes S.B. 146 Establishes the presumption that public school students will pay the fees associated with courses they are repeating or remediation; provides alternatives to waiving the fees in cases of financial hardship; provides for a partial or full waiver in cases of ext... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Attendance/Driving Privileges H.B. 490 Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court to order the denial of driving privileges for at least 30 days to any child at least 13 years of age upon a finding that the child has failed to comply with certain school attendance and parent-school conferen... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Attendance/Driving Privileges H.B. 490 Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court to order the denial of driving privileges for at least 30 days to any child at least 13 years of age upon a finding that the child has failed to comply with certain school attendance and parent-school conferen... More... Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play FL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Extracurricular Eligibility S.B. 92 Relates to student standards for participation in interscholastic extracurricular student activities; relates to the grade point average of students participating in interscholastic extracurricular activities; requires execution of a contract if a student fall... More... Adult Basic Education IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Community Colleges take charge of Adult Education H.B. 4266 Public Act No. 91-830; On July 1, 2001, transfers all State Board of Education powers and duties concerning adult education to the Illinois Community College Board. ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Center for the Study of Literacy H.B. 2117 Relates to adult literacy; relates to the Center for the Study of Literacy and the Literacy Initiatives Commission; creates the Adult Literacy Services Advisory Committee.... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Awarding High School Diplomas to Wartime Veterans S.B. 154 00-124., Allows local and regional boards of education to award high school diplomas to wartime veterans who did not earn their diplomas because they withdrew from school to join the armed forces.... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Adult Education H.B. 3800 Administrative costs are limited to 8% for community-based or non-profit organizations and 5% for school districts of the total state funds received from the district or consortium. This cannot exceed the actual unreimbursed cost of administering ABE services.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Postsec. Adult Education and Literacy Programs S.B. 1 Relates to adult education and literacy programs; requires the Department for Adult Education and Literacy to enter into long-term agreements with the comprehensive coordinating entities; requires the department to create and implement a funding formula to ens... More... ME Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Increased Funding for Adult Education H.B. 1778 (LD 2492)Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to increase the state subsidy for adult education.... More... OK Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Literacy Initiatives Commission H.B. 1850 Re-creates the Literacy Initiatives Commission.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Technology Training for Adult Education Providers H.B. 936 Provisions of in-service training in the effective use of educational technology for adult education and literacy program professionals. The training is to be delivered at institutes established by the State Council of Higher Education for providing in-service... More... Assessment CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Changes in The State's Academic Performance Index S.B. 1552 Makes clarifying changes in those provisions pertaining to the indicators used to evaluate the performance of schools in the Academic Performance Index; makes a specified appropriation available for allocation and expenditure in the 2000-01 fiscal year.... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Assessment of Special Education Students A.B. 1940 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, performance goals for individuals with exceptional needs; requires individuals with exceptional needs to be included in general statewide and districtwide ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 State Standardized Test A.B. 2812 Deletes the intent of the Legislature regarding the augmentation of the achievement test and instead would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with approval of the State Board of Education, to provide for the development of an assessment instrume... More... UT Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Establishment of U-PASS Assessment Program H.B. 177 Puts into legislation recommendations of Task Force on Learning Standards and Accountability in Public Education created by 1999 legislation. Creates both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests for students in most grades; writing assessments for stud... More... TN Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Assessing Students with Disabilities H.J.R. 589 Urges Department of Education to modify and revise portfolio assessment piloted for evaluating students with disabilities who do not participate in statewide assessment.... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 State Assessment Requirements S.B. 551 Relates to the assessment of student achievement in the public schools; removes the requirement that the board implement a nationally normed test in specified grades; requires that the board implement an assessment program in specified grades and assessment an... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Tutoring Services for SAT S.B. 169 Relates to Stanford Achievement Tests (SAT) given to students in public schools as required by the State Department of Education; provides for tutoring services for reading and other subjects in which a student scores or is assessed at a below average range.... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Profiles of Learning S.F. 3286 Amends the Profile of Learning. Highlights: Allows districts to phase in the number of content standards required of students for graduation; empowers teachers to participate in the decision about student standard requirements; allows districts to permit this... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Statewide Tests H.B. 3800 Specifies that the passing scores in reading and mathematics are the equivalent of 70 percent correct for students entering grade 9 in 1996 and 75 percent correct for those entering grade 9 in 1997 and thereafter, as based on the first uniform test administrat... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Assessment S.B. 491 Modifies the Oklahoma School Testing Program by administering a norm-referenced test in the third-grade beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to continue until the third-grade criterion-referenced test (CRT) is implemented. Field testing of the third grade... More... PA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Accountability, Funding S.B. 652 Act No. 16 of 2000., Amends the Public School Code. Provides funding for basic education, services to nonpublic schools, special education, professional development, school lunch and breakfast programs, higher education, full-time student community college rei... More... AZ Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 State Testing S.B. 1300 Establishes the 15-member Maintenance and Operations Task Force and the 21-member Joint Legislative Study Committee on the Impact of State Required Student Tests Committee; lowers the grade levels that are offered by the nationally standardized norm-referenced... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Statewide Testing S.B. 1139 States the State Board of Education shall administer the standardized norm-referenced achievement test two times during each academic year to the random statewide representative sample of pupils selected by the technical advisory committee; states the State Bo... More... DE Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Testing Program Logistics H.J.R. 20 Requires the Department of Education to make a report on the logistics of the Delaware Student Testing Program and to provide a plan regarding the test turnaround time so that local school districts can plan summer school effectively and efficiently.... More... LA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Testing S.B. 33A Exempts certain testing instruments, test answers, and individual student test scores from the public records laws.... More... NE Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Local Assessment System L.B. 812 Directs the state board to develop sufficiently clear and measurable model academic content standards. Additionally, each school district in the state is required to develop measurable academic standards that would need to be the same as, equally rigorous as o... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Multiple Assessments H.B. 1484 Authorizes the Board of Education to provide multiple assessments; includes on-line computer tests, field tests, and evaluation of student progress during and after remediation.... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Option for End-of-Course Tests H.B. 1020 Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to t... More... CO Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Accountability S.B. 186 Directs the Department of Education to evaluate the academic performance and safety environment of every public school within the state; specifies the methodology for such evaluation; requires the department to develop a comprehensive data collection and repor... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Assessment Components H.B. 1187 Mandates Criterion Reference Competency Tests (CRCT's) in grades 1-8. English, language arts, math and reading will be assessed in grades 1-8. Science and social studies will be added for grades 3-8. End-of-course tests in high school for core subject areas wi... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Student IEP as Alternative Assessment H.B. 1187 A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Accelerated Learning H.B. 1196 Requires Board of Education to establish requirements to facilitate acceleration of students who are qualified under standard of learning assessment to sit for relevant test and to obtain credit, including verified credit upon achieving a passing score.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 More Timely Results/Standards of Learning S.B. 318 Directs the Board of Education to schedule the administration of Standards of Learning assessments to be graded by computerized or other automated means to occur no earlier than 2 weeks before the end of the relevant course.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Standards of Learning Assessments H.B. 1019 Requires the Board of Education to make publicly available the Standards of Learning assessments in a timely manner and as soon as practicable following the administration of these tests, so long as this release does not compromise test security or deplete the... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Diploma Requirements H.B. 489 Requires the Board of Education to include, in the requirement for verified credits for the standard and advanced studies diplomas, a provision that allows students completing elective classes into which the Standards of Learning for any required course have b... More... Assessment--Accommodations GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Student IEP as Alternative Assessment H.B. 1187 A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment.... More... Assessment--End-of-Course GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - High School Graduation Exams H.B. 1187 The High School Graduation Tests will be eliminated when the end of course tests are put in place. Local boards of education shall have the option of allowing scores on end-of-course assessments to be counted as part of a student's grade in the course. ... More... Assessment--High Stakes/Competency DE Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act S.B. 260 Creates the Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act. Beginning in 2002, at least 20% of educator's performance evaluation will be tied to student improvement -- teachers and administrators who fail to measure up can be dismissed. Establishes m... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Profiles of Learning S.F. 3286 Amends the Profile of Learning. Highlights: Allows districts to phase in the number of content standards required of students for graduation; empowers teachers to participate in the decision about student standard requirements; allows districts to permit this... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Assessment S.B. 491 Modifies the Oklahoma School Testing Program by administering a norm-referenced test in the third-grade beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to continue until the third-grade criterion-referenced test (CRT) is implemented. Field testing of the third grade... More... At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Eligibility of Low-Income Pupils, Effective Programs S.B. 838 Relates to State aid for school districts with concentrations of low-income pupils; establishes minimum period of school district eligibility for early childhood and demonstrably effective program aids; provides budget cap exclusion for demonstrably effective ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 High-Risk Youth Education & Public Safety Program S.B. 2196 Increases the apportionment for purposes of the High-Risk Youth Education and Public Safety Program. Increases the multipliers for high-risk first-time offenders and for transitioning high-risk youths. Requires the reduction in the apportionment received by a ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Establishment of a State Boot-Camp School S.B. 1542 Authorizes the Adjutant General to develop, establish, and operate the Turning Point Academy for the purpose of providing a comprehensive and meaningful military academy experience for minors residing in California 15 years or older who have committed a firear... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Health Care for Low-Income Students A.B. 1735 Relates to services to pupils. Requires the governing board of each school district and the county superintendent of schools, as part of the process of making the application for participation in the free or reduced-price meal program available, to also includ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Grant Program for At-Risk Youth A.B. 2827 Chapter No. 313, Permits the Employment Development Department to contract with a specified, nonprofit organization meeting specified criteria to manage grant programs designed to help eligible at-risk youth complete their secondary education and acquire the s... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 S.B. 541 Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Community College Supplemental Funding for Choice and At-Risk Programs H.B. 2496 Provides supplementary weighting for funding and for determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-district or district-to-community college sharing programs and at-risk programs.... More... ME Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Children in Need of Services Program H.B. 1138 (LD 1623)Establishes the Children in Need of Services Program; provides for a safety plan consisting of housing, medical care, nutritional care and education for children 15 years of age and under who have been determined to be in need of supervision.... More... WI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 At-Risk Programs S.B. 241 Changes names of program from children at risk to "children at risk of not graduating from high school." Changes definition to "at risk of not graduating from high school because they failed the high school graduation exam," are dropouts, or are 2 or more of ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Dropout Prevention H.B. 2405 Requires the Department of Education to establish an AIMS Intervention and Dropout Prevention Program; requires Department of Education to establish an Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards Intervention and Program and to develop the Program's procedure and ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Dropout Prevention H.B. 77 Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and implement a comprehensive statewide strategy to provide assistance to local districts and to address the dropout problem; allocates funds.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 S.B. 147 Relates to public school enrollment of homeless pupils; revises various statutes addressing evidence of residence in the school division for public school enrollment; adds persons lacking a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence and having a primary ... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Office of Comprehensive Services H.B. 1510 Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; assumes the responsibilities of the State Management Team to develop programs and fiscal policies that promote and suppo... More... At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Changing the Rules for School Discipline S.B. 852 Revises the definition of suspension; revises data used to determine school's performance grade category; revises information required to be included in student code of conduct; specifies types of drills and emergencies for which district school boards are req... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Suspension, Expulsion, Alternative Education H.B. 776 Clarifies the authority of school superintendents, principals and school boards to suspend, expel, or change the placement of pupils for conduct that renders a pupil's presence in the classroom detrimental to the school's educational environment or the best in... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Alternative Education Expands to Include Middle Schoolers S.B. 901 Contingent upon the provision of appropriated funds designated for such purpose, all school districts in the state providing alternative education programs shall expand the programs to include middle school grade students. ... More... ME Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Alternative Education H.B. 1420 Public Law No. 683, (LD 2027); Encourages public school alternative education programs; requires school alliance to set consistent standards for regional public school choice programs; provides that shared service agreements between schools may include alterna... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Special Education, Alternative Education H.B. 114 Relates to elementary and secondary education; changes certain provisions regarding special instructional assistance programs for students with developmental deficiencies; provides for the application of mandatory education requirements to children between age... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Alternative Schools for Suspended Students H.B. 1187 In-school suspension and alternative schools have been combined to create alternative programs. In-school suspension may be included as a type of alternative program. The Office of Educational Accountability determines what is an acceptable performance of alte... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Alternative Education H.B. 188 Clarifies that regional pilot projects for alternative education are designed for elementary as well as middle and high school students; directs the Department of Education to issue a request for proposals for regional pilot projects for selected alternative e... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Alternative Education Plan Compliance H.B. 1468 Provides that a student who has been granted an Alternative Education Plan and fails to comply with the condition of the plan shall be in violation of attendance laws; authorizes the Division Superintendent or Attendance Officer of the school division in which... More... At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol OK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Drug, Alcohol Testing H.B. 1289 Authorizes certain drug and/or alcohol testing on pupils under certain circumstances.... More... VT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Liability for Alcohol Consumption; Bus Driver Intoxication H.B. 566 Makes a social host who furnishes intoxicating liquor to a minor liable under the Dram Shop Act for damages and injuries caused by the intoxicated minor; changes illegal blood alcohol concentration to .02 for a school bus operator.... More... NM Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Drug Prevention Funding H.B. 364 Establishes youth drug prevention programs in communities and schools makes an appropriation.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Drug Testing H.B. 588 Permits local school boards to require as a condition for re-enrollment or continued enrollment in public school, that students who have been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of drug-related offenses submit to drug testing; provides that Board of Education ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Reporting of Violations H.B. 1361 Authorizes law-enforcement officers to report suspected violations of the Drug Control Act that occurred on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity by students to school principals.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Drug Testing for Certain Juveniles S.B. 153 Requires juveniles found delinquent and adults found guilty for a first drug offense be subject to periodic substance abuse testing, drug treatment and education; mandates six months extra time on a felony sentence if the mandatory drug assessment indicates a ... More... MI Signed into law 01/2000 P-12 Possession of alcohol S.B. 246 Public Act 274; Relates to crimes; prohibits the consumption or possession of alcoholic liquor on school property; provides penalties.... More... Attendance NY To governor 12/2000 P-12 Compulsory Attendance S.B. 8071 Increases the age after which a minor may not be required to attend school from 16 to 17.... More... TN Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 P-12 Tying Drivers License to Attendance S.B. 3152 Requires State to deny drivers license or permit to student withdrawn from secondary school who has 5 or more unexcused absences while attending course leading to a GED certificate.... More... VT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Compulsory School Attendance (part of Safe Schools Bill) H.B. 270 The age of compulsory school attendance is lowered from age seven to six. ... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Compulsory Attendance - Age 18 H.B. 5276 Starting July 1, 2001, this act requires students to stay in school until age 18, instead of age 16, unless their parents consent to their leaving school before they turn 18 or graduate. The parent must appear at the school district office to sign a form with... More... TN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Habitual Truancy S.B. 2425 Establishes standard by which school pupils subject to mandatory attendance are found to be habitual truant or truant; authorizes law enforcement officers and school attendance officers to pick up and deliver truant to parent, guardian, school principal or tru... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Law Enforcement authorized for Truancy Prevention S.B. 3043 Provides that certain law enforcement officers shall be authorized to investigate and file petitions in the proper court against parent or child under the provisions of the State Compulsory School Attendance Law.... More... NH Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Interstate Agreement for Attendance S.B. 319 In cases where New Hampshire is party to an interstate school agreement with another state, this bill allows New Hampshire pupils to attend a school which meets the standards established by one of the 2 states. ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Compulsory Attendance H.B. 1187 The compulsory attendance age is lowered from seven to six. ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - School Attendance Zones H.B. 1187 Allows parents or guardians of students who live closer to a school other than the one to which they are assigned to request to attend the closer school, even if the school is across county lines. The State Board of Education decides if the school is actually ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Attendance/Driving Privileges H.B. 490 Requires the juvenile and domestic relations court to order the denial of driving privileges for at least 30 days to any child at least 13 years of age upon a finding that the child has failed to comply with certain school attendance and parent-school conferen... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Postsec. K-12 Nonresident Tuition S.B. 499 Revises the provision authorizing school boards to admit nonresident students and charge such students tuition, to provide that persons of school age who reside beyond the boundaries of the Commonwealth but near thereto in a state or the District of Columbia w... More... Attendance--Compulsory CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Mandatory Student Attendance S.B. 1913 Authorizes, until 01/01/05, a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with the attendance laws, as specified, to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. ... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Compulsory Attendance - Age 18 H.B. 5276 Starting July 1, 2001, this act requires students to stay in school until age 18, instead of age 16, unless their parents consent to their leaving school before they turn 18 or graduate. The parent must appear at the school district office to sign a form with... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Compulsory Attendance H.B. 1187 The compulsory attendance age is lowered from seven to six. ... More... Attendance--Truancy CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Mandatory Student Attendance S.B. 1913 Authorizes, until 01/01/05, a court to order a person who is convicted for failing to comply with the attendance laws, as specified, to immediately enroll the child in the appropriate school or educational program and provide proof of enrollment to the court. ... More... DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Increased Penalties for Truancy H.B. 213 Increases the penalties for a violation of compulsory school attendance requirements by parents; gives jurisdiction over parental violations exclusively to the Justice of the Peace Court; gives a public school the authority to send a truant student to a Justic... More... TN Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 P-12 Tying Drivers License to Attendance S.B. 3152 Requires State to deny drivers license or permit to student withdrawn from secondary school who has 5 or more unexcused absences while attending course leading to a GED certificate.... More... TN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Habitual Truancy S.B. 2425 Establishes standard by which school pupils subject to mandatory attendance are found to be habitual truant or truant; authorizes law enforcement officers and school attendance officers to pick up and deliver truant to parent, guardian, school principal or tru... More... Background Checks NY Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Fingerprinting, Criminal History Checks S.B. 1031 Relates to the protection of pupils in educational settings from abuse and maltreatment; requires the fingerprinting and criminal history records checks of prospective employees of school districts, charter schools and boards of cooperative educational service... More... NY Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Payment for Background Checks S.B. 8239 Relates to fingerprinting and criminal history records checks as they apply to persons applying for a position in a school district and the payment of fees for said searches.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Background Screening of School Health Employees S.B. 2034 Relates to health care; relates to kidney dialysis patients; relates to the Children's Medical Services Program; relates to the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program; relates to Biomedical Research Program within the Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund; develops an im... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Background Checks on School Board Members H.B. 3840 Public Act No. 91-728; Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code; makes changes concerning the ineligibility of persons to be elected to a local school council, the criminal background investigation of local school council members, a local ... More... NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Criminal Histories H.B. 304 Modifies the crimes that prevent a person from being hired by a school administrative units, school district and charter school; modifies the procedures for criminal history records checks by school administrative units, school districts and charter schools.... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Background Checks for University Health Care Employees H.B. 485 Relates to campus police departments of colleges or universities in this State which offers medical, nursing, or health care education, or which operate a hospital facility, including the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the University of South Alabama,... More... HI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Teacher/Staff Background Checks H.B. 2098 Requires the Department of Health to conduct criminal history records checks for employees, applicants, providers, and subcontractors in positions which necessitate direct contact with clients when providing non-witnessed direct mental health services; require... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Background Checks S.B. 228 Authorizes school districts and nonpublic schools to perform certain criminal and abuse record checks.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Investigative Information Confidential S.B. 292 Provides for the designation of investigative information possessed by the board of educational examiners as privileged and confidential; relates to licensee discipline.... More... IL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Safety, School Report Cards, Background Checks, Summer School H.B. 4587 Public Act No. 91-4587; Amends the School Code to provide that the School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant Program shall provide funding for school report cards and criminal background investigations; adds the Summer Bridges program to the progra... More... ME Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Requires State to Pay for Background Checks S.B. 951 Public Law No. 791., (LD 2490)Requires the State to pay the costs of the fingerprinting and background checks of current and prospective elementary and secondary school employees.... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Background Checks S.B. 2658 Requires fingerprinting and criminal records background checks for new public school licensed and nonlicensed employment applicants and for current employees on phased-in basis; prohibits employment or continued employment of persons determined through such ch... More... AL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Postsec. Criminal Background Checks H.B. 132 Relates to the Child Protection Act of 1999; relates to criminal background checks; removes from the definition of a Local Employing Board all 2-year schools under the auspices of the State Board of Education and all 4-year institutions from the State.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Fingerprinting S.B. 1116 Relates to criminal screening of school employees; provides that a person applying for the renewal of a certificate shall have a valid class one or class two fingerprint clearance card; allows the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue waivers of state ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Fingerprinting H.B. 2220 Relates to school employees; states a person applying for a certificate shall have a valid class one or class two fingerprint clearance card.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Background Checks H.B. 522 Requires that charter schools shall comply with the requirement that all school employees undergo a criminal history check.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Background Checks/Private School Employees H.B. 542 Provides for criminal history checks for private or parochial school employees or contractors upon request.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Background Checks for Private Kindergartens S.B. 1477 Requires that any person who owns, operates or is employed by a private school for educational purposes for children four through six years of age or a private kindergarten shall comply with the criminal history checks as required for basic day care licenses.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Background Checks for Volunteers H.B. 136 Requires state criminal records checks of adult volunteers in public schools who have contact with students on a regularly scheduled or continuing basis; permits school boards to pay costs of criminal records checks.... More... ME Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Modifies Background Checks S.B. 987 (LD 2540)Proposes to effect current law that requires teachers and other school employees in public schools or approved private schools to undergo fingerprinting and state and national criminal history record checks.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Background Checks H.B. 1187 Background checks are required of all school personnel and are required of all certificated personnel upon any application for certificate renewal. ... More... SD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Background Checks H.B. 1200 Requires criminal background checks of school employees; prohibits employment of certain persons in schools.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Teacher Licensing/ H.B. 303 Relates to disclosure of information relating to prior school employment; provides that an applicant for a teacher's license provide the licensing authority with an affidavit listing the higher education institutions attended by the applicant, and whether the ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Speed of Response H.B. 865 Requires the Department of Social Services to respond to requests by local school board in cases where there is no match within the central registry of a founded complaint of child abuse or neglect regarding applicants for employment within 10 business days of... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Background Checks H.B. 1238 Directs all school boards to require, as a condition of employment, fingerprinting for applicants who are offered or who accept school board employment, whether on a temporary, permanent, or part- or full-time basis; requires the submission of the fingerprints... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Background Checks H.B. 1097 Requires applicants who are offered or who accept permanent or temporary, part-time or full-time employment with the school board to submit to fingerprinting and a criminal history record check through the Central Criminal Records Exchange of the Federal Burea... More... Bilingual/ESL AZ Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Banning Bilingual Education V. 11 BALLOT NUMBER 203 (01-I-2000) Requires that all public school instruction be conducted in English; places children not fluent in English in an intensive English immersion program to teach them the language as quickly as possible; provides that parents may requ... More... UT Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 V. 1 English Only INITIATIVE A Declares English as Utah's official and sole language for state and local government documents and action; exempts those documents and actions required by the United States and Utah constitutions, federal law and regulations, law enforcement, publ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Safe Gun Storage A.B. 2536 Requires the Department of Justice to produce public service announcements in both English and Spanish regarding recent changes in firearm laws, and a gun owner's responsibilities regarding safe storage of a firearm... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 English Language Learner Teacher Coaching Program S.B. 2192 Establishes the English Language Learner Teacher Coaching Program until 01/01/2006, to provide English language learner coaches to assist groups of teachers, teaching paraprofessionals, and pupils in certain matters. Requires the San Bernardino County Office o... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 English Language Acquisition Program A.B. 2585 Requires a local educational agency that receives funds through the English Language Acquisition program to report to the State Department of Education the English proficiency level of each pupil receiving instruction through the program, number of English lan... More... CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Text for English Immersion Classes A.B. 2645 Authorizes, until 07/01/02, the governing board of a school district to expend 100% of its allowance of funds to purchase English Language curricula that is designed to convey the subject matter content to pupils enrolled in structured English immersion progra... More... UT On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 P-12 English as Official Language V. 1 Ballot Initiative Establishes English as the official language of the State of Utah.... More... NE Rejected by voters 05/2000 P-12 English Language Requirement in Private Schools V. 4 (LR 20-1999); Constitutional amendment; eliminates the English language requirement in private, denominational, and parochial schools.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Bilingual Education Component H.B. 1187 The English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program is no longer a grant. That funding is rolled into the general formula. The teacher-pupil funding ratio for ESOL classes is 1:7. The State Board of Education will establish the maximum class size for th... More... Business Involvement KY Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Programs/Commissions H.B. 572 Establishes the Kentucky Innovation Commission to provide ongoing advice, direction and policy recommendations to the governor and general assembly relating to the state's knowledge-driven businesses, research development initiatives and related high-skill tra... More... Career/Technical Education NY Signed into law 10/2000 P-12 Work-Study, Internships A.B. 8475 Clarifies the definition of work activities to include certain work-study and internships.... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. School To Work A.B. 2087 Establishes a task force, convened by the Governor, to assess and report short-term and long-range recommendations for improving career technical education. Provides requirements for model career and technical education curriculum content standards. Requires t... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Community College School to Work Programs A.B. 1873 Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the importance of preparing pupils for an economy that demands strong academic and career skills. Creates the Interagency Partnership for School-to-Career Programs as a formal collaboration among the State ... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Postsec. Training as Security Guard A.B. 1898 Includes within the definition of short-term career training an educational service represented to lead to, or offered for the purpose of preparing a student for, employment as a private security guard or private patrol operator, and meeting prescribed criteri... More... AK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Revising Voc. Ed. Program S.B. 289 It is the intent of the legislature that the Alaska Human Resource Investment Council undergo an internal reassessment and reorganization to minimize the number of members of the council and to improve its ability to efficiently and effectively serve as the st... More... DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 State Payments for Vocational Education S.B. 385 Requires that a certain percentage of the Occupational-Vocational Division II - All Other Costs funds shall be allocated to the school that generates these funds and expended to support the State approved occupational-vocational courses and programs at that sc... More... HI Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 State's School To Work Council H.B. 2280 Amends powers of the School to Work Executive Council; places the Council administratively within the Department of Education; appropriates funds for the Council.... More... MI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Dual Enrollment H.B. 5534 Provides a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling students to enroll in career and technical preparation programs at eligible nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. Provides for dual enrollment options for career ... More... NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Modifies Vocational Education Plan S.B. 431 Fulfills the requirement of having the approval of the State Legislature in order to include certain secondary vocational education programs in the State's Unified Vocational Education Plan by authorizing the inclusion of the relevant secondary vocational educ... More... NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 State Funding of Vocational Program Expansions/Renovation H.B. 413 Establishes requirements for State funding of renovation and expansion of regional vocational education programs.... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Student Involvement in Private Sector S.B. 987 Exempts minors from child labor laws by authorizing them to participate in educational programs in science sponsored by private sector.... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Board for Private Vocational Schools S.B. 928 Sets budget limits for the Oklahoma Board for Private Vocational Schools (salary of director, number of staff, etc.) and requires evaluation.... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Students at 2-Year Institutions Deemed Graduates S.B. 356 Relates to viability and non-viability of programs of instruction as reviewed by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; provides that students completing certain programs of instruction in two-year technical and vocational colleges shall be deemed graduat... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Accelerated Career Education Program S.B. 2439 Relates to the accelerated career education program; provides a tax credit from withholding; creates an accelerated career education education grant program and fund; relates to the transfer of job training withholding to the workforce development fund account... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Title Changes H.B. 2128 Changes the official name of the board known as the State Board of Vocational and Technical Education to the State Board of Career and Technology Education, and changes the name of the State Department of Vocational and Technical Education to the State Departm... More... AZ Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Vocational-Technical Education Pilot H.B. 2285 Appropriates an unspecified amount of money to the Department of Education to fund a vocational technical education demonstration project in an existing structure; appropriates money from the general fund in fiscal year 2000-01 for one-time capital funding.... More... MS Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Vocational/Technical Education H.B. 1409 Authorizes local school boards to establish a vocational and technical education track as an alternative to college preparatory curriculum; provides that vocational students complete core educational requirements.... More... IA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 School to Career H.B. 2179 Relates to the certified school to career program.... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Governor's Council on Vocational Education H.B. 610 Establishes the Governor's Council on Vocational Education; establishes the Kentucky Job Training Coordinating Council; replaces the Kentucky Job Training Coordinating Council with the Office of Training and Reemployment within the Cabinet for Workforce Develo... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Support for Career/Technical Student Organizations H.B. 2531 Directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to maintain support for state-wide coordination for career and technical student organizations by providing program staff support that is available to assist in meeting the needs of career and technical student ... More... NM Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Vocational Education S.B. 390 Provides for vocational education in public schools.... More... Cheating VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Revocation of License for Cheating H.B. 867 Authorizes the Board of Education to suspend or revoke the teaching or administrative license of any person who knowingly and willfully commits specified acts regarding secure mandatory tests administered to students required by the Code of Virginia or by the ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Cheating S.B. 548 Permits the Office of the Attorney General, on behalf of the Board of Education to bring a cause of action for injunctive relief or civil penalty, or both, against any person who knowingly and willfully commits specified acts regarding secure mandatory tests a... More... Choice of Schools--Charter Schools NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Charter Schools Funding, Evaluation A.B. 1344 Establishes required funding level for charter school students; revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.... More... WA Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 Charter Schools V. 10 INITIATIVE 729 Authorizes school districts and public universities to sponsor charter public schools; states that the charter schools would be run by nonprofit corporations, accountable to their sponsors for financial and academic performance, but operated ind... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Petitions for Charters and Passage of School Bonds A.B. 2659 Requires the State Board of Education to develop criteria for the review and approval of charter school petitions. Makes technical revisions relating to passage of local school bond measures. Prohibits issuance of the bonds unless the property tax rate levied... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Waivers for Charter Schools S.B. 1841 Chapter No.464, Authorizes the governing board of a charter school to request, and the State Board of Education to approve, a waiver of any otherwise applicable provisions of the Education Code until 07/01/05. Requires the charter school to submit its applicat... More... MA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 State Power to Grant Charter Schools; Transportation for Charter Schools S.B. 2027 Chapter No. 227 of 2000., Relates to charter schools; provides that the Board of Education shall make the final determination on granting charter school status and may condition charters on the applicant's taking certain actions or maintaining certain conditio... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Charter School Authorizing Agencies S.B. 326 Authorizes a charter school, that was not granted a renewal by the chartering agency, to submit an application for renewal pursuant to the procedures pertaining to a denial of a petition for establishment of a charter school.... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Charter Schools dealing with Special Ed. Students S.B. 1914 Chapter No. 88; Prohibits the denial of a petition for the establishment of a charter school based on the actual or potential costs of serving individuals with exceptional needs. Clarifies that this prohibition shall not be construed to prevent a school distri... More... DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Charter School Admission S.B. 301 Allows the children of charter school employees who are permanent and work at least 30.00 hours per week during the school year to be given preference in admission to the charter school; gives charter schools the same opportunity as local school districts.... More... DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Charter School Admissions S.B. 308 Allows a charter school to give preference to children of the founders of the charter school so long as they constitute no more than 5% of the school's total student population.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Charter School Rules H.B. 2087 306., Provides an exemption from ad valorem taxes for facilities used to house charter schools; provides for the cancellation of certain taxes on real property acquired by a charter school governing board; prohibits reprisals against district school board empl... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Charter School Administration H.B. 2147 171., Implements the 2000-2001 Budget Act; allocates moneys provided for workforce development; provides for budget amendment when program is moved; relates to funding for exceptional student programs; provides for funding Medicaid disproportionate share for m... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Formation of Charter Schools S.B. 2218 Provides legal protection for new century charter school boards; allows groups of teachers at a school to form a charter school; requires the auditor to consider the advice of the superintendent and local school boards in setting the allocation for new century... More... NC Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Charter School Revision H.B. 1302 Session Law Number 72. Exempts from tax motor fuel sold to charter schools; defines charter school board as nonprofit corporation with charter to operate charter school.... More... NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Charter School Revisions H.B. 690 Establishes a committee to study application procedures relative to charter schools and the admission preferences used in charter schools and open enrollment school districts.... More... WA Rejected by voters 06/2000 P-12 Ballot Initiative: Charter Schools V. 24 INITIATIVE 729; Authorizes school districts and public universities to sponsor charter public schools; states the charter schools would be run by nonprofit corporations, accountable to their sponsors for financial and academic performance, but operated indepen... More... CA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Modifies Charter Schools Law A.B. 696 Chapter No. 19; Relates to existing law which provides that a charter school that serves at-risk pupils and operates under a charter approved before 06/01/97, in the county of Los Angeles may continue to operate until 06/30/99. Extends the date until 06/30/03.... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Charter School Changes, Capital Reserve Usage H.B. 1124 Concerns public schools; authorizes charter schools to impose fees for excess transportation costs and to engage in the building, planning and inspection process; authorizes public schools to use capital reserve fund expenditures for certain purposes.... More... KS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Modifies Number of Charter Schools H.B. 2357 Concerns charter schools; increases the number of such schools authorized to be operated in the state.... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Causes for Nonrenewal or Termination of Charter School Contract H.B. 3800 In lieu of a charter school's dissolution based on contract termination, the commissioner may approve the decision of a different eligible sponsor to authorize the school. Allows the commissioner, after providing reasonable notice, to terminate the existing re... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Admissions Policies at Charter Schools H.B. 3800 Charter schools must give enrollment preference to residents of a town if the school is the only one located in the town serving a particular grade level. If a pupil lives within two miles of a charter school and the next closest public school is more than fiv... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Charter School Sponsors H.B. 3800 Expands the list of potential sponsors to include a charitable organization. Also clarifies that a charter school sponsor may be a Minnesota private college that grants two or four-year degrees and is registered with the Higher Education Services Office.... More... PA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Accountability, Funding S.B. 652 Act No. 16 of 2000., Amends the Public School Code. Provides funding for basic education, services to nonpublic schools, special education, professional development, school lunch and breakfast programs, higher education, full-time student community college rei... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Charter School Sanctions H.B. 2363 Allows a sponsor of a charter school to request that the State Board of Education withhold state aid monies from a charter school if the charter school is not in compliance with state law or its charter; authorizes a charter school sponsor to request that the ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Charter School Requirements H.B. 2218 Relates to school district budgets; relates to charter school applications and requirements; specifies that the charter of a charter school is subject to the same electronic data submission requirements as a school district; defines the term submit electronica... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Charter School Loans H.B. 677 Authorizes the Board of Directors of a charter school to borrow money as a nonprofit corporation to finance the purchase of school building facilities and, subject to the terms of such a contractual agreement, the board may use the facility as collateral for t... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Charter School Independence H.B. 726 Clarifies that public charter schools operate independently from the existing school district structure and any local board of trustees and are responsible for their own operations; clarifies admission procedures with regard to over enrollment.... More... LA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Revision of the Proprietary School Law S.B. 72A Makes several changes to the "Proprietary School Law" including the fact that it allows for proprietary certificates to be good for two years instead of one, and it provides for a punishment for schools that do not keep records of their students.... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Regional Charter Schools S.B. 411 Authorizes the creation of regional charter schools, operated by two or more school boards, which may be chartered directly by the participating school boards or by the Board of Education with the concurrence of the participating school boards; permits judicia... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Business Plan for Charter Schools S.B. 1302 Requires an applicant seeking to establish a charter school and an application for renewal of a charter to submit a detailed business plan; prevents school districts from sponsoring charter schools located outside the geographic boundaries of the school distri... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Charter Schools H.B. 1187 Allows the State Board of Education to grant a charter school petition if the local board of education refuses. The State Board of Education can call for a local tax referendum to support the charter school. Charter schools shall be subject to all the provisio... More... NM Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Charter School Admissions S.B. 67 Relates to charter school enrollment procedures.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Regional Charter Schools H.B. 785 Authorizes the creation of regional charter schools, operated by 2 or more school boards, which may be chartered directly by the participating school boards or by the Board of Education with the concurrence of the participating school boards; allows the Board ... More... NM Died 02/2000 P-12 Charter School Start-Ups S.B. 460 Provides for start-up charter schools to be funded according to current year membership.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Residential Charter Schools H.B. 742 Permits the creation of residential charter schools for at-risk students by a single school division or by two or more school divisions as a joint school; provides that applications for residential charter schools are to include a description of the residentia... More... Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Charter School Revolving Loan Fund S.B. 1759 Requires moneys in the Charter School Revolving Loan Fund to be loaned at the interest rate earned by the money in the Pooled Money Investment Account as of the date of disbursement of the funds to the charter school, and would require interest payments to be ... More... CA To governor 08/2000 P-12 Revising Charter School Loan Provisions S.B. 1728 Removes the restriction of existing law requiring a charter school to use loan from the Charter School Revolving Loan fund during certain time periods. Provides that the loan to a chartering authority for a charter school, or to a charter school, may not excee... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Computer Grant Program A.B. 2882 Establishes the Education Technology Grant Program to provide one time grants to school districts and charter schools to acquire or lease computers for instructional purposes. Requires the Office of the Secretary for Education to administer the application pro... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Charter School Loans H.B. 677 Authorizes the Board of Directors of a charter school to borrow money as a nonprofit corporation to finance the purchase of school building facilities and, subject to the terms of such a contractual agreement, the board may use the facility as collateral for t... More... NM Died 02/2000 P-12 Charter School Start-Ups S.B. 460 Provides for start-up charter schools to be funded according to current year membership.... More... Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment VT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Public School Choice in Grades 9-12 S.B. 203 This Act creates a system of public school choice for students in grades 9 through 12 by July 1, 2002. It applies only to school districts that maintain high schools. Each school district, unless exempted by the Commissioner of Education (because it can demon... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Community College Supplemental Funding for Choice and At-Risk Programs H.B. 2496 Provides supplementary weighting for funding and for determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-district or district-to-community college sharing programs and at-risk programs.... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Districts May Refuse to Open Enroll Student H.B. 3800 Permits a school district to refuse to open enroll a student during the term of his or her expulsion if the student was expelled for: 1) possessing a dangerous weapon; 2) possessing or using illegal drugs at school or a school function; 3) selling or solicitin... More... WI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Open Enrollment A.B. 367 Relates to school district open enrollment and tuition waivers and payments.... More... WI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Restricts Applications for Open Enrollment S.B. 309 Relates to the number of school districts to which a pupil may apply under the open enrollment program.... More... DE Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Neighborhood School Plans H.B. 300 Requires the Brandywine, Colonial, Christina, and Red Clay Consolidated School Districts to develop and implement Neighborhood School Plans that allow every student to attend the grade-appropriate school geographically closest to the student's home; establishe... More... SD Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Enrollment H.B. 1015 The legislation states that a school district's standards for open enrollment shall be limited to the capacity of a program, class, grade level, and school building operated by the district and student/teacher ratio. In addition, limitations are put on studen... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2000 P-12 Open Enrollment S.B. 2171 Creates the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program Act of 1999; appropriates funds for program to establish choice districts which could enroll students across district lines in choice district schools.... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2000 P-12 Representation Under Open Enrollment S.B. 2212 Provides increased representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending districts.... More... Choice of Schools--Tax Credits AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Income Tax Credits for Preschool H.B. 2226 Relates to individual income tax credits for tuition paid for preschool for children with disabilities; defines "handicapped" student as a student who is hearing impaired, visually impaired, preschool moderately delayed, preschool severely delayed, and presch... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tax Credits for Donations H.B. 2451 Allows a personal or corporate income tax credit for any real property and improvements that are donated to a school district or charter school for use as a school or as a site for the construction of a new school.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tax Credits S.B. 1369 Relates to individual income tax credits; expands use of public school fees credit to include character education programs; defines character education programs.... More... Choice of Schools--Vouchers CA Rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 Education Voucher Program V. 25 PROPOSITION 38 Amends State Constitution. Authorizes State-funded $ 4000-per-pupil annual payments to qualifying private and religious schools as grants for new enrollees, and partial grants for children enrolled in private schools before the measure's approva... More... MI Rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 Voucher Initiative V. 1 A proposed amendment to the Michigan constitution to provide for guaranteed school funding, teacher testing, and school choice. The amendment would alter Article VIII, Section 2 and create a new article VIII, Section 10. ... More... CA On 11/07/2000 ballot 06/2000 P-12 Voucher Program for Private Schools V. 25 INITIATIVE 844; Authorizes state-funded $ 4000-per-pupil annual payments to qualifying private and religious schools as grants for new enrollees, and partial grants for children enrolled in private schools before the measure's approval. Permits legislature to ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Income Tax Credits for Preschool H.B. 2226 Relates to individual income tax credits for tuition paid for preschool for children with disabilities; defines "handicapped" student as a student who is hearing impaired, visually impaired, preschool moderately delayed, preschool severely delayed, and presch... More... Civic Education CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Daily Pledge of Allegiance A.B. 1747 Provides that the recitation of a specified portion of the Declaration of Independence would satisfy the requirement of existing law which requires that appropriate patriotic exercises be conducted in every public elementary and secondary school each day .... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Character Education H.J.R. 9 Recognizes Delaware to be a State of Character; urges the citizens and community leaders of Delaware to promote character in schools, businesses, homes, churches, and other places.... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Committee on Civic Education S.J.R. 100 Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education; designates Alabama's Legislators Back to School Day.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Civic, Ethical Education S.B. 1216 Requires the state board to develop and maintain a handbook for use in the schools of this state that provides guidance for the teaching of moral, civic and ethical education.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tax Credits S.B. 1369 Relates to individual income tax credits; expands use of public school fees credit to include character education programs; defines character education programs.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Display of the Flag; Pledge of Allegiance H.B. 655 Provides that the United States flag shall be displayed in every public school classroom; provides that every public school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem at the beginning of each school day; provides that no pupil who objects shal... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Citizenship Instruction H.B. 652 Requires that instruction in citizenship shall be given in all elementary and secondary schools.... More... AK Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Pledge of Allegiance H.B. 192 Relates to the pledge of allegiance by public school students.... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Character Education H.B. 157 Adds core values and qualities of good character to make moral and ethical decisions in life to the capacities students shall be allowed and assisted to acquire by the system of public education; requires schools to develop their students' ability to become se... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Flag Etiquette/Instruction H.B. 506 Relates to requiring instruction in flag etiquette in schools; requires the Kentucky Board Of Education to develop a program of instruction relating to the United States and the Kentucky state flags; require that the program of instruction be provided to each ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Instruction Relating to the United States Flag S.B. 21 Relates to public schools; requires the State Board of Education to provide by rule a program of instruction within the public schools relating to the flag of the United States.... More... GA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Veterans Day instruction H.B. 68 Provides for instructional activity relating to Veterans Day.... More... Civic Education--Character Education CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Daily Pledge of Allegiance A.B. 1747 Provides that the recitation of a specified portion of the Declaration of Independence would satisfy the requirement of existing law which requires that appropriate patriotic exercises be conducted in every public elementary and secondary school each day .... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Character Education H.J.R. 9 Recognizes Delaware to be a State of Character; urges the citizens and community leaders of Delaware to promote character in schools, businesses, homes, churches, and other places.... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Committee on Civic Education S.J.R. 100 Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education; designates Alabama's Legislators Back to School Day.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Civic, Ethical Education S.B. 1216 Requires the state board to develop and maintain a handbook for use in the schools of this state that provides guidance for the teaching of moral, civic and ethical education.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tax Credits S.B. 1369 Relates to individual income tax credits; expands use of public school fees credit to include character education programs; defines character education programs.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Display of the Flag; Pledge of Allegiance H.B. 655 Provides that the United States flag shall be displayed in every public school classroom; provides that every public school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem at the beginning of each school day; provides that no pupil who objects shal... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Citizenship Instruction H.B. 652 Requires that instruction in citizenship shall be given in all elementary and secondary schools.... More... AK Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Pledge of Allegiance H.B. 192 Relates to the pledge of allegiance by public school students.... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Character Education H.B. 157 Adds core values and qualities of good character to make moral and ethical decisions in life to the capacities students shall be allowed and assisted to acquire by the system of public education; requires schools to develop their students' ability to become se... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Flag Etiquette/Instruction H.B. 506 Relates to requiring instruction in flag etiquette in schools; requires the Kentucky Board Of Education to develop a program of instruction relating to the United States and the Kentucky state flags; require that the program of instruction be provided to each ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Instruction Relating to the United States Flag S.B. 21 Relates to public schools; requires the State Board of Education to provide by rule a program of instruction within the public schools relating to the flag of the United States.... More... Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Daily Pledge of Allegiance A.B. 1747 Provides that the recitation of a specified portion of the Declaration of Independence would satisfy the requirement of existing law which requires that appropriate patriotic exercises be conducted in every public elementary and secondary school each day .... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Display of the Flag; Pledge of Allegiance H.B. 655 Provides that the United States flag shall be displayed in every public school classroom; provides that every public school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem at the beginning of each school day; provides that no pupil who objects shal... More... AK Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Pledge of Allegiance H.B. 192 Relates to the pledge of allegiance by public school students.... More... Class Size CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Modifications to Class Reduction Program A.B. 1608 Allows a school district that maintains only one school that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 3, inclusive with an annual average class size of not more than 20 pupils to determine average class size by calculating the total number of pupils enrol... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Revisions In the Small Class Size Program S.B. 871 This establishes 2 options under which a school district may apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for funds from the program. Under Option One, a school district that provides a reduced class size for all pupils in each classroom for the full regu... More... WA Approved by voters 06/2000 P-12 Ballot Initiative - Student Achievement Fund Initiative 728 INITIATIVE 728: Shall school districts reduce class sizes, extend learning programs, expand teacher training, and construct facilities, funded by lottery proceeds, existing property taxes, and budget reserves? ... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Pupil/Teacher Ratios S.B. 1167 Requires schools to include information relating to classroom pupil to teacher ratios on the school report card for kindergarten through grade three if a school provides instruction for those grades; targets kindergarten through third grade pupil to teacher ra... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Class Size Component H.B. 1187 The new class sizes are funded as follows: Kindergarten – 1:15; Kindergarten Early Intervention Program – 1:11; Grades 1-3 – 1:17; Grades 1-3 Early Intervention Program – 1:11 ... More... Counseling/Guidance MI Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Counselors Not Certified as Teachers H.B. 5740 Public Act 288; Relates to education; regards counseling; allows school counselors who are not certified as teachers to serve in public school under certain circumstances.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Guidance Counselor Requirements & Funding H.B. 1187 Guidance counselors are required to spend at least five of six periods counseling or advising students and parents. Funding for middle school counselors has been changed to 1:624. Funding for elementary school counselors has been decreased. The exact ratio ha... More... VA Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Guidance Counselors H.B. 245 Amends the Standards of Quality to require, within the Standards of Accreditation, guidance counselors in elementary schools at the following staffing levels: one hour per day per 100 students, one full-time at 500 students, one hour per day additional time pe... More... TN Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Coordinated Health Program H.B. 674 Provides for coordinated school health program; requires program to include, but not be limited to, school nurses, health education, school nutrition services, a health school environment, and school counseling, psychological and social services.... More... Curriculum OR Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Ballot Initiative V. 32 MEASURE 9 Prohibits public school instruction (K-12 or Community College level) from encouraging, promoting, or sanctioning homosexual and bisexual behaviors.... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Including Native History In the State's Standards S.B. 1439 Requires the State Department of Education to request proposals for the development of model curricula, aligned with state content standards, on California Native American history, culture, and tribal sovereignty, to be incorporated into educational materials ... More... NJ Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Arts Education A.B. 2175 Revises the mission of the New Jersey School of Arts to provide assistance to secondary schools in meeting Visual and Performance Arts Standards; appropriates funds.... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Cesar Chavez Day S.B. 984 Chapter No.213, Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide for use by public schools for exercises related to Cesar Chavez Day. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum framework, where appropriate,... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Art in Schools S.B. 1390 Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning the value of visual and performing arts. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt content standards for visual and performing arts, pursuant to recommendations developed by the Superintendent of Publ... More... NY Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Curriculum Materials Made Available A.B. 3597 Makes available to all elementary schools in the state suitable curriculum materials to aid in the instruction of pupils in the understanding and acceptance of children with disabilities.... More... RI Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Emotional and Social Competency S.B. 2572 Requires the state department to develop model programs that encourage "emotional and social competency and learning." The new law states that emotional competency includes self-awareness, emotional self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. It p... More... RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Genocide, Slave Trade, Irish Famine, Holocaust H.B. 7397 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop curricular material on genocide and human rights violations and issues including slave trade, great hunger in Ireland, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and Mussolini's Fascist Regime.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Education On America's Veterns S.B. 172 196., Requires instruction in public schools regarding sacrifices made by veterans.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Additional Drivers Education Training S.B. 1530 Creates the Justin Marksz Teen Safety Driving Act; requires every motor vehicle occupant under the age of 18 to wear a safety belt or child restraint device; prohibits a person under the age of 18 from being a passenger in the front seat; makes additional requ... More... AK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Native Language Education S.B. 103 Relates to a curriculum for Native language education.... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Advanced Placement Incentive Program S.B. 1015 Modifies the Oklahoma Advanced Placement Incentive Program. Authorizes test fee assistance for students taking multiple tests in one year. Authorizes the state board to award additional grants to school sites demonstrating successful implementation of the cou... More... AL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Driver Education S.B. 241 Allows driver's education teacher to administer the written, vision, oral, or driving portion of the examination.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Environmental Education S.B. 1379 Relates to environmental education; changes the make up of Arizona Advisory Council on Environmental Education; expands eligibility for grants for environmental education sites; modifies the definition of environmental education.... More... HI Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Performance Standards, Curriculum H.B. 2495 States that the Department of Education shall regulate courses of study to be pursued in all grades of public schools and classify them by methods the department deems proper.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Economics Education H.C.R. 82 Directs the Interim Joint Committee on Education to study the issue of the instruction of the principles of economics and the need for promoting economic education during the 2000-2002 legislative interim.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Ten Commandments and Other Historical documents S.J.R. 57 Requests the Kentucky Board Of Education to encourage teachers and school administrators to post and teach from historic displays of original documents reflecting American history, which may include the Ten Commandments; permits cost of posting and maintaining... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Option for End-of-Course Tests H.B. 1020 Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to t... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Physical Education Component H.B. 1187 The law is clarified so that Physical Education is no longer mandatory by law. Rather the State Board of Education can set the standard requirements for Physical Education. ... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 H.B. 254 Relates to geography education; establishes the Kentucky Geographic Education Board and the Kentucky Geography Education Trust Fund; permits the Fund to receive grants and gifts from public and private sources.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Arts Education Pilot H.B. 325 Relates to public schools; creates an arts in elementary schools pilot program to determine if a sequential ongoing arts program in the state's elementary schools can improve the overall excellence and scholarship of students; provides components for a preasse... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Core Curriculum S.B. 68 Relates to public schools; provides for defining and establishes a core curriculum including identification of basic knowledge skills and competencies; requires local school boards to design school activities and programs to focus and enhance the core curricul... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Driver Education S.B. 114 Increases the ceiling on reimbursement to schools for driver education costs from $ 70 to $ 100 per student.... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 World War II Oral History Project H.B. 2418 Establishes a World War II oral history project in public schools.... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Japanese Ancestry H.B. 1572 Develops a grant program to fund public educational activities and development of educational materials to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of civilians and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry will be ... More... WV Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Program on Banking H.B. 4080 Authorizes the state treasurer to conduct a program on banking in the public schools.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 State History S.B. 114 Relates to history requirement in middle and high school; amends the requirement for study of documents of Virginia history and the United States Constitution to require emphasis on the relationship between the various documents and Virginia history and to sta... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 S.B. 487 Amends the Standards of Quality to require that the Board of Education supplement the Standards of Learning for Social Studies to ensure the study of contributions to society of diverse people; defines diverse as including consideration of disability, ethnicit... More... Curriculum--Arts Education NJ Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Arts Education A.B. 2175 Revises the mission of the New Jersey School of Arts to provide assistance to secondary schools in meeting Visual and Performance Arts Standards; appropriates funds.... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Art in Schools S.B. 1390 Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning the value of visual and performing arts. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt content standards for visual and performing arts, pursuant to recommendations developed by the Superintendent of Publ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Arts Education Pilot H.B. 325 Relates to public schools; creates an arts in elementary schools pilot program to determine if a sequential ongoing arts program in the state's elementary schools can improve the overall excellence and scholarship of students; provides components for a preasse... More... Curriculum--Core Curriculum UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Core Curriculum S.B. 68 Relates to public schools; provides for defining and establishes a core curriculum including identification of basic knowledge skills and competencies; requires local school boards to design school activities and programs to focus and enhance the core curricul... More... Curriculum--Drivers Education CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Drivers Education Information A.B. 2733 Requires the State Department of Education to prepare certain materials that focus on the reduction of future driving violations, with particular emphasis on aggressive driving behavior and behavior commonly known as "road rage," and to make these materials av... More... DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Drivers Education Issues H.B. 489 Recognizes the responsibility and authority of the court appointed custodian and allows them to determine if the minor is capable of operating a motor vehicle safely; states that if the court returns the minor to the parent's household, the parent can cancel t... More... OH Signed by governor 06/2000 P-12 Drivers' Education 1999 H.B. 160 Eliminates the $50 limit on fees that school districts may charge students for drivers' education.... More... OH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Joint Voc. Districts as Driver Training Schools S.B. 237 Amends section 4508.01 and enacts section 4508.09 of the Revised Code; permits a joint vocational school district to be licensed as a commercial driver training school and to offer instruction and training to students other than regular full-time students in t... More... AL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Driver Education S.B. 241 Allows driver's education teacher to administer the written, vision, oral, or driving portion of the examination.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Driver Education S.B. 114 Increases the ceiling on reimbursement to schools for driver education costs from $ 70 to $ 100 per student.... More... Curriculum--Environmental Education CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 School Recycling Programs A.B. 2553 Requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the State Department of Conservation to establish a program to award grants and provide incentives to school districts and county offices of e... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Environmental Education S.B. 1379 Relates to environmental education; changes the make up of Arizona Advisory Council on Environmental Education; expands eligibility for grants for environmental education sites; modifies the definition of environmental education.... More... Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Economics Education H.C.R. 82 Directs the Interim Joint Committee on Education to study the issue of the instruction of the principles of economics and the need for promoting economic education during the 2000-2002 legislative interim.... More... Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Language Education and Testing S.B. 1667 Relates to existing law which requires a school district with pupils who are English learners to conduct annual assessments on the pupils English. Requires that the annual assessment be conducted upon initial enrollment during a period of time determined by th... More... Curriculum--Geography Education KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 H.B. 254 Relates to geography education; establishes the Kentucky Geographic Education Board and the Kentucky Geography Education Trust Fund; permits the Fund to receive grants and gifts from public and private sources.... More... Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 School Food Service Programs S.B. 1514 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene an advisory task force to explore ways to inform parents about the healthfulness and basic nutritional value of all food served in public schools, including genetically engineered foods. Requires the... More... TN Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Coordinated Health Program H.B. 674 Provides for coordinated school health program; requires program to include, but not be limited to, school nurses, health education, school nutrition services, a health school environment, and school counseling, psychological and social services.... More... Curriculum--Language Arts UT Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 V. 1 English Only INITIATIVE A Declares English as Utah's official and sole language for state and local government documents and action; exempts those documents and actions required by the United States and Utah constitutions, federal law and regulations, law enforcement, publ... More... CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Action Plan for Language Development S.B. 576 Appropriates, without regard to fiscal year, a specified amount from the General Fund to the California Postsecondary Education Commission for the purpose of preparing and submitting to the governor, certain members of the legislature, and prescribed state off... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Language Education and Testing S.B. 1667 Relates to existing law which requires a school district with pupils who are English learners to conduct annual assessments on the pupils English. Requires that the annual assessment be conducted upon initial enrollment during a period of time determined by th... More... UT On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 P-12 English as Official Language V. 1 Ballot Initiative Establishes English as the official language of the State of Utah.... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 English Language Programs A.B. 2881 Relates to existing law which establishes the English Language Acquisition Program which is designed for schools maintaining grades 4 to 8, inclusive, and under which English Language Development Professional Institutes provide instruction for school teams fro... More... HI Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Language Immersion Program S.B. 2722 Creates standards for the Hawaiian language immersion program; states the Department of Education shall create a separate Office of Hawaiian Language Immersion Instruction for the direction and control of the program.... More... NE Rejected by voters 05/2000 P-12 English Language Requirement in Private Schools V. 4 (LR 20-1999); Constitutional amendment; eliminates the English language requirement in private, denominational, and parochial schools.... More... Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling ME Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Maine Writing Project H.B. 1708 (LD 2414); Supports and expands the Maine Writing Project to improve student achievement in writing, which is a major feature of the State educational assessment.... More... Curriculum--Mathematics CO Rejected by Voters 11/2000 P-12 State Science and Math Grants V. 6 REFERENDUM F (SB 4, 2000) Asks whether the State of Colorado shall be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, and for fo... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Algebra Required for High School Graduation S.B. 1354 Specifies that as part of an adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, algebra must be included as part of the mathematics instruction required for a student to graduate from high school.... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Providing More Funding for Algebra S.B. 1688 Makes each school district eligible for reimbursements for hours of pupil attendance claimed for intensive algebra academics, pursuant to prescribed calculations.... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 High School Grant Program for Math, Science & Computers H.B. 5231 Provides that the Department of Education shall establish a competitive grant program for high school projects that involve one or more of the following topics: computers, engineering, physics, mathematics, science or technical construction; allows local and r... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Teacher Qualifications H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill) Teachers employed by a public school or certified after 1999 to teach mathematics in grades 6-8 must be certified to teach intermediate or secondary level math. Any teacher hired without such certifcation prior to July 1, 2000 must obtain the proper certifica... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Professional Development Fund S.B. 77 Creates the Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Fund to provide moneys to teachers of middle school mathematics for tuition reimbursements and stipends for approved university and college courses, approved professional development programs and p... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Early Feedback in Mathematics H.B. 178 Establishes the Kentucky Early Mathematics Testing Program, located at a public university, to provide information to high school sophomores and juniors regarding their level of mathematics knowledge in relation to college standards in order to encourage stude... More... Curriculum--Multicultural CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Including Native History In the State's Standards S.B. 1439 Requires the State Department of Education to request proposals for the development of model curricula, aligned with state content standards, on California Native American history, culture, and tribal sovereignty, to be incorporated into educational materials ... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Cesar Chavez Day S.B. 984 Chapter No.213, Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide for use by public schools for exercises related to Cesar Chavez Day. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum framework, where appropriate,... More... RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Genocide, Slave Trade, Irish Famine, Holocaust H.B. 7397 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop curricular material on genocide and human rights violations and issues including slave trade, great hunger in Ireland, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and Mussolini's Fascist Regime.... More... AK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Native Language Education S.B. 103 Relates to a curriculum for Native language education.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 S.B. 487 Amends the Standards of Quality to require that the Board of Education supplement the Standards of Learning for Social Studies to ensure the study of contributions to society of diverse people; defines diverse as including consideration of disability, ethnicit... More... Curriculum--Physical Education GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Physical Education Component H.B. 1187 The law is clarified so that Physical Education is no longer mandatory by law. Rather the State Board of Education can set the standard requirements for Physical Education. ... More... Curriculum--Science CO Rejected by Voters 11/2000 P-12 State Science and Math Grants V. 6 REFERENDUM F (SB 4, 2000) Asks whether the State of Colorado shall be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, and for fo... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Marine Science Education Act A.B. 2330 Establishes the Marine Sciences Education Act of 2000 and a comprehensive marine science grant program for nonprofit aquariums, ocean institutes, and other marine science education programs to provide marine science education programs for prekindergarten, kind... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Science/Tech Training A.B. 2883 Authorizes the Regents of the University of California to establish 3 California Institutes for Science and Innovation for the purpose of combining technological and scientific research and training and educating future scientists and technological leaders.... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 High School Grant Program for Math, Science & Computers H.B. 5231 Provides that the Department of Education shall establish a competitive grant program for high school projects that involve one or more of the following topics: computers, engineering, physics, mathematics, science or technical construction; allows local and r... More... Curriculum--Sex Education UT Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Health/Sex Education H.B. 411 Relates to public schools; modifies the instruction requirements pertaining to community and personal health, physiology, personal hygiene, and the prevention of communicable disease curriculum taught in grades eight through 12; relates to abstinence education... More... Curriculum--Social Studies/History CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Including Native History In the State's Standards S.B. 1439 Requires the State Department of Education to request proposals for the development of model curricula, aligned with state content standards, on California Native American history, culture, and tribal sovereignty, to be incorporated into educational materials ... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Cesar Chavez Day S.B. 984 Chapter No.213, Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide for use by public schools for exercises related to Cesar Chavez Day. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum framework, where appropriate,... More... RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Genocide, Slave Trade, Irish Famine, Holocaust H.B. 7397 Requires the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop curricular material on genocide and human rights violations and issues including slave trade, great hunger in Ireland, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and Mussolini's Fascist Regime.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Ten Commandments and Other Historical documents S.J.R. 57 Requests the Kentucky Board Of Education to encourage teachers and school administrators to post and teach from historic displays of original documents reflecting American history, which may include the Ten Commandments; permits cost of posting and maintaining... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Option for End-of-Course Tests H.B. 1020 Relates to social studies; requires the Board of Education, in prescribing the Standards of Learning assessments, to provide local school boards the option of administering end-of-course tests for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to t... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Ten Commandments H.B. 662 Requires a liability insurer to pay according to the terms of the policy an insured who is sued for posting the Ten Commandments in a public school building; provides that such posting is not an illegal act but a legal posting of a historical document.... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 World War II Oral History Project H.B. 2418 Establishes a World War II oral history project in public schools.... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Japanese Ancestry H.B. 1572 Develops a grant program to fund public educational activities and development of educational materials to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of civilians and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry will be ... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 State History S.B. 114 Relates to history requirement in middle and high school; amends the requirement for study of documents of Virginia history and the United States Constitution to require emphasis on the relationship between the various documents and Virginia history and to sta... More... Data-Driven Improvement WV Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Determining High Quality H.B. 4674 Relates to high quality education programs and standards, efficiency standards and indicators, performance measures, the process for improving education, education performance audits, the office of education performance audits, on-site reviews, assessment and ... More... Demographics--Enrollments LA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Enrollment of Foster Children S.B. 24A Relates to school attendance; specifies that city and parish school boards must have a policy to place and educate foster children and may not deny enrollment to a child because he or she is in foster care.... More... NM Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Denial of Enrollment H.B. 46 Relates to conditions under which local school boards may deny a student's enrollment or re-enrollment.... More... Desegregation MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Funding for Desegregation Initiatives H.B. 3800 Requires a district to submit a budget each year detailing the cost of its desegregation/integration plan before receiving integration revenue. For Minneapolis, St Paul, or Duluth, these requirements apply only to revenue which exceeds the amount received by t... More... Economic/Workforce Development PA Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Amends New Economy Technology Scholarship Act H.B. 2351 Amends the New Economy Technology Scholarship Act. Further provides for definitions for the new Economy Technology Scholarship Program, for scientific and technological scholarships, for administration and for reporting.... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Effects of Postsecondary Education S.B. 313 Establishes a commission to study the relationship between postsecondary education and recipients of temporary assistance to needy families.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Programs/Commissions H.B. 572 Establishes the Kentucky Innovation Commission to provide ongoing advice, direction and policy recommendations to the governor and general assembly relating to the state's knowledge-driven businesses, research development initiatives and related high-skill tra... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Economic Development H.J.R. 142 Directs the Cabinet for Economic Development, the Department of Education, and the Transportation Cabinet to work together to create a unified plan for increasing levels of assistance to counties with high unemployment, low educational attainment, and low per ... More... Equity HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Equity in School Sports S.B. 2475 Prohibits discrimination in athletics on the bases of sex in any public school and requires the superintendent of education to develop a strategic plan to ensure equity in sports participation.... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Gender Equity In Intercollegiate Sports S.B. 1589 Public Act No. 91-792., Amends the Board of Higher Education Act; removes the provision repealing the Section concerning gender equity in intercollegiate athletics on December 31, 2000; changes when the Board of Higher Education has to report to the General As... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Athletic Opportunities - Equity H.B. 1308 Relates to other educational programs under the Quality Basic Education Act; prohibits discrimination based on gender in elementary and secondary school athletic programs; provides for operation or sponsorship of separate athletic teams for members of each gen... More... Finance OK Rejected by voters 11/2000 P-12 Postsec. State Question 684 V. 1 STATE QUESTION 684 (SJR 2-2000) Amends the State Constitution; removes restrictions on the Permanent School Fund relative to common schools and universities and colleges; removes the requirement that certain monies be held as trust funds; allows the Commission... More... SD Unofficially approved on the ballot 11/2000 P-12 Investments of School Funds V. 5 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT E (SJR-1-2000); permits the investment of the Permanent School Funds in certain stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other financial instruments and the use of a certain portion of the interest and income to increase the principal in the F... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Energy Conservation S.B. 1299 Chapter No.536, Extends the operation of the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account to January 1, 2011. Requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to enter into agreement with the Regents of the University of California, ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Financing Gifted and Talented Education A.B. 2313 Revises the method of apportioning funds for the gifted and talented program so that each participating school district receives a per-pupil amount based on average daily attendance, determined as specified. Removes certain restrictions on the use of funds for... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Study of K-12 Financing Plans A.B. 2831 Establishes, until 01/01/2002, the California Commission on Restructuring School Finance for Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires the Commission to, among other things, develop a proposed method for the reduction or elimination of mandated ... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 State Financing Regulations A.B. 2586 Limits the authorization of the California School Finance Authority to make or purchase secured or unsecured loans or to purchase the rights and possibilities to those loans and rights and possibilities regarding the state's share of funding, for of school fac... More... OK On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 P-12 Postsec. School Land Trust V. 1, SB 1348 STATE QUESTION 684 (SJR 2-2000) Amends the State Constitution; removes restrictions on the Permanent School Fund relative to common schools and universities and colleges; removes the requirement that certain monies be held as trust funds; allows the Commission... More... RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Bonds S.B. 3067 Relates to municipal public building authorities; provides that in calculating the limitations of revenue bonds, there shall not be included in the calculation 50% of the outstanding principal amount of any bond issued for projects for which the authority or m... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tobacco Settlement H.B. 583 Provides for the distribution of money received from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement; establishes the Rural Development Fund, the Early Childhood Development Fund, and the Kentucky Health Care Improvement Fund; creates the Lung Cancer Research Fund adm... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Annual Audits H.B. 689 Requires the Auditor of Public Accounts to be responsible for an annual audit of the funds in each school district cooperative, school district consortium, school district corporation, and any other entity formed by school districts; provides the auditor may a... More... NE Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 School Finance L.B. 968 Relates to revenue and taxation; changes provisions relating to the Nebraska Budget Act, tax levies, joint public agencies, taxation of public property, and school finance; changes the operative date of changes made by Laws 1999; provides operative dates; repe... More... NE Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 L.B. 1401 Changes provisions relating to budgets, beginner grade entrance document requirements, the enrollment option program, reorganization plan hearings, report filing dates, warrants, expenditure limitations, state aid, temporary mitigation funds, the Hardship Fund... More... VT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Purchasing H.B. 620 This act amends the public bids section of law to make clear that school boards may resort to the state purchasing system without having to undergo any further public bidding and it clearly authorizes, in the context of school nutrition programs, use of any fe... More... Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost OR Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Equity and Adequacy in School Funding V. 24; (NEW BILL) MEASURE 1; Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution regarding accountability and equity in school funding; provides that the legislature must fund school quality goals adequately; establishes grants.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Minimum School Program Act S.B. 3 Provides for state and local funding of the Minimum School Program Act; provides a ceiling for the state contribution of the maintenance and operations portion of the act; provides appropriations for school building aid; provides additional funding for pupil t... More... Finance--Bonds RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Bonds S.B. 3067 Relates to municipal public building authorities; provides that in calculating the limitations of revenue bonds, there shall not be included in the calculation 50% of the outstanding principal amount of any bond issued for projects for which the authority or m... More... Finance--District ID Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Idaho Public School Permanent Endowment Fund V. 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (HJR 1, 2000) Amends the State Constitution of Idaho relating to the Public School Fund; changes the name of the Public School Fund to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund.... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Flexibility in School Finance A.B. 615 Establishes the Pilot Project for Categorical Education Program Flexibility under which a school district would have flexibility in the expenditure of categorical funds within 3 clusters: the school improvement and staff development cluster, the alternative an... More... CO On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 P-12 Trying to Over-ride Spending Restrictions V. 6; (NEW BILL) (Referendum F SB 4); Asks the question shall the state of Colorado be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and for fou... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Carring Forward Funds From the District Review Trust Fund S.B. 602 82., Recreates Florida School District Review Trust Fund within legislative branch without modification and placing it on the standard review cycle; carries forward current balances and continues current sources and uses thereof.... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Department of Education Budget Rules H.B. 1873 Authorizes the Department of Education (DOE) to retain and expend a portion of all indirect overhead reimbursements for discretionary grants; establishes a federal grants search and application revolving fund; provides the DOE with autonomy over the administra... More... HI Vetoed 06/2000 Postsec. University Budget Carry-over H.B. 2062 Allows University of Hawaii to carry over funds from one year to the next.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Budget Hearings S.B. 1452 Provides that if no budget hearing is required by law, the county clerk shall be so notified; provides consequences if a nonschool district does not comply with the statute regarding budget hearings; provides consequences if a school district does not comply w... More... ME Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Optional New Budget Cost Center Format H.B. 949 Public Law No. 710., (LD 1346) Establishes an optional new school budget cost center format and budget approval process; authorizes school boards to transfer up to 5% of the school budget between cost centers without voter approval; allows district voters to a... More... KY *****To GOVERNOR 03/2000 P-12 Finance Officer H.B. 668 Requires the local school superintendent to appoint a finance officer who shall be responsible financial management for that district; requires 42 hours of training and continuing education every two years from a provider approved by the Department of Educatio... More... SD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Technology Office, Referenda, Finance H.B. 1257 Enhances learning in public schools; reimburses nationally certified teachers; establishes an Office of Education Technology; studies the public education requirement workforce; increases the voting requirement for school district referenda; limits certain tra... More... Finance--Equity OR Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Equity and Adequacy in School Funding V. 24; (NEW BILL) MEASURE 1; Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution regarding accountability and equity in school funding; provides that the legislature must fund school quality goals adequately; establishes grants.... More... WY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Education Equity Account H.B. 195 De-earmarks federal mineral royalties and severance taxes for transportation & interest on water development funds; creates the educational equity account for public schools.... More... Finance--Facilities CA Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000 P-12 Community College Changing Bond Approval from 75% to 55% V. 29 PROPOSITION 39 Authorizes bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if approved by 55% vote for projects evaluated by schools, community college districts, county education offices for safety, class size, and in... More... NC Approved by voters 10/2000 Postsec. Statewide Bond Referendum V. 1 BOND REFERENDUM Issues the State of North Carolina Higher Education Improvement Bonds, constituting general obligation bonds of the State secured by a pledge of the faith and credit and taxing power of the State for the purpose of providing funds, with any oth... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 School Construction Finance A.B. 2408 Chapter No.530, Authorizes new construction or modernization on real property leased to a school district if certain conditions are met.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Report on School Building Capacity A.B. 801 Chapter No.458, Requires each school district that elects to participate in the new construction program under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 to submit to the State Allocation Board a one-time report of existing school building capacity, pur... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Funding Joint-use Projects S.B. 1795 Authorizes the State Allocation Board to fund joint-use projects to construct libraries, multi-purpose rooms, and gymnasiums if specified conditions are met and would authorize the board to adopt related funding priority regulations.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Petitions for Charters and Passage of School Bonds A.B. 2659 Requires the State Board of Education to develop criteria for the review and approval of charter school petitions. Makes technical revisions relating to passage of local school bond measures. Prohibits issuance of the bonds unless the property tax rate levied... More... NJ Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Bonds/Notes S.B. 1311 Increases the amount of bonds and notes which may be issued to provide additional State support for county colleges; states said bonds and notes may be issued by the County Board of Freeholders or the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, after certific... More... CA Rejected by voters 08/2000 P-12 Community College Bonds V. 15 BALLOT NO. 833 (SA99F0004), PROPOSITION 26; Authorizes schools, community college districts, and county education offices that evaluate safety, class size, information technology needs to issue bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacem... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Capital Finance Notification A.B. 1674 Requires a) specified notification to affected school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, California State Universities, the University of California, or a state agency prior to enacting or changing capital facilities fees, and... More... CA On 11/07/2000 Ballot 07/2000 P-12 Community College Bond Vote for Schools V. 29 PROPOSITION 39; Authorizes bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if approved by 55% vote for projects evaluated by schools, community college districts, county education offices for safety, class size, and i... More... AK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Bond Issue Financing School Buildings H.B. 287 Makes capital appropriations that are funded from the sale of revenue bonds that are issued by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation or a subsidiary of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and that are to be repaid either from the revenue derived from the s... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Fire Safety S.B. 891 Requires installation of automatic fire suppression systems in all dormitories at public or private institutions of higher education.... More... NJ Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Facilities Construction S.B. 200 Concerns the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act; concerns the construction and financing of public school facilities.... More... OH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 School Facilities Assistance Moneys S.B. 272 Sets aside school facilities assistance moneys for school districts with exceptional needs; permits any school district to participate in the School Building Assistance Expedited Local Partnership Program; makes other changes to the Classroom Facilities Assist... More... OH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Property Acquisition S.B. 269 Authorizes a Board of Education to acquire real property needed for school purposes by exchanging real property that the board owns for the property or by using real property that the board owns as consideration in the purchase of the property.... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Oklahoma Education and Infrastructure Bond Act S.B. 2A Relates to education and general obligation bonds; provides that the act may be cited as the Oklahoma Education and Infrastructure Bond Act. Primarily appropriations, but notes that for Fiscal Year ending 6-30-2002 and thereafter, it is the intent of the legi... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. appropriations for postsecondary S.B. 984 Relates to revenue and taxation and higher education. Appropriates to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education $634,890,903 from the general fund to increase faculty salaries 3% and to correct deferred maintenance in public postsecondary institutions ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Postsecondary Capital Construction H.B. 2249 Relates to revenue and taxation and higher education. Appropriates $634,890,903 from the general fund to increase faculty salaries 3% and to correct deferred maintenance in public postsecondary institutions throughout the state.... More... SC Became law without governor's signature 06/2000 P-12 School Facilities H.B. 4970 Authorizes the Board of Education to acquire school buildings and other facilities relating to school district operations; allows this acquisition by means of a lease purchase agreement.... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Capital Construction Projects S.B. 181 Concerns the funding of Public School Capital Construction Projects; addresses two methods of providing funding for the state's portion of matching grants for school district capital construction projects.... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Charter School Changes, Capital Reserve Usage H.B. 1124 Concerns public schools; authorizes charter schools to impose fees for excess transportation costs and to engage in the building, planning and inspection process; authorizes public schools to use capital reserve fund expenditures for certain purposes.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Infrastructure Program/Fund S.B. 2447 Provides financial assistance to communities and school districts by creating a school infrastructure program and fund; continues the community attraction and tourism development program and fund; creates a vision board; creates a Vision Iowa program and fund;... More... MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Solar Energy in New Schools S.B. 711 Establishes a pilot program to use solar energy in new school construction projects in the State; requires a county board of education to include the use of solar energy for at least 20% of the energy or demand needs of a public school construction project; re... More... ME Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Construction Funding S.B. 298 Public Law No. 789, (LD 870); Improves public school safety and learning environments; allows a municipality to expend funds for school construction or renovation if expenditure is approved by the voters at an election; requires Board of Education and Departme... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Allow Universities access to Dev. Bank S.B. 2868 Revises the definition of the term "local governmental entity" under the Mississippi Development Bank Act to include the State or any agency thereof, institutions of higher learning, and education building corporations established for institutions of higher le... More... FL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Fund H.B. 627 Creates Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund within the Education Department; provides for sources of funds; provides purposes; provides for annual carry forward of funds; provides for transfer of certain funds to trust fund; proclaims that trust... More... IA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Asbestos Removal - Funding H.B. 2435 Repeals provision authorizing the raising of an additional enrichment amount to fund asbestos removal projects; provides that asbestos removal projects would continue to be able to be financed out of any funds in the general fund of a school district, funds re... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Uniform School Building Safety Code Commission H.B. 678 Creates an Idaho Uniform School Building Safety Code Commission which shall develop an Idaho Uniform School Building Safety Code; provides for enforcement of the Uniform School Building Safety Code.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Unhealthy Conditions in Schools H.B. 668 Requires school districts to identify and abate unsafe and unhealthy conditions in schools in the district; creates a School Safety and Health Revolving Loan Fund from which school districts can borrow money from the state of Idaho to abate unsafe and unhealth... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 School Construction S.B. 202 Repeals a specified limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing Wage Law to the construction of an elementary or secondary school.... More... NE Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 L.B. 1401 Changes provisions relating to budgets, beginner grade entrance document requirements, the enrollment option program, reorganization plan hearings, report filing dates, warrants, expenditure limitations, state aid, temporary mitigation funds, the Hardship Fund... More... NM Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Supplemental Severance Tax Bonds for School Capitol Outlay H.B. 32 Relates to severance tax bonds; declares an emergency. Amends the Severance Tax Bonding Act, authorizes the issuance of additional supplemental severance tax bonds for public school capital outlay purposes. Makes an appropriation.... More... NM Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Capital Projects H.B. 17A Authorizes the issuance and sale of capital projects general obligation bonds to make capital expenditures for senior citizen facility improvements and acquisitions, for public educational capital improvements and acquisitions and for other state capital expen... More... NM Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Bonds for Capital Projects H.B. 17A Authorizes the issuance and sale of capital projects general obligation bonds to make capital expenditures for senior citizen facility improvements and acquisitions, for public educational capital improvements and acquisitions and for other state capital expen... More... NM Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Criteria for School Capitol Projects H.B. 31 Relates to public school capital expenditures. Declares an emergency; amends the Public School Capitol Outlay Act to provide criteria and standards for projects to be funded; provides a formula to determine the amount of funds that a project may receive.... More... IN Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Education Facility Projects S.B. 408 Expands the definition of education facility projects for purposes of the Indiana Development Finance Authority (IDFA) law to permit the authority to provide funding to certain nonprofit corporations for real property and improvements, personal property, and n... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Construction H.B. 249 Relates to procurement; increases the cost of construction projects and purchases for which state agencies, institutions of higher education and the legislative branch may use small purchase procedures; provides for local government newspaper advertisement for... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Construction Manager Selection Process H.B. 42 Relates to public schools; provides that if a local board determines to use a construction manager and general contractor as its method of construction contracting management on projects where the total estimated accumulative cost exceeds a specified amount, i... More... NM Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 School Facilities H.B. 279 Relates to supplemental severance tax bonds; provides for funding of public school capitol outlays.... More... NM Vetoed 02/2000 P-12 Facilities Funding S.B. 297 Authorizes supplemental severance tax bonds for public school capital outlay purposes.... More... Finance--Funding Formulas NY Vetoed 11/2000 P-12 Aid Based on Assessed Valuation S.B. 7504 Veto No. 51 of 2000., Provides for State aid to an eligible school district based on the assessed valuation in said district.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Adjustments in the State Finance Formula S.B. 376 Chapter No.581, Allows a school district that experiences a decline in units of ADA in excess of 5% to elect to receive adjustments to its ADA calculation to ameliorate the effects of the decline in enrollments if the Director of Finance determines that the sc... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Study of K-12 Financing Plans A.B. 2831 Establishes, until 01/01/2002, the California Commission on Restructuring School Finance for Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and requires the Commission to, among other things, develop a proposed method for the reduction or elimination of mandated ... More... NY Vetoed 07/2000 P-12 Special Aid for Certain Small City Districts A.B. 5795 Provides that certain city school districts shall be eligible for special service aid and computer administration aid not otherwise available to small city school districts.... More... DE Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 State Payments for Vocational Education S.B. 385 Requires that a certain percentage of the Occupational-Vocational Division II - All Other Costs funds shall be allocated to the school that generates these funds and expended to support the State approved occupational-vocational courses and programs at that sc... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Task Force For a New Education Funding Formula H.B. 701 Creates the Task Force on Public School Funding; specifies powers and duties; revises funding for exceptional student education programs; revises provisions relating to instruction outside the required number of school days; revises the exclusion provisions o... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Finance Formula S.B. 2252 Eliminates the future repeal of the school finance formula; provides for periodic legislative review.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Community College Supplemental Funding for Choice and At-Risk Programs H.B. 2496 Provides supplementary weighting for funding and for determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-district or district-to-community college sharing programs and at-risk programs.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Equalization Formula Component H.B. 1187 Changes equalization funding up to the 75th percentile instead of the 90th percentile. Equalization funding "may be adjusted" to allow for systems who lose money as a result of the change. Any adjustment shall not be in place for more than five years. Beginnin... More... NM Vetoed 02/2000 P-12 At-Risk Funding H.B. 85 Changes the at-risk index for public school finance.... More... Finance--Litigation CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Postsec. State Financing Issues S.B. 1894 Appropriates a specified sum from the General Fund and the State Transportation Fund to the Controller. Allocates from the General Fund, a specified sum for the payment of certain claims by local agencies and school districts for reimbursement for state mandat... More... LA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 TOPS Awards H.B. 224A Increases Tuition Opportunity Program for Students (TOPS) award amounts based on college performance for certain students who qualified for Performance or Honors awards and who chose instead to receive Opportunity Awards.... More... Finance--Local Foundations/Funds CO Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000 P-12 Increasing State Education Funding V. 10 AMENDMENT 23 Amends the State Constitution; concerns increased funding for preschool through 12th-grade public education; requires the statewide base per-pupil funding for public education and funding for specifically defined categorical programs to grow annua... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Minimum School Program Act S.B. 3 Provides for state and local funding of the Minimum School Program Act; provides a ceiling for the state contribution of the maintenance and operations portion of the act; provides appropriations for school building aid; provides additional funding for pupil t... More... IA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Foundation Funding S.B. 2082 Relates to the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program; provides an applicability date.... More... Finance--Lotteries AL Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 BINGO for Education V. 13 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER 11 (ACT NO. 2000-401) Amends the State Constitution; legalizes the operation of bingo games for prizes or money for charitable or educational purposes in the Town of White Hall in Lowndes County.... More... AR Unofficially rejected by Voters 11/2000 P-12 State Lottery for Education V. 5 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 5 (Opinion 99-245) Amends the State Constitution. Establishes a State Lottery; permits charitable bingo games and raffles; allows Arkansas Casino Corporation to own and operate 6 casino gambling establishments (one each in Sebastia... More... CO Approved by Voters 11/2000 P-12 Expanding the State Lottery V. 1 REFERENDUM E (SB 84, 2000) Asks whether the Colorado Lottery Commission should be authorized to enter into multistate agreements allowing Colorado residents to play multistate lottery games; transfers a portion of the net proceeds from all lottery programs, in... More... SC Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Lottery V. 2 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 1 Amends the State Constitution; deletes prohibitions on lotteries, their advertising and ticket sales; provides that lotteries may be conducted only by the State in the manner that the General Assembly provides by law, with the lo... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 Postsec. Lottery Money for Higher Ed. A.B. 2565 Relates to public postsecondary education. Increases the percentage of lottery moneys that may be pledged under the program to the equivalent of 50% of the amount allocated in the 1996-97 fiscal year. Makes an appropriation by authorizing more funds to be depo... More... WA Approved by voters 06/2000 P-12 Ballot Initiative - Student Achievement Fund Initiative 728 INITIATIVE 728: Shall school districts reduce class sizes, extend learning programs, expand teacher training, and construct facilities, funded by lottery proceeds, existing property taxes, and budget reserves? ... More... FL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Fund H.B. 627 Creates Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund within the Education Department; provides for sources of funds; provides purposes; provides for annual carry forward of funds; provides for transfer of certain funds to trust fund; proclaims that trust... More... NM Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Lottery Distributions S.B. 114 Relates to equal lottery revenue distributions.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Lottery Proceeds Fund H.B. 749 Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the new revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth; requires pr... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Referendum to Establish Lottery S.B. 546 Provides for a referendum at the election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth; provides that proceeds from t... More... Finance--Private Giving NH Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Resource Allocation S.B. 453 Relates to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges; allows the regional community-technical colleges to expend legacies and gifts without approval of the Governor or Council; allows for the tran... More... MD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Private/Public Partnership S.B. 107 Establishes the Public Education Partnership Fund; describes Fund's purposes; authorizes Fund to receive grants and private contributions; authorizes State Board of Education to use the Fund; requires the Treasurer to invest money from the Fund for the use of ... More... Finance--Resource Efficiency IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. State Board's Ability to Adjust Payments H.B. 2917 Amends the School Code; prohibits the State Board of Education from making audit adjustments to general state aid claims paid in fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 based upon the claimant's failure to provide a minimum of 5 clock hours of daily instructio... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Charter School Changes, Capital Reserve Usage H.B. 1124 Concerns public schools; authorizes charter schools to impose fees for excess transportation costs and to engage in the building, planning and inspection process; authorizes public schools to use capital reserve fund expenditures for certain purposes.... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Resource Allocation S.B. 453 Relates to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges; allows the regional community-technical colleges to expend legacies and gifts without approval of the Governor or Council; allows for the tran... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Use of Education Trust Fund H.B. 1316 Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Financial Reports to School Boards H.B. 1187 Requires local school superintendents to make reports to their local boards and to the public in response to financial deficits or budget irregularities. The State Board of Education shall require local boards to do corrective action plans. ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Resource Allocation Component H.B. 1187 Allotment sheets will be issued for each school rather than for each system. Each school shall spend a minimum of 90 percent of funds designated for direct instructional costs at the school site. However, funds earned for special education programs shall be su... More... Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures CO Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000 P-12 Increasing State Education Funding V. 10 AMENDMENT 23 Amends the State Constitution; concerns increased funding for preschool through 12th-grade public education; requires the statewide base per-pupil funding for public education and funding for specifically defined categorical programs to grow annua... More... CO Rejected by Voters 11/2000 P-12 State Science and Math Grants V. 6 REFERENDUM F (SB 4, 2000) Asks whether the State of Colorado shall be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, and for fo... More... ID Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Idaho Public School Permanent Endowment Fund V. 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (HJR 1, 2000) Amends the State Constitution of Idaho relating to the Public School Fund; changes the name of the Public School Fund to the Public School Permanent Endowment Fund.... More... UT Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Revenues for Deposit to Uniform School Fund V. 2 Ballot Initiative Relates to forfeiture of assets and property; establishes uniform procedures for the forfeiture of property; forbids forfeiture against innocent owners; permits law enforcement officials to seize contraband and the proceeds and instrumentalities of crime; prov... More... CO On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000 P-12 Trying to Over-ride Spending Restrictions V. 6; (NEW BILL) (Referendum F SB 4); Asks the question shall the state of Colorado be permitted to annually retain up to a specified amount of the state revenues in excess of the constitutional limitation on state fiscal year spending for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and for fou... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Creates a Library Fund S.B. 429 Establishes a Public Education School Library Fund.... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Community College Alternative Use of State Education Funds A.B. 1908 Chapter No. 44; Provides that, contingent upon the passage of the Smaller Classes, Safer Schools and Financial Accountability Act at the 11/07/00, General Election, as an alternative, the governing board of a school district or community college district, may,... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Boards to provide Instructional Materials S.B. 850 Relates to instructional materials requirements and school boards; prescribes the duty of school boards to provide instructional materials; eliminates requirements for providing weighted and unweighted aggregations; changes reference to Education Commissioner... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Department of Education Budget Rules H.B. 1873 Authorizes the Department of Education (DOE) to retain and expend a portion of all indirect overhead reimbursements for discretionary grants; establishes a federal grants search and application revolving fund; provides the DOE with autonomy over the administra... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. State Board's Ability to Adjust Payments H.B. 2917 Amends the School Code; prohibits the State Board of Education from making audit adjustments to general state aid claims paid in fiscal years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 based upon the claimant's failure to provide a minimum of 5 clock hours of daily instructio... More... FL Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Local Impact Fees H.B. 2179 Relates to school district revenue; limits the ability of counties to levy school impact fees; provides for the distribution to school boards of certain funds appropriated in the General Appropriations Act; provides a procedure by which counties may amend a pr... More... MT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Increases State Aid to Districts H.B. 4A Reduces property taxes by increasing direct state aid to school districts; clarifies that the amount of motor vehicle disposition attributable to certain levies is a local government reimbursement; provides increased state funding.... More... NE Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Local Education Levies L.B. 1107 Relates to School Finance; changes the calculation of local effort rate; adjusts levy amounts.... More... CA Died 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Proposition 26 V. 15 PROPOSITION 26; Authorizes schools, community college districts, and county education offices that evaluate safety, class size, information technology needs to issue bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if ... More... CA Passed 03/2000 P-12 Lottery V. 2 PROPOSITION 20; Relates to the State Lottery.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Revenues from License Plates S.B. 413 Authorizes the issuance of special license plates with a design incorporating an apple, representing teachers and education; designates an additional fee of $ 25 to be paid to the State Treasury and distributed to the Department of Education to purchase textbo... More... Finance--Student Fees OK Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Student Fees S.B. 1305 Raises cap on library automation and materials fee in regard to higher education.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Fees for Repeated Classes S.B. 146 Establishes the presumption that public school students will pay the fees associated with courses they are repeating or remediation; provides alternatives to waiving the fees in cases of financial hardship; provides for a partial or full waiver in cases of ext... More... Finance--Taxes/Revenues AL Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Changes in State Property Tax Provisions V. 6 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER 4 (ACT NO. 2000-242) Amends the State Constitution; repeals the provision that no district school ad valorem tax shall be voted upon or collected except in those counties that are levying and collecting a special countywide ad valorem... More... AZ Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Community College Sales Tax for Education Proposition 301 (S.B. 1007E) Provides for an increase to the transaction privilege tax rate from 5.0% to 5.6% to provide greater funding for teacher salaries, to increase the school year, for the development of a system to measure school performance based on student achieveme... More... CA Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000 P-12 Community College Changing Bond Approval from 75% to 55% V. 29 PROPOSITION 39 Authorizes bonds for construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or replacement of school facilities if approved by 55% vote for projects evaluated by schools, community college districts, county education offices for safety, class size, and in... More... GA Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Tax Exemption for Military Widow/Widower V. 10 QUESTION C (HB 446-2000) Provides that any person who is a citizen and resident of Georgia and who is an unremarried surviving spouse of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces who was killed in any war or armed conflict in which the Armed Forces engaged shall be gr... More... OK Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 State Question 690 V. 5 STATE QUESTION 690 (HJR 1019-2000) Amends the State Constitution concerning ad valorem tax levies; provides procedure for making certain ad valorem tax levies permanent; allows each school district to decide to eliminate the need for an annual election for an ... More... WA Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Property Tax Limitation Ballot Initiative 722 Initiative 722 asked, "Shall certain 1999 tax and fee increases be nullified, vehicles exempted from property taxes, and property tax increases (except new construction) limited to 2% annually?"... More... WA Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Property Tax Limitation Initiative 722 This measure would declare null and void tax and fee increases adopted without voter approval by state and local governments between July 2, 1999, and December 31, 1999. Vehicles would be exempted from property taxes. The limit on property tax increases, start... More... NJ Vetoed 10/2000 P-12 Senior Citizen Stabilization Aid S.B. 110 Revises eligibility criteria of school districts for senior citizen stabilization aid; increases per pupil aid amount; states additional supplemental stabilization aid shall be paid to any district located in whole or in part in a municipality that has a popul... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Petitions for Charters and Passage of School Bonds A.B. 2659 Requires the State Board of Education to develop criteria for the review and approval of charter school petitions. Makes technical revisions relating to passage of local school bond measures. Prohibits issuance of the bonds unless the property tax rate levied... More... NY Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Property Tax Revisions S.B. 7774 Relates to the apportionment of school taxes; provides that where determined that a city or town has implemented a reassessment at full value on the current role, it may establish special equalization rates for other cities or towns within that school district... More... NY Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 School District Taxes S.B. 8115 Establishes special equalization rates in assessing units having an electric generating facility for the purposes of apportioning school district taxes.... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 State Tax Limitation Issues A.B. 2880 Chapter No. 76; Relates to existing law which requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2000-01 fiscal year, to certify to the Controller amounts that do not exceed the amounts needed to fund the revenue limits of school districts and county s... More... CA Re-referred to Senate Committee on Local Government 06/2000 P-12 Tax Distribution Issues A.B. 822 Applies existing law which requires the county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions in accordance with specified formulas and procedures, to the 2001-02 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter. Requires any ... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher Tax Credit A.B. 2879 Allows a credit for each taxable year beginning on or after 01/01/2000, to credentialed teachers in an amount equal to specified amounts depending upon years of service as a teacher.... More... CO Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Defining "School" for Property Tax Exemptions H.B. 1268 Concerns the assessment of property for tax purposes; specifies that the definition of "school" for property tax purposes includes a licensed child care center that employs educators trained by a private occupational school where the private occupational schoo... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Tax Exempt School Property S.B. 290 Relates to ad valorem taxation; delays the year of implementation of provisions which require that, in connection with renewal of specified exemptions, applicant's and applicant's spouse's social security numbers are required; provides for assessment of tangib... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Tax-Equivalent Grants H.B. 3406 Public Act No. 91-723; When state institution is located in a district in which the state owns 45% or more of the total land area, the district is compensated with tax-equivalent grants. After 1995, and each fiscal year thereafter (previously was only through... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Prepaid Tuition Program S.B. 1537 Amends the Prepaid Tuition Act and the Probate Act of 1975; provides that the Section exempting the assets and income of the Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund from taxation under the Income Tax Act are exempt from the sunset provisions of that Act; provides that a pr... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Changes provisions for certification of tax levy H.B. 3435 Amends the School Code; changes when a school board may amend a certificate of tax levy to when a change in the assessed valuation resulting from application of the equalization multiplier causes the school district's tax extensions to be less than the maximum... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Commercial Tax Abatements H.B. 494 Authorizes a class 6 city, with respect to commercial property, for a period of up to 15 years, to abate all or any part of the portion of municipal ad valorem taxes in excess of 20 mills allocated for educational purposes.... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Tax Credits for Contributions H.B. 1052 Concerns an income tax credit for monetary contributions to the Colorado Institute for Telecommunication Education.... More... FL Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Local Impact Fees H.B. 2179 Relates to school district revenue; limits the ability of counties to levy school impact fees; provides for the distribution to school boards of certain funds appropriated in the General Appropriations Act; provides a procedure by which counties may amend a pr... More... MT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Increases State Aid to Districts H.B. 4A Reduces property taxes by increasing direct state aid to school districts; clarifies that the amount of motor vehicle disposition attributable to certain levies is a local government reimbursement; provides increased state funding.... More... AL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Ad Valorem Taxes H.B. 123 Proposes an amendment to the Constitution; repeals the provision that no school district district ad valorem tax shall be voted upon or collected except in those counties that are levying and collecting a special countywide ad valorem tax.... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tax-Free Week H.B. 170, S.B. 103 Designates the week of August 11, 2000, through August 17, 2000, as a tax-free week during which various sales and use tax exemptions will apply; defines the term accessory items; provides for exemptions from the sales and use tax for various clothing and acce... More... NE Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 School Finance L.B. 968 Relates to revenue and taxation; changes provisions relating to the Nebraska Budget Act, tax levies, joint public agencies, taxation of public property, and school finance; changes the operative date of changes made by Laws 1999; provides operative dates; repe... More... NE Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Local Education Levies L.B. 1107 Relates to School Finance; changes the calculation of local effort rate; adjusts levy amounts.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Property Tax H.B. 1403 Relates to the allotment of homeowner tax relief funds to counties and local school districts; changes the manner in which ad valorem tax credit amounts are calculated.... More... SD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Property Tax S.B. 199 This bill reduces the maximum tax rates that a school district may levy starting in the year 2001. The rates are reduced in the following manner: Agricultural Property from 4.7 mills to 3.33 mills, Owner occupied property from 7.56 mills to 5.36, Non-Agricult... More... SD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Revises Property Tax Levies H.B. 1139 Revises the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Special Tax Districts S.B. 483 Authorizes establishment of special tax districts within counties containing town operating a school district; provides for calculation and distribution of revenues; provides for make up of arbitration panel to settle disputes.... More... Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues SD Unofficially approved on the ballot 11/2000 P-12 Investments of School Funds V. 5 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT E (SJR-1-2000); permits the investment of the Permanent School Funds in certain stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other financial instruments and the use of a certain portion of the interest and income to increase the principal in the F... More... UT Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Revenues for Deposit to Uniform School Fund V. 2 Ballot Initiative Relates to forfeiture of assets and property; establishes uniform procedures for the forfeiture of property; forbids forfeiture against innocent owners; permits law enforcement officials to seize contraband and the proceeds and instrumentalities of crime; prov... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Local School Funds H.B. 1905 Establishes a pilot project that requires moneys collected by any public school from rental fees for usage of facilities to be deposited with that school rather than the General Fund.... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Use of Education Trust Fund H.B. 1316 Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.... More... CA Died 03/2000 P-12 Proposition 28 V. 19 PROPOSITION 28 Repeals additional $ .50 per pack tax on cigarettes and equivalent increase in state tax on tobacco products previously enacted by Proposition 10 at the 11/3/99 election. Provides for elimination of funding for Proposition 10 early childhood dev... More... NE Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Tobacco Fund Settlement L.B. 1436 Relates to the tobacco fund settlement; creates the Teen Tobacco Education and Prevention Project; creates a committee and a fund; harmonizes provisions; repeals the original sections.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Revenues from License Plates S.B. 413 Authorizes the issuance of special license plates with a design incorporating an apple, representing teachers and education; designates an additional fee of $ 25 to be paid to the State Treasury and distributed to the Department of Education to purchase textbo... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Student Fund-Raisers H.B. 2332 Declares an intent to allow students to broaden the types of fund-raisers that they may conduct for charitable purposes in their private non-associated student body capacities, and ensure that these funds will be separate from student body funds to avoid const... More... Governance SC Signed into law 10/2000 P-12 Postsec. Ex-Officio Nonvoting Board Member H.B. 4555 Adds the Chief Executive Officer of the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education as an ex-officio non-voting member of the First Steps to School Readiness Board; moves tuition prepayment program from the Budget and Control Board to the Office of S... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Repealing several section of State Law S.B. 1738 This bill repeals several sections of law that deal with state education policy. This bill is part of a package (HB 2263, HB 1567, SB 1768 & 1770) which change the educational governance system in Florida.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Reorganizing Florida's Education System H.B. 2263 Creates the Florida Education Governance Reorganization Act of 2000; Creates a governance system that deals with K-20 education. The new board will oversee Florida's education system from Kindergarten to grad school.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Changes to Florida's Education Policy S.B. 1770 This bill repeals several sections of law that deal with state education policy. This bill is part of a package (HB 2263, HB 1567, SB 1738 & SB 1768) which change the educational governance system in Florida.... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Task Force on School Governance Report H.B. 3800 A nine-member task force is established to examine existing constitutional and statutory provisions that dictate the governance responsibilities and authority of the respective components of the state's public education system. The executive branch shall make ... More... KS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Postsec. Postsecondary Governance S.B. 657 Concerns postsecondary education and certain institutions thereof; relates to powers and duties of the state board of regents and the state board of education; affects membership of the midwestern higher education commission.... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Education Consortium H.B. 1009 Creates the Western Virginia Public Education Consortium, governed by a board consisting of the region's school superintendents; requires the Consortium to coordinate with entities providing programs and services to Consortium school divisions to reduce duplic... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Omnibus Bill - Reporting and Planning Requirements of Agencies H.B. 1187 Removes the current requirements of a state strategic plan and reporting by the Georgia Department of Education. Also removes the current requirement for complying with Public School Standards. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accredited sch... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Education Oversight Committee & Office of Education Accountability H.B. 1187 The Governor may appoint study commissions as he deems appropriate to study education questions, issue findings and make recommendations to the Education Coordinating Council. This provision will go into effect upon signature to allow the current Education Ref... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Omnibus Bill - Membership in Regional Education Service Districts H.B. 1187 Mandates all school systems, as well as all technical schools and colleges and universities, belong to a Regional Educaiton Service Agency. Also, each RESA board of control must contain a public library director. RESAs will be responsible for training school c... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Governor Appointments S.B. 611 Relates to the Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; provides for the Governor to appoint two elected or appointed local officials of which one shall be a member of a local governing body and one shall be a chief administ... More... WV Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Regional Education Service Agencies H.B. 4413 Establishes Regional Education Service Agencies.... More... WY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Community College Postsec. Community College Governance S.B. 21 Amends powers and duties of the community college commission and of local community college boards; amends composition of the commission; provides for community college collaboration in university accrediting committee; repeals required tuition differential an... More... Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Waivers H.B. 884 Authorizes the Kentucky Board of Education, at the request of a local school district superintendent, to waive reporting and paperwork requirements upon a finding of good cause, except reports required by federal law or related to health, safety, or civil righ... More... Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - School Board Anti-Nepotism Policies H.B. 1187 Local boards of education may not employ or promote any person who is a member of the immediate family of any board member, unless a public, recorded vote is taken on such employment or promotion as a separate matter from any other personnel matter. The board ... More... Governance--School Boards AL Approved by voters 11/2000 Postsec. Auburn University's Board of Trustees V. 7 AMENDMENT NUMBER 5 (ACT NO. 2000-590) Amends the State Constitution; provides that Board of Trustees of Auburn University consist of 1 member from each Congressional district in the state, 1 member from Lee County, current State Superintendent of Education, 2 ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Community College Community Colleges Board of Governors S.B. 1347 Adds one nonvoting student member to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and thereby increases its membership to 17. Provides that the student members would serve staggered 2-year terms, except as specified. Provides that, during the f... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Compensation fro Board of Education Members S.B. 1550 Increases the amount of compensation a member of a county board of education and a member of a governing board of a school district may receive.... More... AL Approved by voters 06/2000 P-12 V. 2 (PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER 1) Amends the Constitution of Alabama to require the election of city boards of education in any municipality with a population exceeding 125,000, provides by local law for the creation of such elected city boards of education.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 State Board Rules S.B. 1870 Authorizes the State Board of Education to adopt rules to administer the educational planning and information system of the Department of Education; establishes course requirements for specified courses; requires that a school board's policy authorizing absenc... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Boards to provide Instructional Materials S.B. 850 Relates to instructional materials requirements and school boards; prescribes the duty of school boards to provide instructional materials; eliminates requirements for providing weighted and unweighted aggregations; changes reference to Education Commissioner... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Closed Door Meetings For School Boards H.B. 3881 Public Act No. 91-730; Amends the Open Meetings Act; provides that a school board may hold a closed meeting to consider security procedures and the use of personnel and equipment to respond to an actual, a threatened, or a reasonably potential danger to the sa... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Background Checks on School Board Members H.B. 3840 Public Act No. 91-728; Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code; makes changes concerning the ineligibility of persons to be elected to a local school council, the criminal background investigation of local school council members, a local ... More... OH Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Authority of Boards of Trustees S.B. 210 Clarifies the authority of the boards of trustees of, or officers designated by the boards of trustees of, state-supported colleges or universities over decision making related to employees of these institutions; eliminates the requirement for a technical coll... More... OH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Property Acquisition S.B. 269 Authorizes a Board of Education to acquire real property needed for school purposes by exchanging real property that the board owns for the property or by using real property that the board owns as consideration in the purchase of the property.... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 School Board Elections S.B. 1532 Allows districts with over 30,000 average daily membership to expand district board of education to include a chair of the board who would be elected at large. Chair of the board position may be added upon vote of district board of education or upon vote by p... More... TN Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Electronic Board Records S.B. 1322 Authorizes local Boards of Education to maintain records of proceedings of board in electronic format.... More... VT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Signatures on School Board Petitions H.B. 255 This Act makes clear that the Australian ballot nominating process for union school board members is the same at the time of establishment of the union as it is for ongoing board elections thereafter. While this was assumed before, the language has been added ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Potential Conflicts of Interest S.B. 2331 Relates to the interest a member of the board of directors of a school corporation may have in a contract with the directors' school corporation.... More... MN Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Transfer of Powers from State Board to Department S.B. 86 Transfers the powers of the state school board to the Department of Children, Families, and Learning.... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Disclosure Statements H.B. 636 Provides that those school board employees and persons appointed to position of trust by school boards designated by an adopted policy of the school board are to file disclosure statements.... More... AL Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 School Board Compensation S.B. 209 Under existing law, city and county school board members are authorized to receive reasonable compensation for their services not to exceed a specified amount per month; permits city and county school boards to increase the maximum compensation not to exceed a... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - School Board Anti-Nepotism Policies H.B. 1187 Local boards of education may not employ or promote any person who is a member of the immediate family of any board member, unless a public, recorded vote is taken on such employment or promotion as a separate matter from any other personnel matter. The board ... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 School Boards, Unlicensed Teachers H.B. 119 Provides that a local school board member's term of office is two years; provides that the size of a local board of education shall be based on the school district's students population; provides that a school district may employ unlicensed teachers who posses... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 Postsec. Student Representation on Higher Education Boards H.B. 821 Requires board of visitors of each 4 year state institution of higher education to appoint on or more nonvoting student representatives to the board.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 Postsec. Student Representatives on Higher Education Boards S.B. 438 Requires the Board of Visitors of each four-year state institution of higher education to appoint one or more nonvoting student representatives to the board.... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2000 P-12 Representation Under Open Enrollment S.B. 2212 Provides increased representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending districts.... More... Governance--Site-Based Management RI Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 School Improvement Teams H.B. 7415 Establishes school improvement teams for each school in preparation and evaluation of the school improvement plan.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 School-Based Decisionmaking S.B. 76 Deletes the requirement that teacher representatives on school-based decision making councils be Kentucky residents, allows a school district employee working at a different school to require school-based decision making councils to adopt a policy to be implem... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Local School Councils Component H.B. 1187 Mandates school councils at each school. The councils must be made up of the principal of the school, two parents, two teachers, and two businesspersons. The duties of the councils are to provide advice, recommendations, and assistance to the local board. ... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 School Councils S.B. 265 Requires that a parent member on a school council not be an employee or a relative of an employee of the school in which the parent serves; requires procedures to assist the school council with consultation in the selection of personnel by the principal; requi... More... Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies OH Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 State Board Membership H.B. 711 Re-enacts as a separate act the sections of law adding eight members appointed by the Governor (with advice and consent of Senate) to the State Board of Education, creating a 19-member board. No person may hold office for more than two consecutive 4-year term... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Reorganizing Florida's Education System H.B. 2263 Creates the Florida Education Governance Reorganization Act of 2000; Creates a governance system that deals with K-20 education. The new board will oversee Florida's education system from Kindergarten to grad school.... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Superintendent Pay S.B. 1276 Requires the Board of Education to set the salary of the Superintendent of Education.... More... FL Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Fund H.B. 627 Creates Lottery Capital Outlay and Debt Service Trust Fund within the Education Department; provides for sources of funds; provides purposes; provides for annual carry forward of funds; provides for transfer of certain funds to trust fund; proclaims that trust... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Limit on FTE H.B. 742 Appropriates funds to the State Board of Education for the Office of the State Board of Education for fiscal year 2001; limits the full-time positions; reappropriates the unexpended and unencumbered fund balance to the State Board of Education for the Office o... More... KY Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Employees S.B. 287 Permits the spouse of a principal to work in the principal's school if the district contains elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school; changes references from "chief state school officer" to the "commissioner of education"; provides that contract ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Omnibus Bill - Reporting and Planning Requirements of Agencies H.B. 1187 Removes the current requirements of a state strategic plan and reporting by the Georgia Department of Education. Also removes the current requirement for complying with Public School Standards. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accredited sch... More... ID Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Limits FTE in State Department S.B. 1568 Appropriates funds to the Superintendent of Public Instruction/State Department of Education for fiscal year 2001; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 113; provides legislative intent that a specified amount may be used to assist in defrayin... More... VT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Addition of One Adult and Two Student Members to State Board H.B. 234 This Act expands the Vermont State Board of Education from seven to ten members. The three additional members will be appointed by the Governor. One new member will be an adult, appointed for a six-year term. Two students shall be appointed by the Governor for... More... KY Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Department of Education Reorganization H.B. 79 Reorganizes departments within the Department of Education.... More... Health CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Brain/Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Curricula A.B. 1879 Requires the California Healthy Kids Resource Center in conjunction with the State Department of Education to review and adopt brain and spinal cord injury prevention curricula, as specified, for use, on a voluntary basis, by school districts maintaining kinde... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Students with Diabetes S.B. 1320 Requires every school to permit any pupil with diabetes to test his or her blood glucose levels either in classrooms or very close to classrooms. Requires every school to comply with the universal precautions and requirements for handling and disposing of cont... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Three -Year Health Study A.B. 2670 Establishes, until 1/1/2006, a committee to conduct a three-year study relating to school nurses and pupil health. Appoints and convenes the committee by the Superintendent of Public Instruction who would ensure that the committee is broadly representative of ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. Panel of Experts A.B. 2068 Encourages the Regents of the University of California to convene, to the extent that sufficient annual funds are provided for this purpose, a panel of experts, consisting of representatives from specified entities to develop guidelines and recommendations for... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Health Care for Low-Income Students A.B. 1735 Relates to services to pupils. Requires the governing board of each school district and the county superintendent of schools, as part of the process of making the application for participation in the free or reduced-price meal program available, to also includ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 The Use of Pesticides In Schools A.B. 786 Requires a specified program of training in the handling and application of pesticides by school employees, as defined. Requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to prepare and distribute to all school districts material that may be used to train school ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Pest Control A.B. 2260 Establishes the Healthy Schools Act of 2000. Requires that the state take the necessary steps, pursuant to specified provisions, to facilitate the adoption of effective least toxic pest management practices at school sites... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Epinephrine Auto-Injectors in Schools A.B. 1791 Authorizes a pharmacy to furnish epinephrine auto-injectors to a school district or county office of education if certain conditions are met. Requires the school district or county office of education to maintain records regarding the acquisition and dispositi... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Hepatitis A and Schools A.B. 1594 Adds hepatitis A to the diseases specified for total immunization, as specified, effective 07/01/03, except with regard to pupils who were admitted before 07/01/03, and would authorize the State Department of Health Services to adopt emergency regulations to i... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Whistle Blower Provision A.B. 800 Chapter No.265, Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt a system that will shield the identity of and provide to pupils who report the presence of injurious objects on school campuses that offer instruction in kindergarten and any of grades ... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 First Aid Cources S.B. 1733 Authorizes, as of 1/1/2001, an individual program of professional growth to include a course in first aid that meets or exceeds the standards established by the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, or the Emergency Medical Services Authority. Pr... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Health Screening S.B. 405 Delays the mandatory requirement that all kindergarten enrollees have a documented screening for lead poisoning for admission or continued enrollment.... More... RI Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Requires Eye Exams by First Grade H.B. 6711 Requires that all school children, prior to the first grade, shall be given an eye examination by a physician or an optometrist.... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 School Health Programs A.B. 2877 Existing law requires the governing board or a district and county superintendent to make applications for free or reduced-price meals available to students at all times during the school day. This bill encourages school districts and county superintendents o... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Background Screening of School Health Employees S.B. 2034 Relates to health care; relates to kidney dialysis patients; relates to the Children's Medical Services Program; relates to the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program; relates to Biomedical Research Program within the Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund; develops an im... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Health Insurance and Medicaid Rules H.B. 2329 Allows health records to be provided to the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; creates a disproportionate share program for children's hospitals; relates to Medicaid provider agreements with school districts; funds graduate medical education; relates to contracts w... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps Scholarship S.B. 212 Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare progra... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Lunch & Breakfast Program H.B. 2379 Public Act No., Creates the Childhood Hunger Prevention Act and amends the School Free Lunch Program Act; changes the name of the Act to the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act; requires the State Board of Education to fund a breakfast incentive program, su... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Health Care Screenings H.B. 2067 Public Act No. 91-842., Amends the School Code; allows a school district to access federally funded health care resources if the school district provides early periodic screening and diagnostic testing services to correct or improve health impairments of Medic... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Nuses Can Administer Drugs H.B. 2977 Public Act No. 91-719., Amends the School Code; allows a school board to permit a school employee that is a non-certificated registered professional nurse to administer medication to students; effective immediately.... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Medicaid Funds To Schools H.B. 2067 Public Act No., Amends the School Code; allows a school district to access federally funded health care resources if the school district provides early periodic screening and diagnostic testing services to correct or improve health impairments of Medicaid elig... More... OK Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Smoking Prevention H.B. 2313 Enacts the Oklahoma Youth Smoking Prevention Act; defines terms and creates the Youth Smoking Prevention Fund.... More... GA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Psychiatric Medication of Children H.R. 1079 Act No. 80., Creates the Commission on Psychiatric Medication of School-Age Children.... More... HI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Enforcement of Health Requirements H.B. 2521 Enables the Department of Health to enforce school health requirements more uniformly by replacing statutory requirements for documentation of immunizations, physicals, and tuberculosis examinations with administrative rules.... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Tobacco Use Prevention H.B. 2565 Relates to tobacco use prevention and control, especially among youth; establishes an initiative; creates a department and a commission on tobacco use prevention and control; provides an effective date.... More... MD Vetoed 05/2000 Postsec. Vaccinations S.B. 653 Requires students living in on-campus student housing to receive a vaccination for menigococcal disease or sign a specified waiver; provides that the institutions of higher education are not required to provide or pay for the vaccinations.... More... MI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Immunization Status H.B. 5291, H.B. 5292, H.B. 5293 Public Acts 89, 90, 91. Relates to conditions of school aid; requires immunization status assessment for children entering sixth grade.... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Use of Education Trust Fund H.B. 1316 Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.... More... NJ Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Meningitis Vaccination S.B. 808 Requires the Department of Health And Senior Services to establish public awareness campaign about meningitis; requires all institutions of higher education to notify prospective students about meningitis vaccination.... More... VT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Environmental Clearinghouse H.B. 192 Provides for a school environmental health clearinghouse on the Department of Health's website; provides for the development of a model school environmental health policy; requires an annual audit of school buildings and grounds; requires a maintenance schedul... More... AZ Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Tobacco Education Advisory Council H.B. 2316 Creates the Tobacco Education Prevention Advisory Council consisting of 16 members, to serve no more than two consecutive five year terms.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Tobacco on School Campuses H.B. 2558 Permits tobacco products on school campuses and at school-related events when they are in the possession of an adult as a necessary component of a school-sponsored tobacco prevention or cessation program.... More... GA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Peachcare for Kids H.B. 1214 Act No. 655., Creates the Peachcare for Kids Program (children's health insurance); changes the provisions relating to eligibility; provides for Department of Education and local boards of education cooperation and assistance regarding the program.... More... ID Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Unhealthy Conditions in Schools H.B. 668 Requires school districts to identify and abate unsafe and unhealthy conditions in schools in the district; creates a School Safety and Health Revolving Loan Fund from which school districts can borrow money from the state of Idaho to abate unsafe and unhealth... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Vaccinations H.B. 564 Requires immunization certificates for hepatitis B for sixth grade school children; provides that the requirement will sunset following the 2008-2009 school year; provides for promulgation of administrative regulation.... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Lead Screening H.B. 1221 Requires the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to adopt regulations to require children entering a school to have been administered a blood test screening for lead poisoning at a specified time; requires public schools in Baltimore City to report on bloo... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Vaccinations H.B. 227 Requires certain students enrolled in institutions of higher education to receive a certain vaccination or sign a certain waiver; requires parent or guardian of the student to sign waiver if the student is a minor; requires Secretary of the Department of Healt... More... ME Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Administering Medication S.B. 424 (LD 1261); Requires unlicensed school personnel to be trained before administering medication to students in Maine's public schools and approved private schools.... More... VA Became law without governor's signature 04/2000 P-12 Testing for Lead S.B. 725 Requires proof of testing for elevated blood lead levels in the comprehensive physical examination required for first time admission to public kindergarten or elementary school, for welfare recipients' children, and for child day centers.... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Administering Drugs to Students H.B. 1391 Provides an exception from the Drug Control Act for persons who administer drugs to students in Virginia public schools in accordance with a physician's instructions pertaining to dosage, frequency, and manner of administration and with written authorization o... More... MI Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Inhalers for Asthma S.B. 631 Public Act 10., Relates to students and education; allows students to possess and use inhalers for asthma at school; exempts school personnel from liability under certain circumstances; requires permission of the parents and physician; requires the principal o... More... MI Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Immunity S.B. 614 Public Act 9., Relates to education; revises qualified immunity for administering medication in public schools for certain school employees.... More... NE Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Tobacco Fund Settlement L.B. 1436 Relates to the tobacco fund settlement; creates the Teen Tobacco Education and Prevention Project; creates a committee and a fund; harmonizes provisions; repeals the original sections.... More... SD Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Teen Smoking H.B. 1243 Authorizes the Department of Human Services to develop and implement programs aimed at reducing the use of tobacco by youth; accepts and expends private contributions therefor.... More... UT Vetoed 03/2000 P-12 Health/Sex Education H.B. 411 Relates to public schools; modifies the instruction requirements pertaining to community and personal health, physiology, personal hygiene, and the prevention of communicable disease curriculum taught in grades eight through 12; relates to abstinence education... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Asthma Inhalers H.B. 1010 Allows school principals, after certain conditions have been satisfied, to permit students who have a diagnosis of asthma and approval from a parent and appropriate medical professionals to possess and self-administer inhaled asthma medications.... More... SD Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Vaccinations S.B. 42 Requires a varicella immunization for school entry.... More... TN Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Coordinated Health Program H.B. 674 Provides for coordinated school health program; requires program to include, but not be limited to, school nurses, health education, school nutrition services, a health school environment, and school counseling, psychological and social services.... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Elementary School Physicals S.B. 437 Allows licensed nurse practitioner acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to provide a report of a comprehensive physical examination within the 12 months prior to the date the pupil first enters such public kindergarten or elementary school.... More... Health--Mental Health CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Postsec. Panel of Experts A.B. 2068 Encourages the Regents of the University of California to convene, to the extent that sufficient annual funds are provided for this purpose, a panel of experts, consisting of representatives from specified entities to develop guidelines and recommendations for... More... Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses TN Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Coordinated Health Program H.B. 674 Provides for coordinated school health program; requires program to include, but not be limited to, school nurses, health education, school nutrition services, a health school environment, and school counseling, psychological and social services.... More... Health--Teen Pregnancy CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 S.B. 541 Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant ... More... High School OK Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill) High School graduation requirements: - Abolishes the dual diploma system by repealing the Diploma of Honor and restoring the Certificate of Distinction option; - Adds attainment of competencies as method of satisfying core course requirements; - Requires cour... More... RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 Postsec. transition of students with disabilities H.B. 7466 Amends the composition of the Transition Council by adding a representative from one of the regional education collaboratives.Transition from school to self-sufficient adulthood for students with disabilities... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 High School Grant Program for Math, Science & Computers H.B. 5231 Provides that the Department of Education shall establish a competitive grant program for high school projects that involve one or more of the following topics: computers, engineering, physics, mathematics, science or technical construction; allows local and r... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Forgiveness Policies S.B. 842 Revises requirements for district grade forgiveness policies. Beginning 2000-2001 school year and thereafter, forgiveness policies limited to replacing a grade of "D" or "F" or the equivalent in required courses with a grade of "C" or higher earned subsequent... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Out-of-state Tuition Reduction H.B. 1567 Relates to rulemaking authority within the State University System; clarifies the rulemaking authority of the Board of Regents; authorizes a differential out-of-state tuition fee for certain universities; authorizes each university president to adopt rules go... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. College Credit for High Schoolers H.B. 2092 Allows high school students to obtain college and high school course credits simultaneously.... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. New Economy Technology Scholarship S.B. 2420 Adds a new chapter to establish the new economy technology scholarship act.... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Awarding High School Diplomas to Wartime Veterans S.B. 154 00-124., Allows local and regional boards of education to award high school diplomas to wartime veterans who did not earn their diplomas because they withdrew from school to join the armed forces.... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 High School Civics Graduation Requirement H.B. 5274 Requires one half credit in civics as part of the 3 credit social studies requirement for high school graduation.... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Profiles of Learning S.F. 3286 Amends the Profile of Learning. Highlights: Allows districts to phase in the number of content standards required of students for graduation; empowers teachers to participate in the decision about student standard requirements; allows districts to permit this... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements S.B. 3286 Relates to education; amends state graduation requirements; amends graduation rules.... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Advanced Placement Incentive Program S.B. 1015 Modifies the Oklahoma Advanced Placement Incentive Program. Authorizes test fee assistance for students taking multiple tests in one year. Authorizes the state board to award additional grants to school sites demonstrating successful implementation of the cou... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill) Effective 2002-2003 school year -- to graduate with a standard diploma, students must complete core curriculum units or sets of competencies in the following: 4 language arts (1 grammar/composition, 3 of either American, English or World Literature, Advanced E... More... SC Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Repeals Star Diploma Program H.B. 4650 Relates to the eligibility requirements for a life scholarship, so as to delete requirement that students must pass all courses required for a star diploma; relates to the requirements and the promulgation of regulations for the star diploma; relates to includ... More... SC Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements S.B. 1220 (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Department of Education related to graduation requirements.... More... WI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 At-Risk Programs S.B. 241 Changes names of program from children at risk to "children at risk of not graduating from high school." Changes definition to "at risk of not graduating from high school because they failed the high school graduation exam," are dropouts, or are 2 or more of ... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Postsec. College Readiness H.B. 1091 Creates a Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students. Requires the task force to report its interim findings and recommendations to the governor and general assembly by January 1, 2001 and a final report of its findings and re... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Diploma Options S.B. 706 Directs the board of education to establish the requirements for a third diploma option, i.e., an advanced mathematics and technology diploma; provides that the diploma will be a 24-credit diploma, with 9 required verified credits (course and standards of lear... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Notification to Parents S.B. 6559 Requires notification to parents of school courses leading to college credit; requires that each high school shall publish annually and deliver to each parent with children enrolled in school, information concerning the entrance requirements and the availabili... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Diploma Requirements H.B. 489 Requires the Board of Education to include, in the requirement for verified credits for the standard and advanced studies diplomas, a provision that allows students completing elective classes into which the Standards of Learning for any required course have b... More... High School--Advanced Placement OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Advanced Placement Incentive Program S.B. 1015 Modifies the Oklahoma Advanced Placement Incentive Program. Authorizes test fee assistance for students taking multiple tests in one year. Authorizes the state board to award additional grants to school sites demonstrating successful implementation of the cou... More... High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Alternative High School Educations H.B. 2105 Provides for award of high school diplomas to certain veterans; provides for award of credit toward high school graduation for courses taken through dual enrollment at a community college; provides for credit toward completion of a home education program throu... More... MI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Dual Enrollment H.B. 5534 Provides a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling students to enroll in career and technical preparation programs at eligible nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. Provides for dual enrollment options for career ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Community College Supplemental Funding for Choice and At-Risk Programs H.B. 2496 Provides supplementary weighting for funding and for determining enrollment in school districts involved in district-to-district or district-to-community college sharing programs and at-risk programs.... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Postsecondary Options H.B. 2365 Establishes the Joint Legislative Study Committee on dual enrollment in high school and community college.... More... High School--Exit Exams DE Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act S.B. 260 Creates the Professional Development and Educator Accountability Act. Beginning in 2002, at least 20% of educator's performance evaluation will be tied to student improvement -- teachers and administrators who fail to measure up can be dismissed. Establishes m... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - High School Graduation Exams H.B. 1187 The High School Graduation Tests will be eliminated when the end of course tests are put in place. Local boards of education shall have the option of allowing scores on end-of-course assessments to be counted as part of a student's grade in the course. ... More... High School--Graduation Requirements CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Algebra Required for High School Graduation S.B. 1354 Specifies that as part of an adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, algebra must be included as part of the mathematics instruction required for a student to graduate from high school.... More... OK Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill) High School graduation requirements: - Abolishes the dual diploma system by repealing the Diploma of Honor and restoring the Certificate of Distinction option; - Adds attainment of competencies as method of satisfying core course requirements; - Requires cour... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 High School Civics Graduation Requirement H.B. 5274 Requires one half credit in civics as part of the 3 credit social studies requirement for high school graduation.... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Profiles of Learning S.F. 3286 Amends the Profile of Learning. Highlights: Allows districts to phase in the number of content standards required of students for graduation; empowers teachers to participate in the decision about student standard requirements; allows districts to permit this... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements S.B. 3286 Relates to education; amends state graduation requirements; amends graduation rules.... More... OK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill) Effective 2002-2003 school year -- to graduate with a standard diploma, students must complete core curriculum units or sets of competencies in the following: 4 language arts (1 grammar/composition, 3 of either American, English or World Literature, Advanced E... More... SC Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Graduation Requirements S.B. 1220 (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Department of Education related to graduation requirements.... More... Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Criminal Records Check for In-home Educators A.B. 2164 Chapter No.239, Relates to criminal records. Expands the Trustline Registry registration provisions for child care providers to apply to any person providing in-home educational or counseling services to a minor.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Community College Alternative High School Educations H.B. 2105 Provides for award of high school diplomas to certain veterans; provides for award of credit toward high school graduation for courses taken through dual enrollment at a community college; provides for credit toward completion of a home education program throu... More... WV Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Home School Instruction S.B. 189 Relates to requirements for home school instruction; relates to a study on home school instruction; relates to collection of data on home school instruction.... More... Instructional Approaches--Official English UT Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 V. 1 English Only INITIATIVE A Declares English as Utah's official and sole language for state and local government documents and action; exempts those documents and actions required by the United States and Utah constitutions, federal law and regulations, law enforcement, publ... More... Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools NY Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Payments to Medical Centers for Serving Preschool Students with Handicaps S.B. 6735 Authorizes medical assistance payments to certain clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers for services they render to preschool children with disabilities.... More... OK Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Partnership for School Readiness S.B. 1597 Creates the Partnership for School Readiness Act to facilitate community collaboration of efforts and services that will prepare children to enter school healthy and ready to succeed. Goal also to stress importance of reading to children for 15 minutes per da... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council H.B. 418 Establishes an Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council; provides for the membership and organization of the Council; defines the responsibilities of the Council; establishes an interagency advisory committee to the Council; provides for the m... More... OK Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Prevention of Violence H.B. 2168 States legislative intent to address school violence through prevention. Authorizes districts to contract with nonprofit agencies or community-based service providers for the appropriate personnel and services and to seek any available funding, including the ... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Projects for Youth H.B. 2807 Authorizes blended funding projects for youth; defines youth eligibility for the projects; directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services to transfer appropriated funds to support blended fund... More... VA Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Office of Comprehensive Services H.B. 1510 Creates the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-risk Youth and Families, under the lead of the Secretary of Health and Human Resources; assumes the responsibilities of the State Management Team to develop programs and fiscal policies that promote and suppo... More... Leadership CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 California New Administrator Support Program A.B. 1892 Establishes, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act, the California New Administrator Support Program to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, consistent with policy direction from the State Board of Education.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Whistleblower Protection Act A.B. 2472 Relates to the California Whistleblower Protection Act which provides that a state employee who files a written complaint with his or her supervisor, manager, or the appointing power, alleging actual or attempted acts of reprisal, retaliation, threats, coercio... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher and Administrator Certification Restrictions for Felons H.B. 5317 Bars State Board of Education from issuing a teacher or administrator license to anyone convicted of certain felonies for 5 years after serving sentence; makes changes in education law relative to employees suspected of child abuse, ... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Create group to review admin. rules H.B. 1874 Relates to educational accountability; establishes an interagency educational accountability working group to review agency administrative rules, policies, procedures, and practices, and temporarily suspends them, subject to the approval of the Board of Educat... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Teacher and Principal Performance H.B. 285 Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Administrative Licensure S.B. 160 Clarifies that licensure is not a condition of employment for administrators. The board of a school district may enter into an employment contract with any person to serve as an administrator based upon qualifications set by the board. Retains current licensur... More... MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Re-employment of Retired Principals S.B. 220 Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are employed in specified personnel positions; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement A... More... MN Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Administrative Salaries S.B. 3386 Relates to higher education. Creates a separate subdivision for the salary procedure for the chancellor of the Minnesota state colleges and universities; authorizes chancellors and presidents to receive additional compensation for early contract termination.... More... HI Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Increases Administrator Availability S.B. 2830 Allows experienced principals and vice principals from other public or private schools to seek school administrator positions without first serving as teachers or exchange principals in Hawaii schools.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Finance Officers H.B. 668 Requires the local school superintendent to appoint a finance officer who shall be responsible financial management for that district; requires training and continuing education; requires notification of property tax assessments from the Revenue Cabinet before... More... KY Vetoed 04/2000 P-12 Employees S.B. 287 Permits the spouse of a principal to work in the principal's school if the district contains elementary schools, 1 middle school and 1 high school; changes references from "chief state school officer" to the "commissioner of education"; provides that contract ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Superintendent Contracts H.B. 420 Permits a local board to enter into a contract with a superintendent of schools for a term of no more than 3 years that is extended annually for a 1 year period upon evaluation and approval of the board; specifies procedures for contract extensions.... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Financial Incentives for Schools H.B. 1134 Establishes and implements a superior-performing and exemplary schools program for identifying and granting financial incentives to low performing schools that improve and to the highest performing schools in their classification; provides for school improveme... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Principal Support Pilot Program H.B. 295 Deletes the requirement that school districts participate annually in the principal support pilot program.... More... OH Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Evaluation of Administrative Personnel S.B. 77 Makes certain changes concerning the termination, suspension, and evaluation of certain administrative personnel of school districts and educational service centers.... More... OK Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Training for School Administrators S.B. 1178 Relates to the Corporation Commission; allows use of monies of the Oklahoma Telecommunications Technology Training Fund for training of school administrators.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Superintendent Reports to School Boards Component H.B. 1187 Requires local school superintendents to make reports to their local boards and to the public in response to financial deficits or budget irregularities. The State Board of Education shall require local boards to do corrective action plans. ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Principal Evaluation H.B. 1187 Principals and assistant principals must be evaluated by a trained evaluator and may be evaluated by the teachers in the school , if required by the local school superintendent. All certificated personnel must be evaluated by a trained evaluator. ... More... SC Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Administrator Induction Program H.B. 4483 (Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to the principal induction program.... More... Leadership--District Superintendent KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Superintendent Contracts H.B. 420 Permits a local board to enter into a contract with a superintendent of schools for a term of no more than 3 years that is extended annually for a 1 year period upon evaluation and approval of the board; specifies procedures for contract extensions.... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher and Administrator Certification Restrictions for Felons H.B. 5317 Bars State Board of Education from issuing a teacher or administrator license to anyone convicted of certain felonies for 5 years after serving sentence; makes changes in education law relative to employees suspected of child abuse, ... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Teacher and Principal Performance H.B. 285 Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes... More... CO Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Administrative Licensure S.B. 160 Clarifies that licensure is not a condition of employment for administrators. The board of a school district may enter into an employment contract with any person to serve as an administrator based upon qualifications set by the board. Retains current licensur... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Teacher and Principal Performance H.B. 285 Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness OH Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Evaluation of Administrative Personnel S.B. 77 Makes certain changes concerning the termination, suspension, and evaluation of certain administrative personnel of school districts and educational service centers.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Principal Evaluation H.B. 1187 Principals and assistant principals must be evaluated by a trained evaluator and may be evaluated by the teachers in the school , if required by the local school superintendent. All certificated personnel must be evaluated by a trained evaluator. ... More... Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Teacher and Principal Performance H.B. 285 Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes... More... Mentoring/Tutoring GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Georgia Mentoring Act of 2000 S.B. 290 Relates to the powers and duties of the Governor; enacts the Georgia Mentoring Act of 2000; makes legislative findings; authorizes the office of the Governor to develop and implement a State-wide strategy to provide academic support and guidance, to award gran... More... Middle School KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Professional Development Fund S.B. 77 Creates the Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Fund to provide moneys to teachers of middle school mathematics for tuition reimbursements and stipends for approved university and college courses, approved professional development programs and p... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Middle School Schedules and Accountability H.B. 1187 The requirements for the middle school program stay exactly the same for the next school year, with 85 minutes of common planning time. Beginning with the 2001-2002 school year, local boards of education shall schedule each middle school so as to give a minim... More... Minority/Diversity Issues CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Local Tolerance Programs A.B. 1945 Requires staff development activities included in school development plans to assist personnel at the local schoolsite to develop tolerance programs.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Teaching Diversity A.B. 1785 Requires the State Department of Education to revise the state curriculum frameworks and guidelines and the moral and civic education curricula to include human relations education, with the aim of fostering an appreciation of the diversity of California's pop... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Minority Education Programs S.B. 1721 Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to establish an African American Political Institute and an Institute for Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge, and a center for Portuguese Studies of California State Un... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Ethnic Sensitivity Program Grants A.B. 1931 Requires the State Department of Education to provide regional training to assist school district personnel in the identification and determination of hate violence on school campuses, subject to funds being appropriated in the Budget Act of 2000. Establishes ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Minority Recruitment S.B. 2047 Makes a legislative finding that the prohibition on preferential treatment on the basis of race or sex in public employment, public education, and public contracting does not prevent governmental agencies from engaging in public sector outreach programs that m... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Cesar Chavez Day S.B. 984 Chapter No.213, Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide for use by public schools for exercises related to Cesar Chavez Day. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum framework, where appropriate,... More... CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Action Plan for Language Development S.B. 576 Appropriates, without regard to fiscal year, a specified amount from the General Fund to the California Postsecondary Education Commission for the purpose of preparing and submitting to the governor, certain members of the legislature, and prescribed state off... More... AK Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Native Language Education S.B. 103 Relates to a curriculum for Native language education.... More... Minority/Diversity Issues--African American CA Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Minority Education Programs S.B. 1721 Authorizes the Trustees of the California State University to establish an African American Political Institute and an Institute for Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge, and a center for Portuguese Studies of California State Un... More... Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Indian Education Center Program A.B. 1746 Makes it the goal, subject to an appropriation for those purposes in the annual Budget Act, of California Indian education centers, in addition to those specified in existing law, to also provide recovery education programs for pupils who have dropped out of c... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Joint Legislative Study Committee on Reservation Schools H.B. 2579 Establishes a 13 member Joint Legislative Study Committee on Reservation Schools which is repealed December 31, 2000; charges the committee with the following duties: to examine current methods of delivering educational services to pupils in K-12 who reside on... More... Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 Cesar Chavez Day S.B. 984 Chapter No.213, Requires the State Board of Education to adopt a model curriculum guide for use by public schools for exercises related to Cesar Chavez Day. Requires the State Board of Education to ensure that the state curriculum framework, where appropriate,... More... No Child Left Behind--Assessment AZ Approved by voters 11/2000 P-12 Community College Sales Tax for Education Proposition 301 (S.B. 1007E) Provides for an increase to the transaction privilege tax rate from 5.0% to 5.6% to provide greater funding for teacher salaries, to increase the school year, for the development of a system to measure school performance based on student achieveme... More... Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning OH Signed into law 12/2000 P-12 Technology for Students in Nonpublic Schools H.B. 768 Expands the use of computer hardware and instructional materials purchased by school districts for use by students enrolled in nonpublic schools within the districts; permits all nonpublic auxiliary services to be delivered through contracts with educational s... More... RI Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000 P-12 Commercial Advertising on Computers H.B. 6893 Relates to curriculum; permits the display of televised commercial advertising necessarily incidental to Internet access.... More... CT Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 High School Grant Program for Math, Science & Computers H.B. 5231 Provides that the Department of Education shall establish a competitive grant program for high school projects that involve one or more of the following topics: computers, engineering, physics, mathematics, science or technical construction; allows local and r... More... ME Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Access to State Technical College System S.B. 973 (LD 2519) Increases access to the State's Technical College System; provides funding to add additional students systemwide; addresses the State Technical College System's need to provide students with the ability to take courses and do research over the intern... More... CO Signed into law 03/2000 Postsec. Technology in Higher Education S.B. 183 Concerns the role of higher education in the development of technology; encourages higher education institutions and systems to participate in the development of information technology education, innovation, and commerce; intends that the educational program d... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Technology Standards H.B. 203 Revises Standards of Quality to make educational technology squarely within the scope of the Standards of Quality; requires the Board of Education to include proficiency in the use of computers and related technology in the Standards of Learning.... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Technology Literacy H.B. 2375 Addresses information technology literacy at baccalaureate institutions of higher learning.... More... NJ Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Electronic Textbooks A.B. 1762 Permits aid to nonpublic schools for electronic textbooks; defines electronic textbooks as including computer software, computer-assisted instruction, interactive videodisks, and other computer courseware and magnetic media.... More... Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 On-Line High School H.B. 2063 Establishes the Florida On-Line High School; establishes a board of trustees; requires the Board to establish priorities for student admissions; requires distribution of information regarding student enrollment procedures; designates Orange County District Sch... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Virtual Internet School in Oklahoma Network H.B. 2662 Requires the Virtual Internet School in Oklahoma Network (VISION) Pilot Program to concentrate on developing web-based instructional programs in mathematics for grades three through twelve. Requires selection of participating school districts by mid-summer of... More... WV Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 West Virginia Virtual School S.B. 584 Establishes the West Virginia Virtual School within the Department of Education to offer courses via the Internet to students who are not advantageously located with respect to schools.... More... P-16 or P-20 FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Reorganizing Florida's Education System H.B. 2263 Creates the Florida Education Governance Reorganization Act of 2000; Creates a governance system that deals with K-20 education. The new board will oversee Florida's education system from Kindergarten to grad school.... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Postsec. College Readiness H.B. 1091 Creates a Task Force to Study College Readiness for Disadvantaged and Capable Students. Requires the task force to report its interim findings and recommendations to the governor and general assembly by January 1, 2001 and a final report of its findings and re... More... KY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Early Feedback in Mathematics H.B. 178 Establishes the Kentucky Early Mathematics Testing Program, located at a public university, to provide information to high school sophomores and juniors regarding their level of mathematics knowledge in relation to college standards in order to encourage stude... More... P-3 NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Eligibility of Low-Income Pupils, Effective Programs S.B. 838 Relates to State aid for school districts with concentrations of low-income pupils; establishes minimum period of school district eligibility for early childhood and demonstrably effective program aids; provides budget cap exclusion for demonstrably effective ... More... NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Office of Early Childhood Education A.B. 2123 Establishes a Division of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Education; states the division shall be responsible for program standards, staff credentials, program design and facilities, the coordination of early childhood programs and services in c... More... NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Commission on Early Childhood Education A.B. 2122 Establishes the Commission on Early Childhood Education in but not of the Department of Education; provides for its membership and appointment of members; provides for the commission to provide advice on early childhood issues such as staff credentials for pre... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Child Care Program S.B. 1703 Appropriates a sum to the State Department of Education for specified child care purposes. Declares appropriations for these purposes to be General Fund revenues appropriated to school districts.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Day Care Facilities A.B. 2778 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a nonprofit organization that has staff with expertise in financing and capital expansion, are knowledgeable about the child care field, and have the ability to develop and implement a plan to ... More... NJ Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Facility Safety S.B. 982 Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.... More... CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Higher Standards for Public Child Care A.B. 1986 Revises and recasts the indicators of quality child care and development programs. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop an evaluation system for all state funded child care and development programs that would be required to include prog... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 S.B. 541 Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant ... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Student Records S.B. 2250 Relates to public records; provides access to student records by school readiness coalitions and the Florida Partnership for School Readiness; provides an exemption from public-records requirements for records of children in subsidized child-care programs and... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Blind Babies Program S.B. 924 , Relates to children; creates a Blind Babies Program; provides for early-intervention education for certain children who are blind or visually impaired and for their parents, families, and caregivers.... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps Scholarship S.B. 212 Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare progra... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Preschool special education programs H.B. 2940 Public Act No. 91-765; Amends the School Code; exempts all persons holding a special certificate with a special education endorsement from provisions of the School Code concerning preschool educational programs, provided these persons meet all the other requir... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Retaining Teachers for Child Care H.B. 4021 Public Act No. 91-831; Provides that beginning October 1, 2000, the Department of Human Services shall operate a Great Start (Strategy to Attract and Retain Teachers) program to improve children's educational outcomes in child care by encouraging increased pro... More... NY Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Payments to Medical Centers for Serving Preschool Students with Handicaps S.B. 6735 Authorizes medical assistance payments to certain clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers for services they render to preschool children with disabilities.... More... OK Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Partnership for School Readiness S.B. 1597 Creates the Partnership for School Readiness Act to facilitate community collaboration of efforts and services that will prepare children to enter school healthy and ready to succeed. Goal also to stress importance of reading to children for 15 minutes per da... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Office of School Readiness and Pre-Kindergarten Program S.B. 132 Creates the Office of School Readiness within the Department of Children's Affairs; provides for the operation and management of a voluntary pre-kindergarten program.... More... FL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Composition of School Readiness Partnership S.B. 2088 Relates to school readiness; provides sovereign immunity for school readiness coalitions; revises funding for prekindergarten early intervention programs; authorizes the Governor at the request of the Florida Partnership for School Readiness to request approva... More... MD Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Early Child Care and Education Centers Grant Program S.B. 793 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Care and Education Centers and Education Enhancement Grant Program for the development of collaborative approaches to delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; defines terms; designates the... More... MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Blue Ribbon Commission S.B. 869 Creates the Judith P. Hoyer Blue Ribbon Commission on the Financing of Early Child Care and Education; provides for the purpose, duties, and membership of the Commission; provides for the terms and compensation of members; provides for the appointment of membe... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Education Aid H.B. 3800 Extends the fiscal year 2000 increase in early childhood family education aid to fiscal year 2001. The additional aid amount is equal to $2.46 times the greater of 150 or the number of children under five years of age residing in the school district on October... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Teacher Licensure H.B. 419 Authorizes the State Board of Education to issue a standard license to teach in public prekindergarten through kindergarten classrooms to persons holding a Bachelor of Science degree with child development emphasis from a program accredited by the American Ass... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers Pilot Program S.B. 170 Creates a Parents as Teachers Pilot Program to create a partnership between parents and early childhood development professionals; provides there shall be 2 school district based programs, one in an urban community and one in a rural community in Sullivan coun... More... NY Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Full-day Kindergarten, Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund A.B. 9291 Relates to state aid for school districts; funds a workforce education program in New York City; creates the Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund; provides State aid for conversion to full day kindergarten; relates to administration of the School Tax Relief ... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Income Tax Credits for Preschool H.B. 2226 Relates to individual income tax credits for tuition paid for preschool for children with disabilities; defines "handicapped" student as a student who is hearing impaired, visually impaired, preschool moderately delayed, preschool severely delayed, and presch... More... GA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Peachcare for Kids H.B. 1214 Act No. 655., Creates the Peachcare for Kids Program (children's health insurance); changes the provisions relating to eligibility; provides for Department of Education and local boards of education cooperation and assistance regarding the program.... More... HI Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Good Beginnings Alliance H.B. 536 Expands the life of the Good Beginnings Alliance to 2010; expands the membership of the Interdepartmental Council by 2 members; expands the representation of the GBA Board of Directors by 5 representatives.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Office of Early Childhood Development H.B. 240 Relates to reorganization; creates the Office of Early Childhood Development within the Office of the Governor.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Development Authority H.B. 706 Establishes the Early Childhood Development Authority in the Office of the Governor to manage expenditures of the early childhood development fund; requires 17 members to be appointed; sets term limits for members of the authority; establishes duties of the au... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Program H.B. 1249, S.B. 1249 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Care and Education Program, a grant program for early child care and education centers and education enhancement for the development of collaborative approaches for the delivery of full-day early care and educati... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Literacy H.B. 1172, S.B. 750 Requires the State Board of Education to distribute grants to organizations that promote literacy at an early age during --- child health visits to a pediatrician; requires an organization that is awarded a grant to use the grant to purchase books and train he... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council H.B. 418 Establishes an Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council; provides for the membership and organization of the Council; defines the responsibilities of the Council; establishes an interagency advisory committee to the Council; provides for the m... More... AL Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Accreditation of Preschool Programs H.J.R. 96 Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Accreditation H.B. 2398 Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Early Childhood Component H.B. 1187 There is created an Early Intervention Program in kindergarten and a Primary Grades Early Intervention Program in grades 1-3. These programs are for students performing below grade level. The Office of Education Accountability and the State Board of Education ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Pre-enrollment of Two-Year Olds and Immunization Certification H.B. 1187 There is created voluntary pre-enrollment of two-year-olds in local school systems. Parents must include a certification of immunization as a condition of pre-enrollment. ... More... ID Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers S.B. 1538 Appropriates funds to the Executive Office of the Governor for fiscal year 2001; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 24; provides legislative intent regarding the Parents as Teachers Program.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parent Rights H.B. 102 The amendments to this act provide for increased "parents rights" in the realm of public education. The new law states that parents have the right to "…control the care, supervision, upbringing, and education of their children…" When a new policy or rule is a... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Compliance S.B. 170 Provides that the guidelines for the at-risk four-year-old preschool program may be differentiated according to the agency delivering the services in order to comply with various federal or state requirements; requires (i) one teacher for any class of ten stud... More... WY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Programs H.B. 185 Relates to preschool programs; provides a school district may establish a preschool program under certain conditions; provides for funding a preschool program; provides certain limitations on enrollment; provides for technical assistance under certain circumst... More... IL Adopted 01/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Care and Education Position Statement State Board of Education position statement, adopted January 20, 2000, committing to develop, deliver and support early childhood programs, practices and services that will enable all children to be successful students and responsible citizens.  (http://www.is... More... P-3 Child Care CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Child Care Program S.B. 1703 Appropriates a sum to the State Department of Education for specified child care purposes. Declares appropriations for these purposes to be General Fund revenues appropriated to school districts.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Day Care Facilities A.B. 2778 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a nonprofit organization that has staff with expertise in financing and capital expansion, are knowledgeable about the child care field, and have the ability to develop and implement a plan to ... More... NJ Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Facility Safety S.B. 982 Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.... More... CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 S.B. 541 Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant ... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps Scholarship S.B. 212 Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare progra... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Program H.B. 1249, S.B. 1249 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Care and Education Program, a grant program for early child care and education centers and education enhancement for the development of collaborative approaches for the delivery of full-day early care and educati... More... P-3 Early Intervention (0-3) GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Early Intervention and Special Education Students H.B. 1187 There is created an Early Intervention Program in kindergarten and a Primary Grades Early Intervention Program in grades 1-3. These programs are for students performing below grade level. Special education students are eligible for this program, but may only b... More... KY Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Special Education H.B. 51 Relates to the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; provides that rights for infants, toddlers, and parents served by the State Early Intervention System are mandated by participation in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act... More... P-3 Ensuring Quality NJ Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Facility Safety S.B. 982 Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.... More... CA Vetoed 08/2000 P-12 Higher Standards for Public Child Care A.B. 1986 Revises and recasts the indicators of quality child care and development programs. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop an evaluation system for all state funded child care and development programs that would be required to include prog... More... AL Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Accreditation of Preschool Programs H.J.R. 96 Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Accreditation H.B. 2398 Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Compliance S.B. 170 Provides that the guidelines for the at-risk four-year-old preschool program may be differentiated according to the agency delivering the services in order to comply with various federal or state requirements; requires (i) one teacher for any class of ten stud... More... WY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Programs H.B. 185 Relates to preschool programs; provides a school district may establish a preschool program under certain conditions; provides for funding a preschool program; provides certain limitations on enrollment; provides for technical assistance under certain circumst... More... P-3 Family Involvement NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers Pilot Program S.B. 170 Creates a Parents as Teachers Pilot Program to create a partnership between parents and early childhood development professionals; provides there shall be 2 school district based programs, one in an urban community and one in a rural community in Sullivan coun... More... ID Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers S.B. 1538 Appropriates funds to the Executive Office of the Governor for fiscal year 2001; limits the number of full-time equivalent positions to 24; provides legislative intent regarding the Parents as Teachers Program.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parent Rights H.B. 102 The amendments to this act provide for increased "parents rights" in the realm of public education. The new law states that parents have the right to "…control the care, supervision, upbringing, and education of their children…" When a new policy or rule is a... More... P-3 Finance NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Eligibility of Low-Income Pupils, Effective Programs S.B. 838 Relates to State aid for school districts with concentrations of low-income pupils; establishes minimum period of school district eligibility for early childhood and demonstrably effective program aids; provides budget cap exclusion for demonstrably effective ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Child Care Program S.B. 1703 Appropriates a sum to the State Department of Education for specified child care purposes. Declares appropriations for these purposes to be General Fund revenues appropriated to school districts.... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Day Care Facilities A.B. 2778 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with a nonprofit organization that has staff with expertise in financing and capital expansion, are knowledgeable about the child care field, and have the ability to develop and implement a plan to ... More... MD Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Early Child Care and Education Centers Grant Program S.B. 793 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Care and Education Centers and Education Enhancement Grant Program for the development of collaborative approaches to delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; defines terms; designates the... More... MN Signed by governor 05/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Education Aid H.B. 3800 Extends the fiscal year 2000 increase in early childhood family education aid to fiscal year 2001. The additional aid amount is equal to $2.46 times the greater of 150 or the number of children under five years of age residing in the school district on October... More... NY Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Full-day Kindergarten, Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund A.B. 9291 Relates to state aid for school districts; funds a workforce education program in New York City; creates the Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund; provides State aid for conversion to full day kindergarten; relates to administration of the School Tax Relief ... More... P-3 Governance NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Office of Early Childhood Education A.B. 2123 Establishes a Division of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Education; states the division shall be responsible for program standards, staff credentials, program design and facilities, the coordination of early childhood programs and services in c... More... NJ Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Commission on Early Childhood Education A.B. 2122 Establishes the Commission on Early Childhood Education in but not of the Department of Education; provides for its membership and appointment of members; provides for the commission to provide advice on early childhood issues such as staff credentials for pre... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Office of School Readiness and Pre-Kindergarten Program S.B. 132 Creates the Office of School Readiness within the Department of Children's Affairs; provides for the operation and management of a voluntary pre-kindergarten program.... More... MD Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Early Child Care and Education Centers Grant Program S.B. 793 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Care and Education Centers and Education Enhancement Grant Program for the development of collaborative approaches to delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; defines terms; designates the... More... MD Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Blue Ribbon Commission S.B. 869 Creates the Judith P. Hoyer Blue Ribbon Commission on the Financing of Early Child Care and Education; provides for the purpose, duties, and membership of the Commission; provides for the terms and compensation of members; provides for the appointment of membe... More... HI Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Good Beginnings Alliance H.B. 536 Expands the life of the Good Beginnings Alliance to 2010; expands the membership of the Interdepartmental Council by 2 members; expands the representation of the GBA Board of Directors by 5 representatives.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Office of Early Childhood Development H.B. 240 Relates to reorganization; creates the Office of Early Childhood Development within the Office of the Governor.... More... KY Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Development Authority H.B. 706 Establishes the Early Childhood Development Authority in the Office of the Governor to manage expenditures of the early childhood development fund; requires 17 members to be appointed; sets term limits for members of the authority; establishes duties of the au... More... MS Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council H.B. 418 Establishes an Early Childhood Services Interagency Coordinating Council; provides for the membership and organization of the Council; defines the responsibilities of the Council; establishes an interagency advisory committee to the Council; provides for the m... More... P-3 Grades 1-3 OH Signed into law 11/2000 P-12 Kindergarten Entrance Age H.B. 383 Permits school district boards beginning with the 2000-2001 school year to adopt the first day of August, instead of the thirtieth day of September, as the date by which a child must be five years of age to be admitted to kindergarten and six years of age to b... More... NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Funding for Full-Day Kindergarten S.B. 397 Makes an appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the Department of Education for the funding of public kindergarten programs; adjusts the Adequate Education Grant amount for the Town of Orange for the fiscal year 2000; adjusts the property tax warrant i... More... NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Alternative Kindergarten Programs H.B. 1188 Relates to the establishment of an alternative kindergarten program within a school district; provides that school districts operating an approved alternative kindergarten program shall be eligible to receive adequate education grant distributions; provides fo... More... OK Vetoed 06/2000 P-12 Partnership for School Readiness S.B. 1597 Creates the Partnership for School Readiness Act to facilitate community collaboration of efforts and services that will prepare children to enter school healthy and ready to succeed. Goal also to stress importance of reading to children for 15 minutes per da... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Office of School Readiness and Pre-Kindergarten Program S.B. 132 Creates the Office of School Readiness within the Department of Children's Affairs; provides for the operation and management of a voluntary pre-kindergarten program.... More... FL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Composition of School Readiness Partnership S.B. 2088 Relates to school readiness; provides sovereign immunity for school readiness coalitions; revises funding for prekindergarten early intervention programs; authorizes the Governor at the request of the Florida Partnership for School Readiness to request approva... More... NY Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Full-day Kindergarten, Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund A.B. 9291 Relates to state aid for school districts; funds a workforce education program in New York City; creates the Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund; provides State aid for conversion to full day kindergarten; relates to administration of the School Tax Relief ... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Early Childhood Component H.B. 1187 There is created an Early Intervention Program in kindergarten and a Primary Grades Early Intervention Program in grades 1-3. These programs are for students performing below grade level. The Office of Education Accountability and the State Board of Education ... More... GA Signed by governor 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Early Intervention Component H.B. 1187 There is created an Early Intervention Program in kindergarten and a Primary Grades Early Intervention Program in grades 1-3. These programs are for students performing below grade level. The Office of Education Accountability and the State Board of Education ... More... IN Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Reports to the Public; Kindergarten S.B. 489 Requires the mailing, instead of publishing, of the school corporation performance report; provides that a child must be at least five years of age on July 1 of the 2000-2001 school year or any subsequent school year to officially enroll in a kindergarten prog... More... NM Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Full Day Kindergarten H.B. 211 Relates to full day kindergarten programs; provides funding.... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2000 P-12 Funding for Full-Day Kindergarten A.B. 2773 Provides additional State aid to support full-day kindergarten programs in charter schools located in the Abbott districts.... More... P-3 Health and Mental Health CA Signed into law 08/2000 P-12 S.B. 541 Relates to existing law which states the intent of the Legislature to establish a comprehensive, continuous, community-linked, and school-based program, to be known as the Cal-SAFE Program, that focuses on youth development and dropout prevention for pregnant ... More... P-3 Kindergarten NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Alternative Kindergarten Programs H.B. 1188 Relates to the establishment of an alternative kindergarten program within a school district; provides that school districts operating an approved alternative kindergarten program shall be eligible to receive adequate education grant distributions; provides fo... More... P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten NH Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Funding for Full-Day Kindergarten S.B. 397 Makes an appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the Department of Education for the funding of public kindergarten programs; adjusts the Adequate Education Grant amount for the Town of Orange for the fiscal year 2000; adjusts the property tax warrant i... More... NY Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Full-day Kindergarten, Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund A.B. 9291 Relates to state aid for school districts; funds a workforce education program in New York City; creates the Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund; provides State aid for conversion to full day kindergarten; relates to administration of the School Tax Relief ... More... NM Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Full Day Kindergarten H.B. 211 Relates to full day kindergarten programs; provides funding.... More... NJ Signed into law 01/2000 P-12 Funding for Full-Day Kindergarten A.B. 2773 Provides additional State aid to support full-day kindergarten programs in charter schools located in the Abbott districts.... More... P-3 Preschool AL Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Office of School Readiness and Pre-Kindergarten Program S.B. 132 Creates the Office of School Readiness within the Department of Children's Affairs; provides for the operation and management of a voluntary pre-kindergarten program.... More... MD Vetoed 05/2000 P-12 Early Child Care and Education Centers Grant Program S.B. 793 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Care and Education Centers and Education Enhancement Grant Program for the development of collaborative approaches to delivery of full-day early care and education and family support services; defines terms; designates the... More... NY Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Full-day Kindergarten, Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund A.B. 9291 Relates to state aid for school districts; funds a workforce education program in New York City; creates the Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund; provides State aid for conversion to full day kindergarten; relates to administration of the School Tax Relief ... More... HI Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Good Beginnings Alliance H.B. 536 Expands the life of the Good Beginnings Alliance to 2010; expands the membership of the Interdepartmental Council by 2 members; expands the representation of the GBA Board of Directors by 5 representatives.... More... MD Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Program H.B. 1249, S.B. 1249 Establishes the Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Care and Education Program, a grant program for early child care and education centers and education enhancement for the development of collaborative approaches for the delivery of full-day early care and educati... More... AL Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Accreditation of Preschool Programs H.J.R. 96 Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.... More... AZ Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Accreditation H.B. 2398 Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Pre-enrollment of Two-Year Olds and Immunization Certification H.B. 1187 There is created voluntary pre-enrollment of two-year-olds in local school systems. Parents must include a certification of immunization as a condition of pre-enrollment. ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Compliance S.B. 170 Provides that the guidelines for the at-risk four-year-old preschool program may be differentiated according to the agency delivering the services in order to comply with various federal or state requirements; requires (i) one teacher for any class of ten stud... More... WY Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Preschool Programs H.B. 185 Relates to preschool programs; provides a school district may establish a preschool program under certain conditions; provides for funding a preschool program; provides certain limitations on enrollment; provides for technical assistance under certain circumst... More... P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development FL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teacher Education and Compensation Helps Scholarship S.B. 212 Establishes the Teacher Education and Compensation Helps scholarship program to help low-wage early childhood staff obtain further training;relates to health care assistance for children (Medikids); provides for dental benefits under the Florida Kidcare progra... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Preschool special education programs H.B. 2940 Public Act No. 91-765; Amends the School Code; exempts all persons holding a special certificate with a special education endorsement from provisions of the School Code concerning preschool educational programs, provided these persons meet all the other requir... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Retaining Teachers for Child Care H.B. 4021 Public Act No. 91-831; Provides that beginning October 1, 2000, the Department of Human Services shall operate a Great Start (Strategy to Attract and Retain Teachers) program to improve children's educational outcomes in child care by encouraging increased pro... More... MS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Early Childhood Teacher Licensure H.B. 419 Authorizes the State Board of Education to issue a standard license to teach in public prekindergarten through kindergarten classrooms to persons holding a Bachelor of Science degree with child development emphasis from a program accredited by the American Ass... More... Parent/Family CA Vetoed 09/2000 P-12 Parenting Skills and Dysfunctional Behavior S.B. 1348 Requires the superintendent to convene and conduct the summit pursuant to the approved plan, and would require the various state departments to participate in the summit and collect, complete, and submit to the summit available research regarding, among other ... More... SC Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Parent Involvement S.B. 1164 Relates to education; enacts the Parent Involvement in Their Children's Education Act; establishes a framework for encouragement of increased parental involvement in the education of their children, for parental involvement training for educators and school st... More... IL Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Changes in Special Education S.B. 1447 Public Act No. 91-784., Provides that the provision (Article of the School Code) requiring the assignment of a surrogate parent for educational matters does not apply to a child who resides with a foster parent; allows the surrogate parent to be assigned for e... More... CT Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Surrogate Parents H.B. 5316 Expands responsibilities of surrogate parents appointed by Education Commissioner to represent children who may require special education in the absence of their real parents; monitors success; requires local school boards to notify said parents of discipline ... More... NH Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Parents as Teachers Pilot Program S.B. 170 Creates a Parents as Teachers Pilot Program to create a partnership between parents and early childhood development professionals; provides there shall be 2 school district based programs, one in an urban community and one in a rural community in Sullivan coun... More... WI Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Modifies Definition of Parent A.B. 412 Parent" means any of the following: biological parent; husband who has consented to the artificial insemination of his wife; male who is presumed to be the child's father under section 891.41; male who has been adjudicated as the child's father by final order ... More... VA Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Parent Involvement H.B. 1147 Provides that the juvenile and domestic relations court, upon finding that a parent has willfully and unreasonably failed to accompany a suspended student to meet with school officials to discuss improving the student's behavior, or upon the student's receivin... More... GA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Parental Involvement Component H.B. 1187 Allows juvenile courts to fine parents for failing to attend parent-teacher conferences. Gives juvenile courts the authority to order parents to participate in "programs or treatment" that the court determines necessary to improve student behavior.... More... TN Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Excusal for Parents to Attend Parent-Teacher Conferences H.J.R. 56 Urges employers to excuse employees from work to attend parent-teacher conferences when given 24 hour notice.... More... UT Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parent Rights H.B. 102 The amendments to this act provide for increased "parents rights" in the realm of public education. The new law states that parents have the right to "…control the care, supervision, upbringing, and education of their children…" When a new policy or rule is a... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parent Rights H.B. 536 Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by directing schools to annually notify parents of students currently enrolled and in attendance of their rights under FERPA and related regulations.... More... WA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Postsec. Notification to Parents S.B. 6559 Requires notification to parents of school courses leading to college credit; requires that each high school shall publish annually and deliver to each parent with children enrolled in school, information concerning the entrance requirements and the availabili... More... NM Signed into law 02/2000 P-12 Standards, Remediation, Parent Involvement H.B. 78 Relates to educational standards; provides for remediation and academic improvement programs; restricts promotions; provides for parental involvement.... More... Parent/Family--Parent Rights CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 A.B. 2453 Chapter No. 67; Authorizes foster family agencies, with jurisdiction over currently enrolled or former pupils, to access records of grades and transcripts, and individualized education plans maintained by school districts or private schools of those pupils.... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 P-12 Parents Rights S.B. 1689 Relates to existing law which requires at the beginning of the first semester or quarter, the governing board of each school district to notify parents or guardians of minor pupils of specified rights and responsibilities of the parent or guardian. Requires th... More... VA Signed into law 03/2000 P-12 Parent Rights H.B. 536 Conforms current law to the requirements of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by directing schools to annually notify parents of students currently enrolled and in attendance of their rights under FERPA and related regulations.... More... Postsecondary HI Approved by voters 11/2000 Postsec. Autonomy for The University of Hawaii V. 1 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (SB 539 CD1, 2000); Amends the Hawaii State Constitution; provides the University of Hawaii with autonomy in all matters related to the University.... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 Postsec. Lottery Money for Higher Ed. A.B. 2565 Relates to public postsecondary education. Increases the percentage of lottery moneys that may be pledged under the program to the equivalent of 50% of the amount allocated in the 1996-97 fiscal year. Makes an appropriation by authorizing more funds to be depo... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 Postsec. Athletic Suspension S.B. 338 Adds to the Donahoe Higher Education Act provisions that require a campus of the University of California or the California State University that maintains an intercollegiate athletic program, including scholarship student athletes, that must be suspended or e... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Community College Assisting Students in Transferring from Community Colleges S.B. 1898 Requires the Student Aid Commission in collaboration with the various segments of higher education, to develop and establish a pilot program entitled "Transfer: Making it Happen," which would assist community college students who are planning to transfer to a ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Defering Enrollment at College A.B. 1958 Requests the University of California and requires the California State University, to require each campus in their respective systems to develop a process through which a student admitted to full-time undergraduate status may apply to defer his or her enrollm... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Higher Education For Veterans A.B. 1739 Conducts in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, a study concerning prescribed topics relating to educational opportunities for veterans. Requires the Commission of Higher Education to report these findings to the Governor and the appropriate ... More... CA Vetoed 09/2000 Postsec. Community College State Community Colleges and Articulation Agreements A.B. 1861 Requests the Regents of the University of California, and requires the Trustees of the California State University, to develop and maintain prescribed articulation agreements with all campuses of the California Community Colleges prior to the 2005-06 academic ... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 Postsec. Prohibiting Selling/Recording any Academic Presentation A.B. 1773 Existing case law provides that in the absence of evidence of agreement to the contrary, a teacher, rather than the institution for which he or she teaches, owns the common law copyright to his or her lectures. This bill would prohibit any business, agency, o... More... CA Signed into law 07/2000 Postsec. Cal Grant Guarantee Program S.B. 1644 Enacts the Vasconcellos-Poochigan-Burton-Ortiz-Pacheco Cal Grant Guarantee Program, which would, among other things, set forth the long-term policy that first-year Cal Grant awards be granted to all applicants with eligible grade point averages.... More... DE Signed into law 07/2000 Postsec. State Scholarship Program H.B. 545 Relates to financial assistance for higher education; creates an annual legislative essay scholarship fund that will fund a nonrenewable scholarship to a 12th grader in each senatorial and representative district as well as 3 other scholarships to the top 3 di... More... HI Became law without governor's signature 07/2000 Postsec. Autonomy for the University of Hawaii S.B. 539 Provides the University of Hawaii with autonomy in all matters related to the University.... More... MO Vetoed 07/2000 Postsec. Governing Bodies of Public Colleges and Universities H.B. 1396 Makes several changes in the operations of the governing bodies of public colleges and universities, and provides for technical clarification in the statutes relating to these governing boards; includes a technical change to clarify that the board of curators ... More... OK Approved by voters 07/2000 Postsec. College/University Presidents V. 3 STATE QUESTION 686 (SB 151-2000) Amends the State Constitution; relates to the State budget; allows State colleges and universities to contract with presidents for multi-year contracts; establishes a lease-financing program.... More... CA Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Science/Tech Training A.B. 2883 Authorizes the Regents of the University of California to establish 3 California Institutes for Science and Innovation for the purpose of combining technological and scientific research and training and educating future scientists and technological leaders.... More... CO Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Basic Skills Courses and Proficiency for Postsecondary Students H.B. 1464 Requires the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to adopt and the governing boards of state institutions of higher education to implement, standards and procedures whereby basic skills courses may be offered by such institutions; directs the commission to ... More... FL Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Community College Prohibits Colleges/Universities from Political Contributions S.B. 890 Relates to direct-support organizations; prohibits university, community college, and statewide community college direct-support organizations from making certain political contributions.... More... HI Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Higher Ed. Benefits Program S.B. 3123 Establishes a post-secondary education benefits program, known as the bridge-to-hope program, for heads of households in the temporary assistance to needy families program; requires the University of Hawaii to submit a report on the expenditure of funds for th... More... MI Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Postsec. Dual Enrollment H.B. 5534 Provides a wider variety of options to high school pupils by encouraging and enabling students to enroll in career and technical preparation programs at eligible nonprofit postsecondary educational institutions. Provides for dual enrollment options for career ... More... OH Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Intellectual Property, Institutional Interest S.B. 286 Permits the Board of Trustees of a State college or university to establish rules that describe circumstances in which an employee of that institution may solicit or may be given a financial interest in any firm, corporation, or other association to which the ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Enhances Research H.B. 2532 Creates the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Advisory Committee (EPSCoR) to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Its purpose is, through a partnership of higher education institutions, independent research entities, industry, ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. appropriations for postsecondary S.B. 984 Relates to revenue and taxation and higher education. Appropriates to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education $634,890,903 from the general fund to increase faculty salaries 3% and to correct deferred maintenance in public postsecondary institutions ... More... OK Signed into law 06/2000 Postsec. Postsecondary Capital Construction H.B. 2249 Relates to revenue and taxation and higher education. Appropriates $634,890,903 from the general fund to increase faculty salaries 3% and to correct deferred maintenance in public postsecondary institutions throughout the state.... More... AL Vetoed 05/2000 Postsec. Exemptions for Competitive Bidding by Postsecondary Institutions S.B. 478 Exempts from competitive bidding the renewal of all existing contracts that do not involve the expenditure of State funds and that are made for the selection of service contractors by or on behalf of public two-year and four-year colleges and universities of t... More... AL Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Students at 2-Year Institutions Deemed Graduates S.B. 356 Relates to viability and non-viability of programs of instruction as reviewed by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; provides that students completing certain programs of instruction in two-year technical and vocational colleges shall be deemed graduat... More... TN Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Intellectual Property H.B. 2770 Pertains to the University of Tennessee; provides that copyrighted computer materials held by state institution, the university are not open to public inspection; provides that such materials produced by university employees are open to audit inspections.... More... TN Signed into law 05/2000 Postsec. Confidential Research Records - Procedures H.B. 2769 Modifies certain procedures for protecting confidential research records and materials handled by higher education.... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2000 Postsec. Intellectual Property S.B. 1554 Relates to costs and revenues of intellectual property created by certain state universities.... More... WV Signed into law 04/2000 P-12 Postsec. Teacher Quality, Higher Education S.B. 653 Relates to education and related subheadings; relates to exemption from motor vehicle and travel rules, goals for post-secondary education, retirement and separation incentives; defines terms; relates to compact with higher education, institutional compacts, p... More... Postsecondary Accountability