ECS Selected State Policies 2000

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."

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State

Status/Date

Level

Summary

Accountability

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

Establishes Pennsylvania Athletic Oversight Council; provides for interscholastic accountability; provides for transportation, education empowerment definitions and lists and districts; provides for empowerment pilot program.
Title: S.B. 1403
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 Board of Education shall administer a parent quality survey two times each academic year; states each school district or charter school in this state is eligible to revise its budget, as defined.
Title: S.B. 1139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Requires the Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee to advise and monitor the Office of Education Accountability.
Title: S.B. 280
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Accreditation

Vetoed 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1219
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 school districts.
Title: H.B. 2474
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 from licensure for certain child day programs, those private nursery, preschool, elementary, and secondary schools accredited by an organization approved by the Virginia Council for Private Education.
Title: H.B. 987
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Measures/Indicators

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1632
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Accountability--Reporting Results

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 students in grades 6 and 9; and 10th-grade basic skills competency test. Test results shall identify schools for assistance starting in 2003-2004. State Board shall also develop school performance report to provide information, including U-PASS scores, for every public school in the state.
The Task Force (named above) shall also seek public input on a possible system of rewards and interventions and on discontinuing social promotion. Task Force shall present report by November 30, 2000.
Title: H.B. 177
Source: Lexis-Nexis

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 institutions and/or employment status of students who complete the 12th grade.
Title: S.B. 387
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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, parents, administration, and students; allows students input into quality of education.
Title: S.B. 2837
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 programs included in the general education block grant.
Title: H.B. 4587
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 2745
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 reporting system to enable the evaluation of every public school in the state; assists in performance decisions at all levels of school administration. Includes component that requires all 11th graders to take the ACT test.
Title: S.B. 186
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 Reform Commission to continue. The Education Coordinating Council (ECC) is created. The ECC is assigned 15 duties, some of which include exercising oversight of accountability systems in other departments and coordinating the activities of state, regional, and local cooperative public education agencies, offices, or councils. The Office of Education Accountability (OEA) is also created. The OEA is directed to establish accountability policies and standards for the state and establish the "official" report card. The Governor and the OEA will give rewards to successful schools. The State Board of Education is given the task of mandating interventions for failing schools, including appointing special masters, mandating school improvement teams, removal of school personnel, allow for a state charter school, mandating the complete reconstitution of the school and hiring all new staff and mandating that parents have the option to relocate to another public school in the district. The OEA develops and both the Council and the State Board of Education adopt a definition for which students are performing "below grade level" and the definition of "dropout." It is charged with setting the pass score for the CRCT and end of course tests.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 program offered by a school corporation; provides that an assessment for early entry must consist of more than an intelligence test; states that $ 25 is the maximum fee a parent must pay to obtain a waiver for early entry.
Title: S.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Rewards

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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; provides merit bonuses for teachers improving schools in need; states no funds from grants shall be used to supplement funding to boards of education of such schools; requires expenditure reports filed with Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 5737
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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; renames the Division of Human Resource Development within the Department of Education as the Division of Professional Educators; clarifies requirements for performance-based pay policies.
Title: H.B. 63
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Establishes the Governor's Academic Achievement Program; provides financial rewards to public schools and local boards of education that improve their academic status.
Title: S.B. 122
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 their classification; establishes criteria; authorizes salary payments to school personnel under this program subject to specific appropriation by the legislature.
Title: S.B. 2488
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 improvement plans for priority schools and the appointment of assistance teams; provides professional development and evaluation of principals, teachers and superintendents; raises salaries for teachers and assistant teachers.
Title: H.B. 1134
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Vetoed 03/2000

P-12

Relates to interventions for school improvements; changes the distribution of the incentives for school improvement fund.
Title: S.B. 40
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1387
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 amount of time for which certificated employees are contracted if prescribed conditions are met.
Title: A.B. 2162
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 CRT is delayed until the 2001-2002 school year and implementation is delayed until 2002-2003. Delays implementation of the end-of-instruction tests in Biology I and Algebra I until the 2002-2003 school year. Requires test results to be disaggregated by ethnic group and gender. Declares schools sites to be low-performing if more than 30% of students score unsatisfactory in both reading/English and mathematics on the CRT or end-of-instructions tests, or if the student average score falls in the lowest quartile statewide and below the national average. School sites identified as low-performing for 3 consecutive years will be declared high challenge schools. Effective 7-01-00.
Title: S.B. 491
Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12
Postsec.
Community College

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 reimbursement, higher education, vocational education and small district assistance. Provides for an official education assessment test. Identifies underperforming schools and permits charter and for-profit school and other improvements.
Title: S.B. 652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 falls below a certain cumulative grade point average; amends the bylaws of the governing organization of high school athletics relating to student eligibility.
Title: S.B. 92
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 accountability, use of assessment information, accreditation and school system approval and impaired schools; creates an exemplary school accreditation standard.
Title: H.B. 4674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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, school psychologists, and accountants
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 purchase of the services of an instructional care team. If the money is appropriated, RESAs may be provided grants for the purpose of facilitating the development and implementation of instructional care teams.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Vetoed 03/2000

P-12

Relates to interventions for school improvements; changes the distribution of the incentives for school improvement fund.
Title: S.B. 40
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 extreme hardship.
Title: S.B. 146
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 conference meeting requirements.
Title: H.B. 490
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Drive

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Adult Basic Education

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12
Postsec.
Community College

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.
Title: H.B. 4266
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 2117
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 154
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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. To be eligible to deliver ABE services, a non-profit or community-based organization must demonstrate that it: 1) is legally established; 2) can meet the ABE reporting requirements; 3) provides training for instructional staff; and 4) develops a learning plan for each participating adult learner with measurable goals or have prior experience.
Performance Tracking System (Section 15). Requires all ABE programs to develop and implement a performance tracking system by July 1, 2000 to collect data on the following core indicators: 1) improvements in literacy skill levels; 2) participation in post-secondary education, training, subsidized employment or career advancement; and 3) receipt of a secondary school diploma or equivalent.
Bill also establishes a base aid for ABE programs equal to $1.80 times the population of the district or a minimum of $4,000. After the basic population aid is paid in full, the difference between the state total and the basic population aid is allocated among districts/programs as follows:
1) eighty-four percent is distributed based on a program's relative share of contact hours in the prior year; 2) eight percent is distributed based on a district's relative share of the students with limited English proficiency enrolled in the district in the prior year; and 3) eight percent is distributed based on a district's relative share of adults in the district without a high school diploma according to the last federal census.
For FY 2002 and later, also establishes two limits to the state ABE aid distributed to ABE programs. Total aid for a program cannot exceed four times the rate per prior year contact hour. A program's aid distributed on the basis of contact hours cannot grow by more than 17 percent per year or $20,000, whichever is more.
Legislation additionally directs the Board of Teaching to develop a competency-based license for adult learners as an alternative to the current licensing requirements. The Board must develop recommendations for the legislature, in consultation with a task force, and report to the legislature by January 15, 2002.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 ensure that all counties have access to core adult education and literacy programs; relates to eligibility for training through the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation; includes training in retail under certain circumstances.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

(LD 2492)Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to increase the state subsidy for adult education.
Title: H.B. 1778
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Re-creates the Literacy Initiatives Commission.
Title: H.B. 1850
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 training in educational technology for public school teachers, administrators, and librarians.
Title: H.B. 936
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Assessment

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1552
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 assessment programs, with appropriate accommodations when necessary.
Title: A.B. 1940
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 instrument that measures the degree to which pupils are achieving the academically rigorous content standards and performance standards, to the extent standards have been adopted.
Title: A.B. 2812
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Urges Department of Education to modify and revise portfolio assessment piloted for evaluating students with disabilities who do not participate in statewide assessment.
Title: H.J.R. 589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 and remediation program in specified grades to prepare for the graduation examination.
Title: S.B. 551
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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.
Title: S.B. 169
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 year's 9th & 10th graders to be 'held harmless;' makes scoring more flexible; emphasizes that state and local performance packages are not required. Allows districts to choose whether or not to use the three additional instruction days (mandated in 1996) for staff development relating to the implementation of the Profile of Learning.
Title: S.F. 3286
Source: Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed by governor 05/2000

P-12

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 administration of February 1998. Effective the day following final enactment and applies to test administrations beginning in February 2000.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12
Postsec.
Community College

Vetoed 04/2000

P-12

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 achievement tests and its subtests from between grades three and 12 to between grades two and 11.
Title: S.B. 1300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.J.R. 20
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Exempts certain testing instruments, test answers, and individual student test scores from the public records laws.
Title: S.B. 33A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 or more rigorous than the measurable model standards created by the board. Also directs local school districts to develop academic subject assessments, which will be given in one subject each year, beginning with reading. Once a subject assessment takes place, the local versions of the assessments will be forwarded to an independent expert who will select four model assessments. School districts will then be required to utilize one of the model assessments the next time that subject area is assessed. Provides for the implementation of a statewide writing assessment beginning in the spring of 2001 for students at three grade levels selected by the state board.
Title: L.B. 812
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1484
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 the Present, and Civics and Economics.
Title: H.B. 1020
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 will be developed. Georgia shall participate in a norm-referenced test and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Georgia may also participate in any other national or international performance tests. (This might include Achieve and International TMSS.) A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment. The questions and answers for the end-of –course and criterion reference competency tests are to be released each year. Any possible funding for locally developed assessments is eliminated. The State Board of Education may grant waivers until FY 2003 to local school boards exempting those boards from administration of the state criterion-reference competency tests at any or all of the subject areas and grade levels for which the local school board implements locally developed criterion referenced competency tests based on the Quality Core Curriculum which increases expectations for student achievement beyond the state criterion reference competency tests.

Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 318
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 bank of assessment questions necessary to construct subsequent tests.
Title: H.B. 1019
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 been integrated to take the relevant Standards of Learning assessment for the relevant required course and receive, upon achieving a satisfactory score on the specific SOL test.
Title: H.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Assessment--Accommodations

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

A student's IEP may serve as the alternative assessment.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Assessment--End-of-Course

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Assessment--High Stakes/Competency

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 more rigorous system of professional development, teaching standards, licensure and certification requirements; expands the salary system to include compensations for skills and knowledge. Encourages focused, career-long professional development and compensates teachers for additional responsibilities or becoming National Board certified. Ends social promotion - beginning in 2002, students reading below the standard in 3rd, 5th and 8th grades will be required to attend summer school and meet standard to move to next grade. Same provisions apply to 8th graders for math. Students not meeting standards will receive mandatory individual improvement plans (some state funds available for extra time instruction). Future students must demonstrate they meet 10th grade standards in language arts and math to receive academic diploma.
Title: S.B. 260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

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 program aid.
Title: S.B. 838
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 county office of education take place at the final apportionment for the 5th year of program operation, as specified.
Title: S.B. 2196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 firearms-related offense at school or a school activity off school grounds. Consists of an intensive program of treatment, physical training, education, drug screening and counseling for eligible wards of juvenile court.
Title: S.B. 1542
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 include a request form that parents may use to request information concerning the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program.
Title: A.B. 1735
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 skills necessary to successfully transition into the workforce or enroll in postsecondary education.
Title: A.B. 2827
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

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 and parenting pupils and on child care and development services for their children.
Title: S.B. 541
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.
Community College

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.
Title: H.B. 2496
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

(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.
Title: H.B. 1138
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 the following: one or more years behind their age group in the number of high school credits attained; two or more years behind their age group's basic skills levels; habitual truants; parents; adjudicated delinquents; or eighth-graders who scores are below certain basic level or who failed to be promoted to 9th grade.
Title: S.B. 241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 guidelines; establishes requirements for the service providers to receive monies for participation in the program.
Title: H.B. 2405
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 77
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 residence located within a school division, to those persons deemed to reside in a school division.
Title: S.B. 147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 support cooperation and collaboration in the provision of services at the State and local levels to troubled and at-risk youth and their families.
Title: H.B. 1510
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 required to develop procedures; requires district school boards to establish model emergency management and emergency preparedness procedures. Requires schools to report data concerning school safety and discipline to the department of education. Includes provisions such as ability of teachers to remove disruptive students from the classroom, liability protection for teachers, reporting of safety incidents, etc.
Title: S.B. 852
Source: Florida House of Representatives

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 interest of a class as a whole; requires school boards to obtain 2 appraisals before purchasing certain real property; authorizes the referral of such pupils to an alternative school program.
Title: H.B. 776
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 901
Source: Lexis-Nexis/Statenet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 alternative education programs; establishes alternative education as a component of secondary technical education; establishes a stakeholders group to study the possibility of Federal charter school grant funds.
Title: H.B. 1420
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 ages seven and 16 apply who are assigned to alternative public school programs and to the parents, guardians, or other persons having control or charge of such children.
Title: H.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 alternative education programs. The intent of the alternative education program is to meet the education needs of a student suspended from his or her regular classroom and also of a student who is eligible to remain in his or her regular classroom but is more likely to succeed in a nontraditional setting. Funding for the alternative education program shall be based on 2.5 percent of the full-time equivalent count for grades 6 through 12. For the 2001-2002 school year and thereafter, the funds shall be allocated based on the actual count of students served not to exceed 2.5 percent of the full-time equivalent count.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 education options for elementary school students.
Title: H.B. 188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 such student was last enrolled seek the students immediate compliance.
Title: H.B. 1468
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Authorizes certain drug and/or alcohol testing on pupils under certain circumstances.
Title: H.B. 1289
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 566
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2000

P-12

Establishes youth drug prevention programs in communities and schools makes an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 regulations will govern such initiatives that may be adopted by local school boards.
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1361
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 substance abuse problem. Another portion of the bill revises the penalty for violation of the "drug-free school zone" law (possession with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school or designated school bus stop) to include a one-year minimum, mandatory term of incarceration for a second or subsequent conviction for an offense involving a Schedule I, II or III drug or more than one-half ounce of marijuana.
Title: S.B. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2000

P-12

Public Act 274; Relates to crimes; prohibits the consumption or possession of alcoholic liquor on school property; provides penalties.
Title: S.B. 246
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Attendance

To governor 12/2000

P-12

Increases the age after which a minor may not be required to attend school from 16 to 17.
Title: S.B. 8071
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 3152
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

The age of compulsory school attendance is lowered from age seven to six.
Title: H.B. 270
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 withdrawing the student from school, at which time the school district must provide the parent with information about educational options available in the school system and in the community.

The act extends local school districts' existing responsibility for ensuring that all school age children who live in the district attend school to cover 16- and 17-year-olds who do not have permission to drop out. It does not change the requirement that local districts to offer alternative educational opportunities to expelled students only if they are under age 16.
Title: H.B. 5276
Source: http://www.cga.state.ct.us/olr/2000MPA/education.htm

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 truancy center; provides such officers with civil immunity for such actions unless found to be outside scope of employment or performed with gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Title: S.B. 2425
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 3043
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 319
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

The compulsory attendance age is lowered from seven to six.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 closer. If crossing county lines, the receiving system can bill the sending system for the costs of the student. The receiving system may petition the state to pay any difference between what that system expends to educate the child and the amount paid by the sending system.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 which grants the same privileges to residents of the Commonwealth may be admitted and so charged.
Title: S.B. 499
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Attendance--Compulsory

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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. Requires the Legislative Analyst, in conjunction with the California District Attorney's Association and the State Department of Education, in develop and submit a report to the Legislature on or before 01/01/2004.
Title: S.B. 1913
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

The compulsory attendance age is lowered from seven to six.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Attendance--Truancy

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 Justice of the Peace Court; provides for notice of possible court action; provides a number of court sanctions; requires a particular procedure for handling truancy cases; allows transfer to Family Court.
Title: H.B. 213
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Background Checks

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 services and teachers and administrators applying for licensure or certification.
Title: S.B. 1031
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 8239
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 immunization registry; provides for the electronic transfer of records between health care professionals and other agencies; relates to a person who provides services under a school health services plan for purposes of background screening.
Title: S.B. 2034
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 school council's decision to retain or not retain a principal, and the term of a principal's performance contract.
Title: H.B. 3840
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 304
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.

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, to authorize such police departments to request criminal background checks for prospective employees of the college or university and to charge each prospective employee a background check fee.
Title: H.B. 485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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; requires private schools in cooperation with the Hawaii criminal justice data center, to conduct criminal history verifications of applicants for employment in positions necessitating close proximity to children.
Title: H.B. 2098
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Authorizes school districts and nonpublic schools to perform certain criminal and abuse record checks.
Title: S.B. 228
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Provides for the designation of investigative information possessed by the board of educational examiners as privileged and confidential; relates to licensee discipline.
Title: S.B. 292
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 951
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 checks to be guilty of certain felonies; authorizes waivers for mitigating circumstances; provides immunity to school districts and school district employees regarding certain employment decisions.
Title: S.B. 2658
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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.
Title: H.B. 132
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 statutory requirements to schools and school districts consistent with the Education Flexibility Partnership Act.
Title: S.B. 1116
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Relates to school employees; states a person applying for a certificate shall have a valid class one or class two fingerprint clearance card.
Title: H.B. 2220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Requires that charter schools shall comply with the requirement that all school employees undergo a criminal history check.
Title: H.B. 522
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Provides for criminal history checks for private or parochial school employees or contractors upon request.
Title: H.B. 542
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1477
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 136
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

P-12

(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.
Title: S.B. 987
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Background checks are required of all school personnel and are required of all certificated personnel upon any application for certificate renewal.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Geogia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Requires criminal background checks of school employees; prohibits employment of certain persons in schools.
Title: H.B. 1200
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 applicants enrollment or eligibility for completion of a program was terminated by the institutions.
Title: H.B. 303
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 receipt of such requests.
Title: H.B. 865
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 and descriptive information through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to obtain the applicant's national criminal records history.
Title: H.B. 1238
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 Bureau of Investigation.
Title: H.B. 1097
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Bilingual/ESL

Approved by voters 11/2000

P-12

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 request a waiver of these requirements for children who already know English.
Title: V. 11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

P-12

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, public safety, and health requirements, public and higher education, certain judicial proceedings, economic development and tourism, and libraries.
Title: V. 1 English Only
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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
Title: A.B. 2536
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 of Education to administer the program, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act or other legislation.
Title: S.B. 2192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 language learners redesignated as fluent in English, academic achievement by grade level of each pupil receiving instruction through the program, and strategies to ensure pupils meet grade level standards.
Title: A.B. 2585
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 08/2000

P-12

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 programs or other programs for English learners. Authorizes instructional materials to be purchased, as specified.
Title: A.B. 2645
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000

P-12

Establishes English as the official language of the State of Utah.
Title: V. 1 Ballot Initiative
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Rejected by voters 05/2000

P-12

(LR 20-1999); Constitutional amendment; eliminates the English language requirement in private, denominational, and parochial schools.
Title: V. 4
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 this program.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Business Involvement

Signed into law 04/2000

Postsec.

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 training and education in the commonwealth. Creates a Kentucky research & development voucher program that provides funding to small and medium-sized, Kentucky-based companies to work in partnership with universities. The purpose of the voucher program is to accelerate knowledge transfer and technological innovation, and to spur economic growth.
Title: H.B. 572
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Career/Technical Education

Signed into law 10/2000

P-12

Clarifies the definition of work activities to include certain work-study and internships.
Title: A.B. 8475
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 the California Postsecondary Education Commission to convene a work group relating to the problems associated with recognition and weight to be given to those courses, and would require a report to the Legislature.
Title: A.B. 2087
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12
Community College

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 Department of Education, the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges and the Health and Human Services Agency, for the purpose of administering a grant program to local entities, as specified.
Title: A.B. 1873
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 criteria, including but not limited to, a total charge to the student of a specified amount.
Title: A.B. 1898
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 state's primary planning and coordinating entity for vocational and technical education.
Title: S.B. 289
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 school.
Title: S.B. 385
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2000

P-12

Amends powers of the School to Work Executive Council; places the Council administratively within the Department of Education; appropriates funds for the Council.
Title: H.B. 2280
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 and technical preparation programs; establishes these programs for certain students in state schools; prescribes certain duties of public schools and certain postsecondary institutions; prescribes certain powers and duties of certain state departments, officials, and agencies; repeals acts and parts of acts.
Title: H.B. 5534
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 educational programs in the State's unified plan; specifies certain membership changes on the local workforce investment boards.
Title: S.B. 431
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Establishes requirements for State funding of renovation and expansion of regional vocational education programs.
Title: H.B. 413
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Exempts minors from child labor laws by authorizing them to participate in educational programs in science sponsored by private sector.
Title: S.B. 987
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

Sets budget limits for the Oklahoma Board for Private Vocational Schools (salary of director, number of staff, etc.) and requires evaluation.
Title: S.B. 928
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.

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 graduates for the purposes of determining viability standards of the program.
Title: S.B. 356
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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; provides an effective date.
Title: S.B. 2439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Postsec.

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 Department of Career and Technology Education.
Title: H.B. 2128
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma

Vetoed 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1409
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Relates to the certified school to career program.
Title: H.B. 2179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 Development.
Title: H.B. 610
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 organizations and their members and students. http://www.leg.wa.gov/sl/1999-00/2531_sl.pdf
Title: H.B. 2531
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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Provides for vocational education in public schools.
Title: S.B. 390
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Cheating

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 867
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 administered to students required by the specified code or by the Board of Education; provides for civil penalties of specified amounts; suspends or revokes license of persons who knowingly commit specific acts.
Title: S.B. 548
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Charter Schools

Signed into law 11/2000

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Establishes required funding level for charter school students; revises procedure for evaluation of the charter school program.
Title: A.B. 1344
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000

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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 independently of school districts; states they would be open to all students and staffed by certificated teachers, who could choose to unionize.
Title: V. 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 to meet the requirements of indebtedness incurred by a school district or community college district at a single election doesn't exceed a certain amount.
Title: A.B. 2659
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 application for a waiver to its chartering authority. Provides that if the chartering authority is a school district or county office of education, it must forward certain documentation with the waiver request to the State Board of Education.
Title: S.B. 1841
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

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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 conditions; provides for transportation reimbursment to municipalities of students of charter schools.
Title: S.B. 2027
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 326
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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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 district from meeting its obligation to ensure that the proposed charter school will meet the needs of individuals with exceptional needs, nor shall it be construed to limit or alter the reasons for denying a petition, as specified.
Title: S.B. 1914
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 301
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 308
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 employees as a result of involvement in an application to establish a charter school; requires a charter school to comply with certain cost accounting and reporting requirements.
Title: H.B. 2087
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 mental health hospitals; provides for managed care contract funding; creates foster care review panels; funds libraries and disaster shelters; provides for solid waste and recycling grants; relates to state employee prescription drug company.
Title: H.B. 2147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 charter schools; appropriates funds for the establishment of additional new century charter schools, including the hiring of additional school personnel.
Title: S.B. 2218
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Establishes a committee to study application procedures relative to charter schools and the admission preferences used in charter schools and open enrollment school districts.
Title: H.B. 690
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Rejected by voters 06/2000

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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 independently of school districts; states they would be open to all students and staffed by certificated teachers, who could choose to unionize.
Title: V. 24
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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. Deletes specified provisions and authorizes a charter school, as described, to be funded for not more than 2,000 units average daily attendance in any fiscal year, as if it were a community day school operated by the county.
Title: A.B. 696
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1124
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Concerns charter schools; increases the number of such schools authorized to be operated in the state.
Title: H.B. 2357
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed by governor 05/2000

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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 relationship with the sponsor if the charter school has a history of financial mismanagement or repeated violations of law.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed by governor 05/2000

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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 five miles away, the charter school must give that pupil preference for enrollment. Also, a charter school must give preference in enrollment to a sibling of an enrolled student and to a foster child of the pupil's parents.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed by governor 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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 State Board of Education withhold up to 10% of the charter school's monthly state aid if the sponsor determines at a public meeting that the charter school is not in compliance with state law or their charter.
Title: H.B. 2363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 electronically; requires that the budget format include an electronic format that shall be submitted for each proposed, adopted and revised budget; requires each governing board of a school district to publish an annual financial report.
Title: H.B. 2218
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 the loan.
Title: H.B. 677
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 726
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 72A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 judicial review of a school board's denial of a charter application, revocation or denial of renewal of a charter; clarifies operation guidelines and requirements.
Title: S.B. 411
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 district.
Title: S.B. 1302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 provisions of chapter 14 of Title 20, the accountability system.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

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Relates to charter school enrollment procedures.
Title: S.B. 67
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 to establish procedures for receiving and reviewing applications, seeking public comment, and obtaining the concurrence of participating school boards for regional schools to be chartered by the Board.
Title: H.B. 785
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Died 02/2000

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Provides for start-up charter schools to be funded according to current year membership.
Title: S.B. 460
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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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 residential program, facilities, and staffing, any parental education and after-care initiatives, and funding sources for the residential and other services provided.
Title: H.B. 742
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 paid into the Charter School Security Fund
Title: S.B. 1759
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

To governor 08/2000

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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 exceed a specified amount over the lifetime of the charter school. Authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to consider certain criteria when considering approval of a loan application. Makes other provisions.
Title: S.B. 1728
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 process for the award of grants.
Title: A.B. 2882
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Died 02/2000

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Provides for start-up charter schools to be funded according to current year membership.
Title: S.B. 460
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 demonstrate that "participation in a public high school choice region would adversely affect students in its high school"), must enter into an agreement with at least one other high school district to form a "choice region." There is no limit to the number of regions to which a school district may belong. These regions may make their own agreements on the local level as to how they will operate and, except as to special and technical education students, whether any money will change hands. In the absence of any agreement as to the procedures to be followed in accepting students, the law provides a "default mechanism."

School districts define their own capacity to accept choice students and may further limit the number of choice students transferring from their high school within percentages specified in the law. If any of the above results in too many students for too few open choice slots, the sending or receiving school, as the case may be, must establish a non-discriminatory lottery system to select which students may participate. If a student is eligible for special education, the receiving school is responsible for carrying out the student's IEP that is developed by the sending school district. The receiving district is entitled to notice of and participation in IEP meetings. Transportation of choice students is not required but superintendents must establish a clearinghouse for families needing information on transportation options.

The Commissioner of Education must provide technical assistance in developing the above-mentioned choice region agreements. The Commissioner annually must report on implementation of this Act and after five years must submit a significant report with recommendations on the choice system generally. The law sunsets in 2007.
Title: S.B. 203
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm

Signed into law 05/2000

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Community College

Signed by governor 05/2000

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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 soliciting sale of a controlled substance while at school or a school function; or 4) committing a third-degree assault. Effective for the 2000-2001 school year and later.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed into law 05/2000

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Relates to school district open enrollment and tuition waivers and payments.
Title: A.B. 367
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Relates to the number of school districts to which a pupil may apply under the open enrollment program.
Title: S.B. 309
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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; establishes that Neighborhood School Committee.
Title: H.B. 300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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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 students who wish to transfer to districts that have operating agreements with other district, located both in and out of the state.
Title: H.B. 1015
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 2171
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2000

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Provides increased representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending districts.
Title: S.B. 2212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Tax Credits

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 preschool speech or language delayed; adds preschools for students with disabilities to the qualified schools for which the tax credits can be claimed.
Title: H.B. 2226
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2451
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Relates to individual income tax credits; expands use of public school fees credit to include character education programs; defines character education programs.
Title: S.B. 1369
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Vouchers

Rejected by voters 11/2000

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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 approval. Permits Legislature to increase amounts annually. Repeals voter-approved Constitutional funding priority of public schools. Limits funding guarantees to years when specified conditions occur.
Title: V. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Rejected by voters 11/2000

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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.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis

On 11/07/2000 ballot 06/2000

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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 increase amounts annually. Repeals voter-approved Constitutional funding priority of public schools. Limits minimum State funding guarantees for public schools to years when specified conditions occur.
Title: V. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Civic Education

Vetoed 08/2000

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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 .
Title: A.B. 1747
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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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.
Title: H.J.R. 9
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education; designates Alabama's Legislators Back to School Day.
Title: S.J.R. 100
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 1216
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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 shall be compelled to participate in reciting the pledge of allegiance or singing the national anthem.
Title: H.B. 655
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Requires that instruction in citizenship shall be given in all elementary and secondary schools.
Title: H.B. 652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Relates to the pledge of allegiance by public school students.
Title: H.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 self-sufficient individuals of good character; requires the Board of Education to include strategies to incorporate character education throughout a school's curriculum.
Title: H.B. 157
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 public school for use in its course of instruction.
Title: H.B. 506
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 21
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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Provides for instructional activity relating to Veterans Day.
Title: H.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Civic Education--Character Education

Vetoed 08/2000

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Signed into law 07/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education; designates Alabama's Legislators Back to School Day.
Title: S.J.R. 100
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Requires that instruction in citizenship shall be given in all elementary and secondary schools.
Title: H.B. 652
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Relates to the pledge of allegiance by public school students.
Title: H.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 02/2000

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Provides for instructional activity relating to Veterans Day.
Title: H.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance

Vetoed 08/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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Relates to the pledge of allegiance by public school students.
Title: H.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Class Size

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 enrolled in all grade levels that will participate in the Class Size Reduction Program divided by the total number of classes.
Title: A.B. 1608
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 regular schooldays for each grade level may receive an apportionment equal to $ 800 per pupil. Under Option Two, a school district that provides a reduced class size for all pupils in each classroom for at least 1/2 of the instructional minutes offered per day at each grade level may receive an apportionment equal to $ 400 per pupil.
Title: S.B. 871
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 06/2000

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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?
Title: Initiative 728
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 ratios to measure where Arizona is in relation to average class size in these grade levels; provides for a general effective date.
Title: S.B. 1167
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Curriculum

Unofficially rejected by voters 11/2000

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Community College

MEASURE 9 Prohibits public school instruction (K-12 or Community College level) from encouraging, promoting, or sanctioning homosexual and bisexual behaviors.
Title: V. 32
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 for pupils in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Appropriates a specified amount from the General Fund to the department for these purposes.
Title: S.B. 1439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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.
Title: A.B. 2175
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

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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, includes instruction in Cesar Chavez and the history of the farm labor movement in the United States. Creates the Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning Program.
Title: S.B. 984
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

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 Public Instruction, on or before June 1.
Title: S.B. 1390
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

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.
Title: A.B. 3597
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 promotes good mental health and is an effective prevention intervention in such problem areas as: aggressive, violent and delinquent behaviors; school truancy and drop out; depression and suicidal thought; and substance abuse. Requires model programs to be evidence-based and include an evaluation component.
Title: S.B. 2572
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText00/SenateText00/S2572.htm

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 7397
Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText00/HouseText00/H7397.htm

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

196., Requires instruction in public schools regarding sacrifices made by veterans.
Title: S.B. 172
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 requirements for learner's permit holders prior to licensing; places additional restrictions on minor drivers.
Title: S.B. 1530
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Relates to a curriculum for Native language education.
Title: S.B. 103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 courses for which the first grants were awarded. Modifies awards to allow for support of preadvanced placement courses, International Baccalaureate courses, and development of advanced placement vertical teams. Effective 7-1-00.
Title: S.B. 1015
Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Allows driver's education teacher to administer the written, vision, oral, or driving portion of the examination.
Title: S.B. 241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1379
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 2495
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.C.R. 82
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 displays to be defrayed in whole or part by voluntary private contributions.
Title: S.J.R. 57
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 254
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 preassessment and annual evaluations.
Title: H.B. 325
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 curriculum; provides for an annual report.
Title: S.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Increases the ceiling on reimbursement to schools for driver education costs from $ 70 to $ 100 per student.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Establishes a World War II oral history project in public schools.
Title: H.B. 2418
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 remembered, and so that the causes and circumstances of this and similar events may be illuminated and understood.
Title: H.B. 1572
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Authorizes the state treasurer to conduct a program on banking in the public schools.
Title: H.B. 4080
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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 state the purpose of this study as being to increase knowledge of citizens' rights and responsibilities.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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, ethnicity, race and gender.
Title: S.B. 487
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Arts Education

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Core Curriculum

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Drivers Education

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 available to school districts to use at the option of the district
Title: A.B. 2733
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 the minor's drivers license if the original sponsor was a court ordered custodian, guardian, employer or person acceptable to the Secretary of Public Safety.
Title: H.B. 489
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed by governor 06/2000

P-12

Eliminates the $50 limit on fees that school districts may charge students for drivers' education.
Title: 1999 H.B. 160
Source: Ohio Legislative Service Commission

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 the operation of trucks, commercial cars, and commercial tractors, trailers, and semi-trailers.
Title: S.B. 237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Allows driver's education teacher to administer the written, vision, oral, or driving portion of the examination.
Title: S.B. 241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Increases the ceiling on reimbursement to schools for driver education costs from $ 70 to $ 100 per student.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Environmental Education

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 education to implement source reduction and recycling programs. Requires the board to establish criteria and procedures for the purpose of applying for, evaluating, and awarding these grants.
Title: A.B. 2553
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed.

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education. Establishes, until 01/01/2004, the English Language and Intensive Literacy Program for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
Title: S.B. 1667
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Geography Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 task force to hold at least 2 public meetings before adopting a report and providing any recommendations to the State Board of Education and the Legislature on or before 01/01/2002.
Title: S.B. 1514
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Language Arts

Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

P-12

Vetoed 08/2000

P-12

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 officials, a long-term self-sustaining strategic action plan for language development, teaching, and learning. Provides conditions for a contract with the Center for Intensive Language and Culture.
Title: S.B. 576
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000

P-12

Establishes English as the official language of the State of Utah.
Title: V. 1 Ballot Initiative
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 from each school participating in the program. Authorizes the institutes to provide instruction to school teams serving English language learners in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
Title: A.B. 2881
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 2722
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Rejected by voters 05/2000

P-12

(LR 20-1999); Constitutional amendment; eliminates the English language requirement in private, denominational, and parochial schools.
Title: V. 4
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

(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.
Title: H.B. 1708
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Mathematics

Rejected by Voters 11/2000

P-12

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 four succeeding fiscal years, for the purpose of funding science and math grants for school districts to improve academic performance, notwithstanding any restriction on spending, revenues, or appropriations.
Title: V. 6
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1354
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

Makes each school district eligible for reimbursements for hours of pupil attendance claimed for intensive algebra academics, pursuant to prescribed calculations.
Title: S.B. 1688
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 regional boards of education to apply on behalf of a high school under their jurisdiction.
Title: H.B. 5231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 certification, but can take the subject area competency exam at no cost. Teachers employed in 1998-99 school year may teach grades 7 and 8 if they successfully complete a professional development institute in intermediate mathematics developed and administered by the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation or the State Board of Education. Can participate one time free of charge. Teachers holding middle/junior high math endorsements during the 1998-99 school year who have completed at least 24 semester hours of math (at least six of which are algebra) may teach 7th or 8th-grade mathematics.
Title: H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: Lexis-Nexis

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 preparation for certification by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.
Title: S.B. 77
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 students to take additional high school mathematics courses and reduce the number of students needing mathematics remediation in college.
Title: H.B. 178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Multicultural

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Relates to a curriculum for Native language education.
Title: S.B. 103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Physical Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Science

Rejected by Voters 11/2000

P-12

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Appropriates the one-time sum to the State Department of Education for the purposes of the act.
Title: A.B. 2330
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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.
Title: A.B. 2883
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Curriculum--Sex Education

Vetoed 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 411
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Social Studies/History

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 662
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Establishes a World War II oral history project in public schools.
Title: H.B. 2418
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

Data-Driven Improvement

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Demographics--Enrollments

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 24A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to conditions under which local school boards may deny a student's enrollment or re-enrollment.
Title: H.B. 46
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Desegregation

Signed by governor 05/2000

P-12

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 the district for FY 2000. For other districts, these requirements apply to all integration revenue.
Clarifies the calculation of integration aid adjustments paid to a district serving nonresidents. Integration revenue follows a pupil residing in Minneapolis, St Paul or Duluth and attending a nonresident district outside of these three districts if the nonresident district has implemented a desegregation plan and the enrollment of the pupil in the nonresident district contributes to desegregation or integration purposes. The aid adjustment paid to the nonresident district equals the integration revenue allowance of the resident district ($536 for Minneapolis, $446 for St Paul or $207 for Duluth), minus the integration allowance of the nonresident district (up to $93 for districts required to implement a desegregation plan), times the pupil units attributable to the pupil for the time the pupil is enrolled in the nonresident district. Also clarifies that the integration revenue for a district other than Minneapolis, St Paul or Duluth, including the alternative attendance adjustment, cannot exceed the actual cost of implementing the desegregation plan.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: Department of Children, Families and Learning

Economic/Workforce Development

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

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.
Title: H.B. 2351
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Establishes a commission to study the relationship between postsecondary education and recipients of temporary assistance to needy families.
Title: S.B. 313
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

Postsec.

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 capita income.
Title: H.J.R. 142
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Equity

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 2475
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

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 Assembly and the Governor with a description of the plans submitted by public institutions of higher education relative to gender equity in intercollegiate sports to every 3 years, on or before the 2nd Wednesday of April.
Title: S.B. 1589
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 gender under certain circumstances; requires local school systems to provide equal athletic opportunity for members of both genders.
Title: H.B. 1308
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance

Rejected by voters 11/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 Commissioners of the Land Office to add income from the school land funds to such funds and to decide what amount to send to the schools and universities each year; specifies the amount to be sent to the common schools.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Unofficially approved on the ballot 11/2000

P-12

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 Fund.
Title: V. 5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12
Postsec.
Community College

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, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the State Department of Education to expend specified funds for purposes relating to energy conservation.
Title: S.B. 1299
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 gifted and talented pupil programs.
Title: A.B. 2313
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 categorical programs.
Title: A.B. 2831
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 facilities provided under the Green Act.
Title: A.B. 2586
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000

P-12
Postsec.

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

P-12

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 municipality recieves school housing aid.
Title: S.B. 3067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 administered through the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville; provides that all interest income accrue to the funds; provides that the funds are non-lapsing.
Title: H.B. 583
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 allow a certified public accountant to perform the audit but shall retain the right to receive the audit report and management letters.
Title: H.B. 689
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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; repeals the original sections; declares an emergency.
Title: L.B. 968
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

P-12

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, certain site and building funds, special education, and private postsecondary career schools; changes and eliminates provisions relating to duties of the school Finance Review Committee.
Title: L.B. 1401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 federally-permitted bid or request for proposal process notwithstanding any Vermont public bid statute to the contrary.
Title: H.B. 620
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm

Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost

Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

P-12

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.
Title: V. 24; (NEW BILL)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 transportation, text books, educational supplies, and teacher training as well as other programs.
Title: S.B. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Bonds

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

P-12

Finance--District

Approved by voters 11/2000

P-12

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.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

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 and compensatory education cluster, and the school district improvement cluster.
Title: A.B. 615
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000

P-12

(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 four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of funding performance grants for school districts to improve academic performance, notwithstanding any restriction on spending, revenues, or appropriations.
Title: V. 6; (NEW BILL)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 602
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 administration of its trust funds; prohibits federal impact aid received by the DOE from being returned to the general fund; allows excess federal impact aid to be spent by the DOE for the purposes of the school-based budgeting program.
Title: H.B. 1873
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2000

Postsec.

Allows University of Hawaii to carry over funds from one year to the next.
Title: H.B. 2062
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 with the statute regarding budget hearings.
Title: S.B. 1452
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 add a 2nd step to the process for finalization of the school budget; directs the State Board of Education to develop a model school budget procedure.
Title: H.B. 949
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

*****To GOVERNOR 03/2000

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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 Education.
Title: H.B. 668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 transfers of school funds.
Title: H.B. 1257
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Equity

Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

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De-earmarks federal mineral royalties and severance taxes for transportation & interest on water development funds; creates the educational equity account for public schools.
Title: H.B. 195
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Facilities

Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000

P-12
Community College

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 information technology needs.
Title: V. 29
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 10/2000

Postsec.

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 other available funds, to pay all or part of the cost of (i) renovating labs, classrooms, and buildings, and (ii) providing other capital improvements at the 16 campuses of the constituent institutions.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Chapter No.530, Authorizes new construction or modernization on real property leased to a school district if certain conditions are met.
Title: A.B. 2408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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, pursuant to a prescribed calculation. Adjusts the calculation when an applicant school district proposes to demolish a single story building and replace it with a multistory building on the same site, if specified conditions are met.
Title: A.B. 801
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 1795
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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Postsec.
Community College

Signed into law 09/2000

Postsec.

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 certification by State Treasurer that additional support is necessary; provides State aid for debt services be paid in accordance with the amount of bonds or notes issued; provides bonds are not a liability of the State.
Title: S.B. 1311
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Rejected by voters 08/2000

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Community College

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 replacement of school facilities if approved by majority of applicable district or county voters. Prohibits bond use for teacher, administrator salaries, other school operating expenses. Includes accountability requirements.
Title: V. 15
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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Postsec.
Community College

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 b) any judicial action or proceeding that protests or challenges a rate or charge that contains a capital facilities fee or that seeks the refund of capital facilities fees.
Title: A.B. 1674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

On 11/07/2000 Ballot 07/2000

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Community College

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 information technology needs.
Title: V. 29
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 settlement of State of Alaska v. Phillip Morris, Incorporated, or from revenue of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation to the Department of Education and Early Development for public school facilities.
Title: H.B. 287
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

Requires installation of automatic fire suppression systems in all dormitories at public or private institutions of higher education.
Title: S.B. 891
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

Concerns the Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act; concerns the construction and financing of public school facilities.
Title: S.B. 200
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 Assistance Program.
Title: S.B. 272
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 269
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

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 legislature to appropriate sufficient monies to make rental payments for the purpose of retiring the obligations created pursuant to the law.

Title: S.B. 2A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

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 throughout the state.
Title: S.B. 984
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

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.
Title: H.B. 2249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 06/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 4970
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 181
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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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; provides bonding authority to the treasurer of state; exempts interest and income from such bonds from taxation.
Title: S.B. 2447
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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; requires a county board to submit a grant application to the Department of Education; requires the Department to arrange financing for the project.
Title: S.B. 711
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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 Department of Education to conduct a study and create a plan to address the needs for improved and new facilities for projects low on the priority list; provides extra renovation funds to capitalize on a revolving fund; carries over unused funds.
Title: S.B. 298
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.

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 learning.
Title: S.B. 2868
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 fund is exempt from constitutional termination.
Title: H.B. 627
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 received from the physical plant and equipment levy, or moneys obtained through a federal asbestos loan program.
Title: H.B. 2435
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 678
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 unhealthy conditions in schools.
Title: H.B. 668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Repeals a specified limitation on the applicability of the Prevailing Wage Law to the construction of an elementary or secondary school.
Title: S.B. 202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 32
Source: legis.state.nm.us

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 expenditures; provides for a property tax levy for certain costs related to the bonds; requires approval of the registered voters at the 2000 General Election.
Title: H.B. 17A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 31
Source: legis.state.nm.us

Vetoed 03/2000

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Postsec.

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 noncapital costs to fund a judgement, settlement, or other cost or liability; provides for bonding authority to the state office building commission for a judicial legislative building.
Title: S.B. 408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Postsec.

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 bids; provides monthly notification to the Kentucky Wood Products Competitiveness Corporation of certain public projects; requests a list of suggested vendors from the Corporation.
Title: H.B. 249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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, it shall use a specified source selection method.
Title: H.B. 42
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

Relates to supplemental severance tax bonds; provides for funding of public school capitol outlays.
Title: H.B. 279
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 02/2000

P-12

Authorizes supplemental severance tax bonds for public school capital outlay purposes.
Title: S.B. 297
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Funding Formulas

Vetoed 11/2000

P-12

Veto No. 51 of 2000., Provides for State aid to an eligible school district based on the assessed valuation in said district.
Title: S.B. 7504
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 school district is likely, within 8 years of that decline, to maintain a number of units of ADA that is equivalent to the number of units of ADA maintained by the district.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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Vetoed 07/2000

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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.
Title: A.B. 5795
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 of the computation of district required local effort; requires districts to allocate to each school a specified minimum percentage of the funds generated by the school based on State Education Finance Program.
Title: H.B. 701
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Eliminates the future repeal of the school finance formula; provides for periodic legislative review.
Title: S.B. 2252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.
Community College

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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. Beginning with FY 2002, a midterm adjustment in a local school system's equalization grant shall be made if the system increases its actual millage rate and ranks at or below the 75th percentile.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Vetoed 02/2000

P-12

Changes the at-risk index for public school finance.
Title: H.B. 85
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Litigation

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12
Postsec.

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 mandated local costs, and from both the General Fund and the State Transportation Fund, a specified sum would be allocated to ay for prior year deficiencies, including interest, thereon.
Title: S.B. 1894
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 224A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Local Foundations/Funds

Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000

P-12

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 annually by at least the rate of inflation plus one percentage point for fiscal years 2001-02 through 2010-11, and annually by at least the rate of inflation for fiscal years thereafter.
Title: V. 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 02/2000

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Relates to the establishment of the state percent of growth for purposes of the state school foundation program; provides an applicability date.
Title: S.B. 2082
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Lotteries

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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.
Title: V. 13
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Unofficially rejected by Voters 11/2000

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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 Sebastian, Pulaski, Garland, Miller, Crittenden and Boone Counties); establishes the Arkansas Educational Trust Fund and the Arkansas Gaming Commission.
Title: V. 5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by Voters 11/2000

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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, including multi-state games, from the General Fund to the State Public School Fund as a contingency reserve for supplemental assistance to school districts for capital expenditures to address immediate health and safety concerns.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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 lottery revenues first being used to pay operating expenses and prizes and the remaining revenues credited to a separate Education Lottery Account in the State Treasury.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

Postsec.

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 deposited in the continuously appropriated Postsecondary Education Technology Pooled Revenue Bond Fund.
Title: A.B. 2565
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 06/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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Postsec.

Relates to equal lottery revenue distributions.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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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 proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities, and towns to be expended for public education purposes.
Title: H.B. 749
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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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 the fund will be distributed to counties, cities, and towns to be expended for public education purposes; provides that localities accepting a distribution from the fund must fund its portion of the cost.
Title: S.B. 546
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Private Giving

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.

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 transfer of funds between line items within and among any budgetary unit in the regional community-technical colleges.
Title: S.B. 453
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 the Fund and to credit certain earnings to the Fund; specifies procedures for expenditures from the Fund; makes the Fund continuous and nonlapsing; states that Fund is subject to audit by the Legislative Auditor.
Title: S.B. 107
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Resource Efficiency

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

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 instruction to students in an alternative education program; prohibits the audit adjustments based upon the claimant's provision of service to non-resident students in an alternative education program without charging tuition.
Title: H.B. 2917
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.

Signed into law 05/2000

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Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.
Title: H.B. 1316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source:

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 summed. One hundred percent of funds earned for direct instructional salaries shall be expended on teachers and aides. Ninety percent of the funds designated for media center costs must be spent at each school site where the funds are earned.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures

Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000

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Rejected by Voters 11/2000

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Approved by voters 11/2000

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Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

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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; provides that all property, assets, money or other things of value which are lawfully seized and forfeited be sold or auctioned and all monies which result be deposited in the Uniform School Fund.
Title: V. 2 Ballot Initiative
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

On 11/07/2000 ballot 07/2000

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Signed into law 07/2000

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Establishes a Public Education School Library Fund.
Title: S.B. 429
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Community College

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, pursuant to a 2/3 vote of the governing board, pursue the authorization and issuance of bonds by a 55% vote of the electorate, at primary or general elections, subject to certain additional requirements.
Title: A.B. 1908
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 regarding certain duties in selecting and adopting instructional materials; eliminates condition for rejecting bids; eliminates optional escalator clause in certain contracts.
Title: S.B. 850
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

Vetoed 05/2000

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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 prior year's budget.
Title: H.B. 2179
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 4A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

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Relates to School Finance; changes the calculation of local effort rate; adjusts levy amounts.
Title: L.B. 1107
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Died 03/2000

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Community College

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 approved by majority of applicable district or county voters. Prohibits bond use for teacher, administrator salaries, other operating expenses and accountability requirements.
Title: V. 15
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Passed 03/2000

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PROPOSITION 20; Relates to the State Lottery.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 textbooks for use in public schools.
Title: S.B. 413
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Student Fees

Signed into law 04/2000

Postsec.

Raises cap on library automation and materials fee in regard to higher education.
Title: S.B. 1305
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Finance--Taxes/Revenues

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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 tax.
Title: V. 6
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 11/2000

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Community College

(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 achievement and a database to track student attendance and academic performance, and to provide additional funding for other maintenance and operation education programs, University research and development programs and community college workforce development; makes the act conditional on the voter approving the general transaction privilege tax rate increase at the next general election. Legislative Council analysis: http://www.sosaz.com/election/2000/info/pubpamphlet/english/prop301.htm

Proposition 301 approved in November 2000 election with 53.5% voter support.
Title: Proposition 301
Source: Arizona Secretary of State Web site

Unofficially approved by Voters 11/2000

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Community College

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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 granted a homestead exemption from all ad valorem taxation for state, county, municipal and school purposes.
Title: V. 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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 emergency levy, local support levy, and building fund levy.
Title: V. 5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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?"
Title: Ballot Initiative 722
Source: http://www.vote.wa.gov/2000/vote2000/results/measures.tpl?m_id=722&m_code=I

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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, starting with the 1999 valuation level, would be the lower of 2% per year or the inflation rate. A separate limit would apply to new construction, and maintenance improvements would be exempt from tax.
Title: Initiative 722
Source: Secretary of State

Vetoed 10/2000

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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 population of 30% senior citizens; provides the aid shall be equal to $ 500 multiplied by the districts residential enrollment who reside in such a municipality; provides a region school district tax levy calculation formula.
Title: S.B. 110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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Community College

Signed into law 08/2000

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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 by adjusting the latest State Equalization Rates for those cities or towns to the appropriate current role.
Title: S.B. 7774
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

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Establishes special equalization rates in assessing units having an electric generating facility for the purposes of apportioning school district taxes.
Title: S.B. 8115
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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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 superintendents of schools and to adjust those amounts, as specified. Specifies that this requirement applies to 2000-01 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter and would delete the requirement that the revenue limits be adjusted.
Title: A.B. 2880
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Re-referred to Senate Committee on Local Government 06/2000

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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 excess revenues, remaining after allocation to county superintendents of schools for purposes of special education, to be allocated among the county, cities, and special districts.
Title: A.B. 822
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: A.B. 2879
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 school provides preschool through eighth grade educational training and is licensed by the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 1268
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 tangible personal property after adjustments by value adjustment board; maintains exemption from taxation for property leased from governmental agency if agency continues to use property for exclusively educational purposes.
Title: S.B. 290
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 2001), affected districts to receive grants equal to 0.5% of the equalized assessed valuation of the land owned by the state.
Title: H.B. 3406
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 prepaid tuition contract shall be considered an investment for the purpose of investing a ward's money under the Probate Act of 1975; effective immediately.
Title: S.B. 1537
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 permissive tax allowed by law or the maximum tax rate allowed by voter approved referendum, instead of when the change in the assessed valuation causes the district's operation tax rate to be less than required to qualify for the maximum amount of state aid.
Title: H.B. 3435
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 494
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Concerns an income tax credit for monetary contributions to the Colorado Institute for Telecommunication Education.
Title: H.B. 1052
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 accessory items during the back-to-school tax-free shopping week.
Title: H.B. 170, S.B. 103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Vetoed 04/2000

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Relates to School Finance; changes the calculation of local effort rate; adjusts levy amounts.
Title: L.B. 1107
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1403
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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-Agricultural Acreage from 5.7 mills to 4.33 mills, the maximum tax rate on all other property is reduced from 16.5 mills to 13.93 mills.
Title: S.B. 199
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Revises the property tax levies for the general fund of a school district.
Title: H.B. 1139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 483
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues

Unofficially approved on the ballot 11/2000

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Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1905
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.
Title: H.B. 1316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Died 03/2000

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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 development and smoking prevention programs. Prohibits imposition of additional surtaxes on the distribution of cigarettes or tobacco products except by the Legislature.
Title: V. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: L.B. 1436
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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 constitutional issues pertaining to the gifting of public funds.
Title: H.B. 2332
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance

Signed into law 10/2000

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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 State Treasurer.
Title: H.B. 4555
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 1738
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 1770
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed by governor 05/2000

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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 staff available to assist the task force. A report is due no later than December 1, 2000.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source: MN Department of Children, Families and Learning

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 657
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 duplication of efforts in the areas of vocational education workforce development and other linkages between public schools, institutions of higher education and business and industry.
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 schools will no longer be exempt.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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 councils, training and assisting in the school subjects being assessed, providing assistance for schools designated as failing schools, and assisting the RESA members in complying with the rules of the Educational Coordinating Council and State Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 administrative officer of a local governing body.
Title: S.B. 611
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Establishes Regional Education Service Agencies.
Title: H.B. 4413
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 and residency test; increases commission per diem and travel expenses; specifies application of public records provision; modifies authorized district boundaries; conforms state superintendent duties.
Title: S.B. 21
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 rights.
Title: H.B. 884
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 member whose family member is being considered may not vote.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Governance--School Boards

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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 at-large members, plus 3rd at-large member upon current Superintendent of Education vacating office, and Governor; provides for appointment, terms of office, and submittal and confirmation by Senate.
Title: V. 7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 first year of a student member's term , the student would be a member of the board and attend all meetings of the board and its committees, but may not vote.
Title: S.B. 1347
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 1550
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 06/2000

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(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.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 absences for religious instruction or holidays be in accordance with rules of the State Board of Education; relates to classification of tuition; relates to children of deceased or disabled veterans.
Title: S.B. 1870
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 safety of students, school employees, school staff, or school property.
Title: H.B. 3881
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 college district to select a depository for its funds in accordance with the Uniform Depository Act.
Title: S.B. 210
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 people of the district. Effective 6-1-00.
Title: S.B. 1532
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma

Signed into law 06/2000

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Authorizes local Boards of Education to maintain records of proceedings of board in electronic format.
Title: S.B. 1322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 to harmonize the two provisions. Also, nominating petitions will now require at least 30 voters or one percent of the legal voters in the local district, whichever is less. This process will now be identical to that of the Australian ballot nominating process for local school district directors. The Secretary of State has mailed further information about this new law to each school district clerk.
Title: H.B. 255
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 2331
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Transfers the powers of the state school board to the Department of Children, Families, and Learning.
Title: S.B. 86
Source:

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 636
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 specified amount per month upon approval of a majority vote of the members at the boards annual meeting.
Title: S.B. 209
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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 possess outstanding professional qualifications under a letter of authorization.
Title: H.B. 119
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Requires board of visitors of each 4 year state institution of higher education to appoint on or more nonvoting student representatives to the board.
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2000

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Provides increased representation on receiving district boards of education for certain sending districts.
Title: S.B. 2212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--Site-Based Management

Signed into law 07/2000

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Establishes school improvement teams for each school in preparation and evaluation of the school improvement plan.
Title: H.B. 7415
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 implemented by the principal regarding procedures to assist the council with consultation in the selection of personnel by the principal.
Title: S.B. 76
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

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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; requires each school council to annually review data provided by the Kentucky Department of Education by December 31 each year on its students' performance levels and adopt a plan to assure that each student makes progress.
Title: S.B. 265
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies

Signed into law 07/2000

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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 terms. Each elected member (11) must be a resident of the district the member represents. Because of a potential constitutional challenge of this law in its previous form (was one part of an act covering multiple issues) and a push for an all-elected state board, bill came before the legislature for passage as a single-issue law.
Title: H.B. 711
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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Requires the Board of Education to set the salary of the Superintendent of Education.
Title: S.B. 1276
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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 of the State Board of Education for nonrecurring expenditures.
Title: H.B. 742
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

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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 employees are considered employees of the school districts.
Title: S.B. 287
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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 defraying expenses relating to the discharge of the Superintendent of Public Instruction's official duties; reappropriates unexpended and unencumbered moneys to be used for development of existing standards.
Title: S.B. 1568
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 a transition year after an open application process. One student shall be appointed for a one-year term and the other for a two-year term. The student serving the one-year term shall be a full voting member. The student holding the two-year term shall become a voting member in the second year of his or her term. Thereafter, annually the Governor shall appoint one student for a two-year term to replace the departing student State Board member.
Title: H.B. 234
Source: http://www.state.vt.us/educ/legupdate.htm

Signed into law 02/2000

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Reorganizes departments within the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 79
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Health

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 kindergarten and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Requires the resource center to notify school districts regarding the availability of the approved curriculum.
Title: A.B. 1879
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 contaminated sharps, as prescribed by regulations adopted by the Department of Industrial Relations.
Title: S.B. 1320
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 interested parties.
Title: A.B. 2670
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 the identification and treatment of childhood mental disorders and related issues.
Title: A.B. 2068
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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Vetoed 09/2000

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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 employees, as specified by 07/01/2001.
Title: A.B. 786
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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
Title: A.B. 2260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 disposition of epinephrine auto-injectors furnished by the pharmacy for a period of three years from the date the records were created.
Title: A.B. 1791
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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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 implement this requirement.
Title: A.B. 1594
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

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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 1 to 12, inclusive.
Title: A.B. 800
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

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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. Provides that the first aid course may count toward the 150 hour professional growth requirement.
Title: S.B. 1733
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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Delays the mandatory requirement that all kindergarten enrollees have a documented screening for lead poisoning for admission or continued enrollment.
Title: S.B. 405
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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Requires that all school children, prior to the first grade, shall be given an eye examination by a physician or an optometrist.
Title: H.B. 6711
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 of schools in making available these applications, to include information that parents may use to request information about the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Requires students attending special schools for the deaf and blind to be tested at least once every two years for tuberculosis, with the cost, if any, to be borne by the parent or guardian of the student.
Title: A.B. 2877
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 with prepaid health services providers; increases provider surety bond requirements; prohibits interim rate adjustments based on increased cost of liability insurance; relates to skilled nursing facilities and home health care.
Title: H.B. 2329
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 program; provides for assistance to families in evaluating summer recreation and day camp programs; increases family income limits for subsidized child care; relates to federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funding; relates to child care facility licensing.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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, subject to appropriation, whereby the State Board of Education is allowed to reimburse sponsors of school breakfast programs, to make grants to school boards and certain schools or other sites.
Title: H.B. 2379
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 Medicaid eligible children.
Title: H.B. 2067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2977
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 eligible children.
Title: H.B. 2067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2000

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Enacts the Oklahoma Youth Smoking Prevention Act; defines terms and creates the Youth Smoking Prevention Fund.
Title: H.B. 2313
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Act No. 80., Creates the Commission on Psychiatric Medication of School-Age Children.
Title: H.R. 1079
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2521
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2565
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 05/2000

Postsec.

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.
Title: S.B. 653
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Public Acts 89, 90, 91. Relates to conditions of school aid; requires immunization status assessment for children entering sixth grade.
Title: H.B. 5291, H.B. 5292, H.B. 5293
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Prohibits school districts from using disbursements from the Education Trust Fund as unanticipated revenue.
Title: H.B. 1316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 808
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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 schedule for ventilation and heating systems; requires implementation of integrated pest management; provides for isolation of toxic material that cannot be removed; provides for emergency response.
Title: H.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

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Creates the Tobacco Education Prevention Advisory Council consisting of 16 members, to serve no more than two consecutive five year terms.
Title: H.B. 2316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2558
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1214
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 564
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 blood test screenings administered; requires physicians to administer blood test screenings for lead poisoning when treating children under the age of 5 years in a hospital or related institutions.
Title: H.B. 1221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

Postsec.

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 Health and Mental Hygiene, in cooperation with the Maryland Higher Education Commission, to adopt regulations; states that certain institutions shall not be required to pay for vaccinations for meningococcal disease.
Title: H.B. 227
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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(LD 1261); Requires unlicensed school personnel to be trained before administering medication to students in Maine's public schools and approved private schools.
Title: S.B. 424
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 725
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 of a parent, and in accordance with school board regulations relating to training, security, and record keeping.
Title: H.B. 1391
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 or chief administrator to be informed.
Title: S.B. 631
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Public Act 9., Relates to education; revises qualified immunity for administering medication in public schools for certain school employees.
Title: S.B. 614
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 1010
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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Requires a varicella immunization for school entry.
Title: S.B. 42
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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Signed into law 02/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 437
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Health--Mental Health

Vetoed 09/2000

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Postsec.

Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses

Signed into law 02/2000

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Health--Teen Pregnancy

Signed into law 08/2000

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High School

Signed into law 07/2000

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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 courses which satisfy the core curriculum requirements in Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies to have content and/or rigor equal to or above the required core course;
- Allows certain courses taught in a contextual methodology;
- Requires school districts to encourage students to take two units of foreign language;
- States that schools are not required to offer every course listed, but must offer enough courses to meet the graduation requirements;
- States that schools are required to pay for a student's concurrent enrollment course when the course is necessary for graduation and the district does not offer it;
- Requires the State Department of Education to work with school districts to review and approve courses not specifically listed in statute; deletes the term "comparable", and specifies that such courses must be equal to or above the listed courses in content and/or rigor;
- Specifies that academic and vocational-technical courses with integrated or embedded competencies from the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS - state curriculum) may be approved for academic credit by the State Board of Education;
- Allows students on individualized education programs (IEPs) who satisfy the programming for graduation in the IEP to be awarded a high school diploma;
- Allows students enrolled in alternative education programs who meet the requirements of their plans to be awarded a high school diploma;
- Allows students who complete the curriculum requirements of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program to be awarded a high school diploma;

Title: H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

Postsec.

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
Title: H.B. 7466
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 subsequently in the same or comparable course. Applies to elective courses as well. Any course grade not replaced according to a district forgiveness policy shall be included in the calculation of the cumulative grade point average required for graduation.
Title: S.B. 842
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

Postsec.

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 governing the operation of the university; relates to university-owned patents, copyrights and trademarks; revises admissions standards; requires submission of a test score.
Title: H.B. 1567
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

Allows high school students to obtain college and high school course credits simultaneously.
Title: H.B. 2092
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

Adds a new chapter to establish the new economy technology scholarship act.
Title: S.B. 2420
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Requires one half credit in civics as part of the 3 credit social studies requirement for high school graduation.
Title: H.B. 5274
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Relates to education; amends state graduation requirements; amends graduation rules.
Title: S.B. 3286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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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 English or other equal); 3 mathematics (1 algebra 1 or algebra 1 taught in a contextual methodology [applied?]; 2 from either algebra II, geometry, trigonometry or math analysis); 3 science (1 biology or biology taught in a contextual methodology, and 2 of either life, physical, earth science or technology [may include chemistry, physics, biology, physical science, earth science, botany, zoology, physiology, astronomy or applied versions of same] or qualified agricultural education courses); 3 social studies (1 U.S. History, 1/2 U.S. government or Oklahoma history and 1/2 to 1 of world history, geography, economics, anthropology or other of equal rigor); 2 arts (visual and/or music); strongly encourages 2 units or sets of competencies of foreign languages. Contextual methodology means "academic content and skills taught be utilizing real-world problems and projects in a way that helps students understand the application of that knowledge." -
Title: H.B. 2728 (Omnibus Bill)
Source: Lexis-Nexis

Signed into law 05/2000

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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 including star diploma information in high school and higher education awareness counseling, all so as to repeal the star diploma program.
Title: H.B. 4650
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Department of Education related to graduation requirements.
Title: S.B. 1220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Postsec.

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 recommendations to the same by December 1, 2001.
http://mlis.state.md.us/PDF-Documents/2000rs/fnotes/bil_0001/hb1091.PDF
Title: H.B. 1091
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 learning test satisfactorily completed), as follows: four credits in English, two of which shall be verified credits and one of which shall be in technical writing/reading/communication skills.
Title: S.B. 706
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Postsec.

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 availability in school of programs leading to college credit, such as advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs.
Title: S.B. 6559
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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High School--Advanced Placement

Signed into law 05/2000

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High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.
Community College

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 through dual enrollment; provides for tuition reimbursement; requires State Board of Education to identify qualifying courses; requires school superintendents and junior college presidents to develop articulated acceleration programs.
Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.
Community College

Signed into law 03/2000

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Postsec.
Community College

Establishes the Joint Legislative Study Committee on dual enrollment in high school and community college.
Title: H.B. 2365
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

High School--Exit Exams

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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High School--Graduation Requirements

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

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Requires one half credit in civics as part of the 3 credit social studies requirement for high school graduation.
Title: H.B. 5274
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Relates to education; amends state graduation requirements; amends graduation rules.
Title: S.B. 3286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Department of Education related to graduation requirements.
Title: S.B. 1220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling

Signed into law 08/2000

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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.
Title: A.B. 2164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Postsec.
Community College

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to requirements for home school instruction; relates to a study on home school instruction; relates to collection of data on home school instruction.
Title: S.B. 189
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Instructional Approaches--Official English

Unofficially approved by voters 11/2000

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Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools

Signed into law 06/2000

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Authorizes medical assistance payments to certain clinics or diagnostic and treatment centers for services they render to preschool children with disabilities.
Title: S.B. 6735
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2000

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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 day. Creates an advisory board. Up to six pilot projects (rural and urban) to be selected.
Title: S.B. 1597
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 membership, organization and responsibilities of the advisory committee.
Title: H.B. 418
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 use of Medicaid funds through targeted case management, and other funds which may be available for related services. Encourages the state board to allow for the use of licenses professional counselors and licensed social workers in addition to academic counselors.
Title: H.B. 2168
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma

Signed into law 03/2000

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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 funding projects for youth.
Title: H.B. 2807
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

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Leadership

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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.
Title: A.B. 1892
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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, coercion, or similar improper acts, because he or she has made a protected disclosure under the Act, may also file a copy of the written complaint with the State Personnel Board, as specified.
Title: A.B. 2472
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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,
Title: H.B. 5317
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 Education, in order to support improved accountability for educational resources.
Title: H.B. 1874
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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 linkage with the Teachers' National Average Salary Bill; relates to the Teacher Tenure Law; provides for the appeal of transfers of teachers; adds failure to perform duties to grounds for termination.,
Title: H.B. 285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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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 licensure requirements for principals.
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Colorado Association of School Boards

Signed into law 05/2000

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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 Agency on personnel who qualify for the exemption. Allows retired school principals to be re-employed as principals under certain conditions without losing retirement benefits.
Title: S.B. 220
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us

Signed into law 05/2000

Postsec.

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.
Title: S.B. 3386
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 2830
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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 the Commissioner of Education can certify tax rates; deletes references to several specific taxes that are now part of the general tax rate.
Title: H.B. 668
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 420
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 04/2000

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Deletes the requirement that school districts participate annually in the principal support pilot program.
Title: H.B. 295
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Makes certain changes concerning the termination, suspension, and evaluation of certain administrative personnel of school districts and educational service centers.
Title: S.B. 77
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Relates to the Corporation Commission; allows use of monies of the Oklahoma Telecommunications Technology Training Fund for training of school administrators.
Title: S.B. 1178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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.

Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

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(Joint Resolution) Approves regulations of the Board of Education; relates to the principal induction program.
Title: H.B. 4483
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Leadership--District Superintendent

Signed into law 04/2000

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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay

Signed into law 05/2000

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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure

Signed into law 05/2000

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Middle School

Signed into law 04/2000

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Signed into law 03/2000

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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 minimum of 5 hours of instruction in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, and other academic subjects as defined by the state board. There has to be a common planning time of between 55 and 85 minutes for the interdisciplinary team of academic teachers. The local board of education shall have the authority to schedule exploratory and physical education classes for the remainder of the school day. For students below grade level, any additional time shall be used for academic instruction. Until the accountability system is in place, any middle school with a combined total of 65% scoring good or very good in the previous school year on the first administration of the Eighth Grade Writing Test and at the 65th percentile or above on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills eighth grade composite score, the local board is only required to have 4 � hours of academic instruction. After the implementation of the accountability system, for any middle school scoring and A or B on the absolute standard, the local board is only required to have 4 � hours of academic instruction.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Minority/Diversity Issues

Signed into law 09/2000

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Requires staff development activities included in school development plans to assist personnel at the local schoolsite to develop tolerance programs.
Title: A.B. 1945
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 population and discouraging the development of discriminatory attitudes and practices.
Title: A.B. 1785
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

Postsec.

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 University, Stanislaus, with nonpublic funds or with other funds that the California State University Northridge, and Stanislaus are authorized to expend, and make available, for these purposes.
Title: S.B. 1721
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 a grant program for school districts to enable pupils and teachers to participate in educational programs focused on fostering ethnic sensitivity, overcoming racism and prejudice, and countering hatred and intolerance.
Title: A.B. 1931
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 may include focused outreach and recruitment of minority groups and women if any group is underrepresented in entry level positions or in an educational institution.
Title: S.B. 2047
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

Vetoed 08/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Relates to a curriculum for Native language education.
Title: S.B. 103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Minority/Diversity Issues--African American

Signed into law 09/2000

Postsec.

Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 comprehensive schools. Sets forth additional purposes for which funds appropriated for the California Indian Education Center Program may be allocated.
Title: A.B. 1746
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 Indian reservation, to examine alternatives for improving educational services to pupils in K-12 who reside on Indian reservations, to submit a written report to the Governor, Legislature, Secretary of State.
Title: H.B. 2579
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Minority/Diversity Issues--Hispanic

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

No Child Left Behind--Assessment

Approved by voters 11/2000

P-12
Community College

Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning

Signed into law 12/2000

P-12

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 service centers; declares an emergency.
Title: H.B. 768
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2000

P-12

Relates to curriculum; permits the display of televised commercial advertising necessarily incidental to Internet access.
Title: H.B. 6893
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

Postsec.

(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 internet.
Title: S.B. 973
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

Postsec.

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 delivery include both traditional and distance learning based on the most modern technologies, including video, on-line, and cd-roms and using the internet, satellites, and other forms of communications systems.
Title: S.B. 183
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 203
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12
Postsec.

Addresses information technology literacy at baccalaureate institutions of higher learning.
Title: H.B. 2375
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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.
Title: A.B. 1762
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 School Board as temporary fiscal agent of school; providing requirements for the content and custody of student and employee records.
Title: H.B. 2063
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 2000.
Title: H.B. 2662
Source: 2000 Legislative Summary, Oklahoma

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 584
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-16 or P-20

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12
Postsec.

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12
Postsec.

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12
Postsec.

P-3

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

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 cooperation with the Department of Human Services, funding, assistance to school districts to implement programs and evaluation and monitoring of programs; provides for a report to the Legislature and the public.
Title: A.B. 2123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

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-school educators, program standards, development of facility standards, coordination of such programs across State agencies and funding levels for trained teachers, curriculum, materials and facilities.
Title: A.B. 2122
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1703
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 increase the availability of financing to renovate, expand, and construct child day care facilities.
Title: A.B. 2778
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.
Title: S.B. 982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 08/2000

P-12

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 program performance standards, assessment and evaluation instruments, program reviews, data reporting, and a program rating and accountability system.
Title: A.B. 1986
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 school readiness programs.
Title: S.B. 2250
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

, 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.
Title: S.B. 924
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 requirements for teaching.
Title: H.B. 2940
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 professional preparation by staff and staff retention.
Title: H.B. 4021
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Vetoed 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 132
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 approval of the Administration Commission for transfer of funds by the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Education to the partnership for school readiness programs.
Title: S.B. 2088
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 05/2000

P-12

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 Department of Education as the agency supervising the grant program; requires the Department to distribute the funds to local systems on a competitive basis; limits local school use of funds.
Title: S.B. 793
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 members; requires the Commission to meet at specified times and issue reports on or before specified dates; provides for the staffing of the Commission.
Title: S.B. 869
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed by governor 05/2000

P-12

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 1 of the previous school year.
Title: H.B. 3800
Source:

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Title: H.B. 419
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 county.
Title: S.B. 170
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 Program; relates to 1997 and later assessment rolls; relates to tuition assistance program awards; relates to allowances for members of the Legislature, funding for the Legislature and legislative commissions.
Title: A.B. 9291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 536
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Relates to reorganization; creates the Office of Early Childhood Development within the Office of the Governor.
Title: H.B. 240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 authority; requires the authority to develop a state plan for funding priorities and programs; creates community early childhood councils for service areas designated by the authority.
Title: H.B. 706
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 education and family support services; designates the Maryland Department of Education as the agency supervising the grant program.
Title: H.B. 1249, S.B. 1249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 health care providers; requires the Governor to include funding for the grants in the State budget; requires the State Board to adopt regulations to implement the Act.
Title: H.B. 1172, S.B. 750
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.J.R. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.B. 2398
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 both have responsibility for administering and setting the definitions for who qualifies for the Early Intervention Programs. The Education Coordinating Council also must adopt the standards and definitions for these programs. Special education students are eligible for this program, but may only be counted for funding for either the early intervention program or a special education category. The school must provide timely notice and an opportunity for a conference with the student and his or her parents or guardians to discuss the student's developmental deficiencies and options for addressing those deficiencies. Delivery models may include, but are not limited to, class augmentation, pull-out or self-contained classes, and the Reading Recovery Program.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: S.B. 1538
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 adopted by the state board of education it must include a report detailing its impact on these parents' rights. In addition, this new law states that schools are prohibited from requiring in-home educational or parenting programs without parental permission.
Title: H.B. 102
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 students or less, (ii) if the average daily membership in any class exceeds 10 students but does not exceed 20 students, a full-time teacher's aide must be assigned to the class, and (iii) the maximum class size must be 20 students.
Title: S.B. 170
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 circumstances; provides for program assessment; provides for reporting of program assessments.
Title: H.B. 185
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Adopted 01/2000

P-12

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.isbe.state.il.us/earlychi/posstate.htm)

Title: Position Statement
Source: Illinois Board of Education Web site

P-3 Child Care

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.
Title: S.B. 982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

P-3 Early Intervention (0-3)

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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 be counted for funding for either the early intervention program or a special education category. The school must provide timely notice and an opportunity for a conference with the student and his or her parents or guardians to discuss the student's developmental deficiencies and options for addressing those deficiencies. Students should be "moved into this program, provided assistance, and moved out of this program." Delivery models may include, but are not limited to, class augmentation, pull-out or self-contained classes, and the Reading Recovery Program.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

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; deletes limitation to available funding.
Title: H.B. 51
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Ensuring Quality

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Exempts child care centers operated by a non-profit organization in a public school building from radon testing and certain other requirements.
Title: S.B. 982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 08/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.J.R. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.B. 2398
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

P-3 Family Involvement

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

P-3 Finance

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

Vetoed 05/2000

P-12

Signed by governor 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

P-3 Governance

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Vetoed 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Relates to reorganization; creates the Office of Early Childhood Development within the Office of the Governor.
Title: H.B. 240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

P-3 Grades 1-3

Signed into law 11/2000

P-12

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 be admitted to first grade.
Title: H.B. 383
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 in the Town of Orange.
Title: S.B. 397
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 for programs which were approved and in effect before a set date may continue to operate and receive per pupil adequate education grant amounts.
Title: H.B. 1188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed by governor 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

Relates to full day kindergarten programs; provides funding.
Title: H.B. 211
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2000

P-12

Provides additional State aid to support full-day kindergarten programs in charter schools located in the Abbott districts.
Title: A.B. 2773
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Health and Mental Health

Signed into law 08/2000

P-12

P-3 Kindergarten

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

Relates to full day kindergarten programs; provides funding.
Title: H.B. 211
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2000

P-12

Provides additional State aid to support full-day kindergarten programs in charter schools located in the Abbott districts.
Title: A.B. 2773
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Preschool

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Vetoed 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.J.R. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.B. 2398
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Parent/Family

Vetoed 09/2000

P-12

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 things, the casual relationship between the presence or absence of parenting skills and dysfunctional behavior.
Title: S.B. 1348
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

P-12

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 staff, for parental responsibilities for their child's academic success, and for efforts to increase parent-teacher contacts.
Title: S.B. 1164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

P-12

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 educational matters if the child is a ward of the State residing in a residential facility; requires special education teachers to be categorically certified, so in order to teach a student with a specific disability the teacher must be certified.
Title: S.B. 1447
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 policies, suspensions and expulsions like regular parents; relates to disclosure of information in special education hearings; grants funds to local districts and magnet schools evenly; approves sheltered workshop training.
Title: H.B. 5316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

Signed into law 05/2000

P-12

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 or judgment of an Indian tribal court of competent jurisdiction or by final order or judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state; adoptive parent; legal guardian; person acting as a parent of a child; person appointed as a sustaining parent under section 48.428; or person assigned as a surrogate parent. "Parent" does not include any of the following: Person whose parental rights have been terminated; the state; a county or a child welfare agency, if child was made a ward of the state, county or child welfare agency under ch. 880 or if a child has been placed in the legal custody or guardianship of the state, county or child welfare agency under ch. 48 or ch. 767; or an American Indian tribal agency if the child was made a ward of the agency or placed in the legal custody or guardianship of the agency.
Title: A.B. 412
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

P-12

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 receiving a second suspension or being expelled, to order not only the student or his parent, but both, to participate in such programs or treatment as the court deems appropriate to improve the student's behavior.
Title: H.B. 1147
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Georgia Department of Education (www.doe.k12.us)

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Urges employers to excuse employees from work to attend parent-teacher conferences when given 24 hour notice.
Title: H.J.R. 56
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12

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.
Title: H.B. 536
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

P-12
Postsec.

Signed into law 02/2000

P-12

Relates to educational standards; provides for remediation and academic improvement programs; restricts promotions; provides for parental involvement.
Title: H.B. 78
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Parent/Family--Parent Rights

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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.
Title: A.B. 2453
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

P-12

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 that parents and guardians be notified of the availability of state funds to cover the costs of advanced placement examination fees.
Title: S.B. 1689
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2000

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Postsecondary

Approved by voters 11/2000

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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.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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Vetoed 09/2000

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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 eliminated to notify the scholarship student athletes of the proposed suspension or elimination.
Title: S.B. 338
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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Community College

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 4 year institution of higher education by providing academic preparation and information on financial aid opportunities.
Title: S.B. 1898
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 enrollment for up to one academic year. Specifies that the decision as to whether to grant the deferral of enrollment would be made at the discretion of the affected university on a case-by-case basis.
Title: A.B. 1958
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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 legislative policy and fiscal committees no later than 12/31/2001.
Title: A.B. 1739
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2000

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Community College

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 year. Requires the California Community Colleges to negotiate with the University of California and the California State University when developing articulation agreements with those systems.
Title: A.B. 1861
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2000

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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, or person from preparing, causing to be prepared, giving, selling, transferring, or otherwise distributing or publishing, any contemporaneous recording of an academic presentation, as defined.
Title: A.B. 1773
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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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.
Title: S.B. 1644
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2000

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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 district historic essay writers; states the Delaware Higher Education Commission shall administer the fund.
Title: H.B. 545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 07/2000

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Provides the University of Hawaii with autonomy in all matters related to the University.
Title: S.B. 539
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 07/2000

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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 at the University of Missouri and the 7 regional schools may exclude a student representative to the board from a closed meeting, if the voting board members unanimously vote to do so.
Title: H.B. 1396
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 07/2000

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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.
Title: V. 3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 require each student admitted to a state institution of higher education pursuant to alternative admissions criteria be tested to determine if the student is proficient in the skills generally needed to perform college work.
Title: H.B. 1464
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Community College

Relates to direct-support organizations; prohibits university, community college, and statewide community college direct-support organizations from making certain political contributions.
Title: S.B. 890
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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 the program to the Legislature prior to the convening of the regular session of 2001.
Title: S.B. 3123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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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 board has assigned, licensed, transferred, or sold the institution's interest in discoveries, inventions, intellectual property, or patents resulting from research; prescribes coordination with the Ethics Commission.
Title: S.B. 286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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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, and state government, to enhance scientific and engineering research and development conducted at universities in the state and to enhance the success of Oklahoma researchers in federal award competitions.
Title: H.B. 2532
Source: Legislative Review, Oklahoma

Signed into law 06/2000

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Signed into law 06/2000

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Vetoed 05/2000

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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 the state.
Title: S.B. 478
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Signed into law 05/2000

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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.
Title: H.B. 2770
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2000

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Modifies certain procedures for protecting confidential research records and materials handled by higher education.
Title: H.B. 2769
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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Relates to costs and revenues of intellectual property created by certain state universities.
Title: S.B. 1554
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2000

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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, peer institutions, legislative financing goals, financing, base funding, additional funding, statewide task force on teacher quality, statewide task force on student financial aid, and graduate education.
Title: S.B. 653
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Postsecondary Accountability

Signed into law 03/2000

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Codifies rules approved by legislative oversight commission on accountability for higher education.
Title: S.B. 520
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation

Signed into law 04/2000

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Relates to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; expands the definition of college to include postsecondary educational institutions accredited by all regional accrediting associations.
Title: H.B. 44
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid

Signed into law 09/2000

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Chapter No.460, Allows a California resident who attends an eligible school or college outside the state, a person enrolled in an academic program leading to a baccalaureate level degree, and a person who is enrolled in an academic program on at least a half-time basis, to be an applicant for the Graduate Assumption Program of Loans for Education.
Title: A.B. 2159
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2000

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Concerns tuition assistance for the dependant children of certain persons; authorizes tuition assistance for the dependents of deceased or permanently disabled national guardsmen, law enforcement officers, or firefighters.
Title: S.B. 117
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet