ECS Selected State Policies 2001

From the ECS State Policy Database
2001 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2001. 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 07/2001

P-12

Establishes Quality Education Commission; directs the Commission to identify quality goals for kindergarten through grade 12; directs the Commission to identify best practices for meeting goals and amount of monies sufficient to implement those practices; directs the Legislative Assembly and the governor to issue a report on quality goals.
Title: H.B. 2295
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

2001-157., Requires the designation and publication of district performance grades; revises minimum requirements of the Florida Education Finance Program to include minimum classroom expenditure requirements; authorizes the Legislature to require a school district that fails to meet minimum academic performance standards to meet district minimum classroom expenditure requirements.
Title: H.B. 1545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Alters the authorized uses of Schools for Success challenge grant funds and extends the termination date provisions relative to challenge grants for school improvement. The grants are distributed by the department for use in accountability of low-performing schools for school improvement based upon Schools for Success goals. The grants are to help implement research-based school improvement strategies that lead to sustained improvement in schools and student achievement. In addition, the grants should support systemic changes, including interagency activities, computer labs, salary incentive programs, staffing and total quality management.
Title: S.B. 64
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Except for school districts with one or more school sites which are identified as low performing or high challenged, all school districts shall be exempt from reporting to the state board the following legislatively-mandated plans: Comprehensive Local Education Plan; school improvement plan; professional development plan; capital improvement plan; and reading sufficiency plan, provided the last reading sufficiency plan submitted by the school district was approved by the state department of education and expenditures for the program include only expenses relating to individual and small group tutoring, assessment, summer school programs, and Saturday school programs.
Title: H.B. 1433
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires state to complete draft Academic Performance Index by July 13, 2001. On or before February 28, 2002, must file the final baseline Academic Performance Index with the governor. Makes assessments contigent on funding.
Title: S.B. 810
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb810_enr.rtf

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires that records relating to student performance be coordinated and maintained in standardized, compatible formats that allow the exchange of information between K-12 and higher education and throughout student educational careers; school districts must ensure students enroll in courses for the recommended or advanced high school program. Requires the state department to adopt or develop appropriate criterion-referenced assessment instruments designed to assess the ability of and be administered to students who are determined to have dyslexia or a related disorder; permits but does not require the commissioner of education to participate in multi-state end-of-course test development, and requires the development of an end-of-course test for Algebra I. Adds district completion rates to list of indicators that must be reported and requires boards to have district dropout rates audited annually at district expense; establishes a "Gold Peformance Rating Program" based on enhanced performance.
Title: H.B. 1144
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Creates a system of education performance audits as a tool for determining the quality of education. Stipulates that measures used to evaluate performance: (1) are clearly aligned with the educational goals and expectations established for the student, school and school system performance, including student success in postsecondary education and work; (2) reflect a priority for student progress, health and safety; and (3) are limited in number and easily comparable to national measures. Requires state board to conduct a review of the system of education performance audits and to submit a final report including any necessary revisions of its policy on the system of education performance audits and recommendations for statutory changes, if any, to the legislative oversight commission on education accountability at its interim meeting in December, 2001. The state board is required to examine performance indicators utilized by various organizations to compare the performance of state education systems for potential use in the system of education performance audits. The state board also must consider methods for assigning accreditation status, such as weighting the attainment of performance standards so that high performing schools and school systems can be fully accredited while correcting deficiencies on the process standards, except that process standards affecting the health and safety of students shall be weighted equally with the performance standards.
Title: H.B. 2934
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

§18-9B-13. Eliminates the requirement that audits of school boards be conducted once every three years by the office of chief inspector. The state board of school finance may assign authorized representatives to make inspections and examinations of the fiscal administration of a county school district. The inspection and examination may extend to any matter or practice subject to regulation by the state board. Expands the authority of county boards to have their annual examinations performed by a certified public accountant approved by the chief inspector.
Title: H.B. 2225
Source: Washington Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Public Law No. 38., 39 (LD 346) Clarifies that communities that are part of a school administrative district or other single or multicommunity school district may deposit the proceeds of school impact fees in a trust fund to be used to pay their proportionate share of anticipate school capital costs.
Title: H.B. 268
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Relates to public money; provides for stratified or statistical pre- and post-audits; requires quarterly reports from local public bodies, school districts and certain institutions or higher education.
Title: H.B. 87
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Accreditation

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Chapter No.598, Requires a school board to give official notice at a school board meeting if a public school within the district that has elected to be accredited loses its accreditation. Requires written notice to parents or guardians of students if a school has lost accreditation.
Title: A.B. 1725
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Exempts elementary and secondary education institutions operated by churches, religious organizations and faith-based ministries from requirements of the Private Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization Act. Before a child enrolls in an institution that is exempt pursuant to this section, however, the institution must provide written notice to the parents or legal guardian of the child that the institution is exempt.
Title: S.B. 223
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Allows any school or school district to apply to the superintendent of public instruction for a waiver
of any rule governing the accreditation of schools, provided the waiver encourages innovation, has
the potential to result in improved education opportunities or enhanced academic opportunities for students. Waivers may not exceed one year.
Title: S.B. 2166
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Increases the cycle of accreditation from three years to six years. The language in the bill leaves the cycle open so that some schools can be visited more often than the current three years, and some less often. These changes support an effort to shift the focus of accreditation and the resources available to school improvement while maintaining oversight of all schools in the state. They allow flexibility in designing accreditation procedures that are more useful in focusing on low-performing schools and are creative in the ways in which school meeting standards are evaluated.
Title: S.B. 661
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

From the legislation:

FULL-TIME CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEE SHALL NOT RECEIVE AN HOURLY RATE OF COMPENSATION LESS THAN SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS ($ 6.25) PER HOUR.
Title: H.B. 2553
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Allows for multiyear accreditation of schools; requires compliance with teacher certification laws to receive multiyear accreditation; provides for accreditation of 7th and 8th grades funded at high school rates.
Title: H.B. 103
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation pursuant to the Standards of Accreditation promulgated by the board of education shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student graduating from such high school to a public institution of higher education in Virginia.
Title: S.B. 1324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Provides that the failure of a Virginia public high school to achieve full accreditation shall not be the sole criterion for denial of admission and enrollment of a student graduating from such high school to a public institution of higher education in Virginia.
Title: H.B. 2144
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Measures/Indicators

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Repeals all former district performance indicators, and requires the state board to establish at least 17 new indicators annually through 2006, and every six years thereafter. Requires the state board to notify school districts of new indicators at least two years before they are included in the district's performance rating. Adds the new category of "excellent" to the district performance ratings and permits excellent districts, in addition to effective districts, to be free of certain mandates. Requires district performance ratings to be issued annually rather than triennially as under prior law. Requires the department fo issue report cards for individual buildings in addition to districts. Requires the disaggregation of data on the report cards according to age, race, ethnicity, gender, mobility, vocational education status, and economic status.
Title: S.B. 1
Source:

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Establishes the High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools within the Public Schools Accountability Act. Requires a school that participates in the High Priority Schools Grant Program for Low Performing Schools that maintains kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 5 to jointly develop with parents, for all children enrolled at the schoolsite, a school-parent compact. Provides alternate sanctions to which a school is subject if it does not meet its growth target.
Title: A.B. 961
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12

Encourages school districts to implement programs to improve student performance and school personnel satisfaction such as the Initiative for Quality in Education; provides the programs shall allow schools to achieve their individual and unique goals as reflected by their local communities; requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to include certain data in the school performance reports as specified.
Title: S.B. 811
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/sb0800.dir/sb0811.en.html

Vetoed 07/2001

P-12

Establishes criteria for measuring school performance standards and creates a watch list for schools which are not making satisfactory progress in school performance areas; establishes an education improvement fund in the Department of Education, which shall be funded by a transfer from the Education Trust Fund in the amount of one-third of 1% of the statewide cost of an adequate education for all pupils.
Title: S.B. 164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Directs new rankings for school report cards; adds new categories of information to be included in school report cards; requires low performing schools to develop a school improvement plan; provides for financial assistance on a matching basis for certain low and unsatisfactory schools by the state board of education.
Title: S.B. 98
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to school and district accountability for student outcomes; provides for notification to the public of school rankings; provides technical and financial assistance to schools classified as needing improvement.
Title: H.B. 220
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Texas law defines a "student at risk of dropping out of school" by age
rather than grade level for students in grade levels higher than seventh
grade. This definition is used in determining portions of a school
district's funding. S.B. 702 expands the definition of "student at risk of
dropping out of school," and sets forth guidelines for administering and
funding of a compensatory and accelerated instruction program in public
schools.
Title: S.B. 702
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Filed as Chapter No 05/2001

P-12

2001-90. Revises provisions relating to the designation of school performance grade categories; revises the basis for such designations; revises provisions relating to statewide annual assessments; revises provisions relating to the use of a statistical system for assessment; requires the Commissioner of Education to establish a schedule for administration of assessments; reenacts provisions relating to procedures for certain supplements for teachers based on certain criteria.
Title: H.B. 1633
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Section formerly required each school to develop staff performance evaluation plan that would examine each employee's performance. New language requires each school's staff performance evaluation plan to evaluate "the school's and the school's educators' performance." Former language said evaluation of employees' performance should be based on separate teacher and administrator performance indicators such as the development of parental involvement, student performance on assessments and the teacher's attendance rates for teachers; and student attendance and graduation rates, teacher/student ratio and classroom expenditures per student for administrators. New language deletes these requirements, replacing them with evaluation of performance based on the school's students' performance improvement level including student performance on assessment programs, graduation rates, student SAT scores, and local board-developed standards consistent with state academic standards and student performance improvement levels. Eliminates requirement that local board staff performance evaluation plan provide that teachers be evaluated twice each school year. Specifies that existing sections of code requiring every public school teacher to be employed on a statewide, unamended, uniform teacher's contract apply only to certified district employees. Specifies that a teacher's students' performance improvement levels on state assessment may be used as a factor, but not the only factor, to evaluate a teacher's performance.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Eliminates language that defined "expected [school] performance level" by student attendance rates, remediation rates, assessment scores and graduation rates; replaces it with definition of "student performance improvement level" which refers to "improvement in student academic achievement established by the board," which must be at least as rigorous as the performance improvement level set by state board. Changes sections relating to school performance to reflect change from school performance objectives to student improvement levels. Specifies that board assessment and evaluation of education programs offered by the district must be on annual basis, and that assessment must consider the students' status regarding achieving student performance improvement levels. Replaces language requiring board to establish annual performance objectives for each school with language requiring board to establish annual student performance improvement levels for each school that are at least as rigorous as state board student performance improvement levels.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to the education oversight committee's academic performance ratings and performance indicators under the education accountability act, so as to provide that the committee in all ratings rather than just in the improvement rating shall consider certain criteria.
Title: H.B. 3600
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Relates to annual school accountability reporting. There are five indices through which public school performance shall be measured and reported to school districts: (1) student achievement as measured by a nationally norm-referenced or criterion-referenced test approved by the department of education or through a performance-based instrument to measure proficiency; (2) school safety; (3) the dropout rate; (4) attendance; and (5) parent and community involvement. Districts must give a nationally norm-referenced test, standards-based or performance-based assessment to all students enrolled in a public school or state institution in grades four (changed from grade three) through nine. Students with disabilities must participate in the test as determined on their individual education program. Students who have been assessed as non-English or limited English proficient using state-approved language assessments and meeting required thresholds shall be provided an alternative norm-referenced, performance-based or standards-based assessment in their primary language.
Title: S.B. 660
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Concerns the replacement of information on student dropout rates with information on school attendance rates in reports for elementary schools.
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Reporting Results

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Requires an annual report for each building in a district to be made available in several ways, including but not limited to, providing the report when a student enrolls or receives grades, in newspapers, or on the Internet. Instead of reporting financial information on a building level only when a district has 2 or more buildings that hold the same grades, the bill requires reporting financial information on the district as a whole and by attendance center.
Title: H.B. 865; S.B. 575
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Revises provisions governing the accountability of public schools; revises provisions governing the requirements for a person to take tests on general education development; revises provisions governing the pupil count and the calculation of basic support under certain circumstances; revises provisions governing the reporting of results of certain achievement and proficiency examinations; revises the requirements for a course in American government and a course in American history.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires regional subdistricts created in certain school districts to prepare annual reports, prescribing the information required to be reported, requires the boards of trustees of such school districts to prepare a compilation of the reports that includes an evaluation of the equity among the regional subdistricts.
Title: A.B. 364
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Relates to the Commission on Higher Educations Annual Report under the Education Accountability Act; provides for that information which must be submitted by two- and four-year postsecondary institutions for inclusion in the report.
Title: H.B. 3533
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the disaggregation of the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program scores prior to release as part of the commissioner's annual report due on November 1.
Title: H.B. 1301
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the commissioner to, in consultation with the comptroller, develop and implement a financial accountability rating system for school districts. The system must include uniform indicators adopted by the commissioner by which to measure a district's financial management performance. Districts are required to issue reports and hold public hearings on those reports.
Title: S.B. 218
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Modifies the provisions relating to the State System of Public Education by requiring school districts to have published in an newspaper the district's annual financial report and the annual report on teachers' salaries within the district.
Title: H.B. 235
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Concerns the replacement of information on student dropout rates with information on school attendance rates in reports for elementary schools.
Title: H.B. 1222
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education to address issues related to the Utah Performance Assessment System for Students (U-PASS); expands the categories for disaggregating student performance data to include limited English proficiency; requires each local school boards staff be provided a professional development program to effectively maintain U-PASS; requires additional data to be reported annually.
Title: S.B. 28
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Accountability--Rewards

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Deletes the provision by which schools that meet the State target are eligible for the Governor's Performance Award Program and would require a school, including a school participating in the Immediate Intervention/Underperforming Schools Program, to meet at a minimum, its annual performance growth target to be eligible for the Governor's Performance Award Program.
Title: A.B. 1295
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Concerns Academic Performance Awards Programs, continuing education for mathematics teachers, National Board certification; removes authority of Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education to establish repayment of certain student loans program; establishes teacher shortage employment incentive program; authorizes State Regents to make certain employment incentive payments, with limit on amount of certain incentive payments; authorizes reduction of employment incentive payments if funds not available; addresses extended programs. Implementation of these sections is to be delayed until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least ninety percent (90%) of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided.
Title: H.B. 1499--Multiple Components
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site

Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Requires the state board to establish a standard unit of improvement for buildings and requires districts that are not excellent or effective to develop district-wide continuous improvement plans and to develop continuous improvement plans for buildings within the district that are not excellent or effective. Requires an academic emergency district to implement at least one of the following options: (1) replace the building's principal, (2) redesign the building to address the factors impeding student achievement, (3) institute a new schoolwide curriculum or educational model, (4) contract with a college or university education department, an educational service center, or the state department to operate the building, (5) grant priority under the district's open enrollment policy to students who want to transfer from the building, (6) close the building, or (7) develop an alternative comprehensive plan approved by the department. Requires the department to identify research on the effective use of instructional time and on successful intervention strategies for students from different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds and to disseminate such studies through the Ohio SchoolNet Commission.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Amends the Public School Code. Relates to distress in school districts. Authorizes a school reform commission to assume control of a district after declaration of a school district in distress. Makes provisions regarding school district taxes and non-tax revenue. Authorizes the commission to enter into agreements with non-profit organizations to operate on or more schools. Provides incentives for high school students to pursue medical, nursing and biomedical careers.
Title: S.B. 640
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 07/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Deletes language permitting local board to place school in academic receivership if school fails for four consecutive school years to attain expected performance levels. Beginning with 2002-03 school year, requires local board to place school in academic receivership if for two consecutive academic years school has not met student performance improvement levels.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

(Joint Resolution) States that schools may qualify for technical assistance based on the criteria established by the Education Oversight Committee for school ratings and on the most recently available Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests scores. The funding provided for technical assistance under the Education Accountability Act may be reallocated among the programs and purposes specified in this section. The state department is required to establish criteria for reviewing and assisting schools that will be rated unsatisfactory using a tiered system with the lowest-performing schools receiving highest priority. Nnot to exceed the statewide total number of specialists stipulated by the Education Accountability Act, the highest priority school assistance shall include a year-long technical assistance team that may include a lead principal or curriculum specialist, or both. All specialists shall have a demonstrated record of success in their field and shall be entitled to the incentives and benefits of a teacher specialist. Technical assistance for below-average schools shall be provided to the extent possible in order of need. Authorizes the reallocation of technical-assistance funding under the Education Accountability Act for specified assistance to low-performing schools and school districts; provides the manner in which and criteria under which this special assistance shall be provided.
Title: H.B. 3890
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 05/2001

P-12

Increases from five to ten unexcused absences allowed prior to suspension or denial of driver license of minor individual enrolled in GED courses.
Title: S.B. 146
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Creates public school reading proficiency fund to help train teachers to teach reading and writing to students below grade level; sets up "enterprise centers" to provide fee-for-service assistance to districts; creates "probationary school intervention funds" for grants to probationary schools; requires colleges of education to form a consortium to develop criterion-referenced end-of-course tests for high schools (to be administered during 2002-03); makes appropriations for professional development days for teachers, teacher mentorship programs, etc.; appropriates dollars to summer programs, bilingual, art/music, full-day kindergarten; appropriates dollars to standards/assessment alignment, development of new assessments and early literacy interventions.
Title: S.B. 307
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

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

Became law without governor's signature 05/2001

P-12

Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Accountability--School Improvement

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Adult Basic Education

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Specifies that adult basic education and literacy training are within the definition of vocational education training for purposes of Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF) programs.
Title: H.B. 1759
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Act No. 26 of 2001. Amends the Pennsylvania Adult Basic and Literacy Education Act; provides for short title, for findings and purpose, for definitions, for grant program, for limitations on funding, for interagency coordinating council, for audits and records and for monitoring and reporting; stresses family literacy: "Family literacy education is an opportunity for undereducated adults and their children to increase the child's readiness for school and chances for academic success, the parent's involvement in the child's education and the parent's basic skills."
Title: S.B. 35
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Appropriates funds from the State General Fund in each of the fiscal years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 to the Department of Education to establish an Adult Education Qualified Health Care Labor Pool Program for a 3 year model training program for health care workers with limited education skills for immediate entry into beginning health care positions with career ladder opportunities.
Title: H.B. 2618
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Makes an appropriation for teachers to teach blindness skills to individuals 55 and older with severe visual impairment or blindness.
Title: H.B. 429
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to distribute adult education funds for the support of an adult education program operated by an accredited tribal college in Montana.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Provides higher education adult part-time student grants to students enrolled in postsecondary certificate, industry-recognized credential and other skill development programs of study in demand occupations.
Title: H.B. 2897
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Amends the Arkansas Code regarding requirements for private school and home-schooled students to enroll in an adult education program. Students age 16 or 17, enrolled in a private, parochial or home school who desire to enroll in an adult education program shall apply for enrollment to the adult education program, and provide a letter from the principal or administrator of the private or parochial school to verify enrollment.
Title: S.B. 940
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Institutes a monitoring program for students obtaining waivers of school attendance requirements to attend adult education programs.
Title: H.B. 2300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Establishes a task force to study adult education services, including basic skills instruction, English as a second language, General Equivalent Diploma instruction and family literacy instruction.
Title: S.B. 399; H.B. 775
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 01/2001

P-12

Chapter No.734 Adult education programs, courses, and classes shall not be used to supplant the regular high school curriculum for high school pupils enrolled in adult education. Adult education shall supplement and enrich the high school pupil's educational experiences. Therefore, adult education, at a minimum, shall meet certain criteria. http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 804
Source: California Legislative Web Site

Assessment

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Eliminates the requirement that school districts implement competency-based education programs. Directs the State Board of Education to develop statewide academic standards for each of grades K-12 in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies; diagnostic assessments aligned with the academic standards for grades kindergarten through two in reading, writing, and math and for grades three through eight in all five subject areas covered by the standards. Requires the State Board to design a model curriculum aligned with the academic standards which school districts may (but are not required to) use for instruction. Requires school districts to administer the diagnostic assessments at least once annually to all students in the appropriate grade levels; to provide intervention services to students whose scores on the diagnostic assessments show that they are unlikely to meet the academic standards. Permits "high-performing" school districts to use assessments other than the diagnostic assessments. Phases in the development of 15 achievement tests (total) in 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, and 10th grades to replace 20 proficiency tests currently administered in 4th, 6th, 9th, and 12th grades. Requires the state board to align the new tests with the academic standards and model curricula.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments

Vetoed 10/2001

P-12

Appropriates funds to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation to school districts for the purposes of standards-based instructional materials as specified by the Schiff-Bustamante Standards-Based Instructional Materials Program. Appropriates funds in each fiscal year after 2001-02 fiscal year. Makes other conforming changes.
Title: A.B. 50
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Extends the repeal date concerning provisions of the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program. Requires the achievement test to contain English and language arts, mathematics and science and makes other conforming changes. Names the standards-based achievement test the California Standards Tests. Requires them to also include an assessment in history/social science in at least one elementary or middle school grade level to be selected. Relates to school test score analysis reporting.
Title: S.B. 233
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to return achievement test results to a district in the timeframe specified by the Board of Education; requires the test publisher and district to provide makeup tests for absent pupils within the testing period; requires the publisher to make test results available to the department by a certain date and the department to post the results on the Internet by a certain date for certain schools.
Title: S.B. 245
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Changes the academic year that students take the Connecticut Academic Performance Test from the sophomore to the junior year.
Title: S.B. 1175
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Makes an appropriation to the Department of Education for the development of a new criterion-referenced test for pupils in grade 8.
Title: S.B. 13A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Authorizes the State Board of Education by rule to exclude a school from receiving an academic performance grade if more than 95% of the students at the school have individual educational programs; clarifies which students scores will not be used in a school's academic performance grade.
Title: H.B. 1348
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Filed as Chapter No 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires each city, parish and other local public school board to adopt a policy establishing uniform procedures for the investigation of employees accused of irregularities or improprieties in the administration of standardized tests.

Title: H.B. 482
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Provides that assessment scores of students for whom English is a second language (ESL) shall not be counted until the student has been educated in a school where English is the primary language for three full years. Also, the act eliminates the mandatory retesting requirement in the following year for students scoring in the lowest level of proficiency on any assessment. Requires that certain public school students receive summer school reading instruction. Local school districts are required to select a reading assessment mechanism and to assign 3rd-grade and older students who are reading below grade level to be assessed for summer school placement. Special education students, student with limited English proficiency, students receiving services under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and whose plan addresses reading and students with insufficient cognitive ability are exempted from the required reading assessment.
http://www.house.state.mo.us/bills01/bills01/sb319.htm
Title: S.B. 319
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Beginning during the second half of the 2001-02 school year and annually thereafter, the superintendent of public instruction shall administer to public school students a test that is aligned to the state content standards in reading and mathematics. This test must be administered to at least one grade level selected within each of the following grade spans: grades three through five; grades six through nine; and grades ten through twelve.
Title: H.B. 1293--One Component
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the Department of Education and each school district to adopt a plan setting forth procedures concerning the security of certain examinations; prohibits retaliatory action against an official of a school district or charter school who discloses information regarding irregularities in testing administration or security; providing that a teacher or administrator who intentionally fails to carry out test security is subject to disciplinary action.
Title: A.B. 214
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires statewide math problem solving and English writing assessments to be given on or after March 1 in grades 3, 5, or 8. Requires the Board of Education to establish criteria and a process for granting waivers to school districts for the testing dates. First applies to the 2001-02 school year.
Title: H.B. 2822
Source: Oregon Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the state department of education to develop alternative assessment for disabled students. The department is required to develop two alternative assessments as follows: (1) An academic skills assessment to be administered at an appropriate level of academic abilities; or (2) A portfolio-based assessment to test areas assessed by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP).
Title: S.B. 343
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the state department to provide raw test score data to local education agencies as soon as practicable after receipt of such data, but in no case later than June 30. Amends TCA Section 49-1-606.
Title: S.B. 188
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Exempts higher education students from taking the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) test if the person graduates from a public high school or an accredited private high school in any state with a gradepoint average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent and completed the recommended or advanced high school curriculum or similar curriculum at an accredited private high school or at a high school outside of this state. The exemption is effective only for a student who enrolls in an institution of higher education on or before the second anniversary of the date the student graduated from high school.
Title: H.B. 2109
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires the Department of Education to develop a plan to compare a school district's student gradepoint averages with student ACT and ACTAP scores.
Title: S.B. 942
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Creates the Arkansas Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education.

From the legislation: The purpose of the General Assembly in establishing the Arkansas Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education is to: (1) seek to actively involve the private sector as full and valued partners in the improvement process; (2) define the components of the constitutional mandate for "a general, suitable and efficient system of free public schools;" (3) define an equitable and adequate system of free public education; (4) assess current efforts to improve the state's system of public education; and (5) propose and recommend legislation for the 2003 regular session of the general assembly.
Title: S.B. 907
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Students are exempt from testing for a period of up to one year after initial enrollment in a school in the United States if the student is of limited English proficiency and has not demonstrated proficiency in English as determined by the assessment system; exempts a student for a period of up to two years in addition to the exemption period if the student has received an exemption under other subsections of the Education Code, and is a recent unschooled immigrant, or is in a grade for which no assessment instrument in the primary language of the student is available.
Title: S.B. 676
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Clarifies the General Assembly's intent to continue the Arkansas American College Test Assessment Assistance Pilot Program; increases the number of pilot locations.
Title: H.B. 1827
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

Postsec.

Until such time as the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board approves other assessment processes or exams to be used by Arkansas colleges and universities, the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency exam, known as the "rising junior exam," shall be the required exam.

On or before the October 2001 meeting of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Department of Higher Education shall recommend to the board criteria and guidelines to use when considering the adequacy of other assessment processes or exams proposed for use at Arkansas public colleges and universities in lieu of the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency exam.
Title: H.B. 1048
Source: State Legislation

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Provides statewide goals for reading evaluations conducted in public schools; provides additional assistance to schools which fail to achieve specified goals.
Title: S.B. 1116
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Every school district shall administer the same national norm-referenced academic achievement test to all students in 2, 4, 8, and 11, and every school district shall administer to all students in grades 5 and 9 an achievement test to assess writing skills. In addition, every school district shall administer the same criterion-referenced academic achievement test, once in the fall semester and once again in the spring semester, to all students in grades 3, 6, and 10. The criterion-referenced tests shall be designed by the state. All of the tests shall be provided by the Department of Education and Cultural Affairs and shall assess proficiency in meeting state standards. The tests shall be administered starting in the spring of the 2001-2002 school year. Each state-designed test for each grade level to be tested shall be a single statewide criterion-referenced test, which shall be highly correlated with the state's graduation requirements, course guidelines, and academic content standards. The requirements of this section pertaining to criterion-referenced tests to be administered to students in grades 3, 6, and 10 do not apply to students who are receiving alternative instruction pursuant to § 13-27-3. Also established the South Dakota Academic Achievement Test Advisory Council to discuss and make recommendations concerning testing issues, results, mechanics, and other relevant student achievement test issues. (Amends § 13-3-55.)
Title: S.B. 234
Source: South Dakota Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Assessment--Accommodations

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Limits the exemptions from the Connecticut Master Test and the Connecticut Academic Performance Test for limited-English-proficient students to students enrolled for one year or less, rather than three years or less, in a program of bilingual education or English as a second language.
Title: H.B. 6751
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Assessment--End-of-Course

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Amends Section 59-18-310(B). The statewide assessment program in the four academic areas shall include grades 3 through 8, an exit examination which is to be first administered in grade 10, and end-of-course tests for gateway courses in English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies for grades 9 through 12.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Assessment--Formative/Interim

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Assessment--High Stakes/Competency

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Delays the requirement for students to pass all five tests to receive a high school diploma from the class of 2001 to the class of 2007. Provides an alternative graduation requirement for students who pass all of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) except for one and who meet the following criteria: (1) miss the passing score on the failed test by ten points or less, (2) have a 97% attendance rate in high school, (3) have not been expelled during high school, (4) have a grade point average of at least 2.5 in the subject area of the fajiled test, (5) have completed the curriculum requirements in the subject area of the failed test, (6) have taken advantage of intervention programs offered by the district in the subject area of the failed test OR have received comparable services from another source, and (7) hold letters recommending graduation from teachers in the subject area of the failed test and from the high school principal. Mandates that the state board appoint a committee to make recommendations for incorporation of end-of-program assessments into career-technical education programs.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Specifies that 2000-01 school year is the only year in which ninth-graders may take the high school exit examination. Creates new section requiring the state superintendent to contract for an independent study regarding the requirement of passage of the high school exit exam as a condition of high school graduation, to be delivered to the state board, state superintendent, governor and other interested parties by May 1, 2003. The report must include an analysis of whether the test development procedure and the implementation of standards-based instruction meet the required standards for this genre of test. Also creates new section stating that on or before August 1, 2003, the state board may delay the current 2003-04 date by which the exit exam will be required for high school graduation, if the board, in reviewing the the independent study report, deems the test development process or implementation of standards-based instruction inadequate for a test of this nature. After August 1, 2003, the state board may not change the year in which the exit exam will be required for high school graduation. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1601-1650/ab_1609_bill_20011011_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 1609
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to a 2 year transition for implementation of the public high school competency examination; establishes an essential skills examination as a high school graduation requirement; provides for an effective date.
Title: S.B. 133
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

This piece of legislation makes adjustments in the states High Stakes assessment system. These changes include looking at measures other than state test scores to determine if students are up to standards. In addition it changes the titles of the state's different diplomas.
Title: S.B. 106
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to achievement and proficiency examinations administered in public schools; revises provisions governing the increase of salary for a teacher who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; requires school districts to create and operate regional training programs for professional development of teachers and administrators; authorizes licensure and employment of teachers who are not citizens of the United States.
Title: S.B. 3A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Delays assessments timelines in areas other than reading and math.
Title: S.B. 5686
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/Senate/5675-5699/5686-s2_pl.pdf

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the department to develop an informational pamphlet concerning the high school proficiency examination; requires boards of each school district to provide a copy to each junior high, middle school or high school within the school district for posting. The governing body of each charter school must ensure that a copy of the pamphlet is posted at the charter school. Each principal of a junior high, middle school, high school or charter school must ensure that teachers, counselors and administrators employed at the school fully understand the contents of the pamphlet.
Title: A.B. 318
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Allows local school districts to review the writing portion of a student's Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) test in order to help improve that student's writing skills.
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Assessment--Legal Issues

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)

Signed into law 12/2001

P-12

Adds section concerning students who have been placed at risk of academic failure. Requires that schools identify students who have been placed at risk for academic failure. Stipulates that identification should occur as early as can be reasonable done and can be based on grades, observations, state assessments and other factors that impact student performance that teachers and administrators consider appropriate, without having to await the results of end-of-grade or end-of-course tests. At the beginning of the school year, a personal education plan must be developed for any student not performing at least at grade level, as identified by the state end-of-grade test. Parents are to be included in the implementation and ongoing review of personal education plans. Older language also stipulates that focused intervention and accelerated activities should include research-based best practices that meet the needs of students and may include coaching, mentoring, tutoring, summer school, Saturday school, and extended days. Requires local school administrative units to provide these activities free of charge to
students and provide transportation free of charge to all students who need it.
Title: S.B. 1005 -- Sec. 28.17(e), 115C-105.41
Source: Statutes

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12

Chapter No.187, Extends the effective date of provisions authorizing school districts to establish an alternative education and work center for dropouts. Reenacts inactive provisions relating to educational clinics. Authorizes certification of educational clinics that recruit or receive referral of high school dropouts, provide instruction in basic academic skills, provide employment or reentry orientation, operate on a clinical client-centered basis and conduct courses of instruction.
Title: A.B. 844
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Makes changes to the definition of student at risk of academic failure; defines alternative educational opportunities for at-risk students to receive a General Education Diploma (GED).
Title: H.B. 1096
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

, Provides for completion of educational courses, including a General Education Development course, or other programs offered at juvenile facilities.
Title: H.B. 1638
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Authorizes youth development and assistance programs for elementary students at risk of having disciplinary problems; requires parental involvement in such programs.
Title: S.B. 1035
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Establishes a program of suicide prevention in public schools.
Title: S.B. 792
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Relates to prevention of learning problems in young children; authorizes a demonstration program to be called Learning Gateway; creates a steering committee; provides for membership and appointment of steering committee members; establishes duties of the steering committee; authorizes demonstration projects in 3 counties; authorizes designed agencies to share confidential information related to the program.
Title: S.B. 1018
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

States that each urban school district as defined in Section 1210.568 of this title and as identified as having a high population of elementary grade students who are at-risk and in need of alternative education shall expand the annual student needs assessment and alternative education to include a needs assessment and education plan for such students; delays implementation of this section until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least 90% of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided.
Title: H.B. 1499 Multiple Components for At-Risk Elementary Students
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Alternative Approaches grants are to be targeted at school districts located in counties with a high number of dropouts for the school year preceding the year for which the grant is being sought, and a high number of referrals to the juvenile justice system, or to a nonprofit organization or entity formed by an interlocal cooperative agreement in those districts. To be eligible for a High Challenge grant, a program must meet research-based criteria set by the state department. The Alternative Approaches Technical Assistance Center is required to provide the department with research and recommendations on effective programming for high-challenge children; limits Alternative Approaches grants for alternative education to middle-grade level alternative schools provided by a school district and to secondary-grade level programs provided pursuant to a contract with a nonprofit organization.
Title: H.B. 1460
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Act No. 29., Relates to elementary and secondary education; creates early intervention programs for kindergarten, primary grades, and upper elementary grades, in place of the special instructional assistance program to assist students with certain identified developmental deficiencies; relates to postsecondary education; changes the eligibility requirements for HOPE scholarships for seniors attending private postsecondary institutions.
Title: H.B. 656
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2001

P-12

Relates to public school finance; changes the calculation of the at-risk index to determine additional program units.
Title: H.B. 49
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Teacher proficiency; continuing contract status. Provides that any teacher hired on or after July 1, 2001, will be required, as a condition of achieving continuing contract status, to have successfully completed training in instructional strategies and techniques for intervention for or remediation of students who fail or are at risk of failing the Standards of Learning assessments. Local school divisions will be required to provide the training at no cost to teachers employed in their division. In the event a local school division fails to offer the training in a timely manner, no teacher will be denied continuing contract status for failure to obtain such training. This bill is identical to SB 1304.
Title: H.B. 2514
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm

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

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Permits school districts that establish certain alternative schools to contract with nonprofit or for profit entities to operate those schools; provides that teachers employed by those entities may be licensed in the same manner as employees of nontax supported schools; establishes criteria for the issuance of a conditional certification of alternative educators; relates to personally identifiable information of students.
Title: H.B. 196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Authorizes a school district superintendent or designee, if he or she chooses to extend a suspension, to address the academic needs of the pupil by transferring the pupil to an alternative school placement for remedial instruction or, to the extent feasible, provide access to instructional materials, assignments and tests in classes in which the student is enrolled. Provides for parental notification. Makes any testimony provided in an expulsion privileged.
Title: A.B. 177
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Allows State Board of Education to establish standards for private alternative education programs; specifies what is included in school district annual evaluation of private alternative education programs.
Title: S.B. 258
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Establishes a pilot program under which participating local school administrative units place all students who are on short-term out-of-school suspension in alternative learning programs.
Title: S.B. 71
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to the placement in an alternative education program or expulsion of a public school student who makes a false alarm or report or a terroristic threat.
Title: H.B. 1088
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Creates optional age-appropriate education programs for students in grades K-5 who require guidance, supervision and discipline in a structured learning environment and who need to be redirected toward appropriate classroom decorum and acceptable personal behavior. The programs shall provide instructional and support services that will enable students to maintain academic achievement, attain basic skills and academic proficiencies, and otherwise benefit from a public education during the time that they may be removed from the regular classroom. The programs shall also be designed to accommodate students within the school building to which they have been assigned, facilitate the efficient transition of students between the optional education program and their regular classroom, and provide for the continuity of instruction, a nurturing environment, necessary guidance and supervision, and the participation of the student's parents in correcting his behavior. Such programs shall be adequately staffed by licensed teachers or other persons with demonstrated qualifications to instruct and manage students with a range of academic gifts and deficiencies, disciplinary problems, and the need to develop and use appropriate social skills.
Title: S.B. 1144
Source: http://hod.state.va.us

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Reorganizes the student discipline statutes and moves some sections to other articles of Title 22.1. Requires division superintendents, in making recommendations for expulsion for violations other than those involving weapons or drugs, to consider various factors such as the student's age, grade level, academic and attendance records, and disciplinary history, and the appropriateness and availability of an alternative education placement or program; allows school boards to exclude from attendance students who have been suspended for more than 30 days or expelled by another school division or for whom private school admission has been withdrawn regardless of the offense; allows school boards to permit students who have been expelled, excluded, are subject to a long-term suspension, or have been found guilty or not innocent of a crime which could have resulted in injury to others, to attend an alternative education program provided by teh school division.
Title: H.B. 2512
Source: http://hod.state.va.us

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

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires immediate suspension and dismissal of teachers convicted of certain drug offenses. Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 5, Part 5.
Title: H.B. 1040
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires notification to schools by law enforcement when a student within their jurisidiction is found in possession of drug paraphernalia.
Title: S.B. 991
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Establishes a youth smoking prevention commission; provides a community health grant program.
Title: S.B. 2380
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

One portion of the bill requires teachers to notify principals if they know of or have reason to believe that a student is using, in possession of, or delivering alcohol or a controlled substance while on school property or in a school-related activity.
Title: H.B. 1046
Source: North Dakota Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Relates to public school instruction regarding alcohol abuse and drunk driving; provides that instruction concerning the public safety hazards of alcohol abuse, underage drinking and drunk driving shall be provided in the public schools; provides that the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control must provide educational materials to the Department of Education; states that the Department of Education must review and distribute such materials as are approved to public schools.
Title: H.B. 1882
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Suspension of school employees. Provides that school employees who are placed on probation as first offenders for drug offenses are not entitled to any escrowed salary or reinstatement. Under current law, a school employee may be suspended for good and just cause when the safety or welfare of the school division or students is threatened or when the school employee has been charged with the commission of a felony or specified misdemeanors, including drug offenses, or with an equivalent offense in another state. During suspension, the school employee's salary is placed in escrow. Upon a finding of not guilty or nolle prosequi, the employee is reinstated and these escrowed funds are returned to the employee; a finding of guilt results in the funds being returned to the school board. This measure addresses cases of probation for first offender status where there is technically no finding of guilt nor is there an acquittal. This bill is identical to SB 1032 (Stolle).
Title: H.B. 1862
Source: http://senate.state.va.us

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Relates to public school instruction regarding alcohol abuse and drunk driving; adds instruction in alcohol and alcohol abuse, the illegality of underage drinking, and the dangers of drunk driving to the instruction in drug abuse currently required to be provided in public schools.
Title: H.B. 1882
Source: http://senate.state.va.us

Attendance

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

, Requires with certain exceptions, persons having control of a child to send such child to school from the child's seventh birthday until his eighteenth birthday rather than his seventeenth birthday.
Title: H.B. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to truancy and the authority of justice and municipal courts in relation to children; provides criminal penalties for contributing to a truancy.
Title: S.B. 1432
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to the compulsory attendance age and attendance at school during the regular school calendar by a child who has reached the age of 16.
Title: S.B. 412
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

The state board shall adopt rules no later than July 1, 2001, to provide for the implementation of remote internet-based courses. Each district board of education shall adopt policies and procedures that conform to rules for internet-based courses as adopted by the State Board. Students participating in approved remote courses are considered to be in attendance.
Title: S.B. 595
Source: Oklahoma Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Prohibits suspension as discipline for failure to attend class; stipulates other methods of discipline may be used for the pupil which may include, but are not limited to, detention, extra class time or alternative class settings; abolishes corporal punishment; gives teachers authority to exclude from classrooms or school bus any pupil who is guilty of disorderly conduct, who in any manner interferes with an orderly educational process, who threatens, abuses or otherwise intimidates or attempts to intimidate a school employee or a pupil, who willfully disobeys a school employee, or who uses abusive or profane language directed at a school employee. Any pupil excluded shall be placed under the control of the principal of the school or a designee. The excluded pupil may be admitted to the classroom or school bus only when the principal, or a designee, provides written certification to the teacher that the pupil may be readmitted and specifies the specific type of disciplinary action, if any, which was taken. When a teacher excludes the same pupil from his or her classroom or from a school bus three times in one school year, and after exhausting all reasonable methods of classroom discipline provided in the school discipline plan, the pupil may be readmitted to the teacher's classroom only after the principal, teacher and, if possible, the parent(s), guardian(s) or custodian(s) of the pupil have held a conference to discuss the pupil's disruptive behavior patterns, and the teacher and the principal agree on a course of discipline for the pupil and inform the parent(s), guardian(s) or custodian(s) of the course of action. Thereafter, if the pupil's disruptive behavior persists, upon the teacher's request, the principal may, to the extent feasible, transfer the pupil to another setting.
Title: S.B. 439
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Institutes a monitoring program for students obtaining waivers of school attendance requirements to attend adult education programs.
Title: H.B. 2300
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Any person having responsibility for a child between the ages of seven and sixteen years
shall ensure that the child is in attendance at a public school for the duration of each
school year. If a person enrolls a child of age six in a public school, the person shall ensure that the
child is in attendance at the public school for the duration of each school year. The person
may withdraw a child of age six from the public school. However, once the child is
withdrawn, the person may not reenroll the child until the following school year. This
subsection does not apply if the reason for the withdrawal is the child's relocation to
another school district.
Title: H.B. 1371
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Raises compulsory school attendance age from 16 to age 17.
Title: H.B. 781
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Relates to school districts; requires districts to excuse students participating in the state fair from school attendance.
Title: S.B. 86
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Attendance--Compulsory

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Background Checks

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2001

P-12

States any person seeking employment with a private school who has not previously been employed by a private school or public school department in Rhode Island in the last 12 months shall undergo a national and state criminal background check; exempts those hired before a set date and/or have been continuously employed by a public school department in Rhode Island during the last 12 months; states the Attorney General shall destroy an applicant's fingerprints upon completion.
Title: H.B. 5288
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Requires in a criminal history review of a school employee the reporting of all felonies and all offenses against a minor of which a person has been convicted or pled nolo contendere.
Title: S.B. 117
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2001

P-12

(LD 1090) Repeals the law requiring background checks and fingerprinting of school employees; corrects cross-references to the repealed provisions.
Title: S.B. 322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to youth sports coaches and supervisors; requires youth sports providers to create and adopt a list of crimes that would preclude individuals from coaching or supervising youth sports activities; provides for criminal background checks for such individuals; requires all coaches and supervisors to complete a sports education program.
Title: H.B. 2781
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to criminal records checks; provides that any criminal records checks for school volunteers are valid for five years unless school board determines an additional check is needed earlier based on hearsay or actual evidence; provides that students in an educational institution that observes or participates in educational activities under supervision of a teacher or administrator are exempt from certain provisions; requires teachers to have criminal records checks.
Title: H.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Relates to requirement of filing of criminal history record for teacher licensure; requires certain notification about school employees.
Title: H.B. 1253
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Applicants for initial license must be fingerprinted by state police and then have prints forwarded to the FBI for national criminal history record check. Applicant pays the cost.
Title: H.B. 3049
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Allows fingerprint checks to be done by a law enforcement officer or a properly trained designee of a
law enforcement officer.
Title: H.B. 1225
Source: North Dakota Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Revises the definition of illegal substances for purposes of revoking or refusing to issue a certificate to a teacher or administrator; permits revocation or refusal to issue a certificate for certain offenses involving moral turpitude, including certain traffic and marijuana offenses.
Title: S.B. 63
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Exempts certain school district employees from the requirement for certain background checks.
Title: S.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Any school district employee who is employed by more than one school district is only required to obtain one criminal background investigation, if the background investigation was conducted no more than five years before the person is first employed by the additional school district. The results of the background investigation shall be transferred to any additional school district from the initial school district that obtained the criminal background investigation if the additional school district or the school district employee requests in writing to the initial school district that the results be transferred and the school district employee who was the subject of the criminal background investigation signs a written release authorizing the transfer.
Title: S.B. 117, S.B. 91
Source: http://www.state.sd.us/state/legis/lrc.htm

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Provides that criminal histories obtained by school boards for those who are offered or accept permanent, temporary, full or part time school board employment, address all felony and misdemeanor convictions and equal offenses in other states; provides that reports of all arrests of such employees will now be reported to school boards and such employees must then submit to fingerprinting and a criminal history checks, also expanded to include felony and misdemeanor convictions.
Title: H.B. 1996
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Authorizes local school boards to exchange information obtained from a criminal history records check of an applicant, if the applicant has requested and given permission in writing that another school board to which he has applied for employment may be informed of the results.
Title: H.B. 2588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Bilingual/ESL

To governor 12/2001

P-12

Requires the State Board of Education to prescribe, for Federal funding purposes, the manner in which primary language is determined for new pupils, the administration of English language proficiency examinations, the types of training for bilingual education endorsement for teachers, monitor school district for compliance with federal laws regarding English learners and to submit a report which covers several areas of proficiency by such learners.
Title: H.B. 2010B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Urges to State Board of Education to to provide funding that is sufficient to provide an adequate number of English as a second language teachers.
Title: H.J.R. 44C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Chaptered by Secretary of State 09/2001

P-12

Chapter No.268, Authorizes a school district receiving Teaching As A Priority Grant funds to offer incentives to recruit and retain credentialed teachers interested in attaining cross-cultural, language, and academic development certification or bilingual, cross-cultural, language, and academic development certification.
Title: A.B. 1499
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Creates a grant program for school districts for costs associated with educating students in English as a Second Language programs; appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Education for grant program.
Title: H.B. 2286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

States intent of the General Assembly that State agencies are authorized to provide services to those with limited English proficiency; defines terms; requires agencies to survey the need for services and the measures taken to provide said; requires Department of Human Resources to develop and distribute surveys and review information; requires DHR to make recommendations and develop budgets; requires the DHR and Department of Planning to prepare estimates; requires reports.
Title: S.B. 542
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Amends 15.1-27-12. In addition to any other payments provided for by this chapter, each school district is
entitled to receive $425 for each student who has been assessed by the
student's school district and found to have negligible limited English language skills,
as evidenced by a classification of level I using the Woodcock-Munoz language
survey; $325 for each student who has been assessed by the student's school district and determined to have very limited English language skills, as evidenced by a classification of level II using the
Woodcock-Munoz language survey; and $225 for each student who has been assessed by the
student's school district and determined to have limited English language skills, as
evidenced by a classification of level III using the Woodcock-Munoz language survey.
Title: H.B. 1321
Source: North Dakota Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Encourages school districts to develop and implement dual language bilingual programs.
Title: S.C.R. 50
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Amends the Education Code to authorize a school district to adopt a dual language immersion program (program) for students enrolled in elementary school grades. The bill specifies that a program should include a class of students composed of approximately 50 percent native English speakers and 50 percent native speakers of one other language, and instruction in both English and the other language with at least half of the instruction in the other language.
Title: S.B. 467
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to students whose primary language is other than English and the State assessment of student learning; provides for a review of same by the Superintendent of Public Instruction; requires the Superintendent to develop an evaluation system to measure increases in English and academic proficiency of eligible pupils; amends provisions regarding bilingual instruction.
Title: H.B. 2025
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Directs the Department of Education to develop, implement and enhance programs for students with limited English proficiency.
Title: H.B. 9
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Career/Technical Education

Signed into law 10/2001

Postsec.

Relates to existing law, the Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education Reform Act, that establishes the Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education and sets standards applicable to every audit, review, statement, or financial report required by the act to be filed. Requires that any audit or financial report required contain a certain statement signed by the individual who prepared the report. Provides procedures for complaint processing and civil actions.
Title: A.B. 201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Establishes the California Information Technology Career Academy Grant Initiative to establish a partnership between the State and the National Academy Foundation. Provides grants to create up to 100 information technology career academies in public high schools.
Title: A.B. 717
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Requires the State Department of Education to collect specified information from all public high schools on existing academic and career-related curriculum for the purposes of establishing a clearinghouse of information on academic and career-related curriculum. Requires the department to send an announcement to all school districts that the information is available upon request and to make the information available on the department's Internet website.
Title: A.B. 1341
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Amends powers of School To Work Executive Council; administratively places council within the Department of Education; reinstates the Director of Human Services on the Council and removes the Director of Human Resources Development; appropriates unspecified funds for the Council.
Title: S.B. 865
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Postsec.

Signed into law 06/2001

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Establishes a High Technology School-to-Work Program in the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to increase the number of students who opt to enter occupations requiring advanced skills in the areas of science, mathematics, and advanced technology; requires the Department to coordinate the program with its other technology-related planning and economic development initiatives.
Title: S.B. 845
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Changes references in the high school career options program from a vocational major to a career major and provides for program reporting requirements.
Title: S.B. 113
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Community College
Postsec.

Creates the Utah College of Applied Technology and other regional applied technology colleges in Utah; establishes their governance structure; defines their powers and duties. Each regional applied technology college shall:
(a) offer a post-secondary and extra-secondary applied technology education curriculum;
(b) offer that curriculum at low cost to adult students and at no cost to secondary students
within the college's jurisdiction;
(c) provide applied technology education that will result in:
(i) appropriate licensing, certification, or other evidence of completion of training; and
(ii) qualification for specific employment in business and industry;
(d) offer competency-based associate of applied technology degrees approved by the State
Board of Regents;
(e) develop cooperative agreements with local school districts, other higher education
institutions, businesses, industries, and community and private agencies to maximize the availability
of instructional facilities; and (f) after consulting with local school districts within the geographic area served by the regional applied technology college:
(i) ensure that secondary students in the public education system have access to applied
technology education in the regional applied technology college; and
(ii) prepare and submit an annual report to the Utah College of Applied Technology detailing:
(A) how the applied technology education needs of secondary students within the region are
being met; and
(B) what access secondary students within the region have to programs offered at applied
technology colleges.
(2) A regional applied technology college may offer a competency-based high school diploma
equivalent approved by the State Board of Education in accordance with Section 53A-1-402.
(3) A regional applied technology college may not:
(a) offer courses other than applied technology education;
(b) offer a degree other than a competency-based associate of applied technology degree
approved by the State Board of Regents in accordance with Section 53B-1-103;
(c) provide tenure or academic rank for its instructors; and
(d) participate in intercollegiate athletics.
(4) The mission of a regional applied technology college is limited to applied technology
education and may not expand to include credit-based academic programs typically offered by community colleges or other institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 1003A
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001S1/bills/hbillenr/HB1003.htm

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to school to work Programs; makes appropriations to the Department of Commerce for school to work programs.
Title: S.B. 1472
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

, Appropriates funds for activities and personnel related to the Career Development System; provides for the operational transition from the School to Work System to the Career Development System Plan; provides such Career Development System will enable all students to earn transferable and portable credentials, prepare for jobs in highly skilled careers and increase educational opportunities in higher education.
Title: H.B. 1561
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Concerns vocational education; relates to supervision of the administration of programs by local education agencies. From the legislation:

THROUGH JUNE 30, 2004. ON AND AFTER JULY 1, 2004, THE STATE BOARD OF REGENTS SHALL BE AND HEREBY IS DESIGNATED AS THE SOLE AGENCY FOR SUPERVISION OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BY LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES
Title: S.B. 11
Source: State Legislation

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Authorizes eligible parties to establish specified approved paid work-based learning programs under which arrangements are made between schools and employers to provide youths with specified structured employer-supervised learning; allows a credit against the State income tax for wages paid to each youth under an approved program.
Title: S.B. 613
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Postsec.

(LC 0135) Revises certain provisions; relates to K-12 vocational education; substitutes "K-12 career and vocational/technical education" for references to K-12 vocational education; revises the K-12 career and vocational/technical education funding formula; eliminates the propriety postsecondary educational advisory council.
Title: H.B. 134
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Authorizes local education agencies (LEAs) to enter into cooperative agreements with nonprofit entities to offer technical-prep high school curriculum under the following conditions: the local board of education must approve all agreements; agreements must be in writing and include course name, minimum number of student contact hours, whether the course is an elective or as part of the technical prep high school curriculum, instructor's qualifications, and any funding the local board of education provides to the non-profit organization; courses approved for credit are limited to those for which the state board offers no teaching endorsements; the nonprofit is located in the LEAs' service area and has a primary purpose of promoting educational programs with an emphasis on state of the art technology; any course offered must have prior approval of the state department acting in accordance with the state board on special courses; and any funding provided to the nonprofit by the board shall not exceed, on a per-pupil basis, regular tuition charged other attendees for the same or similar classes. The bill prohibits LEAs from entering into agreements if such agreements directly result in the elimination of an existing course offering of the local board of education.
Title: S.B. 1743
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site:

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Establishes a community healthcare awareness and mentoring program for students. Intent is to introduce interested high school students to the spectrum of professional health care careers through activities such as health care camps and shadowing of health care professionals; encourage a continued interest in service as health care professionals in rural and underserved urban areas by providing mentors and community resources for students participating in training or educational programs to become health care professionals
Title: H.B. 1124
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Adds a state objective that school districts will offer programs of study for broad career concentrations in areas of agriculture science technology, arts and communication, business education, family and consumer science, health occupations technology, trade and industry, and technology education that will prepare students for continued learning and postsecondary education in employment settings. Establishes the Career and Technology Education Advisory Board.
Title: H.B. 660
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

The purpose of this act to enable technical center regions to establish alternative governance structures which meet regional technical education needs, ensure equal educational opportunities to technical education students throughout Vermont, and prepare Vermont technical education students to enter high skill jobs which pay a high salary.
Title: H.B. 495
Source: http://www.leg.state.vt.us

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

States the importance of career and technical education as it supports applied learning, increases the number of students completing high school, assists with transitions from secondary schools to postsecondary education, training and employment. Adds section that requires state superintendent to set standards for high quality career and technical programs and to review and approve the plans of local districts for the delivery of career and technical education. Also allows state superintendent to provide technical assistance and develop guidelines for the delivery of career guidance in secondary schools. http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/Senate/5925-5949/5940-s_sl.pdf
Title: S.B. 5940
Source: Washington Legislative Web Site

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 04/2001

P-12
Postsec.
Community College

Provides a school district may join a Joint Technological Education District (JTED) by holding an election on any prescribed date prior to a certain date; provides that the JTED shall submit a report containing information on enrollments and on the courses that qualify for community college credit or funding.
Title: H.B. 2560
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Defines the purposes of career and technical education; relates to school district funding for area centers and departments; requires a report on the academic achievement of technical education students with at least 3 high school credits, further assessments and assistance for educational improvement where needed; clarifies that there shall be no funding deduction for students attending state-operated vocational institutions.
Title: H.B. 185
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Authorizes local school districts to establish a vocational study program through which students may receive credits toward graduation for vocational experience; provides that students in the vocational study program shall be required to complete the core curriculum defined by the State Board of Education and may earn additional credits for participation in the vocational study.
Title: H.B. 52
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Makes permanent the designation of the Board of Regents as the eligible agency for administering the Carl D. Perkins vocational and applied technology education act programs in Montana; revises the provisions of the Development of the state plan to require creation of a state plan committee.
Title: S.B. 425
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Repeals provisions pertaining to the Model Vocational-Technical Education Resource Center.

From the legislation:

> EMERGENCY CLAUSE. IT IS FOUND AND DETERMINED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY THAT QUESTIONS HAVE ARISEN REGARDING THE USE OF FUNDS BY THE MODEL VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER; THAT IT IS CURRENTLY OPERATING WITHOUT AN APPROVED BUDGET, AND ITS EXISTENCE IS PREVENTING THE PROPER USE OF RESOURCES WHICH ARE NEEDED TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CHILDREN OF THIS STATE. THEREFORE, AN EMERGENCY IS DECLARED TO EXIST AND THIS ACT BEING IMMEDIATELY NECESSARY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH AND SAFETY SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE ON JUNE 30, 2001.
Title: H.B. 1282
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Changes the name of vocational technical education to refer to career and technical education.
Title: S.B. 1055
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Clarifies that funds provided for educational technology may be used for career and technical education and vocational programs as well as academic programs.
Title: S.B. 1057
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Cheating

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Creates the class A misdemeanor of false academic documentation.
Title: S.B. 44
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Charter Schools

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Permits local flexibility with regards to the hiring of teachers who leave public schools to teach in charter schools; authorizes certain charter schools to elect to participate in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement Systems. Session Law 462.
Title: S.B. 139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Chaptered by Secretary of State 09/2001

P-12

Chapter No.344, Requires a charter school to transmit a copy of its annual, independent, financial audit report for the preceding fiscal year to its chartering entity and the State Department of Education by December 15 of each year. Provides that the charter school does not need to transmit the audit report if the school is encompassed in the audit of its chartering entity.
Title: S.B. 675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Authorizes a charter school that has an approved charter to receive funding for nonclassroom-based instruction only if a determination for funding is made by the Board of Education. Establishes the Charter School Facility Grant Program for the purpose of providing assistance with facilities rent and lease costs for pupils in charter schools. Requires that eligible schools receive a certain amount based on average daily attendance to reimburse up to 75% of facility costs.
Title: S.B. 740
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Requires charter schools that fail to open or that close for any reason to refund all cash on hand to the state or local school district.
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Prohibits charter school employees from serving on districts school board; directs the State Board of Education to grant waiver of public charter school laws upon joint application of school and district school board; prohibits public charter school employees for allowing infliction of corporal punishment; provides for addition of poverty weighting factor for purposes of public charter school funding; prohibits such schools from limiting admissions based on race or religion.
Title: H.B. 3395
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Increases the number of charter schools in the state from 30 to 60 and extends their contracts from 5 years to 10 years.
Title: H.B. 101
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

This Bill clarifies ambiguity in the original charter school legislation. It provides a more appropriate means by which charter approving authorities can manage the charter school programs and more clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of those parties involved, including disciplinary issues, the effect of expulsion and the role of the State Board in hearing disciplinary appeals. It also more clearly defines the criteria for charter approval.
Title: S.B. 168
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to requirements for enrolling at-risk pupils in certain charter schools in certain parishes. For Type 2, Type 3, and Type 4 charter schools in any parish having a population of between 20,000 and 521,000 according to the most recent census, the percentage of the total number of pupils enrolled in the charter school based on the October 1st pupil membership who are at risk shall be, as near as practicable, not more than the percentage of the total number of pupils enrolled in the public elementary and secondary schools and in the state-approved nonpublic elementary and secondary schools located in the local public school district in which the charter school is located who are eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced lunch program. However, in no case shall the final initial enrollment nor the cohort of students enrolled for each new school year have, as near as practicable, fewer than 50% of students who are at risk.
Title: H.B. 794
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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, Relates to the chartering process for charter schools, procedures for application and budget submission to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, funding adjustments and allocations, litigation costs, pupil counts, and exemptions; provides that if litigation becomes necessary to recover public funds from a charter school, the school is responsible for all court costs and expenses; provides for the formation of nonprofit corporations to propose charter schools.
Title: H.B. 1282
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Prohibits an existing public school or home school from converting to a charter school; prohibits charter schools from operating for profit; creates the fund for charter schools; provides for the sponsorship of charter schools by the state board of education; revises the collective bargaining provisions applicable to charter school employees who are on a leave of absence from a school district; revises provisions governing the formation, operation and personnel of charter schools; authorizes the boards of trustees of school districts and the governing bodies of charter schools to provide programs of distance education for certain pupils; requires the state board to adopt regulations prescribing the requirements of programs of distance education; revises provisions governing the apportionments of money from the state distributive school account to provide for the payment of money for pupils who are enrolled in programs of distance education; provides that certain property of charter schools and certain property leased or rented to charter schools is exempt from taxation; extends the prospective removal of the limit on the number of charter schools that may be formed. http://www.leg.state.nv.us/71st/bills/sb/sb399%5Fen.html
Title: S.B. 399
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Changes criteria that State Board of Education may use to reject public charter school proposal during review process.
Title: S.B. 255
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

This bill revises the state charter school law, including the establishment of New Century Charter Schools. This legislation can be found below.
Title: H.B. 946
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Creates new section establishing charter schools in the state. Permits mayor of Indianapolis to serve as a sponsor of a charter school within the city. However, before issuance of charter, mayor must receive Indianapolis City Council approval for establishment of said charter school. Specifies that "governing body" as used in education code applies to body administering charter school, "school employer" applies to governing body of charter school, "superintendent" applies to chief administrative officer of charter school, and "certificated employee" refers to person employed as a teacher at a charter school.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative

Signed into law 05/2001

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Amends and reenacts R. S. 17:3997(A)(1), relative to charter school employees; to provide for the authority of a charter school to employ faculty and staff; to permit certain contracts between a nonprofit organization and a for-profit organization to manage a charter school; to provide for the delegation by a nonprofit organization of authority over employment decisions at the charter school; and to provide for related matters.
Title: H.B. 1401
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Revises provisions governing the reemployment of employees of a charter school by a school district; provides that a certain percentage of the apportionment from the state distributive school account must be set aside and paid to the school district that sponsors the charter school for certain administrative costs.
Title: S.B. 243
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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A school district may designate any school of the district as an independent school operating under an agreement with the board that grants operational control to the governing body of the independent school. The composition of the governing body is established by the district board. The independent school governing body has the authority to decide all matters related to the operation of the school pursuant to the contract agreement between it and the district board.

Title: H.B. 996
Source: Pennsylvania Legislative Web Site

Became law without governor's signature 05/2001

P-12

Authorizes establishment of open enrollment charter schools. Includes a provision that the state board may grant a charter on the application of a public senior college or university for an open-enrollment charter school to operate on the campus of the public senior college or university or in the same county in which the campus of the public senior college or university is located.
Title: H.B. 6
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

This legislation creates "Limited Charter Schools" in the state. The relevant legislation can be found at the bottom.
Title: S.B. 478
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Reenacts sections 37-28-1 through 37-28-21, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, which establishes the procedure for public schools to apply for and be granted charter school status by authorizing the State Board of Education to establish a pilot program of six local charter schools in the state; amends the repeal date on the charter school statutes from July 1, 2001, to July 1, 2004.
Title: H.B. 545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Provides that a new or conversion charter school shall specify an attendance area for admission preference to students within that area.
Title: H.B. 294
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Authorizes advance payment of a portion of a charter school's estimated annual apportionment under specified conditions.
Title: H.B. 278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Requires public charter schools to prepare and submit audit reports and to annually file financial and statistical reports with the State Department of Education according to the same accounting standards, categories and procedures used for other public schools.
Title: S.B. 1060
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Provides for appeal to the State Board of Education of a decision not to approve the revision of a charter school's charter.
Title: S.B. 1132
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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A charter school must negotiate with a local school district to provide transportation to students eligible for transportation under the provisions of the Public School Code. The local school district, in conjunction with the charter school, must establish a limit for student transportation to and from the charter school site not to exceed a ten-mile radius, provided that the limit shall not extend beyond the local school district boundary.
Title: H.B. 753
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Removes the pilot program status of charter schools.
Title: S.B. 169
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Eliminates the now outdated requirement that a local school board must provide public notice by December 31, 2000, of its intent to accept or not to accept applications for public charter schools. The bill provides the school boards must, prior to receiving applications for any public charter school, provide public notice of its intent to accept or not to accept applications for public charter schools and may, upon providing such public notice, alter its decision to accept or not to accept such applications. This measure is identical to HB 2439.
Title: S.B. 1393, H.B. 2439
Source: http://senate.state.va.us

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Relates to charter schools; clarifies that, prior to receiving applications for any public charter school, a local school board must provide public notice of its intent to accept or not to accept applications for public school charters and may, upon providing such notice, alter its decision to accept or not accept such applications; strikes the current and obsolete date for boards to indicate their intent to accept or reject charter school applications.
Title: H.B. 2439
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Relates to charter schools; modifies provisions for establishment and operation of charter schools; specifies funding provisions; repeals existing charter school provisions.
Title: S.B. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Amends the selection process for admission to a Charter school in a school district under court ordered desegregation.
Title: S.B. 322
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Requires charter schools that fail to open or that close for any reason to refund all cash on hand to the state or local school district.
Title: H.B. 1247
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Makes instructional minute requirements in charter schools a condition of apportionment of State funds. Relates to computation of categorical block grants for charter schools. Prescribes funding transfers of school aid from basic aid districts to nonbasic aid districts. Exempts from the requirement that local educational agencies provide charter schools with a prescribed amount of funding, funding for pupils who reside in or otherwise eligible to attend a school in the basic school district.
Title: S.B. 955
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Concerns the capital construction needs of charter schools; provides that a portion of the proceeds from approved school district bond measures on or after a certain shall go to charter schools in amount determined by a proportioned ratio of the charter school's pupil enrollment in the grades that are served by one or more primarily situated noncharter public schools that will be constructed or maintained by the bond proceeds.
Title: S.B. 237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SHALL WORK IN COOPERATION WITH THE ARIZONA K-12 CENTER AT NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALL CHARACTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS FUNDED BY STATE AND FEDERAL RESOURCES.
Title: S.B. 1172
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Amends existing law to provide that the State Board of Education may review the effectiveness of charter schools and report to the Legislature.
Title: S.B. 1038
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Authorizes the enrollment of a pupil in a school system adjoining his districted system when the transportation of the pupil equals or exceeds one hour.
Title: S.B. 1052
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Makes several changes to the states school choice program. A public school choice program is established to enable any student to attend a school in a district in which the student does not reside, subject to the restrictions contained in this section.
Title: S.B. 772
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Revises the out-of-district tuition laws; eliminates mandatory tuition approval if the resident district provides transportation but is not in the same county as the district of choice; allows a school district to waive tuition for a specific group required to pay tuition while charging tuition to other groups required to pay.
Title: S.B. 65
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

A school district participating in an open enrollment program may not give or offer to give a student remuneration, or directly or indirectly exert influence on the student or the student's family, in order to encourage participation in the open enrollment program. For purposes of this subsection, directly exerting influence means providing information about the school district to individuals who are not residents of that district unless the information is requested. If the members of the board of a school district believe that another school district has violated this subsection, the board may file a complaint with the superintendent of public instruction. Upon receipt of a complaint alleging a violation of this subsection, the superintendent of public instruction shall hold a hearing and accept testimony and evidence regarding the complaint. If the superintendent finds that a school district has violated this subsection, the superintendent may withhold some or all of the transportation aid payments to which the district would be otherwise entitled for a
period of one year from the date of the finding. A decision by the superintendent under this subsection is appealable to the state board of public school education. A decision by the state board of public school education is final.
Title: S.B. 2106
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Changes the rules for student transfer. Stresses the rules requiring students to attend the school district in which their home is located.
Title: S.B. 892
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Any student who enrolls in another district from a district that does not receive state aid remains the financial obligation of the resident district.
Title: H.B. 1158
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/

Civic Education

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Relates to urging the Boards of Education to incorporate patriotic education as part of the daily Pledge of Allegiance.
Title: H.J.R. 152C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2001

P-12

Creates a permanant legislative commission for the purpose of developing and coordinating public outreach programs for the legislature that educate the public about representative democracy with emphasis on explaining the legitamate, diverse competing ideas and interests in society and the importance of compromise in the resolution of said differences; states the Commission shall promote communication and collaboration among organizations that conduct civic education programs.
Title: H.B. 5899
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Encourages and promotes the development and establishment of character education programs through cooperation between parents and school districts; provides school districts may submit a report to the Legislature concerning any program developed.
Title: H.B. 1292
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to schools; designates November 11 as Veterans Day; requires public schools to conduct and observe Veterans Day programs; allows schools to conduct a moment of silence for certain purpose; requires certain instruction in United States flag etiquette and history; authorizes students to recite the pledge of allegiance each school day; requires the posting of notice concerning nonparticipation.
Title: S.B. 128
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

The last full week of classes in September is designated as Celebrate Freedom Week in public schools. Celebrate Freedom Week may include appropriate instruction, as determined by each school district, in each social studies class. Instruction should include study of the intent, meaning, and importance of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, in their historical context.
Title: H.B. 1776
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Allows schools to provide character education programs, but any programs must stress positive character traits, such as: courage; trustworthiness, including honesty, reliability, punctuality, and loyalty; integrity; respect and courtesy; responsibility, including accountability, diligence, perseverance, and self-control; fairness, including justice and freedom from prejudice; caring, including kindness, empathy, compassion, consideration, patience, generosity, and charity; good citizenship, including patriotism, concern for the common good and the community, and respect for authority and the law; and school pride. Requires state department to maintain a list of programs that meet requirements.
Title: H.B. 946
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the state board to establish comprehensive character education into all aspects of school culture, school functions and existing curriculum by September 2001.
Title: H.B. 2208
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Concerns the use and display of the flag of the United States of America in public schools. It shall be the duty of the state board of education to prepare program providing for patriotic exercises for public schools. The program of patriotic observation of every school district shall include a daily recitation of the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. It shall also make provision for instructions relating to flag etiquette, use and display; the observance in public schools of Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday, Memorial day, and Flag day and such other legal holidays of like character as may be designated by law.

Title: H.B. 2105
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Enhances opportunities for high school students to register to vote; authorizes the registrar of each county to visit each public school, for the purpose of registering to vote any person who is eligible to vote in the county; provides that registrars shall provide mail-in applications to register to vote students.
Title: H.B. 955
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Requires all students to learn the Pledge of Allegiance and to demonstrate such knowledge and requires each school board to call for the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in each classroom of the school division and to ensure that an American flag is in place in each classroom.
Title: S.B. 1331
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Civic Education--Character Education

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Relates to urging the Boards of Education to incorporate patriotic education as part of the daily Pledge of Allegiance.
Title: H.J.R. 152C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Relates to urging the Boards of Education to incorporate patriotic education as part of the daily Pledge of Allegiance.
Title: H.J.R. 152C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Class Size

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Authorizes, on a pilot program basis, the Torrance and Poway Unified School Districts to implement an alternative class size reduction program to reduce class size in kindergarten and grades 1 to 5, inclusive, to 23 pupils, with the exception that grades 4 and 5 in a participating school would be eligible if the total average enrollment is not higher than 23.4, subject to a collective bargaining agreement. Appropriates funds to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to evaluate the program.
Title: A.B. 231
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

A campus or district that is granted an exception from class size limits shall provide written notice of the exception to the parent of or person standing in parental relation to each student affected by the exception.
Title: H.B. 3313
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Curriculum

Vetoed 12/2001

P-12

Establishes Commission on Italian and Americans of Italian Heritage Culture and Education; appropriates funds. The duties of the commission include giving assistance to and advising public and nonpublic schools on the positive contributions and achievement of Italians and of Americans of Italian Heritage in our
society and encouraging a recognition of those values, both cultural and historical, which derive from the Italian heritage.
Title: A.B. 3693
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Imposes new duties on the State Department of Education regarding physical education, including, among others, that the department would be required to issue a notice of noncompliance to each school district that fails to comply with certain requirements, including among others, requirements regarding the number of hours of physical instruction offered to pupils in grades 1 and 12, inclusive. Requires each school district to report the results of any testing to parents.
Title: A.B. 367
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12

Session Law Number 363., Requires the public schools to provide courses of instruction on North Carolina history and geography to students in elementary and middle schools; enacts the Student Citizenship Act of 2001.
Title: H.B. 195
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Authorizes local school systems to offer instruction in personal financial management to students, provided such instruction is integrated into an existing course of study.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Public Law No. 403., (LD 291)Requires that Maine Native American history and culture be taught in all elementary and secondary schools; requires the Department of Education to include Maine Native American history and culture in the system of learning results; establishes a commission to investigate and recommend how the Department will accomplish this task.
Title: H.B. 255
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Makes an appropriation to the Governor's Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust for the continuation of its educational programs.
Title: A.B. 520
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Eliminates the 2-year second language requirement for students who have completed grade 12; requires all students who have met the requirements for Certificate of Initial Mastery to demonstrate proficiency in second language; requires school districts to make available the ability to demonstrate proficiency in arts, including music; requires adoption of criteria for waiver of second language and music requirements.
Title: S.B. 65
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/sb0001.dir/sb0065.en.html

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction of public school students.
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Directs a study of the Advanced Placement Program in Kentucky's high schools; directs the co-chairs of the Interim Joint Committee to Education to appoint a special subcommittee composed of four Senate members and four House of Representatives members to study Kentucky's Advanced Placement Program; directs the subcommittee to develop a plan that assures that every Kentucky student has access to Advanced Placement courses and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
Title: S.C.R. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires public schools to include in the course of instruction a component on personal finance education to help students develop an understanding of and develop appropriate skills relating to the role of money,
credit, budgets, financial planning, and other relevant financial topics. Requires the Department of Education to provide the appropriate curriculum in grades K-12 for personal finance education. Local boards of education may implement additional courses and materials in personal finance at their discretion.
Title: H.B. 1177
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Authorizes schools to offer American Sign Language (ASL) as a course of foreign language credit; directs the Board of Education to establish licensing credentials for ASL teachers; directs the Commissioner of Education to encourage postsecondary institutions to accept secondary school ASL credits as foreign language credits.
Title: S.B. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Creates the Holocaust Education Commission, a permanent state commission which, as an organized body and on a continuous basis, will survey, design, encourage and promote implementation of holocaust education.
Title: S.B. 647
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires public elementary schools to provide instruction in the subjects of visual art or music for all students.
Title: H.B. 1883
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Relates to the authority of school district boards to establish student financial institutions operated as part of a high school educational program; permits the institution to lend money, cash checks and take deposits; provides for the fee for establishing a student banking facility.
Title: S.B. 2231, 2230
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Establishes marching band as a physical education requirement.
Title: H.B. 554
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

States that on or before October 1 of each year, the state department of education must issue a report on the Advanced Placement Incentive Program for the previous school year which shall include, but is not limited to, the number of: students taking an advanced placement exam and the number of exams taken; exams that receive a score of 3 or better; school sites which have received funding and the amount of awards, by type of award; school sites offering advanced placement courses and school sites with students taking an advanced placement exam; students who receive assistance with the test fee and the average amount of assistance; and an evaluation of the cost versus the benefits of this program. This provision includes fiscal support for needy students taking the International Baccalaureate tests, as well as advanced placement.
Title: S.B. 790
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/docs/sb_enr.html

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Directs the department to develop a grant program to large urban school districts for elementary schools for the purpose of establishing agricultural related projects.
Title: S.B. 701
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Modifies provisions related to the State System of Public Education by requiring the State Board of Education to develop and implement a concurrent enrollment course on Mandarin Chinese to be taught over EDNET, the state's two-way interactive system for video and audio, to high school juniors and seniors in the state's public education system.
Title: S.B. 57
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Provides that the State Board of Education shall approve instructional materials for use in health, physiology, hygiene, and prevention of communicable disease curricula that local school boards may choose to adopt; provides local schools with an option of using other instructional materials for the curricula consistent with state law and board rules emphasizing abstinence before marriage and fidelity after marriage.
Title: S.B. 75
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Requires music, visual art, dance or theater instruction to take place in elementary schools.
Title: H.B. 174
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Arts Education

Signed into law 12/2001

P-12

Creates the Capital Needs Investment Trust Fund, which sets aside money for education technology; provides for statewide systems and competitive grants for districts that use technology to increase student achievement; funds the virtual education space, an online set of implementation strategies to increase student achievement on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, and for a music education program including multi-discipline curricula.
Title: H.B. 4797A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

, Appropriates funds for at least 28 fine arts positions within the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 1391
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires public elementary schools to provide instruction in the subjects of visual art or music for all students.
Title: H.B. 1883
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Establishes marching band as a physical education requirement.
Title: H.B. 554
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Requires music, visual art, dance or theater instruction to take place in elementary schools.
Title: H.B. 174
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Drivers Education

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Relates to the amount of classroom instruction offered in an approved driver education course as programmed by the Department of Education.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed.

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Curriculum--Geography Education

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12

Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Authorizes every public school to post a summary of nutrition and physical activity laws and regulations and the school district policies. Requires the Department of Education to develop the summary. Requires the sale of all foods on school grounds of certain schools to be approved by the person or persons so designated. Permits sale of foods at elementary schools only as full meals during breakfast and lunch periods.
Title: S.B. 19
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction of public school students.
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Act No. 33., Relates to obesity in children; creates the Joint Study Committee on Physical Activity (recess) in Schools.
Title: S.R. 252
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Curriculum--Language Arts--Writing/Spelling

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Requires the state board of education to establish by rule and policy a reading initiative for kindergarten through grade 8 that includes at a minimum: (1) clear content and performance standards for student reading proficiency; (2) specific qualifications, requirements and standards for the teaching of reading;
(3) developmentally appropriate diagnostic methods for assessing and monitoring the individual reading development of all children and identifying students who are having reading difficulties; (4) effective, developmentally appropriate instruction and intervention for all students based on their individual needs as identified by use of approved diagnostic methods; (5) training and support of all educators employed or
supervising instruction in such grades in the use and application of developmentally appropriate reading diagnostic, instructional and intervention methods; (6) notification to parents of their child' s level of reading
proficiency and any intervention that may be deemed necessary to ensure such child's ability to meet reading proficiency standards; (7) encouragement of parents to play an integral role in supporting their children in learning to read and write; and (8) a system of annual reporting, pursuant to Section 49-1-211, of the results of the reading initiative established by this section, including summary information from the reports by schools to local boards of education required by subdivision (d)(4) of this section. Also requires the state commissioner to recommend reading diagnostic methods and to develop guidelines. BILL WAS LEFT UNFUNDED, SO NO IMPLEMENTATION.
Title: S.B. 1881/H.B. 1921--Omnibus Bill
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0343.pdf

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Adds statewide testing in reading writing. Requires the department of education to involve local school district personnel, especially certified elementary reading specialists, in the development of methods on a statewide basis to measure student reading performance in order to assist school districts in the assessment of student problem areas in kindergarten through 3rd grade. The assessment shall provide a means of demonstrating continuous progress in reading and diagnostic information on phonics, phonemic awareness and comprehension. The department of education also is requried to involve local school district personnel, especially certified school instructors in the elementary, middle or junior high school grades, in the development or selection of a uniform statewide writing production test for school districts to measure student writing performance. The writing production test shall be administered to each student, once when attending elementary school and once when attending a middle or junior high school. (22-2-8.5)
Title: S.B. 673
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Curriculum--Mathematics

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Creates the Science and Technology Education Center Grant Program to provide start-up and operating money for science and technology education centers; creates a board to oversee the grants program; instructs the State Board of Education to create rules for the implementation of the grant program; makes an appropriation therefore.
Title: H.B. 1365
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Retains priority for funding to improve middle school mathematics teachers' content knowledge; permits the Department of Education to approve funding for other content areas during 2000-2002 for middle school teachers if all funds are not needed for the first priority; provides that funds in the Teachers' Professional Growth Fund do not lapse at the end of each year.
Title: H.B. 66
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires establishment of a master mathematics teacher certificate and a related course of study. Requires state department to establish the master mathematics teacher grant program, providing $5,000 stipends to qualified teachers, starting in the 2003-04 school year; to develop professional development institutes for mathematics teachers and to develop training materials; to award grants for research on mathematics skills acquisition and program effectiveness. Allocates funds for services that assist teachers in providing and grading mathematics homework assignments. Requires state department to develop and make available to school districts assessment instruments that can be used to diagnose student mathematics skills. Authorizes districts to provide optional intensive after-school or summer programs to provide mathematics instruction to students who are not performing at grade level or successfully.
Title: H.B. 1144 Mathematics Aspects
Source: ttp://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Establishes a Public Education Job Enhancement Program to attract, train and retain highly qualified secondary teachers in math, physics, chemistry, physical science, learning technology and information technology. States that eligible teachers are those nominated by a district superintendent or school principal who agree to teach at the secondary level for at least 4 years. Provides awards, on a competitive basis, for up to $20,000, or a scholarship to cover tuition for a master's degree, endorsement, or graduate education in one of the specified areas. Requires the teacher to repay a portion of the initial payment if the teacher does not complete 2 of the 4-year teaching agreement in the agreed-upon subject area(s).
Title: S.B. 61
Source: ECS

Curriculum--Multicultural

Vetoed 12/2001

P-12

Curriculum--Physical Education

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

The state board by rule may require a student enrolled in kindergarten or a grade level below grade 7in an elementary school setting to participate in daily physical activity as part of a school district's physical education curriculum or through structured activity during a school campus's daily recess, except that the board may not require more than 30 minutes of daily physical activity. If the board adopts rules under this subsection, the board must provide for an exemption for a student who is unable to participate in daily physical activity because of illness or disability. Requires local boards to establish a local school health education advisory council to assist the district in ensuring that local community values are reflected in the district's health education instruction. The state agency must make available to each school district a coordinated health program designed to prevent obesity, cardiovascular disease, and Type II diabetes in elementary school students and the school districts are required to implement the coordinated health program.
Title: S.B. 19
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Establishes marching band as a physical education requirement.
Title: H.B. 554
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Curriculum--Science

Vetoed 09/2001

P-12

Requires the Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Health Services, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Office of Health Hazard Assessment to study and report to the Legislature on the use of toxic substances as part of educational instruction that are listed in the Science Safety Handbook for Public Schools as carcinogenic or mutagenic or that are identified as having chemical risks that outweigh educational benefits.
Title: S.B. 286
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Provides the State Board of Education shall adopt rules eliminating the use and purchase of elemental mercury, mercury compounds and mercury added instructional materials by public elementary and secondary schools.
Title: S.B. 594
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Curriculum--Sex Education

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Reenacts and recasts provisions of law establishing a Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program targeted at pupils in elementary and secondary schools and would make those provisions inoperative on July 1, 2003 and would repeal them as of January 1, 2004.
Title: S.B. 1058
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires school districts to integrate into existing sex education curricula; relates to sexual conduct with a minor for pupils in grades 7 through 12; allows school districts to develop their own curricula relating to the instruction of laws relating to sexual conduct with a minor; requires the county attorney or Attorney General's office to review the legal accuracy of school district curriculum related to sexual conduct with a minor laws, at the request of a school district.
Title: S.B. 1222
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Curriculum--Social Studies/History

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Makes an appropriation to the Governor's Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust for the continuation of its educational programs.
Title: A.B. 520
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Amends the School Code; adds Hispanics to the list of the specific ethnic groups whose role and contributions to the history of this country and State are required to be studied in the teaching of the history of the United States; changes a reference from American Negroes to African Americans; also changes a reference from Czechoslovakian to Czech and Slovak.
Title: S.B. 109
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Data-Driven Improvement

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Demographics--Enrollments

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Pilot program to provide to prospective students in three areas of the state with the highest number of students who do not attend institutions of higher education, as determined by the board, information related to enrollment in public or private or independent institutions of higher education, including admissions and financial aid information; and to assist those prospective students in completing applications related to enrollment in those institutions, including admissions and financial aid applications. Districts are authorized to develop plans with higher education institutions in close proximity for the purpose of increasing the number of students attending postsecondary education. Plans must meet certain requirements.
Title: H.B. 400
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Amends Section 22-1-4: Requires local school boards to adopt rules pertaining to grounds for denial of enrollment or re-enrollment at schools within their school district. A formal hearing and appeals process must be implemented by local school boards to address enrollment or re-enrollment denials. The bill does not mandate that enrollment or re-enrollment be denied. Limits the grounds for denial of enrollment or re-enrollment to: (a) a student's expulsion from any school district in this state or any other state during the preceding twelve months; or (b) a student's behavior in another school district in this state or any other state during the preceding twelve months that is detrimental to the welfare or safety of other students or school personnel. In Section F, this bill further provides that a local board may establish additional enrollment preferences for admitting students in the second and third priorities of enrollment, including (1) after school care for students; (2) child care for siblings of students attending the public school; (3) children of employees at the public school; (4) extreme hardship; (5) location of a student's previous school; (6) siblings of students already attending the public school; and (7) student safety.
Title: H.B. 151, HB 16
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to the Education Protection Funding Program; creates the Growth in Student Population Restricted Account within the Uniform School Fund; allows monies from the account to be used by school districts to address the anticipated surge in student growth; appropriates funds.
Title: H.B. 273
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Desegregation

Signed into law 06/2001

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Requires local government to amend urban growth boundary if analysis finds actual housing types and densities insufficient for next 20 years; requires inclusion of certain school facilities, parks and open spaces.
Title: H.B. 2976
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Requires school districts involved in court ordered desegregation to comply with zoning requirements within 90 days after release from the court order.
Title: H.B. 2238
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Economic/Workforce Development

Signed into law 12/2001

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Establishes a Farm-to-School program to facilitate and promote the purchase of New York farm products by schools, universities and other educational institutions; calls for establishment of a harvest for New York Kids Week to promote State farm products.
Title: S.B. 4886
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

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Establishes the Industry-Based Certification Incentive Grant Program for the purpose of awarding grants to selected school districts, county offices of education, and regional occupational centers and programs to establish industry-based certification programs within their career technical programs. Requires the Department of Education to evaluate the effectiveness of each certification program. Allocates funds to the department for specific career technical education purposes.
Title: A.B. 1018
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2001

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Community College

Session Law Number 368., Exempts certain community college activities from the Umstead Act; provides for use of community college personnel or facilities, with the consent of the trustees of that college, in support of private business enterprise located on the college campus of in the college's service area for specific services in support of economic and business development.
Title: S.B. 531
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Law No. 363., (LD 1399) Delegates the requirement that at least one third of all federal funds received by the State under the federal Workforce Investment Act be used for education and skills training; requires that at least 15% of funds be used for support services such as child care and transportation for individuals enrolled in an education or training program; requires the Department of Labor to provide information related to expenditures of funds and program outcomes.
Title: H.B. 1042
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Establishes the Oregon Council for Knowledge and Economic Development to advise the governor, the legislature, the state boards of K-12 and higher education, the Oregon Economic and Community Development Commission, the Oregon Growth Account Board and the Oregon Resource and Technology Development Board in matters pertaining to knowledge based economic development in Oregon and the
collaboration of Oregon's higher education, business, industry and capital resources to promote the following: (a) High quality research and development; (b) Private-public models for sharing profit and intellectual property; (c) The transfer and commercialization of technology and knowledge from higher education to the private sector; (d) A technologically skilled workforce; and (e) Capital resources for investment in and commercialization of technology developed by higher education or other research institutions, including but not limited to national labs and health care related research entities.

Title: S.B. 273
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/sb0200.dir/sb0273.en.html

Vetoed 05/2001

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Enacts the Workforce Investment Act; establishes the Workforce Development Board and local workforce development boards; requires the designation of workforce investment areas; provides workforce investment activities grant procedures for local entities; provides vocational training and technical education for adult and displaced workers and youth who meet specified criteria.
Title: H.B. 1388
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Community College

Allows small business development centers in state universities; extends purposes of centers to include counseling; requires assent of Commissioner for Community College Services and Chancellor of State Board of Higher Education before Economic and Community Development Department may make grant to state university.
Title: H.B. 2342
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Establishes the Texas excellence fund to provide funding to promote increased research capacity and to develop institutional excellence at eligible general academic teaching institutions in order to ensure that Texas and its workforce remain at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation. Eligible comprehensive research university receiving funds must file annual reports on how dollars were used.
Title: H.B. 1839
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

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States that it is an appropriate role for a municipality to foster economic opportunity, job generation, and capital investment by promoting a favorable business climate, preparing the workforce for productive employment, and supporting infrastructure development. Allows the creation of a Municipal Development Corporation to develop and implement programs for (1) job training, including long-term job training and in-training support service grants; (2) early childhood development that prepare each child to enter school and make each child ready to learn. Specifies specific skills that children should learn.
Title: S.B. 607
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

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Relates to certain programs to develop the technology workforce in Texas by supporting and promoting higher education in electrical engineering and computer science.
Title: S.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Relates to modernization and procurement of equipment for workforce development initiative grant programs; addresses improving employer awareness and access to services available through the state's education institutions, providing designated professionals and resources to support workforce education through the state's education institutions, assisting with the modernization and procurement of equipment needed for workforce training programs, increasing the capacity of the state's education institutions to respond rapidly to employer needs for workforce education and training on an ongoing basis through the development of a client-focused, visible point of contact for program development and delivery, service referral and needs assessment, such as a workforce development center; and maximizing the use of available resources for workforce education and training through partnerships with public vocational, technical and adult education centers and private training providers.
Title: H.B. 2898
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

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Changes the Maryland Job Training Partnership Act to the Maryland Workforce Investment Act; repeals provisions concerning the Governor's plan concerning job training and placement programs for employment; makes technical changes to reflect changes made to federal law; repeals provisions concerning classroom training; alters definitions; defines terms; provides for accurate codification of the Act's provisions; makes technical and stylistic changes; provides a delayed effective date
Title: H.B. 1251
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to the Advantage Virginia Incentive Program; revises the programs focus which is to provide job training scholarships; changes the term occupational areas where there is a high demand for workers to qualified jobs, defined as jobs in high demand as designated by the Virginia Workforce Council; deletes requirement that qualified jobs must be in high unemployment areas; states students from high schools in high unemployment areas shall have preference in receiving said benefits.
Title: H.B. 2565
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Education Research

Signed into law 10/2001

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for purposes of contracting for a study that identifies reading programs in schools that maintain any kindergarten or grades 1-6 where the performance of 75% of the pupils was at or above the 80th percentile on the reading portion of the achievement tests administered pursuant to the Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.
Title: A.B. 876
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Equity

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Relates to the establishment and use of a women's athletic development fund and a study of women's athletic development practices at institutions of higher education.
Title: S.B. 903
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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The Department of Education may withhold state aid from any district that fails to file its assurance of compliance with civil rights responsibilities by October 15 each year, or fails to file any other information with a published deadline requested from school districts by the Equity Assistance Center so long as 30 calendar days are given between the request for the information and the published deadline. Thirty days notice shall not be required when the request comes from a member or committee of the general assembly.
Title: H.B. 2198
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Federal

Signed into law 03/2001

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Requires annual reporting by school districts and the Superintendent of Public Instruction on expenditures of federal funds.
Title: H.B. 323
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance

Signed into law 09/2001

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Relates to Alabama Public School and College Authority bonds; provides that local boards of education may use bond proceeds for the purchase and repair of equipment and building and other capital outlay projects and for the retirement of indebtedness, and to change the redemption option to ten years.
Title: H.B. 6C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Act No. 92-06., Amends the Election Code and the School Code; provides that notice of a referendum concerning the issuance of certain school bonds may be given by publication in at least one newspaper published in and having general circulation in the district; provides that notice provisions concerning bond issues apply only to consolidated primary elections at which not less than 60% of the voters voting on the bond proposition voted in favor of the bond proposition; makes other provisions.
Title: S.B. 975
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Increases state funding to schools for the 2001-02 school year; requires school districts to adopt a plan for use of such monies; specifies that when schools receive new textbooks, allocated funds should be used first for new textbooks in certain subjects; charter schools are to follow similar funding provisions.
Title: H.B. 1272
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Public Law No. 127., (LD 1647)Permits school boards to carry forward general operating fund balances at the end of a school administrative unit's fiscal year to meet the needs of the school administrative unit for up to 3 years to reduce the State and local allocations for the purpose of computing State subsidy.
Title: S.B. 524
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Authorizes a school district to use a portion of its impact aid funds for repayment of bonds.
Title: S.B. 457
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Senate analysis states that current state policy regarding public education provides that the public
school finance system of Texas is required to adhere to a standard of neutrality that provides for substantially equal access to similar revenue per student at a similar tax effort. C.S.H.B. 2879 increases the maximum amount of wealth per student a school district may have for the 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 school years, amends provisions regarding the funding of school districts that experience a decline in average daily attendance, and increases the maximum existing debt tax rate to $0.29 cents per $100 of
valuation. Section 4 of the bill directs that the commissioner develop a rule to calculate educationally disadvantaged students in districts with no campuses participating in the federal free or reduced lunch program; as the provision increases the number of students who many be counted as being entitled to the compensatory education allotment, a cost to the Foundation School Program is created. The Texas Education Agency estimates that 1,796 students were identified as low-income by the 81 school districts and charter schools which do not participate in the free or reduced price lunch program. The estimated compensatory education allotment per student in the 81 districts in question is about $700, with
an additional increase to weighted pupils created by the allotment generating $400 per student in tier II. It is estimated that based on the data above that the provision would cost approximately $4 million for the biennium.
Title: H.B. 2879
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Relates to elementary and secondary education provisions addressed in the creation of North Dakota Century Code; relates to administration, boards, teacher licenses; school guidance and counseling services; special education; vocational and technology education; school finance; transportation.
Title: H.B. 1045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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This bill makes several technical changes to school financing in the areas of: bonding, high cost transportation and isolated school funding.
Title: S.B. 603
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Provides for the issuance of special Committed to Education motor vehicle license plates.
Title: S.B. 213
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Provides for an exchange of certain endowment lands, managed by the Board of Land Commissioners, which are adjacent to the Idaho State University/University of Idaho Center for Higher Education, with lands of equivalent market value owned by the Board of Education.
Title: H.B. 348
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Authorizes advance payment of a portion of a charter school's estimated annual apportionment under specified conditions.
Title: H.B. 278
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Of the revenue deposited into the common school account within the permanent land
fund from revenues available under the negotiated easement agreement with the Express Pipeline
Partnership in 1996, five million dollars ($5,000,000.00) shall be accounted for separately
and the interest earned thereon shall not be part of the distribution from the common school
account under W.S. 21-13-301, and shall be deposited into the Wyoming trust fund within the
trust and agency fund.
Title: S.B. 11
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2001

Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost

Vetoed 07/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Requires the Governor and the Superintendent of Public Instruction to conduct a study of the adequacy and equity of funding for K-12 public schools in Montana; provides an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 625
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Amends the definition of base aid to include a percentage of the special education allowable cost payment; amends definition of maximum general fund budget to increase the special education allowable cost payment component.
Title: S.B. 94
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed by Governor 03/2001

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Requires the legislative council shall consider studying the delivery of a core curriculum to each elementary and high school student in this state and the feasibility and desirability of providing total state funding solely for the delivery of a core curriculum. The legislative council shall report its findings and recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement its recommendations, to the fifty-eighth legislative assembly.
Title: S.B. 2324
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr

Finance--District

Signed into law 10/2001

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Requires the superintendent of schools of each county to annually present a report regarding fiscal solvency of any district with a disapproved budget, qualified interim certification or negative interim certification, or that has been determined at any time to be in a position of fiscal uncertainty. Authorizes a review or audit if the county superintendent has reason to believe that fraud or other illegal fiscal practices may have occurred.
Title: A.B. 139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 10/2001

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Signed into law 08/2001

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Public Act No. 92-438., Requires a school district to post its current annual budget, itemized by receipts and expenditures, on the district's Internet website, if the district has a web site; requires the school district to notify the parents or guardians of its students that the budget has been posted on the district's website and what the website address is.
Title: S.B. 898
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Law No. 373., (LD 1301) Provides an option for municipal members of a school district to design a cost-sharing formula; requires a cost-sharing plan to be approved by a referendum of the voters in each municipality in the district; provides for professional facilitation services if local entities cannot agree on cost-sharing changes; requires the Department of Education to provide assistance on cost-sharing to districts and municipalities.
Title: H.B. 977
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Authorizes the Office of State Finance to conduct audits of certain school districts; allows request of performance audits; provides for payment of cost of requested review; requires cost savings to be used for classroom expenditures.
Title: H.B. 1601
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Specifies that school districts are ineligible to adjust budget limit for energy reduction purposes if the school district did not participate in energy conservation measures during FY 2001.
Title: S.B. 1178
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Relates to county treasurers; provides definitions for agency pool participant, and collecting entity; relates to duties of a school district finance officer; expands investments that may be made by the treasurer to include commercial paper rated P1, A1 or better and bonds, debentures and notes issued by corporations organized and doing business in the United States that are rated A or better.
Title: S.B. 1111
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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LB 240 allows school districts that are in an empowerment zone or enterprise community or which have at least 35% of their students eligible for free or reduced-cost lunches to levy a property tax for any qualified purpose. The term qualified purpose for an academy means: rehabilitation or repair of a facility; the provision of equipment; the development of course materials; and, the training of teachers and other personnel. Qualifying Class II, III, IV, V and VI districts will be able to levy a property tax of up to five and one-fifth
cents per $100 to pay off the bonds. Class I districts may not exceed levy limits of up to $.05 cents. The bill allows schools that qualify for the academy zone bonds to sell the bonds, without a vote of the people, after a public hearing is held. The interest free bonds are outside the $1.10 levy limit for schools but must adhere to the current $.052 cent levy limit established for the hazardous materials/ADA fund. The bill limits the total amount that may be financed by bonds with respect to a qualified zone academy to $7.5 million statewide per year. If the requests exceed $7.5 million, then the allocations are reduced proportionately and the amount of the reductions may be reallocated to requests from qualified zone academies that will not be financed with bonds.
Title: L.B. 240
Source: Nebraska Unicameral Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

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Appropriates funds to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Department of Education for fiscal year 2002; limits the number of full time equivalent positions; 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.
Title: H.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Appropriates a specified amount from the Uniform School Fund to the State Board of Education for distribution to public school teachers for classroom supplies and materials.
Title: H.B. 42
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Equity

Signed into law 07/2001

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Establishes a Local Option Equalization Grant Program for school districts that impose Local Option Tax and that have district total assessed value of taxable property per student that is less than top 25% of districts.
Title: H.B. 2300
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us/01reg/measures/hb2300.dir/hb2300.en.html

Signed into law 05/2001

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Finance--Facilities

Approved by voters 11/2001

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Private and Special Law No. 40., (LD 1707) Authorizes a bond issue to capitalize the School Revolving Renovation Fund for repairs and improvements in public school facilities to address health, safety and compliance deficiencies, general renovation needs and learning space upgrades.

Approved by voters November 2001.
Title: S.B. 549/ Bond Issue Question 4
Source: Maine Secretary of State Web site

Signed into law 08/2001

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Chapter No.194, Defines major maintenance for purposes of the Greene Act, requires commencing on a certain date, any school district applying for funding pursuant to the Greene Act to annually review the plan, update it as needed, and certify that it is in compliance with the plan.
Title: A.B. 1558
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Requires school facility plan for high growth school district to cover a period of at least 5 years; expands analyses that must be included in plan; requires school district to cooperate with the city or county, or both, to identify land for school facilities if district determines there is an inadequated supply of suitable land.
Title: H.B. 3045
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Community College

Requires inventory and rehabilitation of certain public school, community college and public university buildings that would pose threat to occupant safety in event of earthquake.
Title: S.B. 14
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Relates to funding and use of the Tobacco Use Education and Cessation Fund; Relates to finance of construction and major maintenance of public school facilities; authorizes the commissioner of revenue to sell the right to receive a portion of the anticipated revenue from a tobacco settlement to the Northern Tobacco Securitization Corporation; authorizes the issuance of bonds by the Corporation with proceeds to finance public schools and maintenance for the University of Alaska.
Title: H.B. 234
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 06/2001

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Relates to capital improvements; appropriates funds for capital improvement, flood hazard mitigation grants, acquisition of easements and to implement conservation practices on frequently flooded croplands, the Closed Landfill Cleanup Program, the Maximum Effort School Loan Fund, and economic development purposes; authorizes the issuance of bonds.
Title: H.B. 8A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Signed into law 06/2001

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Authorizes the Board of Trustees of State University and other institutions of higher education to enter into a ground lease agreement with a private entity for providing all services necessary to the creation and operation of an on-campus student housing facility including, financing, designing, constructing, managing, operating, maintaining and related services; provides for the terms and conditions of this ground lease agreement including approval by the Budget and Control Board.
Title: S.B. 557
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Creates the Information Technology Education Grant Program; provides money to school districts and charter schools to use in integrating information technology education into secondary curriculum in public schools; creates a Information Technology Fund to fund such grants.
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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2001-79., Creates Higher Educational Facilities Financing Act; creates the Higher Educational Facilities Financing Authority; provides criteria for and covenants relating to authorization of issuance of notes and revenue bonds not obligating the full faith and credit of the authority, any municipality, the state, or any political subdivision; providing for loans from revenue bonds to participating institutions; providing for trust funds and remedies of bondholders.
Title: S.B. 302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Funds backlog of repair and maintenance for public school facilities through general obligation; establishes funding formula for on-going preventive repair and maintenance.
Title: S.B. 1577
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Establishes the school repair and maintenance trust fund as a separate fund of Hawaii 3R's, a nonprofit corporation, for coordination of private and federal efforts to repair and maintain public schools; establishes a tax credit and procurement procedures for state contracts.
Title: S.B. 493
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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(LD 147) Prohibits the Maine State Commission for Higher Education Facilities from accepting funds from any source that would place conditions or restrictions on the use of funds in such a way as to interfere with or otherwise restrict the academic freedoms of state colleges and universities.
Title: H.B. 136
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Authorizes Health, Housing, Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority to finance projects for public and nonprofit schools providing pre-kindergarten through grade 12 education.
Title: H.B. 3207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Authorizes school districts to qualify construction projects for funding under Special Facility Construction Account by using school capital outlay surtax in lieu of maximum millage against their nonexempt assessed property value; specifies funding eligibility of certain projects.
Title: H.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Act No. 212., Provides supplementary appropriations for public school capital outlay for the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, in addition to the appropriation made by the General Appropriations Act and any other appropriations.
Title: H.B. 139
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Authorizes the creation of a State Debt to be used as a grant to the Interagency Committee on School Construction for the allocation to the eligible school system under the Aging School Program for the repair, renovation, and capital improvements of qualified zoned academies.
Title: S.B. 288
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed by Governor 04/2001

Postsec.

Increasing to $875,000,000, the bonding authority for the University System of Maryland; approving certain projects for the acquisition, development, and improvement of certain academic facilities for the University System of Maryland; and approving the issuance of bonds by the University System of Maryland for financing the projects.
Title: H.B. 1263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Vetoed 04/2001

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Provides criteria and procedures for funding public school capital outlay projects for public school buildings; authorizes the issuance of short term severance tax bonds, supplemental severance tax bonds and statewide public school general obligation bonds. Creates a deficiencies correction unit as part of the public school capital outlay council. Creates the public school capital outlay task force.
Title: S.B. 167
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

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Upon a finding of need, the boards of every school district in a county that is either located wholly within the exterior boundaries of the county or that has a student membership no more than ten percent of whom reside outside the exterior boundaries of the county may enter into a joint agreement to submit a resolution to the governing body of the county requiring the governing body to impose a county education gross receipts tax and to issue county education gross receipts tax revenue bonds for funding public school capital projects and, if applicable, off-campus instruction program capital projects. The boards must agree to provide at least one-fourth of the bond proceeds for capital projects for an off-campus instruction program, if one of the school districts in the county has established such a program. The remaining revenues shall be distributed proportionately to each school district for public school capital outlay projects based on the ratio that the population of each school district, according to the 2000 federal decennial census, bears to the population of all of the school districts in the county who are parties to the agreement.
Title: S.B. 516
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

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Amends code sections pertaining to Arkansas State Building Services review and approval of higher education institution capital improvements.
Title: S.B. 512
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Authorizes an increase in school district bond debt to 35% of the assessed value of real and personal property in the district in cases of unexpected, unforeseen or extreme hardship.
Title: H.B. 2240
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Directs the establishment of regulations regarding self-construction projects by public educational entities.
Title: S.B. 818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to the School Facilities Board; provides for sale of school property; provides for authorization to issue bonds for school construction; provides for repairs to school buildings.
Title: S.B. 1181
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to school facilities construction; provides that "available local revenue" for school building construction shall no longer include the balance of the general fund budget above 10 percent and shall now include the bonding potential of capital outlay and building funds.
Title: H.B. 173
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Provides school district budget cap adjustment for expenses related to opening of new school facility during the budget year; states the district's budget may also be adjusted for increases in enrollment, certain capitol outlay expenditures for courtesy busing services and per pupil education costs in excess of a set amount; provides an additional adjustment for expenditures associated with opening a new school facility.
Title: A.B. 3076
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Modifies provisions relating to the state system of public education in the funding of the Minimum School Program. This act provides a ceiling for the state contribution of the operation and maintenance portion of the Minimum School Program Act not to exceed $1,586,482,794. Establishes the value of the weighted pupil unit at $2,132, establishes block grants and distribution formulas, and provides a $28,358,000 appropriation for school building aid. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2002/bills/sbillenr/sb0003.htm
Title: H.B. 3, S.B. 3
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to school capital construction; imposes a condition on state building adequacy standards.
Title: H.B. 275
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to major building and facility repair and replacement payments; modifies major maintenance payment computations; imposes major maintenance payment expenditure reporting requirements upon districts; requires the State superintendent to report information and to review the effect of payment expenditures on district building needs.
Title: H.B. 5
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Adjusts the use of the capital outlay fund; provides that it may also be used for installment or lease-purchase payments for the purchase of public school real property, plant or equipment, which have a contracted terminal date not exceeding twenty years.
Title: H.B. 1006
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Veto overridden 02/2001

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Authorizes the funding of textbooks through the school capital outlay fund.
Title: H.B. 1196
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Relates to school capital construction; establishes a select committee on capital construction; provides an appropriation.
Title: S.B. 167
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Funding Formulas

Signed into law 08/2001

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Chapter No.155. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to compute an equalization adjustment for each school district so that no district's prior year base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance is less than the prior year base revenue limit per unit of average daily attendance above which fall not more than 10% of the total statewide units for the appropriate size and type of district.
Title: A.B. 441
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2001

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Chapter No.203, Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to perform specified computations with respect to special education local planning areas and affected pupils and to permanently increase the amount per unit of average daily attendance for those areas. States that, commencing with the 2001-02 fiscal year to the 2010-11 fiscal year, a specific amount of funds shall be appropriated, once each fiscal year, for allocation to school districts pursuant to a prescribed calculation.
Title: S.B. 982
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Amends the School Code; increases the foundation level of support, the average daily attendance figures utilized in the computation of general state aid, the amount of a supplemental general state aid grant, and which school districts may receive grants; extends repeal date.
Title: H.B. 3050
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Provides that for the purpose of calculating the grant index, school districts are grouped into categories to compute equalized assessed valuation per pupil in average daily attendance.
Title: H.B. 2255
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.
Community College

Act No. 35 of 2001., Amends Public School Code. Provides for school districts, national assessment tests, school director relations with districts, management reports, distressed districts, equipment, duty to employ qualified professionals, continuing development, proof of residency, tuition costs, agricultural education, charter school funding, retirement plans, vocational schools, basic education funding formula and other like issues. Requires state department to conduct a study of public schools providing Internet instruction. Allows any community college that was approved as a community college by the state board after January 1, 1990, to be dissolved after a determination by the Secretary of Education that the majority of the education and training programs operated by the college are non-academic in nature.
Title: S.B. 485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Creates the state education fund and specifies how the amount of revenues to be deposited in the fund is to be derived; defines the terms "categorical programs", "federal taxable income, as modified by law," "inflation" and total state funding for all categorical programs.
Title: S.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Increases the total partial equivalence relation average number belonging and basic entitlements for public schools for school fiscal years beginning on or after 7/1/01; increases the basic entitlement for an elementary school district or a K-12 school district elementary program to a specified amount; increases the basic entitlement for a high school district to a specified amount.
Title: H.B. 121
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Under current law, if entitlements increase by more than 4% in a single fiscal year, school budgets not at the BASE might not be able to increase the full amount of the increase. This bill removes that restriction. As a result, school budgets and local tax levies might be higher.
Title: H.B. 164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Section 16 changes the definition of general fund operating expenditures for purposes of the state aid formula (TEEOSA). The bill provides that general fund operating expenditures will not include retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance. The exclusion of these items from general fund operating expenditures will reduce formula "need". The State Department of Education indicates that the amount of retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance is not a significant amount on a statewide
basis, so the exclusion of these items will result in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools.
Section 20 provides that net option funding will be the net number of option students in each grade range times the statewide average cost grouping cost per student multiplied by the weighting factor for the corresponding grade range. Current law provides that net option funding will be net number of option students in each grade range times the lesser of the statewide average cost grouping cost
per student or the local system cost grouping cost per student multiplied by the weighting factor for the corresponding grade range. This change will shift a minimal amount of state aid between school districts. The change means that schools in the standard cost grouping that receive net option funding will receive a higher amount of net option funding since the aid will be based on the statewide average cost grouping cost rather than the local system cost grouping cost. The increase in net option aid will reduce the amount available through the formula as income tax rebate. Since net option funding and income tax rebates are considered to be resources for purposes of determining the overall amount of state aid received, the change will only have a minimal impact on state aid provided to districts that are not receiving equalization aid. [Summary from Fiscal Note.)
Title: L.B. 797--Two Components
Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

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Changes the definition of general fund operating expenditures for purposes of the state aid formula. General fund operating expenditures will not include retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance. The exclusion of these items from general fund operating expenditures will reduce formula "need." resulting in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools. The state department of education indicates that the amount of retirement incentive plans and staff development assistance is not a significant amount on a statewide basis, so the exclusion of these items will result in a minimal decrease in state aid paid to schools.
Title: L.B. 797
Source: Nebraska Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

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Directs the State Board of Education to conduct a study of public education, its structure, financial needs, and funds needed for improvement.
Title: H.B. 2169
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Relates to small school districts exemption from the general budget limit.
Title: H.B. 2183
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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This bill makes adjustments in the school aid formula including the addition of funding for pre-school programs. The full text of the bill is below.
Title: S.B. 129
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Exempts all school district levies from property tax mill levy limitations; increases the mill levy limit for adult education.
Title: S.B. 117
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Revises the school finance laws; clarifies the requirement that a school district operate for both the minimum number of pupil instruction days and the minimum number of hours; clarifies the duty of the County Superintendent regarding the apportionment of County equalization money; prohibits a change in school district boundaries until a district's mill levies have been set.
Title: S.B. 390
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Revises school funding through the use of the Public School Fund; revises the structure of the Public School Fund; authorizes the Board of Investments to purchase the mineral rights held by the public school fund; provides that royalty payments on the purchased mineral rights must be deposited in the guarantee account.
Title: S.B. 495
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Relates to the amount set per student as part of the funding formula. Also, establishes school district employee compensation report. Requires districts beginning in 2002, to provide the following information to the superintendent of public instruction, with respect to teachers and with respect to administrators:
a. The total amount of base salary; b. The total amount of compensation reportable as gross income under the Internal Revenue Code; c. Any other compensation paid or provided to or on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators; d. Health insurance benefits paid to or on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators; e. Retirement contributions and assessments paid on behalf of individuals employed as teachers and as administrators, and including individual shares if paid by the district.relates to compensation of teachers and a school district compensation report; provides contingent payments for declining enrollment and the distribution of differing payment amounts. In addition, bill allows for declining enrollment.
f. Any other benefits paid or provided to or on behalf of individuals employed as
teachers and as administrators.
Title: H.B. 1344
Source: North Dakota Legislative Web Site

Vetoed 04/2001

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Prior to the 1999-2000 school year, funding for schools was based upon current year membership, and a district that had a growth in membership equal to or greater than 1 percent was allocated an additional 0.05 units for each additional student. With the shift to prior year funding beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, new students do not generate grade or other program units the first year in which they are enrolled. In an effort to address the problem, the 1999 General Appropriation Act included language to increase the growth factor form 0.05 to 1.00 for the 1999-2000 school year and the 2000 General Appropriation Act included a categorical appropriation of $2,554.1 to be distributed to districts with a growth rate of greater than 1 percent for the 2000-2001 school year. According to SDE, the bill would provide a more comprehensive method of recognizing membership growth, which had not been permanently addressed when the shift to prior year funding was enacted.

Title: H.B. 23
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

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Vetoed 03/2001

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Relates to public school finance; changes the calculation of the at-risk index to determine additional program units.
Title: H.B. 49
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Revises the distribution of state aid to education.
Title: H.B. 1258
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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Signed into law 02/2001

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Relates to school finance; extends application of foundation program dollar per average daily membership amounts.
Title: H.B. 4
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Modifies the required dates for the undertaking and completing a reevaluation of the cost based school finance model.
Title: H.B. 197
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Litigation

Signed into law 05/2001

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Appropriates $ 27,931,118 to the Department of Education as an emergency appropriation for special education costs as a result of the Felix consent decree. This was a result of the Felix v. Cayetano case.
Title: S.B. 1084
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Local Foundations/Funds

Signed into law 02/2001

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Provides for the establishment of the state percent growth for purposes of the state school foundation program. The state budget is set to grow 4 % in the 2001-02 fiscal year and 4% in the 2002-03.
Title: H.B. 191
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Amends Chapter 5-10 by adding a new section that sets inflation adjustment period, states that the rate rate of inflation is based on the consumer price index prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor; that the principal balance in each permanent school and other educational and charitable fund is the principal balance to be increased by the rate of inflation; and that the inflation adjustment requirement shall be met using realized net capital gains. If these are not sufficient, the interest, dividends, and other income shall be used. Any excess realized net capital gains are to be carried forward for the following year's inflation adjustment.
Title: S.B. 93
Source: South Dakota State Legislature (Web site)

Signed into law 02/2001

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Annual appropriations from the general fund are made to the common school permanent fund reserve account. This bill clarifies calculation of funds appropriated to and from the common school permanent
fund reserve account and makes technical corrections. Amends Section 1. W.S. 9-4-713(g) re: the spending policy for investment earnings of permanent funds. For earnings from the common school account within the permanent land fund, earnings transferred to the common school account are not to be included when determining spending policy.
Title: H.B. 31
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2001

Finance--Lotteries

Signed into law 06/2001

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Enacts the State Education Lottery Act; provides for a state lottery; creates the State Education Lottery Corporation to conduct the state lottery; provides for the corporation's board membership, duties and powers; provides for the method of contracting with vendors and retailers; provides for the sale of lottery game tickets and the distribution of prizes; provides for allocation of lottery proceeds which must be used for educational purposes and programs.
Title: S.B. 496
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

2002 November Ballot 06/2001

Postsec.

LOTTERY AND GAMING (TNSJR1-2001) Proposes an amendment to article XI, Section 5, of the Constitution of Tennessee, relating to lotteries; provides that the net proceeds are state allocated to enable citizens of the state to attend postsecondary educational institutions in the state.
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Changes the allocation of the Education Innovation Fund in 2001-02 and 2002-03. The bill provides that up to 20% of the Education Innovation Fund (lottery proceeds), not to exceed $1.5 million per fiscal year, will be granted for a distance education network completion grant. The grant will fund engineering, equipment, and installation charges for two-way interactive distance education capacity for public high school buildings that do not have such capacity currently. Pursuant to current law about $1.6 million of lottery funds will be allocated for competitive incentive grants each year. The reallocation will leave approximately for $100,000 for competitive incentive grants in each of these two fiscal years.
Title: L.B. 833
Source: http://www.ecs.org/html/offsite.asp?document=http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/index.htm

Vetoed 04/2001

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Amends the New Mexico Lottery Act to increase the distribution of net lottery revenue allocated to the Lottery Tuition Fund, changes the distribution of lottery proceeds from the public school capital outlay fund to the educational technology fund, adds language which directs institutions to award all other scholarships before lottery tuition scholarship funds, changes the name of the fund to the Lottery Success Fund, and removes language requiring CHE to prepare guidelines for administration of the program. Adds a new section -- the Lottery Success Scholarship Act -- which sets forth eligibility criteria and guidelines.

Title: H.B. 22
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

The "lottery tuition fund" is created in the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by the commission on higher education. Earnings from investment of the fund shall accrue to the credit of the fund. Any balance in the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in the fund for appropriation by the legislature as provided in this section. Money in the lottery tuition fund is appropriated to the commission on higher education for distribution to New Mexico's public post-secondary educational institutions to provide tuition assistance for New Mexico resident undergraduates as provided by law.
Title: S.B. 59
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Finance--Performance Funding

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.
Community College

Clarifies the performance measures on which community colleges are evaluated for the purpose of performance budgeting.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Private Giving

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Exempts from the public records laws State university records such as intellectual property, donated historical materials and names and information concerning donors or potential donors to a university.
Title: S.B. 1527
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Resource Efficiency

Signed by Governor 09/2001

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Chapter No.250, Requires the State Department of Education to conduct a study of pupil support, defined to include school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers, in the schools. Requires the State Department of Education to report the results of the study to the Governor and the Legislature. Appropriates funds for the study.
Title: A.B. 722
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Signed into law 06/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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Allows the County Treasurer to receive and disburse school district funds from 1 account if the school district is using a proper computerized accounting system.
Title: H.B. 1529
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Directs the State Auditor or the auditor's designee to conduct records management audits in all departments, institutions, and agencies of state government, including educational institutions and the judicial and legislative branches to determine if such agencies are managing records in compliance with established administrative and technical procedures.
Title: H.B. 1009
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures

To governor 12/2001

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Reduces state appropriations from the Education Trust Fund by by 3.85 percent for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002.
Title: S.B. 30D
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 10/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue eighty-two million dollars aggregate principal amount of bonds, in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the authority.
Title: S.B. 626
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Postsec.

Appropriates for the support, maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002.

See the attached budget below.
Title: H.B. 307
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Creates the State Education Fund and 2 accounts within the fund; provides for appropriation of moneys in the fund to comply with the mandatory education funding requirements; explains the annual increase requirements for the legislature to increase annual funding to school districts; requires school districts to submit a 10 year plan on the use of such increased funding; authorizes grants to low performing schools based on the school report care for the 2001-02 budget year.
Title: S.B. 82
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Revises laws governing dedicated revenue and statutory appropriations; provides for the deposit of state school fund revenue in the state special revenue fund; appropriates timber harvest funds to schools for technology acquisition.

Title: H.B. 41
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Requires an election authorizing the use by school districts of Impact Aid Revenue Bonds; specifies the dates such election may be held; allows school districts to issue such bonds; provides for the method of securing the bonds; states the use of such bonds; provides procedures for the issuing, debt service and interest of such bonds.
Title: H.B. 2440
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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This bill creates a fund for extraordinary special education cost. Local district may apply to this fund if they face high special ed. cost. In addition the states base funding number was adjusted downward.
Title: H.B. 2634
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Concerns plans to use the constitutionally mandated increase in State funding for public schools to be used for specific and accountable purposes to improve public schools such as class size, student achievement and charter school funding.
Title: H.B. 1232
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

This bill makes adjustments in the school aid formula including the addition of funding for pre-school programs. The full text of the bill is below.
Title: S.B. 129
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Governor's veto overridden by HOUSE 03/2001

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Provides that until fiscal year 2006, all of the State share of oil and gas severance taxes shall be appropriated for the support of the minimum education or adequate education program; clarifies that such proceeds shall not be considered State general funds for purposes of statutory limits on legislative appropriations.
Title: S.B. 2680
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Student Fees

Signed into law 02/2001

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Increases the fee a school of participation may charge a non-enrolled student for participation in an extracurricular activity; allows the school of participation in certain circumstances to charge a non-enrolled student the actual cost of post-season participation in an activity.
Title: H.B. 1129
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Finance--Taxes/Revenues

Signed into law 12/2001

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Establishes the Literacy Volunteers of America - New Jersey Fund; provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for Literacy Volunteers of America - New Jersey.
Title: A.B. 2545
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Approved by voters 11/2001

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Initiative Measure No. 747 concerns limiting property tax increases. This measure would require state and local governments to limit property tax levy increases to 1% per year, unless an increase greater than this limit is approved by the voters at an election.
Title: Initiative 747
Source: http://vote.wa.gov/results/measures.tpl?m_id=747&category=1

Approved by voters 11/2001

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Initiative 747, which limits property tax levy increases to 1% per year, (unless a greater increase is approved by voters), passed with 826,258 "yes" votes (or about 58%). 609,266 citizens (or about 42%) voted "no" on the measure.
Title: Initiative 747
Source: Secretary of State's office

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 07/2001

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Relates to State fees, funds, revenues and expenditures; part of the bill decreases the rate of the education property tax.
Title: H.B. 170
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Requires office of State Planning and Budgeting to calculate amount of State income tax revenues that must be diverted to State Education Fund during any State fiscal year no fewer than 4 times per year and to certify to the Department of Revenue the amount of State income tax revenues that the department must transfer to the State Treasurer for deposit into the State Education Fund on the first business day of each month.
Title: H.B. 1262
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Allows a school district that is operating under a Seal of Best Financial Management to levy, by local referendum, additional district school taxes, for a maximum period of 4 years; provides limitations on the uses of such tax revenues.
Title: S.B. 1872
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Requires the Student Assistance Commission to develop and adopt rules that provide the minimum criteria that an employer must meet in order for the employer's scholarship program for employees and dependents to be certified as eligible for the Employee and Dependent Scholarship Program Tax Credit; provides tax credit application procedures for employers; provides the credit will be 50% of the qualifying scholarship funds paid by the employer.
Title: H.B. 2521
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 06/2001

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Authorizes certain ad valorem tax incentives for economic development; authorizes school districts to provide tax relief for certain corporations and limited liability companies that make large investments that create or maintain jobs in this state; continues the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act.
Title: H.B. 1200
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Authorizes deduction for contributions to Oklahoma College Savings Plan Accounts. In taxable years beginning after December 31, 2001, there shall be allowed a deduction in the amount of a contribution to an account established pursuant to the Oklahoma College Savings Plan Act. The deduction shall equal the amount of the contribution to the account, but in no event shall the deduction exceed Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) each taxable year for each designated beneficiary of the account.
Title: H.B. 1896
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

1999 SB 756 established the Oregon Qualified Tuition Savings Plan. Beginning 2001, annual contributions up to $2,000 to a qualified account can be subtracted from Oregon taxable income. Under Internal Revenue Code section 529, realization of earnings accruing to a qualified state tuition account is generally deferred until withdrawal by the beneficiary. This treatment also passes through to Oregon taxable income. HB 3080A takes the additional step of making earnings on qualified withdrawals effectively exempt from Oregon income tax.
Title: H.B. 3080
Source: Oregon Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

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Levies a special ad valorem tax for public school purposes at the rate of 12 mills on each one dollar on the value of property in Mobile County; provides for certain exemptions.
Title: S.B. 363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Establishes that tax revenues raised by counties, school districts or municipalities are not revenues of the state.
Title: S.B. 237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Amends School District Millage Rollback compensation appropriation for the 2001-2003 biennium.
Title: H.B. 2098
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Governor's veto overridden by HOUSE 03/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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The legislative council shall consider studying the state and local tax structure for funding of elementary and secondary education to determine the feasibility and desirability of enhanced state funding to school districts for delivery of core curriculum instruction, the equity of the existing degree of reliance on property tax revenues for elementary and secondary education funding, and whether improved efficiency is attainable in delivery of elementary and secondary education services. The legislative council shall report its findings and recommendations, together with any legislation required to implement the recommendations, to the
fifty-eighth legislative assembly.
Title: S.B. 2428
Source: http://www.state.nd.us/lr

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to an individual income tax deduction for contributions for education to allow for contributions made to applied technology centers or applied technology service centers.
Title: H.B. 281
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Revises the time period for adjusting property tax levies for the purpose of maintaining the state's percentage of aid to general and special education.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Permits individuals to designate that a specified amount of their income tax refunds, or additional amounts, be contributed to local school improvement projects.
Title: H.B. 2583
Source: http://senate.state.va.us

Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues

Signed into law 09/2001

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Authorizes distinctive agriculture license plates to fund Agriculture in the Classroom programs; establishes a fund for deposit of fees associated with such license plates to provide funds for such program.
Title: S.B. 3077
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY INDIVIDUAL WHOSE STATE INCOME TAX REFUND FOR ANY TAXABLE YEAR IS $ 2 OR MORE MAY DESIGNATE $ 2 OF THE REFUND TO BE DEPOSITED INTO THE HAWAII SCHOOL-LEVEL MINOR REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL FUND
Title: S.B. 1211
Source: Legislation

Signed into law 04/2001

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Establishes an income tax checkoff for the Arkansas School for the Blind and Arkansas School for the Deaf.
Title: H.B. 2267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without governor's signature 04/2001

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Relates to the imposition and collection of an alcoholic beverages tax to provide funding for the child care for working families act and the Arkansas Better Chance education program.
Title: S.B. 576
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Continues the division of fees collected from the education license plates as follows: 25% to the School Intervention and Career Counseling Development Fund, 75% to local education foundations.
Title: H.B. 2126
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Allows vendors to sell soft drinks or other concessions on school property; permits a school district to enter into contracts for sale of soft drinks or other concessions.
Title: H.B. 1070
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Governance

Approved by voters 11/2001

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Postsec.

PROPOSITION 11 (HJR85-2001)Proposes a Constitutional amendment to allow current and retired public school teachers and college professors, and retired public school administrators to receive compensation for serving on the governing bodies of school districts, cities, towns, or other local government districts.
Title: V. 11
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Signed into law 07/2001

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Creates funding equalization formula over a four-year period for education service districts; directs education service districts to expend a specified percentage of available funds on services or programs approved by component school districts; directs the Department of Education to conduct a study on education service district services and funding.
Title: S.B. 260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Postsec.

Relates to elections; revises the districts from which members of the state legislature are elected; changes the number of members of the state board of education; revises the districts from which members of the state board of education are elected; changes the number of members of the board of regents; revises the districts from which members of the board of regents are elected; revises the districts from which Representatives in Congress are elected; and provides other matters.
Title: S.B. 14A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Defines education service district; provides for the mission requirements for such districts on a regional level; provides for the establishment of zones within the district to assure the majority of land area has at least one member on the districts' board.
Title: S.B. 259
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Regional education cooperatives authorized by the state board may own, and have control and management over, buildings and land independent of the control division of the general services department; cooperatives shall submit budgets to the department of education. The state board shall, by rule, determine the provisions of the Public School Finance Act relating to budgets and expenditures that are applicable to cooperatives; and pursuant to the rules of the state board, the state superintendent may, designate a cooperative as a board of finance with which all funds appropriated or distributed to it shall be deposited. The state board, with full participation by the cooperatives, shall develop a statewide long-range plan for educational and technical assistance activities in public and charter schools served by the cooperatives.
Title: H.B. 139
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

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Creates the Enhancement of Public Education Task Force with a primary focus on reviewing the purpose, functions, roles, and responsibilities of the State Office of Education.
Title: H.B. 267
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule

Signed into law 04/2001

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Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest

Signed into law 06/2001

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Provides for an exception from the Ethics Code to allow former city/parish school board members to contract with, be employed by, or be appointed by such board to any position with such board which requires a teacher's certificate.
Title: S.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Provides to set forth certain ethical guidelines and prohibitions for educational administrators, employees and board members.
Title: S.B. 817
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--School Boards

Approved by voters 11/2001

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Postsec.

Vetoed 06/2001

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Establishes the state student council, with student representatives from each departmental school district; requires the council to conduct an annual conference of secondary students; requires the council to determine whether to select the student member of the Board of Education or to run an election to select the individual.
Title: S.B. 670
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Act 27., Provides that a school board vote is not valid unless it is conducted at a meeting deemed an open meeting under the Open Meetings Act.
Title: H.B. 4429
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Session Law Number 260., Clarifies the right to appeal to a local board of education and to require notice of the dismissal, demotion or suspension without pay of noncertified employees.
Title: S.B. 532
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us

Signed into law 06/2001

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Expands indemnification for school board members and employees in civil, administrative or criminal proceedings; establishes a code of ethics for school board members.
Title: A.B. 1755
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 05/2001

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Requires the Board of Education to invite the military representative to participate in discussing about board matters except those matters discussed in executive meeting.
Title: H.B. 868
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Authorizes trustees of a school district to establish and temporarily transfer district funds into independent investment accounts to increase school board control over investments; establishes guidelines for district expenditures for investment accounts; authorizes a district to invest money in investments authorized by the Board of Investments.
Title: S.B. 260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Requires the Board of Trustees of a school district, upon receipt of a petition signed by 15% or more of the qualified electors of a district requesting the creation of a single-member trustee district, to submit the proposal to the qualified electors of the district; provides criteria for submission of a petition to the board.
Title: S.B. 423
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Increases, from two to four, the number of years that a person can serve as chairperson of a
school district board. Applies to any person serving as chairperson of a school board on or after the effective date of the measure. Takes effect on passage.
Title: H.B. 3193
Source: Oregon Legislative Web Site

Vetoed 05/2001

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School board salaries. Provides that any elected school board may pay each of its members an annual salary that is consistent with the salary procedures and no more than the salary limits provided for local governments in Article 1.1 (§ 15.2-1414.1 et seq.) of Chapter 14 of Title 15.2 or as provided by charter. The specific salary limits that are currently provided for most school boards in Virginia are eliminated for elected school boards; however, for appointed school boards the specific salary limits are retained. Title 15.2 sets specific salary caps for city councils and boards of supervisors by population brackets; town councils may set their own salary levels. This bill also provides that the annual amount a school board, whether elected or appointed, may pay its chairman will be increased from $1,100 to $2,000 and retains the restriction that no school board can be awarded a salary increase, unless a specific salary increase is approved by affirmative vote of that school board.
Title: H.B. 637
Source: http://hod.state.va.us/welcome.htm

Signed into law 05/2001

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Ensures that every union school board follows the proportional representation principle.
Title: H.B. 314
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Relating to the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County; establishing the Lewis Spratt Act; providing for the election and operation of the board of education for the City of Birmingham; providing that the members of the board shall be elected from defined districts; providing for the selection of a chair and vice chair; providing for the terms of office, qualifications, and compensation of the members; prescribing procedures for electing the members and for filling vacancies on the board; and providing certain transitional provisions.
Title: S.B. 3
Source: From the Legislation

Signed into law 04/2001

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, Prohibits school boards and their representatives from actively discouraging efforts of teachers to secure negotiation rights.
Title: S.B. 979
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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This legislation requires local school board members to now face the same State Code of Conduct that all state employees must live up to.
Title: H.B. 54
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Includes Board of Educational in definition of "members" for purposes of providing immunity from or indemnification for civil liability.
Title: H.B. 1016
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Relates to the duties of the Board of Directors of a school district; includes those related to the suspension of a practitioner by the board of directors of a school district.
Title: H.B. 389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Provides that members to the Worchester County Board of Education shall be elected; establishes procedure for election of members to the Worcester County Board of Education; provides for the termination of incumbent appointed members holding office on a specified date under specified circumstances; establishes a term of office for elected members; provides for public high school student nonvoting members; provides for the compensation of members and other related matters.
Title: H.B. 1347
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Authorizes voting student member to be appointed to serve on the Baltimore Board. Prohibits student member from voting on issues relating to personnel; capital and operating budgets; school closings, repopenings, and boundaries; collective bargaining decisions; student disciplinary matters; and certain appeals to the board. Prohibits student member from attending executive or special sessions of the board. http://mlis.state.md.us/2001rs/bills/hb/hb0899t.rtf
Title: H.B. 899
Source: mlis.state.md.us

Signed into law 04/2001

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Authorizes the Board of Trustees of a school district to hold its final budget meeting on or before 8/15; extends the time for providing notification of the final budget meeting.
Title: H.B. 249
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Requires continuing education hours for school board members to be completed before filing for reelection; provides and emergency effective date.
Title: H.B. 1044
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Modifies the definition of school board, for purposes of Title 22.1, to mean the governing body of a school division. "Governing body" or "local governing body" means the governing body board of supervisors of the a county, council of a city, or council of a town, responsible for appropriating funds for such locality, as the context may require.
Title: H.B. 2786
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Adjusts the definition of school board to note that such body governs a school division and revises the definition of governing body or local governing body in the education title to be like the definition in the local government title.
Title: H.B. 2786
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Requires members of the board of directors to annually visit classrooms in the district in which they serve.
Title: H.B. 1501
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Clarifies the rights and duties of the county boards of education, the county school supervisors, and the county board of education designees.
Title: S.B. 192
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Relates to public officers and employees; limits school candidates to one school district governing board.
Title: S.B. 1451
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Concerns the performance evaluation of the superintendent of a school district by a school district board of education.
Title: H.B. 1146
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Provides a second alternative method of electing members to a high school district board of trustees when more than half of the electors of the high school district reside outside of the territory of the elementary school district in which the high school district buildings are located. The second alternative allows the county superintendent to establish four trustee nominating districts within the high school district but outside the elementary school district in which the high school buildings are located. One trustee is elected from each nominating district and three trustees are elected from the elementary district, for a total of seven trustees on the high school board of trustees. Trustees from the elementary district serve on both the high school board of trustees and the elementary board of trustees.
Title: H.B. 321
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2001

Postsec.

Amends Section 21-1-26 NMSA 1978 to make the existing orientation and in-service training for members of the Boards of Regents mandatory.
Title: H.B. 137
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 02/2001

Postsec.

Coordinates school election dates; requires a person seeking to become a write in candidate for a trustee position on a school board to file a declaration of intent at least 25 days before the election.
Title: H.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Prohibits school boards from employing any person whose certificate has been revoked or suspended.
Title: H.B. 1067
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Governance--Site-Based Management

Signed into law 05/2001

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Beginning in 2004-05 school year, the makeup of any local school improvement committee is to be determined by IC 20-10.2
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.state.in.us/legislative

Signed into law 05/2001

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Requires first-class permits for superintendents; provides that principals chair the process for interviewing prospective professional and paraprofessional employees; requires superintendent to allow principals the opportunity to interview and make recommendations on prospective personnel; provides $500 for early notice of resignation or retirement at end of school year; expands use of retired teachers as substitutes; provides for statewide job return for personnel terminated because of reductions in force (RIF); requires job postings to be written to ensure largest pool of qualified applicants and to not require criteria unnecessary for successful job performance; requires county boards to compile, annually update and make available a list of professional personnel, areas of certification and seniority; requires study and report by state board and secretary of education and the arts on policies, programs and statutes relating to training, certification and licensing of professional educator development funding for education and training of RIF teachers to gain certification in areas of critical need and shortage.
Title: S.B. 227
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update

Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies

Signed into law 10/2001

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Modifies statutory provisions governing State Board of Education districts; eliminates current boundaries and establishes new boundaries; establishes election dates for each district to ensure that state board terms are staggered.
Title: H.B. 2002B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Removes the one-year residency requirement for the Commissioner of Education.
Title: H.B. 45
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Postsec.

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Removes the commission on postsecondary education from the Department of Education.
Title: S.B. 237
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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Health

Chaptered by Secretary of State 10/2001

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Chapter No.656, Enacts the California Mercury Reduction Act of 2001. Prohibits any person, on and after a certain date, from selling at retail or supplying a mercury fever thermometer, as defined, to a consumer or patient in the State, except by a prescription. Prohibits any school from purchasing, for use in the classroom, specified devices and materials containing mercury, except measuring devices for use in school laboratories.
Title: S.B. 633
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 09/2001

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Vetoed 09/2001

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Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction conduct a study of school districts throughout the State to examine the lack of pupil locker space on school campuses, the weight of hardcover textbooks, any a correlation between pupils carrying heavy instructional materials in backpacks and spinal damage. Appropriates funds for the study.
Title: A.B. 1030
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 07/2001

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Read third time. Passed ASSEMBLY. *****To SENATE for concurrence., Authorizes designated school personnel, during the regular school day, to assist a pupil to take or apply medication for which a prescription is not required if the school district receives a written statement from the parent or guardian. Provides that the medication may only be taken or applied in accordance with the original package instructions. Provides that the school personnel contact the pupil's parent or guardian and the school nurse if he/she decides not to assist the pupil.
Title: A.B. 1061
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Defines school-based health centers as those located in elementary or secondary schools that deliver primary and preventive health care services to students on site; includes school-based health centers in the definition of health care facility with respect to the licensing requirements.
Title: H.B. 5976
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Requires meningitis vaccinations of college students living in on-campus housing.
Title: H.B. 5675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act; provides that a school board shall encourage that all teachers and other school personnel acquire, develop, and maintain the knowledge and skills necessary to properly administer life-saving techniques; allows the school board to use the services of non-governmental entities whose personnel have expertise in life-saving techniques to instruct teachers and other personnel.
Title: H.B. 3137
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Act No. 92-402., Requires a school board to permit self administration by a pupil of prescribed asthma medication; requires the parents of the pupil provide to the school written authorization of the self administration and provide the school board written certification by the pupil's supervising physician or advanced practice registered nurse that the pupil is capable of self administration of medication; adds an exception for willful and wanton conduct to the liability provisions.
Title: S.B. 979
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Establishes the Medicaid Trust Fund For School-Based Services.
Title: S.B. 757
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Law No. 447., (LD 1214)Encourages the use of locally grown foods in school food services programs; provides that the State will match a portion of the monies a school administrative unit spends on local produce for food service programs; specifies that such food be produce or minimally processed food purchased from a farmer or farm coop.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Relates to the duties of a school nurse and school foods and nutrition programs; repeals the statutory provision requiring children to be examined for tuberculosis prior to school entrance; repeals the statutory provision requiring a local school board to maintain yearly statistics on the age, height, weight and grade for each pupil in the school; provides that in a medical emergency, a school nurse shall be permitted, without a doctor's order or parental permission, to administer oxygen.
Title: S.B. 13
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Directs school districts to require students in grades 7 through 12 who participate in sports to receive physical examination.
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Directs Department of Education to conduct annual survey on number of Oregon children with diabetes; directs physicians to report to Health Division cases of diabetes among Oregon children.
Title: S.B. 769
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Relates to cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction of public school students.
Title: H.B. 821
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Relates to administration of medications on school field trips; permits educators on a school field trip to assist with medications such as oral, topical, or inhalant medications; includes inhalers, antibiotics, anti-convulsants and emergency medications such as epinephrine for allergic reactions.
Title: S.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for full time registered nurses for the State's public schools and for a grant to the Organ Donor Center.
Title: H.B. 284
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Relates to the governance of the public universities in Illinois; provides that at the beginning of each semester, the university shall inform incoming freshmen and transfer students and the students' parents or guardian about meningitis and its transmission; requires the university to require meningitis vaccination, except for students who have received the information concerning meningitis and have rejected the vaccination.
Title: S.B. 168
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Provides that a school corporation's discipline policy must allow a student with a chronic disease or medical condition to possess and self-administer medication while the student is on school grounds or off school grounds at a school activity, function, or event if the student's parent files an annual authorization that includes a certification from the student's physician for the student to self-administer the medication.
Title: S.B. 376
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Prohibits the sale and distribution of mercury-added novelties after 7/1/2003; limits the circumstances under which a mercury fever thermometer may be sold or supplied to an individual after 7/1/2003; restricts a public or nonpublic school from using or purchasing a mercury commodity, mercury compounds, or mercury-added instructional equipment and materials after 7/1/2003; provides that a person may sell or provide a mercury commodity only if that person meets certain conditions.
Title: H.B. 1901
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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(LD 1563)Amends immunization requirements for school children and children in child care to ensure consistent wording and requirements for the parents of children seeking to exempt their child from 1 or more immunization; shifts the specific disease and vaccine-specific requirements to rulemaking instead of statute.
Title: H.B. 1163
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Provides start-up costs for school districts to establish school breakfast programs.
Title: H.B. 353
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Modifies the health certificate requirements for public school employees to include tuberculosis or any physical or mental disease.
Title: H.B. 608
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Requires that nursing services in all school districts must be provided under the direction and supervision of a chief nurse; prescribes the qualifications of a chief nurse; revises provisions relating to nursing services provided to certain pupils; provides other matters properly relating thereto.
Title: A.B. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Expands civil and criminal immunity for school personnel who administer medication to students.
Title: H.B. 2682
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Adds vision screening to requirements for admission to public school, nursery school, kindergarten, preschool and child care; encourages parents to also obtain child's vision screening within six months of 3rd grade. (Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 50)
Title: S.B. 304
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

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Vetoed 05/2001

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Relates to the procedures for posting and notification of pesticide applications at schools and licensed day care centers. "School facility" means any facility used for licensed day care center purposes or for the purposes of a public kindergarten or public elementary or secondary school. School facility includes the buildings or structures, playgrounds, landscape areas, athletic fields, school vehicles, or any other area of school property. A school, nursery school, or licensed day care shall at the time of the application place a marker at each primary point of entry to the school grounds. School must also provide written notification annually or upon enrollment to parents or guardians of students and employees describing the school's pest control policies and methods, including the posting and notification requirements of the bill.
Title: S.B. 5533
Source: Washington Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

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Requires the department of health to use 40% of the funds appropriated for in-school tobacco prevention and cessation programs on state-wide implementation of the kids-for-health program.
Title: H.B. 2528
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Mandates every public educational institution in this state to offer health related education including physical education training and instruction.
Title: H.B. 2514
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Establishes a youth smoking prevention commission; provides a community health grant program.
Title: S.B. 2380
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Prohibits the location of a petroleum product tank farm within one and one-half miles of any existing school; provides for the site to be approved by resolution of the local governing body.
Title: H.B. 363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

Postsec.

Relates to immunizations for full time four year students prior to enrollment in public institutions of higher learning against meningococcal disease; provides for a waiver; states the State Council of Higher Education must, with the Board and Commissioner of Health, encourage private collages to develop procedures for providing information on the risks of such disease and the availability of vaccines against such disease; states religious exemptions on other immunizations shall apply.
Title: H.B. 2762
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Revises procedure for self-administration by pupils of medication for asthma or a potentially life-threatening illness; replaces liability requirements by a grant of immunity for those acting in good faith in accordance with statutes; allows pupil who is allowed to self-administer medication to carry an inhaler, provided pupil does not endanger himself or others via misuse; requires public schools to have and maintain an accessible nebulizer; provides training for school nurses or personnel.
Title: S.B. 1372
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Adds a physician assistant who is acting under the supervision of a licensed physician to the list of those practitioners who are qualified to perform a comprehensive physical exam of students prior to their entering kindergarten or elementary school.
Title: S.B. 1201
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Relates to Wyoming Environmental Pesticides Control Act; requires notification of pesticide application in or on school facilities and property; specifies requirements for posting of signs; authorizes school boards to develop policies on pesticide use in or on school facilities.
Title: H.B. 28
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Requires the establishment of guidelines for the storage and disposal of toxic chemicals at public schools; requires school districts to implement safe storage and disposal standards for toxic chemicals and other hazardous substances.
Title: H.B. 324
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Health--Child Abuse

Vetoed 05/2001

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Authorizes the disclosure of reports or records concerning child abuse or neglect to public school superintendents for specified purposes following a report of specified abuse committed by an independent contractor or an employee of an independent contractor who supervises or works directly with students.
Title: S.B. 810
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses

Signed into law 05/2001

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Appropriates funds to the Department of Health for full time registered nurses for the State's public schools and for a grant to the Organ Donor Center.
Title: H.B. 284
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Health--Suicide Prevention

Signed into law 06/2001

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Establishes a program of suicide prevention in public schools.
Title: S.B. 792
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

High School

Vetoed 09/2001

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Signed into law 06/2001

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Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War I, and World War II and Korean War veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.
Title: H.B. 441
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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(LD 21) Allows a local school board the option of granting a diploma to a veteran of World War II who was honorably discharged even though the veteran does not meet the graduation requirements.
Title: H.B. 21
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

To governor 05/2001

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Provides honorary high school diplomas to World War II veterans who left high school before graduation to serve in the United States military.
Title: H.B. 244; H.B. 94
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Authorizes the State Board of Education to develop and issue criteria for an occupational diploma for students with disabilities.
Title: S.B. 2578
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Alters the state school library funds grant program of the School Accountability Funding and Excellence Program in order to make middle schools and high schools eligible for grants under the program.
Title: H.B. 434
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Expands graduation requirements to include passing a state competency test in writing.
Title: S.B. 665
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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Authorizes the State Board of Education to award high school diplomas and honorary 8th grade certificates of completion to WW II and Korean Conflict Veterans who were unable to complete their education due to their military service; requires the State Board of Education to develop a uniform application for the diploma and certificate; encourages the Board of Education to provide appropriate recognition in awarding certificates and diplomas to veterans.
Title: H.B. 396
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Amends the Public School Code to require that public schools in each conference shall provide academic competitions similar to their athletic competitions. Students who participate in such competitions shall qualify for an academic letter in the subject in which they compete. Academic competition between schools will be governed by the New Mexico activities association.

Title: S.B. 25
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Requires any school board that provides access to a high school's student body or other contact with its students during a school or school division-sponsored activity to persons or groups for occupational, professional or educational recruitment to provide equal access on the same basis to official recruiting representatives of the military forces.
Title: S.B. 1207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

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Standard 4 of the Standards of Quality; Literacy Passports, diplomas, and certificates; class rankings. Authorizes each local school board to devise, vis-a-vis the award of diplomas to secondary school students, a mechanism for calculating class rankings that takes into consideration whether the student has taken a required class more than one time and has had any prior earned grade for such required class expunged.
Title: H.B. 2401
Source: http://senate.state.va.us

Signed into law 02/2001

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Relates to a standard diploma; restores language in the Standards of Quality that was unintentionally deleted by legislation reorganizing in the 2000 Session; provides that the requirements for a standard diploma shall include at least two sequential electives.
Title: H.B. 2674
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

High School--Advanced Placement

Signed into law 05/2001

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Signed into law 04/2001

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Signed into law 02/2001

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Increases the award for subsidized teacher training for advanced placement courses. The award will now increase from $450 to $650 per teacher.
Title: S.B. 60
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Authorizes boards of trustees of school districts to enter into interlocal agreements with postsecondary institutions to allow 11th and 12th grade students to obtain credits through attending classes available only at postsecondary institutions; provides eligibility criteria; requires payment of fees by districts from approximate number belonging payments.
Title: H.B. 265
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Amends the Education Code to authorize a public junior college to offer a course in which a student attending any high school in this state with written consent of the person operating the high school, may enroll and simultaneously receive high school and junior college credit. Provides that a public junior college must apply the same criteria and conditions to each student wishing to enroll in such a course without regard to whether the student attends a public, private, parochial, or home school. Provides that a student who attends a school that is not formally organized as a high school and is at least 16 years of age is considered to be attending a high school.
Title: S.B. 82
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Relates to higher education and part-time grant programs; pertains to dual enrollment students; includes students who are dually enrolled in a secondary school in the state and an institution of higher education in the State in the part-time student grant program; requires certain institutions of higher education to establish criteria for awarding a part-time student grant or waiver to dually enrolled students; alters a definition.
Title: H.B. 1127
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

High School--Exit Exams

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Requires the Board of Education to authorize, in its regulation for accrediting public schools, the substitution of industry certification and state licensure examinations for Standards of Learning assessments for the purpose of awarding verified units of credit for career and technical education courses.
Title: S.B. 1056
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

High School--Graduation Requirements

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Expands graduation requirements to include passing a state competency test in writing.
Title: S.B. 665
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices

To governor 09/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Prohibits a school district, when calculating a pupil's grade point average, from assigning extra grade weighting to a course that covers a subject required for admission to the University of California or the California State University unless the University of California approves the course for extra grade weighting. ftp://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/asm/ab_0451-0500/ab_458_bill_20011001_chaptered.html
Title: A.B. 458
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

To governor 05/2001

P-12

Alters the required ranges of percentage grades that equate to letter grades and grade points.
Title: S.B. 636
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Requires a uniform grading scale for non-traditional high school courses.
Title: H.B. 1826
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Relates to home schools; creates a committee to research and issue a report regarding issues.
Title: S.J.R. 9
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Provides for instruction of students in the home or other approved place; waives the requirement that persons providing instruction in the home have at least four years more formal education (until July 2003). Home school providers must have high school diploma or equivalent.
Title: H.B. 2595
Source: West Virginia Department of Education Legislative Update

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Prohibits home schooling if a sex offender resides in the home.
Title: S.B. 758
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Requires that any person operating or intending to operate a home school must notify the state superintendent of the establishment of a home school within 30 days of its establishment and notify the state superintendent in writing on or before April 1 of each subsequent year of operation of the school district from which the home school is drawing students; requires maintenance of records of student disease immunization or a waiver of that requirement; requires instruction be provided by a person possessing at least a high school diploma or its equivalent.
Title: S.B. 374
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Directs the Departments of Education, Human Services, the State Commission on Children and Families and the Criminal Justice Commission to support development and implementation of community learning centers; requires specified State and local entities to explore the feasibility of conducting statewide evaluation of such centers.
Title: H.B. 2082
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Modifies the Interagency Shared Information System; defines participating State agency or organization for system; directs the Employment Department to establish system for collecting, analyzing and sharing data for development of education, training and employment programs for development of workforce system performance measures.
Title: S.B. 400
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Provides licensed social workers to serve the needs of children enrolled in public schools in Arkansas.
Title: H.B. 2380
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Repeals the Governor's Partnership Council and the Intervention and Prevention Grant Program for Arkansas School Children.
Title: H.B. 1633
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Leadership

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Establishes, until a certain date, the Principal Training Program to provide incentive funding to provide school site administrators with instruction and training. Requires the State Board of Education, with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, to develop criteria for the approval of state-qualified training providers. Requires the Department of Education to develop, and the State Board of Education to review and approve, interim and final reports.
Title: A.B. 75
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 08/2001

Postsec.
Community College

Limits the right to employment as a first-year probationary faculty member to persons previously employed as administrators who were not employed pursuant to prescribed types of contracts; provides that community college district governing boards may employ academic employees, including educational administrators, on contract with respect to prescribed projects. (Chapter No.144)
Title: S.B. 838
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Adds school administrators as eligible to earn the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification salary adjustment of $ 5000 and extends the period of eligibility for such adjustment to certified by 7/1/10.
Title: S.B. 114
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 06/2001

Postsec.

(Joint Resolution) Extends the reporting date of the special legislative commission to study the feasibility of allowing unionized classified employees at all higher education institutions to be able to negotiate directly with Rhode Island Board of Governors from January 27, 2001 to January 29, 2002 and said commission shall expire on March 29, 2002.
Title: H.B. 5188
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to local superintendent of education, newly elected or appointed, required to complete financial and legal training program; relates to committee establishment to develop and implement.
Title: S.B. 93
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Repeals the requirement that principals and vice-principals have served as teachers for a period of not less than 5 years; requires principals and vice-principals to have appropriate school-level experience as determined by the department of education.
Title: H.B. 469
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the board of education to adopt a classification and compensation structure for education officers that more accurately reflects the level of work being performed.
Title: S.B. 1385
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Provides incentives to keep exemplary principals and vice-principals at the school level; encourages exemplary principals and vice principals to accept long-term assignments to hard-to-staff schools, special needs schools, and schools with high teacher turnover; encourages exemplary teachers to become vice principals.
Title: S.B. 530
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Provides that a school principal's performance evaluation may not be based wholly on Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress (ISTEP) scores of students in the principal's school, but the scores may be used as one factor in the evaluation; authorizes a school corporation or other entity to which the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) applies to release of education records to a juvenile justice agency.
Title: S.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Permits an individual who has leadership, management and administrative ability in a field other than education to serve as a local superintendent of schools.
Title: S.B. 378
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

If a postprobationary teacher who is an administrator is not reemployed as an administrator after either year of his probationary period, and there is a position as a teacher available for the ensuing school year in the school district in which the person is employed, that person must be offered contract as a teacher for the ensuing school year. If the person fails to accept the contract as a teacher, the person shall be deemed to have rejected the offer of a contract as a teacher. An administrator who has completed his probationary period and is thereafter promoted to the position of principal must serve an additional probationary period of 1 year in the position of principal. If the administrator serving the additional probationary period is not reemployed as a principal after the expiration of the additional probationary period, the board must offer the person a contract for the ensuing school year for the administrative position in which [he] the person attained postprobationary status. If the person fails to accept such a contract, the person shall
be deemed to have rejected the offer of employment.
Title: A.B. 130
Source: Nevada Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Amends Section 59-18-1930. The Education Oversight Committee shall provide for a comprehensive review of state and local professional development to include principal leadership development and teacher staff development. The review must provide an analysis of training to include what professional development is offered, how it is offered, the support given to implement skills acquired from professional development, and how the professional development enhances the academic goals outlined in district and school strategic plans. The oversight committee shall recommend better ways to provide and meet the needs for professional development, to include the use of the existing five contract days for in service. Needed revisions shall be made to state regulations to promote use of state dollars for training which meets national standards for staff development. Upon receipt of the recommendations from the comprehensive review of state and local professional development, the state department of education shall develop an accountability system to ensure that identified professional development standards are effectively implemented.
Title: H.B. 3534
Source: South Carolina Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires boards of education to announce when applications for superintendent are to be submitted and when superintendent will be employed. - Amends TCA Section 49-2-203.
Title: H.B. 389
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the commissioner to reduce a district's Foundation School Program funds by any amount paid to a terminated superintendent if it exceeds the amount earned by the superintendent under the contract as of the date of termination, including any amount that exceeds the amount of earned standard salary and benefits that is paid as a condition of early termination of the contract.
Title: S.B. 1446
Source: http://www.house.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Amends educational service districts' superintendent review committees composition to include a subcommittee of the board, two school district superintendents from within the educational service district selected by the educational service district board, and a representative of the state superintendent of public instruction selected by the state superintendent of public instruction. Also stipulated that prior to the employment of a new educational service district superintendent, the review committee must screen all applicants against the established qualifications for the position and recommend to the board a list of three or more candidates. The educational service district board must either select the new superintendent from the list of three or more candidates, ask the review committee to add additional names to the list, or reject the entire list and ask the review committee to submit three or more additional candidates for consideration. The board must repeat this process until a superintendent is selected.
Title: H.B. 1256
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/senate/default.htm

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Limits absences of school principals from school duties to attend the principals academy.
Title: H.B. 2954
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Exempts from an offset of a retirement allowance, retirees of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Teachers' Pension System who are reemployed as principals and supervisors of principals; requires county boards of education to provide information to the State Retirement Agency; clarifies that retirees must meet performance requirements for each year of their employment prior to retirement; provides for the act's termination.
Title: H.B. 442, S.B. 221
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Extends the automatic repealer in the school administrator sabbatical leave program.
Title: S.B. 2229
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

LB 314 exempts certain applicants for an entry-level teacher or administrator certificate from the requirement to take and pass a basic skills competency examination. An applicant is exempted from the test if the person has a certificate issued by another state based on successful completion of a teacher education program and has three or more successive years of experience in a school. Applicants with current credentials from a national nonprofit organization that issues credentials to teachers based upon meeting certain standards are also exempt. The bill repeals a requirement for the State Department of Education (NDE) to administer a basic skills examination for prospective teachers and administrators from outside the state.
Title: L.B. 314
Source: Nebraska Unicameral Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Subjects uncertified school administrators to a code of ethics.
Title: S.B. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Exempts district superintendents from certification requirements by the Wyoming professional teaching standards board.
Title: S.B. 126
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Leadership--District Superintendent

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Exempts district superintendents from certification requirements by the Wyoming professional teaching standards board.
Title: S.B. 126
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

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

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

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

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

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

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Extends the automatic repealer in the school administrator sabbatical leave program.
Title: S.B. 2229
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Middle School

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

The term and definition of "middle school" will be added to the school classifications of the Public School Code. Otherwise, the code defines only elementary, junior high and high schools.

Title: S.B. 662
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Minority/Diversity Issues

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

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

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Extends the Indian Education Program until 2007. Requires each California Indian education center, as a condition of receipt of annual funding, to collect and report site evaluation data that measure prescribed items. Requires each center to submit an evaluation of its program to the State Department of Education. Requires the department to report the consolidated results of the yearly evaluation data and self reviews to the Legislature.
Title: S.B. 1031
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

No Child Left Behind--Assessment

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

No Child Left Behind--Choice/Transfer

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

No Child Left Behind--Report Cards

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

No Child Left Behind--School Support

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Signed into law 10/2001

P-12

Chapter No.453, Relates to the After School Learning and Safe Neighborhoods Partnership Program. Establishes the Six-to-Six Before and After School Program to provide local before and after school enrichment programs. Permits such programs to operate for up to 30 hours per week without obtaining a license or special permit. Authorizes such programs to operate only with the authorization of the governing board of a school district.
Title: A.B. 297
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services

Signed into law 11/2001

P-12

Requires districts and community schools (charters) to provide intervention services to students who fail to attain a proficient score on any fourth grade proficiency test, and creates an intervention requirement for students who score below the proficient level on any 9th grade proficiency test or below the "basic" level on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th or 8th grade achievement tests. Permits schools and districts to use a below basic score on 4th, 5th. 7th or 8th grade achievement tests "as a factor in any decision to deny promotion" to the next grade level.
Title: S.B. 1
Source: 2001 Digest of Enactments

Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Creates the Oklahoma Statewide Portal System; relates to Internet access.
Title: H.B. 1662
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Allows electronic textbooks to be recommended, adopted, and purchased in same manner as regular textbooks. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 22.
Title: H.B. 604
Source: Tennessee Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Concerns the KAN-ED Act; provides for the establishment and maintenance of a broadband technology-based network for certain schools, libraries, and hospitals.
Title: H.B. 2035
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Modifies provisions related to the State Textbook Commission by changing its name to the State Instructional Materials Commission; Expands the scope of materials reviewed by the commission to include workbooks, computer software, laserdiscs or videodiscs and multiple forms of communications media; provides that instructional materials identified as inappropriate by the State Board of Education may not be used in public schools.
Title: S.B. 7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Relates to internet access in public schools; directs every public school furnishing student access to the Internet to utilize the appropriate technology to ensure, to the extent technologically feasible, that students are not permitted access to child pornography, obscenity, and materials that are harmful to juveniles.
Title: H.B. 1691
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Any teacher that teaches a course over the Digital Dakota Network shall receive additional compensation for each course and from each school for which the teaching services are provided.
Title: H.B. 1291
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us/

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Allows distance learning methods to account for 50% of continuing education requirements for all professions, except doctors, nurses, and dentists; authorizes the executive director of the Indiana professional licensing agency to review appeals of denials of the renewal of certain professional and occupational licenses.
Title: H.B. 1934
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the commissioner to implement a program no later than May 1, 2002 under which a school district may offer an electronic course to students enrolled in the district or to students enrolled in another district. Requires the commissioner to select school districts to participate based on applications submitted by the school districts. Authorizes the commissioner to determine the number of districts in the program, provided that the commissioner permits to the extent possible the participation of rural and urban districts with a higher than average number of at-risk students or drop out rate. Authorizes the commissioner to waive any requirement, restriction, or prohibition relating to the computation of daily attendance to the extent necessary to implement the program.
Title: S.B. 975
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Provides for the utilization of virtual distance and on line learning in which financial apportionment is based upon student course completion.
Title: H.B. 317
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Provides for continuing technological instruction or distance learning in the public schools through the special application of the School Foundation Program.
Title: H.B. 316
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

P-16 or P-20

Signed into law 08/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Public Act No. 92-445., Amends the State Finance Act, the Higher Education Student Assistance Act, and the Illinois Vehicle Code; creates a program to provide new teacher training scholarships, to be known as Illinois Future Teacher Corps Scholarships; provides that the scholarships are for full-time undergraduate and graduate students pursuing studies at qualified institutions of higher learning leading to teacher certification and covers tuition and other fees for a certain period of time.
Title: S.B. 1521
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Filed as Chapter No 06/2001

P-12
Postsec.
Community College

Establishes Florida's K-20 system. Relates to Florida On-Line High School, abolishing the Board of Regents, Board of Community Colleges and the Postsecondary Education Planning Commission, the regulation of independent schools or home education, to preschool, prekindergarten early intervention programs, the First Start Program, and children service needs assessments; creates Sarasota County campus of Florida State University; relates to the Bright Futures Scholarship Testing Program and the Prepaid College Program.
Title: S.B. 1162
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Reverses the decision of the P-16 Council which eliminates agricultural courses and other courses on the list of state funded courses for grades 9-12 approved by the State Board of Education (Act No. 38).
Title: H.R. 217
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Relates to education councils; defines "P-16 council" or "council of partners"; specifies that the Council on Postsecondary Education administer a competitive grant program to enable the establishment of local P-16 councils; criteria for participation in the grant program and the amount of the grants shall be established jointly by the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Board of Education; a local P-16 council shall promote teacher preparation and professional development, the alignment of competency standards and the elimination of barriers that impede student transition from preschool through baccalaureate programs; requires an annual report from each P-16 council.
Title: H.B. 17
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3

Signed into law 12/2001

P-12

Provides for child day care to eligible families during breaks in activities; provides child day care for up to a month in certain cases; provides that a social services district may use the funds allocated to it from the block grant to provide child care assistance to families with certain income who are attending a post secondary educational program and working at least 17 1/2 hours per week.
Title: S.B. 4861
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Requires State-funded preschool or infant and toddler program to provide a child's records to a public school when the child transfers, as specified. Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to advise local education agencies regarding related federal Head Start requirements. Makes other conforming changes.
Title: A.B. 1539
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Concerns education and equitable wages for early childhood education professionals; increases the number of highly qualified early childhood education professionals.
Title: H.B. 6931
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Directs the Commission on Children and Families, the Department of Education and the Department of Human Services to jointly establish polices for voluntary statewide early childhood system; specifies that these agencies develop a plan for sharing and linking data to implement a common data system for early childhood programs.
Title: H.B. 3659
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 07/2001

P-12

Directs state department to provide instructional phonics game to each approved Oregon prekindergarten.
Title: S.B. 593
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Establishes and implements a mandatory child care agency report card system and a separate and voluntary child care agency rated licensing system. Child care providers that participate in the voluntary 3-star ratings system will receive an increase in the rate of payment for the care of low-income children. Payments will increase by 5%, 15% and 20%, respectively, for each star earned.
Title: S.B. 1667; same as H.B. 1390
Source:

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Requires the State Commission on Higher Education to establish and maintain an Early Childhood Professional Loan Repayment Program; makes such individuals eligible for two years of loan repayment; provides the program to be funded through the Federal Child Care Development Program.
Title: H.B. 1293
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Establishes a program of universal early childhood education and care classes for four-year olds in any public school system that wishes to participate.
Title: S.B. 776
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Expands the resident teacher program to include early childhood teachers. (One-year residency program is required as part of the Oklahoma Teacher Preparation Act.)
Title: S.B. 499
Source: http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02SB/sb499_enr.rtf

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to Early Childhood Education Grant Evaluation; provides that the legislative council shall develop outcome measures to indicate the effectiveness of the Early Childhood Education Program; provides that the auditor general shall conduct programming evaluations of the Healthy Families Program, the Family Literacy Program, and the Healthy Start Program.
Title: S.B. 1516
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Concerns the required expenditure of a portion of a school district's per pupil operating revenue for the school district's preschool program.
Title: S.B. 123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

The following programs have been repealed by S.B. 1162:
1) Gold Seal Quality care program, a three tiered quality rating system
2) Early screening and intervention program for children in subsidized child care programs
3) Child Development Associate Training Grants for preschool teachers
4) Community resource mother or father programs
5) Public Prekindergarten program
6) First Start Program (birth to three program for children with disabilities and at risk children)
Title: S.B. 1162 - Omnibus
Source:

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Provides that a child care ministry that receives child care development voucher may only be required by a local Step Ahead Council to meet child care standards; specifies that a local Step Ahead Council may not require child care ministries to meet additional standards unless those additional standards are approved by the General Assembly or the Division of Family and Children; requires applicant for certain child care license to meet certain standards.
Title: S.B. 110
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

(LD 1002) Authorizes the Department of Human Services to adopt rules for the safe operation of nursery schools.
Title: S.B. 291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Preschool Funding: Requires schools for preschool children organized as public schools or as
public school classes to be maintained and supported from state, local and federal funds which hereafter may be appropriated specifically for preschool purposes, or from such gifts, donations or grants as may be received for preschool purposes. Allows state funds generated through the Basic Education Program (BEP) formula and local matching funds to be used for preschool purposes. If funded through the BEP, preschool would be based upon average daily preschool membership.
Title: S.B. 1881/H.B. 1921--Omnibus Bill
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to the creation of an office within the Health and Human Services Commission for coordinating the delivery of early childhood services.
Title: S.B. 665
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Establishes Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (T.E.A.C.H) pilot projects to assist teachers in retaining employment in the field of child care. Authorizes the commission, in establishing and administering the program, to consult with any other early childhood teacher pilot project. Requires the commission to operate the pilot program in at least three locations throughout the state, one of which is to be an urban community, one of which is to be a rural community, and one of which is to be a community in the region of the state that borders the United Mexican States. To be eligible to participate in the pilot program, a teacher must be employed in a child care program that has a provider agreement with a local workforce development board to serve families that receive subsidized child care services.
Title: S.B. 1294
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Districts are required to offer prekindergarten classes if the district identifies 15 or more children who are eligible (English learners, educationally disadvantaged, or homeless) and are at least four years of age. A school district may offer prekindergarten classes if the district identifies 15 or more eligible children who are at least three years of age. A district may not charge tuition for a prekindergarten class offered under this section.b) A district that offers a prekindergarten program on a tuition basis: (1) may not adopt a tuition rate for the program that is higher than necessary to cover the added costs of providing the program, including any costs associated with collecting, reporting, and analyzing data under Section 29.1532(c); and
(2) must submit the proposed tuition rate to the commissioner for approval.
Title: S.B. 596
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires each Head Start or Early Head Start program provider to coordinate with the Texas Workforce
Commission and local workforce development boards regarding subsidized child care services. Requires the coordination required by this section to include coordinating to ensure, to the extent practicable, that full-day, full-year child-care services are available to meet the needs of low income parents who are working or participating in workforce training or workforce education. Authorizes the coordination to also include certain other activities.
Title: S.B. 1293
Source: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Authorizes the establishment of a foundation for early childhood care and education.
Title: H.B. 1801
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires the Department of Education to develop and conduct readiness testing for children who are entering kindergarten.
Title: H.B. 2195
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

LB 759 changes current law pertaining to early childhood education pilot program grants. The bill provides for an Early Childhood Education Grant Program in lieu of the pilot projects that are currently funded. Programs selected for grants may be provided one-half of the total budget of the program per year. Pilot projects previously funded shall be eligible for continuation grants if their programs adhere to the requirements of the bill. The State Department of Education (NDE) may use up to 5% of the total appropriation for the grant program to evaluate and provide technical assistance to the early childhood education programs. NDE is to develop rules and regulations to implement the program. The state provided $560,000 of general funds in 2000-01 for pilot program grants for early childhood education programs. The bill does not require any additional funding for early childhood education program grants. Section 3 requires preschool programs, established by school boards or educational service units, to be approved by NDE. All teaching and administrative staff who are providing educational services in early childhood education programs are required to have training in early childhood education and have a permit or certificate issued by NDE. NDE indicates this is current practice, so no fiscal impact is estimated for these provisions.
Title: L.B. 759
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Relates to public education; provides for even start family literacy programs; provides for benchmarks, performance standards and evaluations; makes an appropriation.
Title: H.B. 33
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

, Amends the application process for the Arkansas Better Chance Program; provides funding for early childhood programs.
Title: H.B. 2241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Requires school district preschool program councils to periodically assess whether alternative community providers are available and to ensure the highest quality service at the lowest cost.
Title: S.B. 49
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Concerns the duties of the Colorado Department of Education in providing oversight of the Colorado Preschool Program.
Title: H.B. 1041
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Provides certain significant family risk factors of a child's home environment for eligibility in the preschool program.
Title: S.B. 120
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Relates to regional development preschool system teachers; includes employment as a teacher in the regional development preschool system as school district service credit; modifying the teacher seniority adjustment computation under the foundation program formula to include such service.
Title: H.B. 113
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Child Care

Signed into law 12/2001

P-12

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

P-3 Early Intervention (0-3)

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Relates to preschool education for children with disabilities; modifies the distribution of federal funds available to the state for preschool special education programs as specified.
Title: H.B. 23
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Ensuring Quality

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

(LD 1002) Authorizes the Department of Human Services to adopt rules for the safe operation of nursery schools.
Title: S.B. 291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

P-3 Family Involvement

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

P-3 Finance

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Concerns the required expenditure of a portion of a school district's per pupil operating revenue for the school district's preschool program.
Title: S.B. 123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Authorizes the establishment of a foundation for early childhood care and education.
Title: H.B. 1801
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

, Amends the application process for the Arkansas Better Chance Program; provides funding for early childhood programs.
Title: H.B. 2241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Governance

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Relates to the creation of an office within the Health and Human Services Commission for coordinating the delivery of early childhood services.
Title: S.B. 665
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Concerns the duties of the Colorado Department of Education in providing oversight of the Colorado Preschool Program.
Title: H.B. 1041
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Grades 1-3

Signed into law 09/2001

P-12

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Authorizes a pupil in a kindergarten in a school operating on a program of multitrack year-round scheduling to be kept in school on any day for 265 minutes of instruction, exclusive of recesses.
Title: A.B. 764
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Every school district must provide and offer a full six-hour day of kindergarten free of tuition for every child residing in such district who attains the age of five (5) years on or before the first day of September during the school year such kindergarten is offered, provided that this duty may be satisfied by transferring kindergarten children to other school districts which will accept them and can provide kindergarten for such children, or by contracting for classroom space with a licensed public or licensed private child care provider based upon selection criteria established by the district. The requirement to offer a full six-hour day of kindergarten as provided for in this subsection shall not become effective until three (3) years after the provisions of this subsection are implemented as provided for in subsection G of this section. Implementation this section is to be delayed until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least ninety percent (90%) of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02HB/hb1499_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1499--Multiple Components
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Allows six-year olds that did not attend kindergarten the opportunity to enroll in either kindergarten or first grade; allows school principals to approve the enrollment of four-year olds into kindergarten.
Title: H.B. 1092
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires the Department of Education to develop and conduct readiness testing for children who are entering kindergarten.
Title: H.B. 2195
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Full-day kindergarten programs shall be phased in over a five-year period as follows with priority given to those school districts that serve children in schools with the highest proportion of students most in need based upon indicators in the at-risk [factor] index or that serve children by means of grade-level schools that serve an entire school district. (By 2004-2005, all kindergartens in New Mexico may be full-day programs.)
Title: H.B. 246
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Kindergarten

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires the Department of Education to develop and conduct readiness testing for children who are entering kindergarten.
Title: H.B. 2195
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Authorizes a pilot program for school districts to offer full day kindergarten education programs at certain schools with low academic performance; makes an appropriation in connection therewith.
Title: S.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

P-3 Preschool

Vetoed 07/2001

P-12

Directs state department to provide instructional phonics game to each approved Oregon prekindergarten.
Title: S.B. 593
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Establishes a program of universal early childhood education and care classes for four-year olds in any public school system that wishes to participate.
Title: S.B. 776
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Concerns the required expenditure of a portion of a school district's per pupil operating revenue for the school district's preschool program.
Title: S.B. 123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

, Amends the application process for the Arkansas Better Chance Program; provides funding for early childhood programs.
Title: H.B. 2241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Concerns the duties of the Colorado Department of Education in providing oversight of the Colorado Preschool Program.
Title: H.B. 1041
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Provides certain significant family risk factors of a child's home environment for eligibility in the preschool program.
Title: S.B. 120
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development

Signed into law 07/2001

P-12

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Parent/Family

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Encourages school districts to adopt parental involvement contracts; requires department to develop model.
Title: H.B. 4630
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12

Session Law Number 244., Ensures that the parents or guardians of students who are suspended or expelled for more than 10 days from school receive notice that is in the appropriate language when foreign language resources are readily avialable.
Title: S.B. 811
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

To governor 06/2001

P-12

The House Bill requires a public school to notify the custodial and attempt to notify the noncustodial parent of a student who is injured or becomes ill at the school and requires medical treatment for the injury or illness at a facility not located on the school premises. The bill specifies that this does not apply to a noncustodial parent forbidden to have contact with the student under a court order.The Senate Bill is similar but requires a peace officer, case worker, or school to inform a custodial and noncustodial parent when a minor is taken into protective custody or suspended or expelled from school.
Title: H.B. 1001A, S.B. 1001A
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2001S1/htmdoc/hbillhtm/HB1001.htm

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Sets forth provisions that a school's strategic and continuous school improvement and achievement plan may include to encourage parental involvement in the school; requires models of parental involvement plans be available to schools for use in developing plans; requires a parent to enter into a written compact with the child's school setting forth expectations for the child, the parent, the child's teachers and school; provides for civil actions against a parent.
Title: S.B. 505
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

P-12

Requires the state Board of Education and the board of trustees of each school district to adopt policies encouraging parental involvement in the education of their children.
Title: A.B. 201
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/71st/bills/AB/AB201_EN.html

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Sec. 31.072. PARENTS AS SCHOLARS PILOT PROGRAM. Requires the commission to establish a Parents as Scholars pilot program under which recipients of financial assistance participating in the program are allowed to fulfill applicable work or employment activities requirements by engaging in educational activities designed to result in receipt of a postsecondary degree. Certain recipients of temporary assistance for needy families are eligible.
Title: H.B. 1187
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires public schools and public libraries to install internet filters or purchase internet connectivity from a provider that provides filter services to limit access to material that is harmful to minors.
Title: H.B. 1003
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12

The purpose of the Legislative Parental Involvement Act is to promote school and community partnerships that will increase parental involvement in public schools to promote the social, emotional and academic growth of children; to foster relationships and improve communications between home, school, the parent, the student and the community; and to provide greater accountability among parents, school personnel and students. The "legislative parental involvement program" is created in the department of education to distribute state matching funds to participating schools for increasing parental involvement based on a ratio of the amount of money raised by the participating school and the participating school's percentage of students eligible for free and reduced fee lunch programs. Requires annual reports from districts.
Title: S.B. 303
Source: New Mexico Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

P-12

Mandates parental notification of students reported to, interviewed by or taken into custody by law enforcement personnel.
Title: H.B. 2275
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2001

P-12

Requires a public school to notify the custodial and attempt to notify the noncustodial parent of a student who is injured or becomes ill at the school and requires medical treatment for the injury or illness at a facility not located on the school premises.
Title: H.B. 168
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2001

P-12

Requires a peace officer, case worker or school to inform a custodial and noncustodial parent when a minor is taken into custody or suspended or expelled from school.
Title: S.B. 222
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Relates to publication of procedure for changing special education placements. Directs the Board of Education to publicize and disseminate, to parents of students who are enrolled in special education programs or for whom a special education placement has been recommended, information regarding current federal law and regulation addressing procedures and rights related to the placement and withdrawal of children in special education. Pursuant to a second enactment, the Superintendent of Public Instruction must apprise local school boards of the provisions of this act by Superintendent's Administrative Memorandum no later than 30 days after its enactment.
Title: H.B. 1226
Source: http://senate.state.va.us

Parent/Family--Parent Rights

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Requires parental notification of an assignment of a non-certified teacher to teach a class for more than thirty consecutive days.
Title: S.B. 416
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

P-12

Relates to authority of foster parents to provide consents for the foster child's educational and recreational needs.
Title: S.B. 1104
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 03/2001

P-12

Vetoed 03/2001

P-12

Signed into law 02/2001

P-12

Postsecondary

Signed into law 10/2001

Postsec.

Provides for policies addressing academic issues of student members of uniformed services; prohibits undue penalties against student members of the uniformed services called to active service; requires the Board of Regents and the management boards of public postsecondary education, proprietary schools, and nonpublic colleges and universities to adopt certain policies.
Title: H.B. 13B
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 09/2001

Postsec.

Requires the Postsecondary Education Commission, in carrying out its duty as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency and adviser to the Legislature and the Governor, to conduct a study periodically of the percentages of California public high school graduates estimated to be eligible for admission to the University of California and the California State University.
Title: A.B. 1721
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Chaptered by Secretary of State 08/2001

Postsec.

Chapter No.219, Specifies that the names of various campuses of the State University are the property of the State. Requires the trustees of the California State University to prescribe policies and procedures for the acquisition of services, facilities, materials, goods, supplies, or equipment. Requires these policies and procedures to include competitive means for obtaining best value, and would authorize the policies and procedures to include financing arrangements.
Title: A.B. 1719
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Relates to the Commission on Postsecondary Education in the Alaska Student Loan Corporation; relates to student financial aid programs and the financing of those programs; establishes the Alaska Advantage Loan Program and the Alaska Supplemental Education Loan Program; increases bonding authorization; provides for liens resulting from default; relates to fees for the review of certain postsecondary institutions; makes conforming amendments; provides effective date.
Title: H.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Establishes the Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities; establishes a standard degree credit hour requirement; provides for additional fees for students who exceed a certain amount of credit hours without a degree for each additional credit hour for which the student registers; provides for common core course concept which will define the education course guidelines for public institutions of higher education.
Title: H.B. 1263
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Requires meningitis vaccinations of college students living in on-campus housing.
Title: H.B. 5675
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.
Community College

Authorizes the Board of Regents to establish learning centers and to provide for their operation, management, and supervision.
The Board of Regents may establish learning centers designed to develop and use consortia of existing institutions of postsecondary education to provide comprehensive offerings of college courses and programs in areas of the state not adequately provided with postsecondary education services. However, no learning center shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section in any service delivery area as defined by the Board of Regents and in which educational services are provided by one or more public community colleges unless the establishment of the learning center is approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
Title: S.B. 829
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Resolve No. 67., (LD 1797) Creates the Blue Ribbon Commission on Postsecondary Educational Attainment.
Title: S.B. 616
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

Postsec.

Changes name of State System of Higher Education to Oregon University System; changes name of Chancellor of State Board of Higher Education to Chancellor of Oregon University System.
Title: S.B. 326
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Establishes the Higher Education Governance Joint Interim Legislative Committee to study and produce innovative recommendations and action initiatives for improving the governance of higher education in the state.
Title: S.J.R. 134
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Vetoed 05/2001

P-12
Postsec.

Requires the University of Hawaii to reduce legal liability.

From the legislation:

(B) THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SHALL SUBMIT A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, AND THE CHAIRS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES NO LATER THAN TWENTY DAYS PRIOR TO THE CONVENING OF EACH REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THE REPORT SHALL: <A]

[A> (1) DESCRIBE THE CLAIMS AND THE ATTENDANT CIRCUMSTANCES THEREOF AND INCLUDE THE ADVICE FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION RENDERED TO THE CLIENT; <A]

[A> (2) DESCRIBE REMEDIAL MEASURES THAT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII WILL TAKE OR THAT ARE RECOMMENDED THAT THE LEGISLATURE TAKE IF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII DOES NOT TAKE CORRECTIVE ACTION WITHIN A REASONABLE PERIOD OF TIME; AND <A]

[A> (3) BE DEEMED A CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION TO THE LEGISLATURE AND SHALL NOT BE DISCLOSED AS PROVIDED BY SECTIONS 92F-13 AND 92F-19(B). <A]

[A> TO THE EXTENT THAT THE DISCLOSURE REQUIRED BY THIS SUBSECTION REQUIRES THE DISCLOSURE OF PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION, OR LEGAL WORK PRODUCT, SUCH DISCLOSURE SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE WAIVER OF THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE OR ANY OTHER PRIVILEGE THAT MAY APPLY, SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO DISCOVERY, AND SHALL NOT BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE IN ANY PROCEEDING INVOLVING THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. <A]

[A> SECTION 304- SUITS. THE UNIVERSITY MAY SUE AND BE SUED IN ITS CORPORATE NAME; HOWEVER, IT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO SUIT ONLY IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR SUITS AGAINST THE STATE, AND ANY LIABILITY INCURRED BY THE UNIVERSITY IN SUCH SUIT SHALL BE A LIABILITY OF THE STATE. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PROVISION, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS ARE "EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE" AS THE TERM IS USED IN CHAPTER 662.
Title: S.B. 1207
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act and various Acts relating to the governance of the public universities in Illinois; requires the governing board of each public university to report to the Board of Higher Education of each year the tuition and fee waivers the university participates; requires the Board of Higher Education to annually compile this information and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly.
Title: H.B. 260
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.
Community College

Concerns postsecondary educational institutions; relates to the identification, selections and approval of core indicators of quality performance; preserving certain powers, duties and functions of community college boards of trustees.
Title: S.B. 10
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Relates to public awareness campaign to promote the value and availability of higher education.
Title: S.B. 573
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Relates to the use of certain transferred freshman-level credit courses to satisfy the requirements of the Texas Academic Skills Program. Adds Subsection. Applies to an undergraduate student who transfers to an institution of higher education from an accredited private or independent institution of higher education or an accredited out-of-state institution of higher education. A transfer student is exempt from the requirements of Texas Academic Skills Program if in each of the three skill areas if the student has earned a grade of "B" or better in a transferred freshman-level credit course included in the list of courses. A transferred course may not be considered for purposes of this subsection unless the transfer student submits to the institution of higher education a transcript reflecting the grade earned in the course.
Title: H.B. 1645
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Requires the board to develop and periodically revise a long-range statewide plan to provide information and guidance to policy makers to ensure that institutions of higher education meet the current and future needs of each region of this state for higher education services and that adequate higher education services at all levels are reasonably and equally available to the residents of each region of the state.
Title: H.B. 1799
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Increases the scope to include any institution that uses the words "college," "university" or "institute," which is intended to indicate that it offers postsecondary education; requires that the institution apply for a certificate of approval from the state board prior to registering the business name, receive approval from the state prior to both offering credit-bearing courses and admitting its first student, and secure a certificate of degree-granting authority from the state board prior to conferring a degree to a student enrolled in its Vermont school; exempts non credit-granting postsecondary schools and religious instruction not resulting in earned credits as well as non-degree schools.
Title: S.B. 86
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Relates to higher education retirement plans; directs Higher Education Policy Commission to oversee certain private institutions; relates to student aid; provides terms for issuance of tax-exempt revenue bonds; relates to employee classification system, pay grades and merit increases; authorizes lease-purchase agreements by governing boards of community and technical colleges; provides interest component of agreements are exempt from taxation; provides for state autism training center.
Title: S.B. 703
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

Postsec.

Provides higher education adult part-time student grants to students enrolled in post-secondary certificate, industry recognized credential and other skill development programs of study in demand occupations.
Title: H.B. 2897
Source: West Virginia Department of Education - Legislative Update

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Amends Arkansas code 6-63-309 to allow institutions of higher education to exceed the maximum salary levels for exceptionally well qualified personnel; relates to non-academic personnel; relates to non-classified personnel.
Title: S.B. 583
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Requires state agencies and institutions of higher education to develop an informational program on employee benefits.
Title: H.B. 2362
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Exempts an accredited degree granting institution from the disclosure requirement under specified conditions.

From the legislation:

(B) WHERE PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL FOR AN UNACCREDITED INSTITUTION CONSISTS OF AN ADVERTISEMENT IN A PERIODICAL PUBLISHED BY A PERSON OR ENTITY THAT IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE UNACCREDITED INSTITUTION, THE DISCLOSURE REQUIRED IN SUBSECTION (A) MAY BE ABBREVIATED TO STATE AS FOLLOWS: NOT ACCREDITED BY AN AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUCATION. THE DISCLOSURE REQUIRED UNDER THIS SUBSECTION SHALL BE MADE IN A TYPE SIZE AS LARGE OR LARGER THAN ANY OTHER TEXT IN THE ADVERTISEMENT.
Title: H.B. 761
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.
Community College

Modifies the term "institution of higher education" under the Maryland Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority Act (MHHEFA) to include specified community colleges; authorizes the boards of trustees of community colleges to finance or refinance the costs of specified projects by entering into agreements with MHHEFA.
Title: S.B. 588
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Updates statutes defining State Board of Higher Education (SBHE) powers and duties. Allows the board to go into executive session when considering the appointment or removal of a chancellor of higher education, as it currently may do in regard to an institution president. Allows the board to appoint and/or remove the commissioner, fix his/her salary and duties. Grants the power to appoint/remove university system personnel and fix their salaries, office terms and duties. Grants authority to the SBHE to adopt rules that promote research and discoveries.
Title: S.B. 2042
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

Postsec.

Relates to the University of North Texas System and the component institutions of that system. Analysis states that the Laws pertaining to the University of North Texas System have been introduced piecemeal into legislation, and as a result the language of current law may not be uniform. In addition, the current University of North Texas System Center (center) at Dallas offers junior, senior, and graduate courses. However, to meet the needs of the diverse population of the city of Dallas, the center may eventually need to be established as a full undergraduate university. Senate Bill 576 establishes the University of North Texas at Dallas and restructures provisions relating to the
University of North Texas System.
Title: S.B. 576
Source: Texas Legislative Web Site

Signed into law 03/2001

Postsec.

Amends code sections pertaining to Arkansas State Building Services review and approval of higher education institution capital improvements.
Title: S.B. 512
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

Postsec.

Relates to motor vehicle restrictions for the various institutions of higher education.
Title: S.B. 540
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 03/2001

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Signed into law 03/2001

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Prohibits the offering of postsecondary education credit or degree by non-accredited institutions.
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Postsecondary Accountability

Signed into law 06/2001

P-12
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Resolve No. 67., (LD 1797) Creates the Blue Ribbon Commission on Postsecondary Educational Attainment.
Title: S.B. 616
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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Community College

Session Law Number 111. Modifies the audit procedures of community college programs.
Title: H.B. 386
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 05/2001

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(Joint Resolution) Urges National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education to select Tennessee a one of multi-state participant in long-term strategic planning on state higher education policy using NCPPHE's Measuring Up 2000 report.
Title: S.J.R. 59
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 04/2001

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Amends state statute to formally designate North Dakota University System (NDUS) colleges and universities as a unified system dedicated to meeting the education, research and service needs of the state and its citizens. The bill also provides for incorporating recommendations of the Roundtable Report into the NDUS' strategic planning process and requires the university system to provide annual performance and accountability reports.
Title: S.B. 2041
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Vetoed 04/2001

P-12
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Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation

Signed into law 03/2001

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Prohibits the offering of postsecondary education credit or degree by non-accredited institutions.
Title: S.B. 160
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid

Signed into law 07/2001

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This bill streamlines the process to help the Higher Education Commission effectively administer the states financial aid programs.
Title: H.B. 246
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Relates to Tuition Opportunity Program for Students; provides for a uniform information reporting system and for certain notifications to parents of public elementary and secondary school students.
Title: H.B. 2012
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Relates to the Tuition Opportunity Program for Students; provides eligibility for TOPS-Tech and Opportunity awards for certain students who graduate from high schools or complete home study programs outside the U.S. and its territories.
Title: H.B. 1800
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 07/2001

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Permits certain high school students completing honors courses and having a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00 to qualify for TOPS Performance Awards under specified circumstances.
Title: H.B. 1945
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Signed into law 06/2001

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Public Act No. 92-45., Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act; increases the maximum Monetary Award Program grant for full time and part time undergraduate students.
Title: S.B. 406
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act; allows a deduction for individuals for moneys contributed in the taxable year to a college savings pool account; allows a deduction of an amount equal to the amount spent by an individual taxpayer during the taxable year to purchase an Illinois prepaid tuition contract; exempts the deductions from the sunset provisions of the Act; provides that contributions to a college savings pool account during the taxable year may be deducted.
Title: S.B. 902
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Amends the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Act; removes a provision that provides that if a qualified beneficiary is awarded a grant or scholarship, then the amount of money returned to the purchaser shall equal the original purchase price plus %2 interest compounded annually if that amount is less than the current cost of tuition and mandatory fees at the MAP-eligible institution where the qualified beneficiary is enrolled.
Title: H.B. 841
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Prohibits a TOPS award recipient from being restricted or otherwise delayed in first using the award due to the student having graduated from high school in less than four years.
Title: H.B. 389
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Provides for administration of, participation in, and alternative investment options relative to the Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust.
Creates the Louisiana Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust Program which may hereafter be referred to as the "START" Program. The program shall consist of the establishment of education savings accounts by individuals, groups, or organizations and provisions for the routine deposit of funds to cover the future educational costs of a designated beneficiary.
Title: S.B. 690
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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Lowers the required ACT score for a TOPS Tech award from 19 to 17, beginning with the 2000 - 2001 high school graduates.
Title: S.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

Signed into law 06/2001

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, Extends through the 2002-2003 school year the time period for a TOPS waiver form meeting high school core curriculum requirements due to course unavailability.
Title: H.B. 818
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet