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Legislation Tracker: Public Education
| Bill: | HB1790
| | Sponsors: | Wainwright (D12); Bordsen (D63); Jones, Earl (D60); Bryant (D7) | | Title: | TASK FORCE COMP. ATTEND. TO 18 & 100% GRAD | | Summary: | An Act to Establish a Task Force to Study Whether the Compulsory School Age Should be Raised and to Develop a Comprehensive Plan and Time Line to Raise the Age to Eighteen and the Graduation Rate to One Hundred Percent. | | Status: | 05/29/2007 – Senate Committee On Rules and Operations of the Senate
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| Bill: | HB2137
| | Sponsors: | Yongue (D46); Gibson (D69); Pate (R11); Folwell (R74) | | Title: | SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION OPTIMIZATION ACT | | Summary: | An Act to Allow a Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Local School Administrative Units and to Reenact the Sales and Use Tax Refund for Local School Administrative Units, So as to Optimize School Construction Funding. | | Status: | 05/19/2008 – House Committee On Finance
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| Bill: | HB2484
| | Sponsors: | Goforth (D115); Blackwood (R68); Tarleton (D93) | | Title: | ADDITIONAL LOTTERY FUNDS FOR SCHOOL BLDGS | | Summary: | An Act to Allocate Additional Lottery Proceeds for School Capital Projects, as Recommended by the Joint Legislative Study Committee on Public School Funding Formulas. | | Status: | 05/26/2008 – House Committee On Appropriations
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| Bill: | HB2555
| | Sponsors: | Tolson (D23); Yongue (D46) | | Title: | COMMUNITY COLLEGE SALES TAX REFUND/EXEMPTION | | Summary: | An Act to Allow a Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Community Colleges and to Create a Sales and Use Tax Refund for Community Colleges. | | Status: | 05/26/2008 – House Committee On Finance
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| Bill: | SB1326
| | Sponsors: | Berger, P. (R26) | | Title: | CONSISTENCY/WAIVER OF GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY | | Summary: | An Act to Provide Consistency in Waiver of Immunity by Local Government by Treating Participation in Risk Pools and Trusts for Payment of Liability Claims by School Boards Like Participation in Other Governmental Risk Pools. | | Related: | 2007:HB1451 | | Status: | 05/23/2007 – House Committee On Judiciary I
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| Bill: | SB1863
| | Sponsors: | Snow (D50) | | Title: | ADDITIONAL LOTTERY FUNDS FOR SCHOOL BLDGS | | Summary: | An Act to Allocate Additional Lottery Proceeds for School Capital Projects, as Recommended by the Joint Legislative Study Committee on Public School Funding Formulas. | | Status: | 05/22/2008 – Senate Committee On Appropriations/Base Budget
| | Comments: | The House budget included this provision, but the Senate budget did not include the additional lottery proceeds to balance out the distrubution to counties whose property tax rate is not above the statewide average. |
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