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


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


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


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


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


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.