Bills and important upcoming votes are scheduled in today’s House Record. You might want to attend or email the committee members with your thoughts on these bills.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11
EDUCATION, Room 207, LOB

9:00 a.m. Subcommittee work session on retained HB 219, establishing a committee to study the abolishment of the department of education.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 (continued on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25 if necessary)
EDUCATION, Room 207, LOB

10:00 a.m. Executive session on retained

CACR 8, relating to education. Providing that the legislature shall have the power to authorize schools,

HB 34-FN-L, relative to the distribution of total education grants to municipalities in the 2012 and 2013 fiscal years,

HB 179, establishing a task force to study the formula for determining adequate education grants to school districts,

HB 219, establishing a committee to study the abolishment of the department of education,

HB 296, relative to procedures for juvenile delinquency petitions filed by a school district or school official,

HB 301-FN, amending the home education statutes,

HB 318-FN-L, reducing a school district’s liability for special education costs,

HB 545, repealing the department of education’s rulemaking authority for home education programs,

HB 595, amending the compulsory school attendance statutes to permit parent-directed instruction programs and repealing the home education statutes,

HB 604, relative to the procedures for approval of plans, specifications, and costs of school building construction or renovation.