Senate Committee on Education
May 18, 2017
Upon Adjournment
John J. Hainkel, Jr. Room
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
May 11, 2017
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
SR68
W.BISHOP
SCHOOLS
- Requests each charter school governing or management board to include at least one parent or guardian of a student in its membership.
SCR88
MILKOVICH
COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES
- Requests the Board of Regents to study the benefits of consolidating academic and research programs and disciplines in and among public colleges and universities.
HCR14
MORENO
CURRICULA
- Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to allow instruction in computer science to count for purposes of satisfying certain high school graduation requirements
HCR66
ZERINGUE
COASTAL RESOURCES
- Memorializes congress and the Louisiana Congressional Delegation to continue appropriate funding for the National Sea Grant College Program
HB13
THIBAUT
LIBRARIES
- Provides relative to the Pointe Coupee Parish library
HB14
FALCONER
LIBRARIES
- Provides relative to the naming of the Madisonville branch library in St. Tammany Parish
HB20
PRICE
SCHOOLS
- Provides relative to exemptions from the requirements for school instructional time under certain circumstances
HB79
FOIL
STUDENT/DISCIPLINE
- Prohibits corporal punishment for certain students with exceptionalities
HB111
BISHOP
CURRICULA
- Requires instruction in litter prevention and awareness for public school students in certain grades (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF EX See Note)
HB171
STEVE CARTER
LEGISLATION
- Provides for technical corrections in Title 17 of the La. Revised Statutes
HB452
ABRAMSON
SCHOOLS/NONPUBLIC
- Makes requirement for in-service training relative to suicide prevention applicable to nonpublic and charter school teachers and other employees
HB557
SEABAUGH
CHILDREN/CARE
- Provides for criminal background checks relative to early learning centers, school employees, registered family child care providers and in-home providers (EN INCREASE SG EX See Note)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE