Education Related Bills
| HB 1013 | Funding bill for the Dept. of Public Instruction, contains $500,000 appropriation for joint effort of DPI/NDUS implementation of Common Core State Standards and Assessments, companion bill 1013 reduced salary increase from 3%-5% range to 2%-4% range | Passed by House, now in Senate Appropriations gave a do pass, 4/12/13 | ||
| HB 1289 | A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation of $400,000 so the department of veterans’ affairs to establish a veterans’ higher education assistance program. | Amended, passed House, amended and passed Senate, sent to House to concur or not | ||
| HB 1228 | Bill to create STEM network in Dept. of Career and Technical Education to promote best practices in STEM teaching, House reduced from $800,000 to $160,000 and gave STEM network authority to accept outside grants | Passed and signed by Governor 4/11 | ||
| HB 1422 | Bill to make childcare more available, and allocates $2.6 Million for childcare stabilization fund in the Dept. of Human Services, | Passed with amendments in House, now in Senate Appropriations | ||
| SB 2200 | A bill to change the way NDUS institutions are funded to a performance-based model based on the number of credit hours students complete, proposed House Appropriations amendments would reduce funding, and assign performance funding model to an interim study committee | In House Appropriations | ||
| SB 2218 | Workforce development grants to Tribal Colleges through ND Dept. of Commerce; reduced by Senate and House to$3 Million and allowed uses also reduced | Passed Senate, House to vote on House amendments 4/16 | ||
| SB 2032 | Bill to change performance and accountability measures that NDUS includes in its annual report, new measures focus almost exclusively on retention and graduation rates, number of degrees granted/yr. for both in-state and out-of-state students; House Education added that retention and graduation statistics be included for Pell-eligible students | Passed Senate, amended by House, Senate did not concur, now in a conference committee (Flakoll, Poolman, Heckaman, Rohr, Kopplemen, and Mock) | ||
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Other Bills of Interest |
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| HB 1332 | HB 1332 deals with voter eligibility, including possession of certain forms of ID; laws like these are designed to prevent voter fraud which is very rare in ND, but can discourage college students and disadvantaged populations from voting | Passed both houses, sent to Governor | ||
