Education Related Bills
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| 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 | 2/28/13 | |
| HB 1204 | Relating to the provision of matching grants for the advancement of postsecondary academics; to provide an appropriation; to provide for a legislative management report; and to provide an expiration date. (NDUS institutions could receive matching funds from state for funds their foundations earn.) | Defeated in the House | 2/27/13 | |
| HB 1289 | A BILL for an Act to provide an appropriation to the department of veterans’ affairs for veterans’ higher education assistance programs. (Funding for academic support services for veterans at higher education institutions, House made NDUS grantor, reduced from $548,000 to $274,000, which grantee institutions must match) | Amended, passed House, Senate Education | 2/28/13 | |
| 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 | Amended and passed in House, sent to Senate Education | 2/28/13 | |
| HB 1422 | Bill to make safe, high quality daycare more readily available, House Appropriations cut the appropriation from $15 Million to $2.1 Million | Passed with amendments in House, now in Senate Human Services | 2/28/13 | |
| HB 1429 | Bill to authorize school districts to establish early childhood education programs, but amended to remove appropriation | Passed House, in Senate Education | 2/25/13 | |
| HCR 3009HCR 3013 | House Concurrent Resolutions, HCR 3009 calls for a study of “open textbooks” to reduce textbook costs for students, HCR 3013 urges SBHE and NDUS to increase use of “open textbooks”. (Open textbooks have open copyright licenses, and are made available online to be freely used by the public.) | Passed House, sent to Senate | 2/25/13 | |
| HCR 3018 | Original Resolution called for an amendment to ND Constitution to specify that the legacy scholarship fund established to fund ND Academic and Career and Technical Merit Scholarships be financed via earnings from the Legacy Fund, amendment made instead to create an Interim Study to determine what should be financed via the legacy fund | Passed in the House, now in Senate Govt. & Veterans’ Affairs Cmte. | 2/25/13 | |
| SB 2003 | Higher Education funding bill, contains appropriations to increase the need-based ND State Grant from $1500 to $1650 and make it available to part-time students, increases merit-based Academic Merit and Career and Technical Merit Scholarships from $1500/yr. to $2500/yr. | Passed Senate, first reading in House | 2/27/13 | |
| SB 2229 | Identical to early childhood education bill, HB 1429 , but includes an appropriation of $4.7 Million for implementation | Passed Senate 35-12, received by House | 2/26/13 | |
| 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 | Amended and passed by Senate, now in House Education | 2/15/13 | |
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Other Bills of Interest |
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| HB 1238 HB 1332 HB 1400 | 1238 would have reduced time for absentee voting; HB 1400 would have reduced the time early voting would be allowed; HB 1332 deals with voter eligibility, including possession of certain forms of ID ( laws like these usually reduce the number of disadvantaged people who vote) | HB 1238 and 1400 defeated in House; HB 1332 passed and in Senate Govt. & Veterans’ Affairs | 2/28/13 | |
| SB 2336 | Bill to lower oil extraction tax | Passed with amendments 34 to 13, received by House | 2/27/13 | |
