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 | 2/28/13 | |
| 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 | 3/19/13 | |
| 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, Hearing Senate Appropriations | 3/20/13 | |
| 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, still in Senate Human Services | 2/28/12 | |
| HB 1429 | Bill to authorize school districts to establish early childhood education programs, but amended to remove appropriation | Passed House, still in Senate Education | 2/25/13 | |
| HCR 3009, HCR 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.) | Both passed House & Senate | 3/12/13 | |
| 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. | Passed in the House, now in Hearing Senate Govt. & Vets’ Affairs Cmte. | 3/22/13 | |
| 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, House Appropriations. Hearings | 3/18 – 3/20/13 | |
| SB 2229 | Identical to early childhood education bill, HB 1429 , but includes an appropriation of $4.7 Million for implementation | Passed Senate 35-12, House Education hearing | 3/20/13 | |
| SB 2218 | Workforce development grants to Tribal Colleges through ND Dept. of Commerce | Senate reduced to $5 Million and passed, hearing House Industry, Business and Labor | 3/12/13 | |
| 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 hearing | 3/18/13 | |
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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 usually reduce the number of disadvantaged people who vote) | HB 1332 passed and in Senate Govt. & Veterans’ Affairs | 3/21/13 | |
| SB 2336 | Bill to lower oil extraction tax | Passed with amendments 34 to 13, hearing House Finance and Taxation | 3/19/13 | |
| SCR 4026 | Called for a Constitutional Amendment to create a $450 M merit-scholarship fund from money from the Legacy Fund similar to Wyoming’s Hathaway Scholarship program | Passed in Senate on 3/14 and then reconsidered and defeated by Senate on 3/15 |
