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Senate Education
There are 40 Legislative Days scheduled for the 2005 session. Standing
Legislative Committees meet in regularly scheduled sessions during the
morning hours of each Legislative Day. Some committees will hold special
evening meetings. The Senate Education Committee is scheduled to meet
Tuesday and Thursday at 7:45am in room 423 of the Capitol.
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above, or replay audio of the entire Committee meeting for the
designated Legislative Day or testimony and debate on a specific Bill
through the listings below.
Legislative Day 5
1/18/05 - Completed meeting
SB 64: provisions regarding school district funds
SB 65: calculation of school district excess general fund balance
SB 66: provide certain options to school boards in reorganization
Legislative Day 7
1/20/05 - Completed meeting
SB 11: all standardized achievement tests be monitored and that
sanctions be imposed when unsatisfactory academic progress is identified
SB 71: establish a four-day school week that school districts must
follow in order to receive state aid to education
SB 64: revise certain provisions regarding school district funds
Legislative Day 10
1/25/05 - Completed meeting
SB 72 include legal costs as allowable expenditures from the special
education fund.
SB 65 revise the calculation of a school district excess general fund
balance.
SB 66 provide certain options to school boards in reorganization.
Legislative Day 12
1/27/05 - Complete
dmeeting
HB 1063 repeal certain administrative rule-making authority regarding
education for gifted children.
HB 1064 remove the requirement for a certificate of health for certain
persons with continuing contracts in a consolidated school district.
SB 72 include legal costs as allowable expenditures from the special
education fund.
Legislative Day 15
2/1/05 - Completed meeting
SB 118 appropriate money for enhancement of secondary career and
technical education
SB 101 establish the opening day of the school term
SB 102 appropriate money for secondary career and technical education
SB 106 revise the restrictions of transfers from bond redemption funds
SB 116 revise certain provisions relating to the Richard Hagen-Minerva
Harvey Scholarship Program
Legislative Day 17
2/3/05 - Completed meeting
SB 125
exempt transfers of funds from certain municipal revenue
producing ventures from the calculation of the general fund balance of
school districts
SB 166 provide that health education be factual, medically accurate, and
objective
HB 1081 allow a school district to maintain permanent school records
electronically rather than on microfilm
Legislative Day 21
2/8/05 - Completed meeting
SB 158 provide for the certification of distance learning providers, to
establish a distance learning grant program for students, and to make an
appropriation therefor
SB 185 revise the calculation of a school district excess general fund
balance
SB 215
refer a measure to a vote of the electors to require that public
schools begin the regular school term after Labor Day
SB 102 appropriate money for secondary career and technical education
SB 118 appropriate money for enhancement of secondary career and
technical education
Legislative Day 23
2/10/05 - Completed meeting
SB 102 appropriate money for secondary career and technical
education.
SB 156 encumber moneys appropriated as state aid to general education
SB 140 revise the index factor in the state aid to education formula
SB 184 make an appropriation to the Department of Education to assist
certain school districts with capital
improvement needs
SB 161 make an appropriation to the state library to support information
literacy skills
SB 170 revise the index factor for determining the per student
allocation for school districts
Legislative Day 26
2/15/05 - Completed meeting
SB 157 increase the per student allocation in the state aid to education
formula
SB 202 revise the calculation of state aid to general education and make
an appropriation
HB 1169 clarify certain procedures for terminating or nonrenewing a
teacher's contract
SB 102 appropriate money for secondary career and technical education
SB 156 encumber moneys appropriated as state aid to general education
Legislative Day 28
2/17/05 - Completed meeting
HB 1093 allow certain nonpublic school students to participate in
interscholastic activities at other nonpublic
schools
HB 1163 allow Vietnam veterans to receive honorary high school diplomas
HB 1203 revise certain provisions regarding the distribution of the tax
imposed on financial institutions
Legislative Day 31
2/22/05 Completed meeting
HB 1028 make an appropriation to support students participating in the
South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship program during the spring 2005 term
and in fiscal year 2006 and to declare an emergency
HB 1053 make an appropriation to the Department of Education to
reimburse certain school districts for consolidation incentives
HB 1082
appropriate money for postsecondary technical education
enhancement
HB 1127 authorize the provision of special education and related
services to certain alternative instruction students
HB 1203 revise certain provisions regarding the distribution of the tax
imposed on financial institutions
Legislative Day 33
2/24/05
Completed meeting
HB 1093 allow certain nonpublic school students to participate in
interscholastic activities at other nonpublic schools
HB 1073 decrease the financial incentives for school districts that
consolidate after July 1, 2008
HB 1140 revise the calculation of state aid to education
HB 1149 allow for cross-border education contracts
HB 1170 provide for the endorsement of distance learning instructors and
to authorize the Board of Education to promulgate rules relating to
distance learning courses
HB 1067 revise the property tax levies for the general fund of a school
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