Legistative Alert - Education

(Constitutional Amendment) Exempts public postsecondary education tuition amounts and mandatory fees from requirements for imposing a new or increasing an existing tax or fee.

Bill History:

05-17-10 H Failed to pass (Vote: Y: 29/N: 57)

HB 403 (1)

Pearson

Requires BESE to broadcast on the Internet the audio and video of all board and committee meetings conducted in Baton Rouge and to archive the audio and video of such meetings.

Bill History:

01-01-11 G Effective

HB 409

Provides term limits for members of city, parish, and other local public school boards.

Bill History:

04-07-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 3 House and Governmental Affairs

HB 410 (1)

Carter

Requires local option elections in every school district on term limits for school board members.

Bill History:

05-12-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. F Senate and Governmental Affairs

HB 490

Establishes for a specified period of time a maximum dollar amount for a TOPS award.

Bill History:

05-17-10 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education

HB 767 (1)

(Constitutional Amendment) Exempts public postsecondary education tuition amounts and mandatory fees from requirements for imposing a new or increasing an existing tax or fee.

Bill History:

04-28-10 H Committee hearing cancelled House and Governmental Affairs

HB 770 (2)

Requires each public college and university to readmit its graduates, without charging tuition and fees, if such a graduate cannot find or looses employment because his degree did not prepare him for employment in a profession related to his degree.

Bill History:

05-17-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 a.m. Rm. 1 House Education

HB 820

Abramson

(Constitutional Amendment) Mandates full funding of postsecondary education and health care continuation budgets.

Bill History:

03-18-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations

HB 942 (3)

Carter

Provides relative to the employment of the local public school superintendent and the authority of the superintendent and the school board in personnel matters.

Bill History:

01-01-11 G Effective

HB 994 (2)

Relative to TOPS, provides, under specified circumstances, for the repayment by a student of an award amount paid on his behalf by the state during the first two award years.

Bill History:

06-07-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Appropriations

HB 996

(Constitutional Amendment) Abolishes the Board of Regents, LSU board, Southern University board, and UL board and creates the La. University System Board of Trustees. Became HB 1492.

Bill History:

05-27-10 H Set on the House Orders

HB 1000

Waddell(Resigned)

Permits, for purposes of certain skill or occupational training, use of a TOPS award at certain schools having a certificate of registration issued by the Board of Cosmetology and proprietary schools licensed by the Board of Regents.

Bill History:

06-29-10 G Effective

HB 1012 (1)

Badon, Austin

Authorizes public postsecondary education institutions to enter into performance agreements to be granted certain authority including to increase tuition and mandatory fee amounts for students.

Bill History:

03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education

HB 1033 (1)

Hoffman

Provides relative to evaluation and assessment programs for teachers and administrators.

Bill History:

05-27-10 G Effective

HB 1035

Barrow

(Constitutional Amendment) Limits adjustments to appropriations for health care and higher education to eliminate a projected deficit.

Bill History:

03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations

HB 1068

Badon, Austin

Provides relative to calculations for determining and for the reporting of student graduation and completion rates by public postsecondary education institutions.

Bill History:

05-11-10 H Committee hearing cancelled House Education

HB 1071 (1)

Abramson

Authorizes the LSU Board of Supervisors to increase tuition and fees for specified schools and programs of the LSU Health Sciences Centers.

Bill History:

03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education

HB 1110 (3)

LaFonta

(Constitutional Amendment) Provides for the use and redirection of funds and allocations in certain circumstances.

Bill History:

05-04-10 H Involuntarily Deferred House Appropriations

HB 1112 (3)

LaFonta

Provides for the use, redirection, and reallocation of funds and allocations in certain circumstances.

Bill History:

05-04-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Appropriations

HB 1140

Barrow

Limits adjustments to appropriations for health care and higher education to eliminate a projected deficit.

Bill History:

03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations

HB 1171 (1)

Provides for a Board of Regents program under which postsecondary institutions agree to achieve certain standards in exchange for authority to increase tuition and for exemption from certain limitations, provides for the LA GRAD Act.

Bill History:

06-29-10 G Effective

HB 1224

Provides relative to the governance, management, and supervision of public institutions of postsecondary education.

Bill History:

05-26-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. House Education

HB 1368 (1)

Smith, Jane

Authorizes BESE to exempt a school district from certain laws, rules, and regulations pursuant to a request and proposal for increasing quality of instruction and academic achievement from the school district.

Bill History:

06-29-10 G Effective

SB 297 (2)

Eliminates the division of adult and community education within the Dept. of Education and transfers the responsibility for adult education programs from BESE to LCTCS.

Bill History:

07-01-10 G Effective

SB 329

Hebert

Requires the Board of Regents and each postsecondary education management board to reduce the amount expended for salaries of certain non-instructional employees to the salary allocated to such employee's position on Jan. 1, 2008.

Bill History:

05-20-10 S Meeting set for At Adj., HAINKEL RM. Senate Education

SB 345 (1)

Constitutional amendment to exempt public postsecondary education tuition amounts and mandatory fees from requirements for imposing a new or increasing an existing tax or fee.

Bill History:

05-24-10 S Returned to the calendar - subject to call

SB 347 (1)

Marionneaux

Constitutional amendment to exempt state colleges and universities from the requirement that new fees or increase in existing fees be enacted by a two-thirds vote of the elected members of each house of the legislature.

Bill History:

03-18-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs

SB 392 (2)

Chaisson

Authorizes limited redirection and transfer of funds supporting appropriations and allocations from the state general fund and dedicated funds in certain circumstances.

Bill History:

06-18-10 S Senate Late Passage Approval

SB 428

Authorizes the LSU Health Sciences Center to maximize the use of affiliation agreements with other hospitals in order to maximize the use of Medicare graduate medical education monies.

Bill History:

03-18-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Health and Welfare

SB 429