Bills of Interest

Bills of Interest

The table provides a summary of education bills and LAE's position. Additional information can be found at: http://www.legis.state.la.us/ Prepared by LAE's Government Relations Department - March 31, 2010 HOUSE and SENATE BILLS 2010 HB 49 HUTTER SUPPORT APPROPRIATIONS: Provides funding to the St. Bernard Parish School Board to assist with the payment of Office of Group Benefits insurance premiums for certain employees HB 177 POPE SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires the state to pay the transportation costs for students attending approved nonpublic elementary and secondary schools. HB 210  LEGER NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Establishes and provides for LA Statewide Education Facilities Authority. HB 216 FOIL OPPOSED EDUCATION: Provides for a school choice pilot program for certain students with exceptionalities. HB 251 SMITH, P SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires the state superintendent of education to possess certain qualifications at the time of appointment by BESE. HB 388 SMITH, P SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides relative to teachers transferring to a charter school from a local school system. HB 399 PEARSON  OPPOSED EDUCATION: Exempts, under specified fiscal conditions, a local school board from complying with the requirement that the board grant certain requests for sabbatical leave. HB 400 PEARSON  OPPOSED EDUCATION: Exempts, under specified fiscal conditions, a local school board from complying with the requirement that the board permit certain employees to take up to 90 days of extended sick leave. HB 405 DIXON NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Requires BESE to adopt rules and regulation for the use of seclusion and physical restraint of students. HB 420 LEGER OPPOSED EDUCATION: Provides relative to charter school funding. HB 421 JACKSON, M NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Provides relative to the authority of a local school board to deny admission or readmission to school of certain students. HB 422 DOWNS NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Provides relative to children exempted from the compulsory school attendance law. HB 433 HARDY OPPOSED EDUCATION: Requires BESE to establish a uniform grading scale for use in public schools. HB 681 HARDY NEUTRAL EDUCATION:Provides that the conduct of extracurricular interscholastic activities in public schools are subject to BESE regulation by rule adopted in accordance with the APA. HB 682 HARDY NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Requires local public school boards to provide transportation to certain students in BESE-approved alternative education programs for suspended or expelled students.  HB 709 BROSSETT   NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Provides relative to the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. (NOCCA)  HB 732 NORTON  MONITOR-OPPOSED  EDUCATION: Prohibits corporal punishment in public elementary and secondary schools.  HB 739   HOFFMAN  NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Provides relative to the employment as a full-time teacher of a member of the Teachers' Retirement System of LA who is retired.  HB 1006 HARRISON   SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides that the state superintendent of education shall be elected rather than appointed.   HB 1016  WILLIAMS  NEUTRAL EDUCATION: Requires proof of annual physical examination and a physician's authorization as a condition of a child's participation in physical activity.   HB 1029 HOFFMAN  SUPPORT  EDUCATION: Provides relative to instruction in Civics and Free Enterprise.  HB 1033 HOFFMAN  OPPOSED  EDUCATION: Provides relative to evaluation and assessment programs for teachers and administrators.  HB 1049 HARRISON  OPPOSED  EDUCATION: Provides relative to public/private partnerships between school boards and the private sector. HB 1128  LEGER   SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides relative to charter schools.  HB 1135 GREENE  NEUTRAL  EDUCATION: Provides school start and end dates for public and approved nonpublic schools.  HB 1154 CARTER  OPPOSED  EDUCATION: Provides for the creation and establishment of the LA Charter Schools Commission and for the transfer of certain BESE powers, duties, and authority to the commission. HB 1170  LANDRY  OPPOSED  EDUCATION: Disqualifies commercial diver's license holders from operating school buses after conviction of DWI offenses.   HB 1180 SMITH, P  MONITOR-SUPPORT  EDUCATION: Authorizes local public school boards to use state funds to purchase instructional technology and related hardware.  HB 1209 JONES, R  OPPOSED  EDUCATION: Creates the LA Educator Professional Practices Commission to investigate complaints and allegations of educators sexual misconduct in schools with authority to suspend or revoke teaching and principal's certificates subject to appeal to BESE.  HB 1225 DIXON  MONITOR-SUPPORT  EDUCATION: Provides relative to BESE standards for approving alternative schools and alternative education programs for students suspended or expelled from public K-12 schools. HB 1239 DIXON  NEUTRAL  EDUCATION: Requires the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt rules and regulations relative to the physical abuse of public school teachers and employees by students.  HB 1250  CARTER   MONITOR- OPPOSED EDUCATION: Provides relative to permanent teachers and procedures for termination. HB 1368  SMITH, J MONITOR- OPPOSED EDUCATION: Authorizes BESE to exempt a school board from certain laws, rules, and regulations pursuant to a request and proposal for increasing quality of instruction and academic achievement from the school board. SB 11 APPEL OPPOSED RETIREMENT: A Constitutional Amendment to provide for forfeiture of retirement benefits by public officials and employees who are convicted of felony acts associated with their positions. SB 12 APPEL OPPOSED RETIREMENT: Requires forfeiture of retirement benefits by any public employee or elected official who is a member of a public retirement system and is convicted of certain state or federal felony acts associated with his office. SB 13 GAUTREAUX SUPPORT RETIREMENT: Allows garnishment of Louisiana public retirement or pension system, plan, or fund benefits of an elected official to pay fines or retitution imposed for a felony associated with his office. SB 66 MORRELL SUPPORT EDUCATION: Created a charter school enrollment perference for neighborhood students. SB 74 MORRELL SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides for the creation of community advisory committees for schools in the Recovery School District. SB 83 APPEL NO POSITION EDUCATION: Expands the test type options used in grades three, fix, six, seven and nine as part of LEAP. SB 100 GAUTREAUX  OPPOSED ORDERS: Provides for a five-year final average compensation period in the Parochial Employees' Retirement System. SB 157 MURRAY SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires binding arbitration for certain disputes between the Recovery School District and a charter school or a local school board. SB 191 GAUTREAUX  MONITOR-SUPPORT RETIREMENT: Provides relative to compliance with applicable federal tax qualification requirements for Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, and State Police Pension and Retirement System. SB 240 MURRAY SUPPORT EDUCATION: Allows the Orleans Parish School Board to exclude certain costs from the amount of local funds that it would otherwise be required to transfer to the RSD. SB 258 MURRAY SUPPORT FINANCE: Provides for eligibility of New Orleans School Board retirees to participate, as a group, in insurance sponsored by the Office of Group Benefits. SB 274 HEITMEIER  NEUTRAL RETIREMENT: Requires a charter school teacher who is an active member of the system to remain an active member for the duration of employment at the charter school under certain circumstances. SB 307 GAUTREAUX  NEUTRAL RETIREMENT: Excludes pay to school bus drivers for certain school-related extracurricular activities performed under private contracts from the definition of earnable compensation. SB 315 MORRISH NEUTRAL RETIREMENT: Authorizes certain person who entered the Deferred Retirement Option Plan of the system before July 1, 2001, to have their pre-DROP retirement benefits recalculated at an accrual rate of 3 1/3% per year under certain circumstances. SB 344 DUPPESSIS OPPOSED EDUCATION: Provide relative to submission and review of charter school proposals and charter renewals. SB 353 NEVERS SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires a vote of the people before any local revenues can be transferred or allocated to a charter school. SB 422 NEVERS SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides relative to the functions and duties of the state superintendent of education. SB 485 MORRELL SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides relative to the provision of special education and related services in charter schools. SB 489 NEVERS SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires the Department of Education to reimburse local school boards for salary supplements paid to certain nationally board certified school personnel. SB 490 NEVERS SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides that Career Diploma Curriclum end-of-course exam questions reflect course content and method of instruction. SB 491 NEVERS SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires the state superintendent of education to secure funding to provide an annual increase of at least 2.75% in the MFP. SB 492 NEVERS SUPPORT Brings the governing boards of charter schools under the financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics Code. SB 495 NEVERS SUPPORT EDUCATION: Provides relative to the duties, functions, and responsibilities of BESE. SB 517 WALSWORTH OPPOSED EDUCATION: Recognizes that a diploma issued to a student who has successfully completed an approved home study program carries the same privileges as one issued by a public school or a private school. SB 527 BROOME MONITOR - SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires local school districts to provide certain classroom management training to school personnel. SB 522 533 MICHOT LAFLEUR NO POSITION EDUCATION: (IDENTICAL BILLS) Requires BESE to increase the availability of electronic textbooks and instructional materials. SB 553 LAFLEUR MONITOR - SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires BESE to develop an early high school graduation policy. SB 594 GAUTREAUX MONITOR - SUPPORT RETIREMENT: Relative to public retirement systems, provides to investments. SB 602 GAUTREAUX OPPOSED ORDERS: Relative to Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, and Louisiana School Employees' Retirement System, places restrictions on participation in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan.  SB 628 DUPLESSIS OPPOSED EDUCATION: Provides relative to student suspensions and expulsions.  SB 632 GAUTREAUX  NEUTRAL  RETIREMENT: Provides a regular schedule for permanent benefit increases for retirees of the state retirement system.  SB 658  HEBERT  MONITOR - SUPPORT EDUCATION: Requires the Dept. of Education to ensure that the amount it annually expends for certain salaries does not exceed the amount expended by the department of salaries in such category in effect on January 1, 2007.  SB 694  GAUTREAUX  SUPPORT RETIREMENT: Requires membership in the Teachers' Retirement System for charter school teachers.  SB 695  DUPLESSIS  OPPOSED EDUCATION: Authorizes BESE to exempt a school board from certain laws, rules, and regulations pursuant to a request and proposal for increasing quality of instruction and academic achievement from the school board.