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OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 14th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have here some students and faculty from Putnam City North. So, we have Mrs.
  • Then we have a number of her students who have received the seal of biliteracy.
  • Growing up as a 7th-grade student, when I was young, we actually had two students who did not.
  • One of the students who was my friend actually ended up killing the other.
  • So the fiscal could be anywhere from $12 to $30,000 per student.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 14th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you’ll direct your attention to my left, your right, we have here some students and faculty from Putnam
  • We also have a number of her students who have received the seal of biliteracy.
  • Growing up as a seventh-grade student when I was young, we actually had two students who were skipping
  • One of the students, who was my friend, actually ended up killing the other young man.
  • So the fiscal could be anywhere from $12,000 to $30,000 per student.
Summary: The Senate Education Committee met and first recognized visiting students and staff from Putnam City North and Edmond Public Schools. The committee then took up several House bills, beginning with HB 3312, which would require annual age-appropriate firearm safety instruction in public schools starting in the 2026–2027 school year, with CLEET and the Department of Education developing the curriculum. The bill was advanced on a 9-2 vote after the author described it as a safety measure and cited a personal tragedy involving children and a firearm. The committee also passed HB 3700, requiring colleges and universities to adopt policies ensuring grades are based only on academic performance, and HB 2981, requiring school districts to post school board meeting minutes within two weeks of approval. HB 2961, creating the Tech Sergeant Marshall Dakota Roberts Gold Star Surviving Act to provide tuition, fees, and room and board for spouses and children of Gold Star recipients at state public universities or career tech schools, passed unanimously after discussion of a possible fiscal impact. HB 3016, establishing a two-year pilot vision screening program for about 12 schools to identify convergence insufficiency disorders linked to literacy, also passed. Later, HB 4478 passed to raise the daily deposit threshold for school districts and sites from $100 to $500 while still requiring weekly deposits. HB 4326, a cleanup bill related to Oklahoma’s Promise deadlines, certified teacher definitions, and a contingent T-SET-related provision, passed after debate about its unfinished status and funding concerns. HB 3025 passed with a change excluding donations from general fund collections for carryover balance purposes for one year, and HB 3710 passed to make a new higher education program cohort-based, requiring students to begin eligibility as freshmen. The chair closed by noting the committee had moved quickly, and announced upcoming executive nominee meetings and another committee meeting the following week.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 30th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • we're looking to flex and be able to use resources to maximize what we're able to provide for our students
  • not only K12 but for community colleges, and this just clarifies and says that no longer will the students
  • .. ...point out that the state department of education is not opposing this bill, and that when a student
  • to display a pride flag or symbol, particularly when they are making announcements on behalf of a student
  • The ability for students to make speech using these resources is protected by the Constitution and the
Bills: HB332, HB166, SB336, HB447, HB244
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/18/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are a school system of 2,700 students. We are 80% students of color.
  • We are 72% students students of color.
  • Before, I used to have 35 students. Now I have four students total.
  • Now I have four students students.
  • . students. students.
Bills: HF3435, HF3409
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 8th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So $14 million a year, times 11, for 2,100 students.
  • So if a student is enrolled for less than 10% of the year, no funding would be received for that student
  • And if you think about our student population, 100% of our students have previously dropped out of school
  • And so, as soon as a student is absent, we provide. direct intervention to try to get that student back
  • So if those things aren't. happening, which wouldn't happen if a student is not attending, if a student
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 8th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • that the student asks you not to tell the parents.
  • What if the student says in that situation, I really don't.
  • You might encourage that student to contact their parent, but clearly that student is coming to you because
  • My question is, should we be concerned at all about students?
  • Students just decide that, well, no, I'm on my own.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That's over $17,500 a student.
  • Student outcomes behind it.
  • the impact on student outcomes as well as teacher retention and teacher morale.
  • and student success.
  • outcomes and teacher retention.
Bills: SB26, SB 26
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • student-athletes.
  • Allowing homeschool students access to UIL extracurricular activities integrates students from different
  • Allowing homeschool students access to UIL extracurricular activities will mean giving students within
  • Gain them back full-time as full-time students and building a relationship with those students.
  • is for an enrolled student.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Windstorm insurance alone costs $1,341 per student, even with our increased student enrollment this year
  • our students while continuing to meet the state requirements.
  • For students who can achieve certain scores on the PSAT.
  • Of Texas students.
  • of students that is traditionally more difficult to educate.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • Stills and Midwestern University is provided by third- and fourth-year students.
  • They will also then oversee the students filling those cavities.
  • They will also then oversee the students filling those cavities.
  • They started taking students in 2008, and the clinic opened in 2010.
  • We pair up a third-year and a fourth-year student.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our main job is to prepare students to be successful in college, but not all students will be going to
  • That if a teacher removes a student from a classroom pursuant to rules governing student conduct, a principal
  • I'm all for having new strategies to help student discipline so that our students can succeed.
  • I'm all for having new strategies to help student discipline so that our students can succeed in the
  • The activity or program until the charges against the student are dismissed or the student is found not
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 7th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • If we go with the whole, you know, I'm talking about student records, Hall of Fame, all of that.
  • But what can we do to help high school students be made aware of that?
  • We do to help high school students be made aware of what's going to be available to them?
  • Third, it also provides that there are existing student plans in place for students from earlier years
  • we want to be sure to support those students as well.
Summary: The committee met with a large docket and adopted the April 29 minutes. Several bills were heard and advanced, mostly on education, workforce, literacy, early childhood, charter schools, and student mental health. Testimony was generally supportive, with many witnesses waiving in favor; a few bills drew questions about implementation, student awareness, and whether proposals were sufficiently broad or specific. House Bill 406, requiring the Department of Education to study the direction and regulation of interscholastic high school athletics and report back by March 1, 2027, was reported favorably after testimony from a retired principal who urged an open-minded study and discussion from the bill author about compliance and the bill’s purpose. House Bill 380, creating a pilot program between community and technical colleges and local school systems to expand awareness of CDL, entry-level driver training, and related programs, was also reported favorably. House Bill 807, creating a workforce and structure capacity investment program and fund to help industry partner with colleges to train instructors, was reported favorably after support from higher education and industry witnesses; senators raised interest in adding a stronger health care component and in reaching students earlier, but the author said he would work on amendments. The committee also advanced House Bill 316 on adolescent literacy and high-dose tutoring, with amendments clarifying teacher training timing, existing statutory bans on outdated literacy practices, and charter school participation; House Bill 1146, consolidating early childhood governance into a commission; House Bill 28, creating an appeal path for denied teacher certification applicants through BESE; and House Bill 992, assigning early childhood education identification numbers to support data collection on outcomes. House Concurrent Resolution 26, urging BESE to add the science of human growth and development to science and health standards and provide approved instructional resources, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 386, allowing local districts to let locally authorized charter schools operate as their own LEA under district rules, was amended and reported favorably. House Bill 392, expanding suicide prevention information requirements on school websites, ID cards, handbooks, and signage, was reported favorably as well.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Apr 7th, 2026

Judiciary

Summary: The Senate Judiciary Committee met and advanced a large slate of House bills, with most measures receiving unanimous or near-unanimous support and little debate. Early in the meeting, House Bill 2696 passed to exempt sensitive cybersecurity records—such as network configurations, passwords, and incident response plans—from public disclosure. House Bill 3941, which modifies the salary structure for bailiffs to help district courts recruit and retain them, also advanced. House Bill 3970, authorizing court reporters to use speech-to-text technology, was amended to add an effective date and emergency clause before passing. The committee also approved several criminal justice and court administration measures. House Bill 3264 makes domestic violence by strangulation an 85% crime. House Bill 3321 directs the cost administration implementation committee to gather county data and produce an annual report. House Bill 3497 clarifies when the state may appeal pretrial decisions to the Court of Criminal Appeals. House Bill 3499 expands special judges’ authority to include certain vehicle and personal property title matters, and House Bill 3500 passed from a committee substitute. House Bill 3845 was described as bringing Oklahoma into compliance with federal requirements tied to child support enforcement and driver’s license revocation processes. Several bills focused on district attorney recruitment and criminal procedure. House Bill 3980 creates a loan repayment assistance program for assistant district attorneys serving in high-need areas, and House Bill 3981 creates a related locality incentive program; both advanced after questions about title status and later appropriations handling. House Bill 4421, “Leo’s Law,” aimed at protecting children from fentanyl poisoning, also passed. House Bill 3742, described as a due process protection act, would require timely disclosure of charges and evidence to defendants and their counsel. The committee also advanced House Bill 3177, extending parity to Corporation Commission reporters, and House Bill 3322, which addresses how courts interpret duplicate statutory sections. No bills were rejected, and the meeting adjourned with notice that more controversial measures would be heard the following week.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Deverge, what a unique opportunity it is to be sponsored by a former student.
  • Student success. Thank you. Will there be questions of the nominee?
  • House Bill 1937 has two changes to the Communications with Students Act.
  • First, one you'll see in there was a change to the definition of student.
  • The other students are guaranteed the right to have an education and not be disrupted.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Apr 21st, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • What a unique opportunity it is to be sponsored by a former student.
  • Members of the committee, House Bill 1937 has two changes to the Communications with Students Act.
  • First, one you'll see in there was a change to the definition of student.
  • First one you'll see in there was a change to the definition of student.
  • Did you know that the DOD money will follow that student to whatever school Madam Chair.
Summary: The Senate Education Committee first considered a series of executive nominations, including Brian Bobeck to the State Board of Education, Jonathan Daniels to the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools, Cody Swanee to OETA, Randy Squires to the Western Oklahoma State College Board of Regents, Dwight Spencer to the Carl Albert State College Board of Regents, V. Lee to the Oklahoma Arts Council, Adisha Chapman to the Murray State College Board of Regents, Trevor Pemberton to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, Jennifer Carlson and Melissa Yvonne to the Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability, Kevin Gross to the Tulsa Community College Board of Regents, and Barbara Myers to the Oklahoma Arts Council. Most nominees briefly described their backgrounds and reasons for serving, and the committee approved each nomination, with votes ranging from 8-1 to 10-0, sending them on to the full Senate or floor as applicable. The committee then took up several education bills. House Bill 1937, dealing with the Communications with Students Act, was amended to require corroborated evidence before immediate suspension and to narrow the definition of student; it passed 9-0. House Bill 2153, which would subject OSSAA meetings and hearings to the Open Meetings Act and repeal the statutory one-year sit-out rule for transfers, drew questions about recruitment and FERPA but passed 7-3. House Bill 3674, requiring school resource officer training on sexual assault and violence, annual continuing education, mandatory reporting, and closure of contractor loopholes, passed 9-0. House Bill 3885, setting a graduated discipline framework for third through fifth graders, prompted debate over classroom safety and student rights and passed 9-1. House Bill 3671, allowing a receiving district to accept a transferring teacher’s career status, passed 10-0. House Bill 3261, assigning employee numbers to school support staff such as coaches and bus drivers for tracking across districts, passed 10-0. Several other bills generated more extensive discussion. House Bill 2978, which would impose annual library audits, public online catalogs, a formal challenge process, and funding penalties for noncompliance, faced repeated questions about how it differed from existing policy and who could challenge materials; it failed 4-5. House Bill 3021, revising graduation requirements and preserving flexibility for applied math/science and local course approval while removing some language requirements, passed 8-2. House Bill 3029, requiring the Department of Education to develop a four-year plan, passed 9-1. House Bill 4274, expanding school choice options for military-dependent students living on base, passed 10-0. The committee also began consideration of House Bill 3076, which would clarify alternative teacher certification provider definitions and OEQA oversight, but the transcript cuts off before a final vote is shown.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education May 20th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Allen for focusing on student attendance and communication with families.
  • When students frequently miss school, they fall behind. ...behind.
  • In a Texas school district, a student used AI to generate nude images of another student, and when the
  • Second, by providing an exception for students with disabilities, school districts and students have
  • This case actually arose out of a case where I was representing a student, and the student was in the