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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Veteran Affairs Apr 29th, 2025

Veteran Affairs

Bills: HB102, HB300, SB2255
Summary: The Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs heard three measures focused on military-connected students, service members, veterans, and their families. House Bill 102 would give eligible students in military-related university programs early registration privileges, similar to existing accommodations for expectant mothers and student athletes. House Bill 300 would modernize the Texas Armed Services Scholar program by increasing scholarship funding, clarifying the student employment agreement, and creating a scholarship coordinator at THECB to help students and families navigate the program. Senate Bill 2255 drew the most discussion and testimony. The bill would streamline occupational licensing for military members, spouses, and veterans by allowing Texas licensure based on an out-of-state license in good standing with a similar scope of practice, removing the Texas residency requirement, and shortening agency processing time from 30 days to 10 days in the committee substitute. Supporters from the Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations, the Texas Association of Business, the Institute for Justice, TDLR, and the VFW said the bill would reduce bureaucratic delays, improve employment opportunities, and help military families maintain income during relocations. TDLR also described current licensing confusion between state and federal rules and said the bill would improve alignment and data collection. No witnesses testified against any of the bills. After public testimony closed on each measure, HB 102, HB 300, and SB 2255 were left pending in committee. The committee then recessed subject to the call of the chair.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Amelia Tebow for the record on behalf of the Nevada Department of Education.
  • My name is Kailen Evans, President of the Washoe Education Association.
  • Holistically in education.
  • Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education.
  • And the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Education.
Bills: AB386
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • will go ahead and call the meeting for what I think is our final meeting of the A&B Subcommittee on Education
  • I want to make sure Oklahoma kids have the best opportunity for the most well-rounded education. ...kids
  • have the best opportunity for the most well-rounded education.
  • bill, page 5, lines 11 through 23, it does say the Attorney General, on request from the Board of Education
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • So keep in mind, as we're talking about DEI, it goes beyond education.
  • I heard our bill referred to public education.
  • I mean, a forum, we call it a unity summit for higher education.
  • I didn't say on education. I said for higher education. education.
  • And it's clear that higher education is in crisis, okay? Again.
Summary: The meeting was characterized by impactful discussions focused primarily on education and the representation of diverse histories in Texas's curriculum. Notably, Representative Christina Morales advocated for HB178, a bill aimed at ensuring that all Texas high school students have access to Mexican-American and African-American studies as part of their graduation requirements, moving from elective-only status. This bill garnered support from both sides of the aisle, highlighting a cooperative effort to improve educational equity in Texas. Several representatives shared personal stories reflecting on the importance of inclusive education, showcasing the bill's far-reaching implications for students' sense of identity and history.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 8th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • As mandated in section 33.005, Texas Education Code.
  • So, from Omidyar Intervention into Omidyar Special Education.
  • I served as an elementary physical education teacher and at 18 years as a director of physical Education
  • This is the education committee.
  • Education has always been important to me.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Education Apr 8th, 2025

Public Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 3627 in my official capacity as Chairman of the State Board of Education.
  • They deserve the best education our policies can provide.
  • So what I propose we do. is we take a deep dive into the education code.
  • Oliverson's concern about retaining dedicated, qualified Texas as educators.
  • Secretary of Education told this committee to do several years ago.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Education Committee, February 18, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
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Bills: SF0035, SF0090, SF0072
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Education Committee, February 18, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Good afternoon and welcome to the House Education Committee. We have the House Education Committee.
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  • Thank you. speech. School policies typically speech.
  • kids' educational education, your kids' educational happens<00:52:27.280><c> fast</c><00:52:27.599><
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Bills: SF0035, SF0090, SF0072
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, members, we'll get started with the Senate Committee on Education K through 16.
  • Senate Bill 2847 amends the education code to provide greater flexibility and structure of core curricula
  • Last session, the Texas Legislature passed historic reforms to community college funding and education
  • I've worked with the members of the Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Commissioner.
  • Good morning, Sarah Keaton with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Bills: SB2847, SB3039
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 14th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Celebrating half a century of excellence in innovation and education and research on campus. and far
  • programs offered by the Texas State Technical College of Education. system and repealing the limitation
  • by Wilson, relating to early registration for certain students at public institutions of higher education
  • HB number 290 by Lopez-Auberre relating to assistance for tuition and fees at post-secondary educational
  • What this does it gives flexibility to veterans to be able to apply for their opportunity to get educated
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • There's multiple facets of educating our youth.
  • We're not going to educate them.
  • The Board of Education, okay?
  • that actually educates our youth in this state.
  • It didn't deal with education.
Summary: The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order. SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward. Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Glad to know that it was the Board of Education, Senator West.
  • that actually educates our youth in this state.
  • Our educators want to end all students learn. All students.
  • They did not receive special education services.
  • We want to make sure that we get everyone educated.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 7th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to Senate Education. Thank you.
  • I had the privilege of speaking at the House Education Committee when they heard... ...at the House Education
  • Code, relative to early childhood care and education.
  • Code, relative to early childhood care and education; provides for the Early Childhood Care and Education
  • education, to provide relative to student identification, to require the Department of Education to
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.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • According to recent reports compiled by the education reform organization Texas Ed 911, over 11,000 educator
  • An investigation of educator misconduct in the TEA data showed less than 5% of educators guilty of sexual
  • In 2023, the Texas Education Agency reported over 500 investigations into inappropriate educator misconduct
  • I am a product of bilingual education. I'm also a career educator with over 30 years in education.
  • My master's degree is in bilingual education, and my doctorate is in educational leadership, with my
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • space and I've only been in the education space nine nine years so I by no means am I an education expert
  • I come from a family of educators. My wife...
  • My mother-in-law, one of my daughters are all educators.
  • Three educators in the same building. Committing these kinds of crimes.
  • and and higher education for students with disabilities.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Welcome to this meeting of the Senate Committee on Education.
  • And then in Section 1.8, the Education and Economic Fund is kind of different.
  • The Education and Economic Fund is kind of different.
  • So it will be a subcommittee under the Interim Committee on Education.
  • Hello, Senate Committee on Education. My name is Will Adler.
Bills: AB328, AB397
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Education Policy Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It means the board of education.
  • If we don't teach them... educational.
  • It's just requiring your boards of education to adopt the policies.
  • And, you know, I'm a big... ...and you know I'm a big proponent of education.
  • I also push workforce development, but education is why... as well.
Bills: SB278, HB459, HB61
TX

Texas 89th Regular

FinanceAudio only. May 27th, 2025

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 1057 supports the recruitment and fair compensation of top talent in career and technology education
  • Career and Technology Education, or CTE.
Bills: HB1057
Summary: The Senate committee met, established a quorum, and took up House Bill 1057, sponsored in the Senate by Senator Adam Hinojosa. Hinojosa explained that the bill would expand the amount of prior industry experience that can count toward TRS and salary step credit for career and technology education teachers, increasing the cap from two years to five years. He said the change is intended to help recruit and fairly compensate skilled professionals such as electricians, nurses, welders, and programmers, and to address teacher shortages beginning in the 2025-2026 school year. No members asked questions, and no one signed up to testify. The committee then voted to report HB 1057 favorably to the full Senate. The motion passed unanimously, 13 ayes and 0 nays, and the chair announced the committee would stand recessed subject to call.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Personally, my family is a product of public education. I'm a product of public education.
  • I am going to be a product of public education.
  • Education to Public Education and School Finance, and Vice Chair Bernal, who has put in hours and hours
  • There is $1.5 billion in new special education funding.
  • For example, we talked about the special education piece.
Summary: The meeting primarily revolved around the discussion of HB2, which aims to increase funding for public education in Texas. Key points included enhancements to teacher salaries, special education funding, and initiatives to support emergent bilingual programs. Legislators highlighted the need for collaboration and leadership in addressing the challenges faced by public schools, noting the vital role that education plays in the state's future. Speaker Burroughs expressed confidence in achieving significant improvements for Texas students through this legislation, which has been deemed one of the most consequential bills of the session.