Volume 51 | March 3, 2023 | |
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Days to Sine Die - 85
The House Public Education Committee will hear bills for the first time on Tuesday of next week at 8am. You can watch that hearing here. I sent out an email with bill summaries, but you can also find the summary below.
Some quick updates:
- Commissioner Morath testified in the House Public Education Committee and the Senate Education Committee this week on Tuesday and Wednesday respectfully. You can find the House hearing summary here and the Senate hearing summary here. More details captured below.
- Four new Speaker Priority bills have been release - HB 2 - Property Taxes Compression which contains a 15 cent compression and a 5% appraisal cap limit, HB 5 - Economic Development AKA new 313s (apparently this is a basic draft, committee substitute will have substantive changes), HB 8 - Higher Education funding bill including "scholarship" funding for dual credit courses, and HB 19 - creates "Business Court."
- We are hearing SB 8, the "Empowering Parental Rights – Including School Choice" bill, is going to require that private schools are accredited by one of the accrediting bodies approved by the Texas Private School Accreditation Commission which, according to Senate sources, is going to be the "answer" to concerns around limited accountability for private school.
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Bills to Note -
House Public Education Committee Bills to be Heard on March 7
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| Bill Number | Author | Caption | Summary
| | HB 131
| Murr | Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day. |
| | HB 628
| Shaheen | Relating to creating a temporary educator certification for certain military service members. | Allows for retired or honorable discharged military service members to be granted a temporary teaching certification for no more than five years, not subject to renewal, and will have a mentor teacher for the first two years of teaching. | | HB 699
| Frank | Relating to determining the student enrollment of a public school that allows non-enrolled students to participate in University Interscholastic League activities for purposes of assigning a University Interscholastic League classification. | When assigning league classification to a public school based on student enrollment, the league must use the same student enrollment calculation formula for a school that allows a non-enrolled student to participate in a league activity as the formula used to determine the student enrollment of a school that does not allow a non-enrolled student to participate in the league activity | | HB 768
| Allen | Relating to the use of personal leave during school holidays by school district employees. | A school district employee with available PTO can utilize those PTO on days that are designated school holidays to earn pay | | |
Commissioner Morath testifies to both the House and Senate Education Committees
While the budgetary updates had not changed substantially since Commissioner Morath testified in front of the Appropriations and Finance committees a week ago, Morath did spend a substantial amount of time discussing that a top result of the Teacher Vacancy Taskforce was the confirmation of an "undesirable work life balance created by how much work teachers have to do outside of the classroom...[including] lack of curriculum support material."
Morath went on to state that only 19% of the material being used in classrooms is on or above the student’s grade level.
During the House Committee testimony, several representatives brought up the upcoming CCMR cut point changes. Morath continued to say that he was "required to set cut scores in a way that makes Texas a national leader for post-secondary success."
Full summary of house here and senate here.
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Important Dates for the 88th Legislative Session
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Friday, March 10, 2023 - 60-day deadline for bill filing
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Saturday, April 15, 2023 - First day that a senator may place up to five bills or resolutions on the Senate Notice of Intent Calendar, also Julia's Birthday :)
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Monday, May 8, 2023 - Last day for House committees to report House bills and House joint resolutions
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Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - Deadline for the House to distribute its last House daily calendar with House bills and House joint resolutions
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Thursday, May 25, 2023, before midnight - Deadline for the House to distribute Senate amendments
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Friday, May 26, 2023 - Last day for the House to act on Senate amendments (concur or request a conference committee), Before midnight: deadline for the House to print and distribute House copies of a conference committee report on the general appropriations bill, Before midnight: deadline for the Senate to print and distribute Senate copies of conference committee reports on tax, general appropriations, and reapportionment bills
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Saturday, May 27, 2023, before midnight - Deadline for the House to print and distribute House copies of all conference committee reports on joint resolutions and on bills other than the general appropriations bill, Deadline for the Senate to print and distribute Senate copies of all conference committee reports on joint resolutions and on bills other than tax, general appropriations, and reapportionment bills
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Sunday, May 28, 2023 - Last day for the House to adopt conference committee reports or discharge House conferees and concur in Senate amendments
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Monday, May 29, 2023 - Last day of 88th Regular Session (sine die).
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