| HB 50 | Chaney | Provides relative to procedures for the adoption of textbooks. |
| Bill History: |
04-21-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 177 | Pope | Requires the state to pay the transportation costs for students attending approved nonpublic elementary and secondary schools. |
| Bill History: |
06-07-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Appropriations |
| HB 216 | Foil | Provides for a school choice pilot program for certain students with exceptionalities. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 251 | Smith, Patricia | Requires the state superintendent of education to possess certain qualifications at the time of appointment by BESE. |
| Bill History: |
06-18-10 G Effective |
| HB 401 | Harrison | (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 402 | Pearson | Requires the Board of Regents 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 403 | 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 405 | Dixon | Requires BESE to adopt rules and regulations for the use of seclusion and physical restraint of students. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 488 | Harrison | Provides relative to continuing education requirements for school board members. |
| Bill History: |
01-01-11 G Effective |
| HB 489 | Harrison | (Constitutional Amendment) Abolishes BESE, transfers board duties, functions, and responsibilities to the state superintendent and provides for the superintendent to be appointed by the governor. |
| Bill History: |
05-26-10 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education |
| HB 529 | Smith, Patricia | Requires instruction with respect to sex education in public schools. |
| Bill History: |
05-17-10 H Failed to pass (Vote: Y: 23/N: 67) |
| HB 648 | Jones, Sam | Repeals provisions relative to permitting certain children to withdraw from school. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 732 | Norton | Prohibits corporal punishment in public elementary and secondary schools. |
| Bill History: |
04-14-10 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education |
| HB 775 | Simon | Provides with respect to a GED program for incarcerated offenders. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 916 | Badon, Austin | Establishes the Early Childhood School Readiness Accountability Program. |
| Bill History: |
03-29-10 H Withdrawn |
| HB 970 | Simon | Includes students educated in secure facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of juvenile justice in the MFP. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 996 | Tucker | (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 1003 | Smith, Jane | 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. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 1006 | Harrison | Provides that the state superintendent of education shall be elected rather than appointed. |
| Bill History: |
04-20-10 H Involuntarily Deferred House and Governmental Affairs |
| HB 1033 | Hoffman | Provides relative to evaluation and assessment programs for teachers and administrators. |
| Bill History: |
05-27-10 G Effective |
| HB 1055 | Richmond | 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 |
| HB 1135 | Greene | Provides school start and end dates for public and approved nonpublic schools. |
| Bill History: |
05-05-10 H Meeting set for 9:00 a.m. Rm. 1 House Education |
| 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 1154 | Carter | 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. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 1171 | Tucker | 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 1209 | Jones, R. | Creates the La. Educator Professional Practices Commission to investigate complaints and allegations of educator sexual misconduct in schools with authority to suspend or revoke teaching and principal's certificates subject to appeal to BESE. |
| Bill History: |
05-03-10 H Recommitted House Appropriations |
| HB 1224 | Tucker | 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 1225 | Dixon | Provides relative to BESE standards for approving alternative schools and alternative education programs for students suspended or expelled from public K-12 schools. |
| Bill History: |
06-29-10 G Effective |
| HB 1239 | Dixon | 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. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| HB 1343 | Norton | Provides relative to corporal punishment in public elementary and secondary schools. |
| Bill History: |
05-10-10 H Failed to pass (Vote: Y: 30/N: 54) |
| HB 1368 | 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 |
| HB 1394 | Downs | Provides relative to the use of corporal punishment in public elementary and secondary schools. |
| Bill History: |
04-21-10 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 1458 | LaBruzzo | To assure that the policy prohibiting the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of a student by another student specifically addresses the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying. |
| Bill History: |
06-29-10 G Effective |
| HCR 20 | Carter | Requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to make changes to the Minimum Foundation Program formula beginning with the formula adopted for the 2010-2011 school year. |
| Bill History: |
06-09-10 S Enrolled |
| SB 74 | Morrell | Provides for the creation of community advisory committees for schools in the Recovery School District. |
| Bill History: |
03-15-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 112 | Long | Relative to the Louisiana school and district accountability system; to prohibit inclusion of certain student performance data in calculating school and district performance scores. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| SB 285 | Donahue | Includes students educated in secure facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of juvenile justice in the MFP. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-10 G Effective |
| SB 297 | Donahue | 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 309 | LaFleur | Provides relative to habitual absence or tardiness of students. |
| Bill History: |
06-29-10 G Effective |
| SB 345 | Donahue | 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 | 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 462 | Michot | Constitutional amendment to provide relative to the use of monies in the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Finance |
| SB 463 | Michot | Constitutional amendment to authorize limited redirection and transfer of funds supporting appropriations and allocations from the state general fund and dedicated funds in certain circumstances. |
| Bill History: |
03-18-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Finance |
| SB 485 | Morrell | Provides relative to the provision of special education and related services in charter schools. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 495 | Nevers | Provides relative to the duties, functions, and responsibilities of BESE. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 570 | Chaisson | Provides for the La. Granting Resources and Autonomy for Diplomas Act ("LA GRAD" Act). |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 628 | Duplessis | Provides relative to student suspensions and expulsions. |
| Bill History: |
04-22-10 S Meeting set for At Adj., Hainkel Rm. Senate Education |
| SB 637 | Michot | Provides for the use of monies in the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Finance |
| SB 658 | Hebert | 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 for salaries in such category in effect on January 1, 2007. |
| Bill History: |
05-20-10 S Meeting set for At Adj., HAINKEL RM. Senate Education |
| SB 737 | Nevers | Provides for the restructuring and reorganization of the state Department of Education. |
| Bill History: |
04-20-10 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 740 | Duplessis | Provides for teacher tenure after a five year probationary period. |
| Bill History: |
05-10-10 S Withdrawn |
| SCR 20 | Nevers | Provides legislative approval of the MFP formula for FY 2010-2011 adopted by BESE on March 11, 2010. |
| Bill History: |
05-24-10 S Meeting set for 1:00 P.M. RM. A-B Senate Finance |
| SCR 68 | Morrell | Requests BESE to study the admission and expulsion criteria in charter schools and the impact of that criteria on at-risk and special needs students. |
| Bill History: |
05-10-10 H Enrolled |