| HB 321 | Trahan | Deletes the limitation on the number of charter school proposals allowed. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 328 | Trahan | Deletes provision that certain disruptive students shall be considered delinquents. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 329 | Trahan | Provides relative to alternative education programs for suspended and expelled students. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 361 | Smith, Patricia | Provides relative to the conditions required for certain expelled students to be admitted or readmitted to public school. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 397 | Morrell | Prohibits not promoting students in the fourth and eighth grades solely based on a student's performance on the LEAP tests. |
| Bill History: |
03-19-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 398 | Morrell | Provides relative to eligibility of BESE-approved private schools to receive state funds. |
| Bill History: |
04-22-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Education |
| HB 459 | Trahan | Authorizes certain school officials to search the person or personal effects of certain suspended or expelled students who have been readmitted to school on a probationary basis or attend an alternative education program. |
| Bill History: |
04-30-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Education |
| HB 574 | Smith, Gary | Prohibits interactions between students and school employees in public elementary and secondary schools except in accordance with specified guidelines and limitations adopted by BESE. |
| Bill History: |
06-21-08 G Effective |
| HB 626 | Tucker | Provides relative to charter school funding. |
| Bill History: |
05-07-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 655 | Tucker | Provides relative to charter schools. |
| Bill History: |
05-07-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 657 | Trahan | Prohibits requiring school employees to complete paperwork if the information provided for in such paperwork is available from another source. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 672 | Trahan | Changes the name of the list of teachers' rights from "Educators' Right to Teach" to "Teacher Bill of Rights" and provides relative to such rights. |
| Bill History: |
06-12-08 G Effective |
| HB 674 | Leger | Relative to public school policies prohibiting the harassment, intimidation, and bullying of a student by another student, further defines such terms as acts motivated by certain specified characteristics. |
| Bill History: |
04-29-08 H Failed to pass (Vote: Y: 28/N: 63) |
| HB 676 | LaFonta | Prohibits not promoting or graduating any student solely based on the student's performance on any LEAP tests, including the graduation test. |
| Bill History: |
04-16-08 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education |
| HB 680 | Barrow | Requires BESE to allow fourth and eighth grade students who score not more than one point below the required proficiency level on the LEAP tests to proceed to the succeeding grade. |
| Bill History: |
05-22-08 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education |
| HB 684 | Trahan | Provides relative to the discipline, suspension, and expulsion of certain pupils. |
| Bill History: |
04-16-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 716 | Baldone | Provides a salary supplement for educational diagnosticians. |
| Bill History: |
04-09-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 717 | Dixon | Mandates a $1,000 pay raise for all school support personnel. |
| Bill History: |
04-24-08 H Recommitted House Appropriations |
| HB 719 | Carmody | Provides relative to in-service training for teachers in suicide prevention. |
| Bill History: |
06-16-08 G Effective |
| HB 722 | Trahan | Provides for phased-in universal access to the Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Education Program and for participation by non-school system providers of early childhood education. |
| Bill History: |
03-20-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 754 | Dixon | Requires public school governing authorities to take certain actions relative to student awareness and understanding of school discipline rules and requirement. |
| Bill History: |
06-21-08 G Effective |
| HB 757 | Trahan | Provides relative to penalties for crimes of assault of and for battery on a school teacher. |
| Bill History: |
06-17-08 G Effective |
| HB 817 | Harrison | Provides funding to the Department of Education to implement Act 952 of the 2003 Regular Session relative to speech-language pathologists and audiologists. |
| Bill History: |
03-21-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 907 | Barrow | Requires certain procedures be followed in providing access by any person to a public elementary or secondary school. |
| Bill History: |
05-01-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 924 | Trahan | Requires each statewide elected official and legislator to visit at least two elementary or secondary schools each year and assist in the delivery of educational services to students in the classroom. |
| Bill History: |
05-08-08 H Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| HB 932 | LaFonta | Provides funding for a pay raise for teachers and school support personnel. |
| Bill History: |
06-02-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Appropriations |
| HB 951 | Ritchie | Provides certain requirements for the rules and policies used by local school boards for the dismissal of nontenured school employees. |
| Bill History: |
06-12-08 H Meeting set for 8:00 A.M. Hainkel Rm. Senate Education |
| HB 983 | Harrison | Relative to the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana, provides with respect to unused annual and sick leave. |
| Bill History: |
06-05-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 4 House Retirement |
| HB 1037 | Trahan | Provides relative to salary differential amounts for teachers having certain advanced degree. |
| Bill History: |
05-14-08 H Recommitted House Appropriations |
| HB 1053 | Harrison | Provides for comprehensive revision of the educational opportunities for children with exceptionalities provisions. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 1091 | Peterson | Creates the Louisiana High School Dropout Prevention Act of 2008 and provides for the circumstances under which certain students may withdraw from school. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| HB 1105 | Trahan | Provides relative to charter school funding. |
| Bill History: |
07-06-08 G Effective |
| HB 1168 | Hoffman | Provides for the La. Academic Freedom Act. |
| Bill History: |
04-22-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 1187 | LaBruzzo | Establishes the Education Vouchers for Foster Children Program. |
| Bill History: |
05-22-08 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education |
| HB 1302 | Marchand | Prohibits not promoting or graduating a student who fails to attain a certain minimum achievement level on a portion of any LEAP test, including the graduation test, if the student meets certain criteria. |
| Bill History: |
04-23-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Education |
| HB 1306 | Burrell | Prohibits not promoting or graduating a student who fails to attain a certain minimum achievement level on a portion of any LEAP test, including the graduation test, if the student meets certain criteria. |
| Bill History: |
06-04-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 1 House Education |
| HB 1323 | Dixon | Provides relative to leave for parents and legal guardians to attend certain school related activities. |
| Bill History: |
05-28-08 H Committee hearing cancelled House Labor and Industrial Relations |
| HB 1339 | Richmond | Provides for eligibility of New Orleans school employees retired prior to Jan. 31, 2006, to participate, as a group, in insurance sponsored by the office of group benefits. |
| Bill History: |
04-23-08 H Referred to House Committee on House Appropriations |
| HB 1347 | Badon, Austin | Provides relative to student scholarships. |
| Bill History: |
06-25-08 G Effective |
| HB 1349 | Williams | Establishes the Parental Choice Education Reform Program. |
| Bill History: |
05-22-08 H Involuntarily Deferred House Education |
| HCR 77 | Morris | Requests BESE to study the national board certification processes for certain school employees. |
| Bill History: |
06-22-08 S Enrolled |
| SB 35 | Shaw | Increases the amount that may be credited to the employee experience account of the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana. (6/30/08) |
| Bill History: |
03-14-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Retirement |
| SB 60 | Shepherd | Provides for eligibility of New Orleans school employees retired prior to Jan. 31, 2006, to participate, as a group, in insurance sponsored by the office of group benefits. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
04-30-08 S Meeting set for 10:00 A.M. RM. A-B Senate Insurance |
| SB 127 | Nevers | Changes the renewal period for an approved charter school from a 10-year period to a period of up to 10 years. (8/15/08) |
| Bill History: |
06-11-08 H Returned to the calendar - subject to call |
| SB 129 | Nevers | Requires compulsory kindergarten attendance. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
05-01-08 S Meeting set for At Adj. Hainkel Rm. Senate Education |
| SB 170 | Duplessis | Changes the renewal period for an approved charter school from a 10-year period to a period of up to 10 years. (8/15/08) |
| Bill History: |
04-10-08 S Meeting set for At Adj., John J. Hainkel Rm. Senate Education |
| SB 268 | Duplessis | Prohibits renewal of the charter of a failing school unless the school meets certain criteria. (8/15/08) |
| Bill History: |
06-10-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 a.m. House Education |
| SB 275 | Mount | Authorizes, subject to the adoption of school board policies, the denial or suspension of driving privileges to a minor who fails to meet compulsory school attendance requirements and has withdrawn from school or is habitually absent or truant. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 286 | Duplessis | Provides for phased in universal access to the LA 4 Early Childhood Program and for participation by non-school system providers of early childhood education. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 304 | Nevers | Provides relative to the use of corporal punishment in public schools. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
03-20-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 338 | Nevers | Provides for group health insurance coverage for certain employees of the Recovery School District and Type 5 charter schools. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
06-05-08 S Meeting set for At Adj. Hainkel Rm. Senate Education |
| SB 405 | Broome | Creates and provides for the Louisiana Financial Literacy and Education Commission. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 420 | Chaisson | Creates and establishes the Workforce Education Fund. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
03-21-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Finance |
| SB 440 | Duplessis | Requires public schools to provide parents with information regarding making complaints or requesting information. |
| Bill History: |
07-11-08 G Effective |
| SB 462 | Murray | Provides for group health insurance coverage for certain employees of the Recovery School District and Type 5 charter schools. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
03-21-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Education |
| SB 534 | Cassidy | Requires local school boards to account for how extra funds generated through the MFP for students with special characteristics are used. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
06-16-08 H Meeting set for 9:00 A.M. RM. 5 House Appropriations |
| SB 561 | Nevers | Provides for the Louisiana Academic Freedom Act. Became SB 733. |
| Bill History: |
04-22-08 S Set on the Senate Orders |
| SB 582 | Nevers | Provides for a program to identify and provide assistance to low-performing schools that are at risk of failing. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 595 | Smith | Provides for Teachers' Retirement System Deferred Retirement Option Plan accounts to earn interest at the system's rate of interest, at the option of the account holder. (7/1/08) |
| Bill History: |
03-21-08 S Referred to Senate Committee on Senate Retirement |
| SB 703 | Dorsey | Creates the Golden Scholars Award program for persons fifty-five years of age and older and provides for implementation and administration of such program. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
04-29-08 S Recommitted Senate Finance |
| SB 719 | Nevers | Provides relative to a universal dyslexia screening and intervention pilot program in grades K-3. |
| Bill History: |
07-06-08 G Effective |
| SB 733 | Nevers | Provides for the La. Science Education Act. Substitute for SB 561. |
| Bill History: |
06-25-08 G Effective |
| SB 746 | Long | Provides eligibility for sabbatical leave to social workers, guidance counselors, and school psychologists employed by the Special School District. |
| Bill History: |
08-15-08 G Effective |
| SB 795 | Duplessis | Provides for the Student Scholarships For Educational Excellence Act. (gov sig) |
| Bill History: |
05-12-08 S Meeting set for 10:00 A.M. RM. E Senate Finance |
| SCR 1 | Gautreaux, B. | Authorizes the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana to grant a cost-of-living increase from the employee experience account. |
| Bill History: |
05-08-08 H Enrolled |