1998-04-09                     Senate Journal                      Page 3218
SB 203                                                                       
The Health, Education and Social Services Committee considered                 
SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE BILL NO. 203 An Act                              
relating to phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, word-             
attack skills, spelling, vocabulary, use of decodable text, reading            
comprehension strategies, and testing for basic reading and reading            
comprehension skills in the public school system and recommended               
it be replaced with                                                            
                                                                               
CS FOR SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR SENATE                                          
BILL NO. 203(HES)                                                              
                                                                               
Signing do pass: Senator Wilken, Chair, Senators Leman, Ward,                  
Green. Signing no recommendation: Senator Ellis.                               
                                                                               
Fiscal note for the bill published today from Department of                    
Education. Fiscal note information forthcoming.                                
                                                                               
President Miller added a Finance Committee referral to the bill.               
                                                                               
The bill was referred to the Finance Committee.