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SB 96                                                                                                                         
The Education Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 96 "An                                                                       
Act relating to education; relating to school districts; relating to course                                                     
credit for students; relating to group insurance, self-insurance, and                                                           
other cooperative arrangements between school districts and                                                                     
businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies; relating                                                          
to funding for school districts; relating to school operating funds;                                                            
relating to competency examinations for teacher certificates; relating                                                          
to the Professional Teaching Practices Commission; relating to the                                                              
duties and powers of the Department of Education and Early                                                                      
Development and the commissioner of education and early                                                                         
development; relating to a virtual education consortium; relating to the                                                        
minimum wage for bus drivers; relating to the investment,                                                                       
appropriation, and administration of the public school trust fund; and                                                          
providing for an effective date" and recommended it be replaced with                                                            
                                                                                                                                
          CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 96(EDC) "An Act                                                                                
          relating to course credit for students; relating to                                                                   
          annual reports regarding school district performance                                                                  
          and school district employees; relating to cooperation                                                                
          among school districts; providing for grants for                                                                      
          school district health insurance and other cooperative                                                                
          arrangements between school districts and                                                                             
          businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government                                                                   
          agencies; relating to school operating fund reserves;                                                                 
          relating to competency examinations for teacher                                                                       
          certificates; relating to the Professional Teaching                                                                   
          Practices Commission; relating to the duties and                                                                      
          powers of the Department of Education and Early                                                                       
          Development and the commissioner of education and                                                                     
          early development; relating to a virtual education                                                                    

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          consortium; relating to school bus inspections and the                                                                
          minimum wage for bus drivers; relating to the                                                                         
          investment, appropriation, and administration of the                                                                  
          public school trust fund; relating to a feasibility                                                                   
          analysis regarding the merger of schools that are                                                                     
            below capacity; and providing for an effective date."                                                              
                                                                                                                                
Signing do pass: Senator Hughes, Chair; Senators Stevens, Begich.                                                               
Signing no recommendation: Senator Coghill. Signing amend: Senator                                                              
Giessel.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
The following fiscal information was published today:                                                                           
     Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Department of Administration                                                                      
          Fiscal Note No. 2, zero, Department of Labor and Workforce                                                           
      Development                                                                                                               
     Fiscal Note No. 3, indeterminate, Department of Revenue                                                                    
     Fiscal Note No. 4, zero, Department of Education and                                                                       
      Early Development                                                                                                         
     Fiscal Note No. 5, zero, Department of Education and                                                                       
      Early Development                                                                                                         
     Fiscal Note No. 6, Department of Education and Early                                                                       
      Development                                                                                                               
     Fiscal Note No. 7, Department of Education and Early                                                                       
      Development                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
The bill was referred to the Finance Committee.