This is the last full week before the first funnel week which means there have been a lot of subcommittees meeting and very little floor work in either chamber. The education legislation on allowable growth and K-12 reform has not seen any action. The House still wants to have 2% allowable growth funded from the general and have this in the reform bill they sent to the Senate. The Senate is still saying with their 4% allowable growth from property tax Senate passed plan. A real stalemate at this point.
It has been rumored that the chair of the Senate Education committee is drafting his own K-12 reform bill and
will pass and send this to the House. This means that we will have two bills that cannot be reconciled with each other. This is complicated by fact that one of the democrat senators had major surgery and will be out at least two weeks. I takes 26 to pass a bill and the democrats only have 26 so this will have a slowing effect on the process. Please forward any questions you may have to IAAE President David Law.
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