Sine Die: 2013 Legislative Session Update

• Parent Trigger
• Marketing Our Kids- Research Engine
• Education a la Carte
• Jessica Lunsford Act Revision
• Fumbling the Retirement Bill

• Retirement
• High School Graduation
• School Safety
• Research Engine

March 22

• Retirement Bill Passes House
• Parent Trigger Passes house Ed Committee 

March 28

Bill Tracking

• Retirement
• Budget Process Inching Along
• Graduation Requirements
• Virtual Explosion
• Guns in Schools
• Next Week

April 5

Bill Tracking

• Show Us the Money
• Teacher Evaluations
• Virtual/Digital bill passes House
• Charter Accountability/Expansion passes the House
• Teacher Evaluations and Public Records
• Next Week
• Member Lobbyists

April 12

Bill Tracking

• Retirement Update
• Parent Trigger Passes Education Appropriations
• Graduation Requirements Passes
• Data Warehouse Hits a Snag
• Next Steps in Budget Process
• “FACTS” Bill Moves Through Rules
• Public Records and Teacher Evaluations
• Member Lobbyists

April 19

Bill Tracking

• Budget Process Update
• Teacher Prep
• Exceptional Student Education (ESE)
• Medicaid Expansion
• Member Lobbyists

 May 7

 Sine Die: 2013 Legislative Session Update

• The Implementation of SB 736
• Start of the 2013-2014 Budget Process
• House Workshop on ‘State-worker Pension Reform’

• FRS Reform
• Charter School Bill
• Looking Ahead to Next Week

• House Choice and Innovation
• Governor’s Proposed Budget
• Election bill moves on
• State and local retirement plan saga chugs along
• Campaign finance passes subcommittee
• Coming up next week: final interim committee week

• Milliman study missing key information
• Session begins Tuesday, March 5
• House Choice and Innovation

2013 IMPORTANT SESSION DATES

• August 1, 2012 Deadline for filing claim bills (Rule 4.81(2))
• March 5, 2013 Regular Session convenes (Article III, section 3(b), Constitution)
• March 5, 2013 12:00 noon, deadline for filing bills for introduction (Rule 3.7(1))
• April 23, 2013 50th day—last day for regularly scheduled committee meetings (Rule 2.9(3))
• April 29, 2013 All bills are immediately certified (Rule 6.8)
• Conference Committee Reports require only one reading (Rule 4.5(1))
• Motion to reconsider made and considered the same day (Rule 6.4 (2)(b))
• May 3, 2013 60th day—last day of Regular Session (Article III, section 3(d), Constitution)