Thursday, March 24, 2011

Today in the House: GET, CLAMP, all-day K and more

Most policy committees will finish their work today, and meetings for tomorrow afternoon are canceled. No floor activity today, but we will convene at 10:00 tomorrow and begin running bills. For today, we have:

8:00 am Education
Executive Session:
1. SSB 5184 - Regarding compliance reports for second-class school districts.
2. SSB 5392 - Including technology as a stated educational core concept and principle.
3. SSB 5427 - Regarding an assessment of students in state-funded full-day kindergarten classrooms.

8:00 am Early Learning and Human Services
Work Session: Long-Term Residential Chemical Dependency Treatment.

Executive Session:
1. SSB 5204 - Concerning juveniles who have been adjudicated of a sex offense.
2. SB 5395 - Changing provisions involving domestic violence fatality review panels.
3. ESSB 5656 - Creating a state Indian child welfare act

10:00 Higher Education
Public Hearing:
1. HB 1907 - Establishing the GET ready for college program.
2. HB 1908 - Creating a peer mentoring program to encourage elementary school students to attend college.
3. HB 1954 - Concerning public interest degrees.

Possible Executive Session:
1. SSB 5749 - Regarding the Washington advanced college tuition payment (GET) program.
2. ESB 5764 - Creating innovate Washington.
3. 2SSB 5636 - Concerning the University Center of North Puget Sound.

1:30 pm Capital Budget
Work Session: Capitol Lake Adaptive Management Plan (CLAMP).

Apture