House Education Committee schedules floor presentation on H.454 amendments, discusses rural-school impacts

The House Education Committee met Tuesday, April 8, to prepare for a floor presentation of the House Ways and Means amendment to H.454 and to discuss the likely implications of the bill’s foundation formula changes for rural school districts.

Committee members said the committee would spend the morning reviewing the Ways and Means amendment, which includes changes to the foundation formula portion of H.454, then break to prepare for the floor presentation. Representative 1, a member of the committee, said two additional amendments were expected and had been scheduled to be presented if the amendment authors chose to do so.

The committee’s planning included time to read and consider the amendments once they were publicly posted. Representative 1 said committee members should “keep an eye out for them, like, in the calendar, I suppose, and read them, think about what questions you might have.” Members said they would adjourn to prepare for the…