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House Education Funding Committee chair lays out hearing rules, timelines
Summary
Chair Representative Rick Ladd opened the new Education Funding Committee with a detailed orientation on committee procedures, testimony rules, quorum and voting practices, and logistics for hearings and amendments.
Representative Rick Ladd, chair of the House Education Funding Committee, opened the panel with an orientation that reviewed how hearings, executive sessions and votes will be conducted this biennium. The committee will focus on funding-related education policy, including career-technical education, special education aid, building aid and higher education funding.
Ladd said the committee was created because “we had so many bills last year” and the split will allow members to “really explore and research” funding-related topics. He emphasized that hearings do not require a quorum but that executive sessions and formal votes do. “If you’re not here when it’s put, the motion’s put, then you’re not going to be able to vote. That’s in our rules,” Ladd said.
The orientation covered logistics for witnesses and sponsors, time…
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