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Board legislative liaison summarizes newly introduced state bills affecting schools
Summary
At the Feb. 25 South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School Board meeting, Legislative Liaison Erin King reviewed recently introduced state bills touching school safety, taxation and curriculum, and told residents the measures are at the introduction stage.
Legislative liaison Erin King told the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School Board on Feb. 25 that several recently introduced state bills could affect district operations and school programming.
King said the bills are newly introduced and at an early stage. "All these bills were just newly introduced," she said. She listed measures including House Bill 3, the School Bus Safety Act, which King said would appropriate $25,000,000 for a school bus safety grant fund to help districts install safety features on new and existing buses, increase penalties for illegally passing a stopped school bus and designate August as school bus safety month; House Bill 28, which King said would eliminate the authority to levy replacement property tax levies; and Senate Bill 3, described as a two-year phase down of the state income tax on nonbusiness income to a flat 2.75 percent rate.
King also summarized education-related proposals: Senate Bill 7 would require K–12 instruction on short- or long-term chronic substance use; Senate Bill 19 would require districts to develop a mathematics improvement and monitoring plan for students who qualify for math intervention services beginning in the 2025–26 school year; Senate Bill 22 would authorize a refundable income tax credit or rebate for homeowners and renters whose property taxes or a portion of rent exceed 5 percent of income; Senate Bill 44 would allow certain students to receive both educational choice scholarships and special-needs scholarships and would make a $42,000,000 appropriation to offset costs; and Senate Bill 62 is the Senate version of the school bus safety legislation King first described.
King told the board these measures were at the introduction stage and that residents wishing to advocate for or against any proposal should contact their legislators for this district, which she identified as state representative Eric Sennenberg, state senator Kent Smith, U.S. Representative Chantel M. Brown, and U.S. senators John Husted and Bernie Moreno.
The board did not take policy or legislative votes on those bills during the meeting. King said she included the bills in her report to keep the board and community aware of legislation moving through the House and Senate.
