March 24, 2026 · EDUCATION · 5,630 words · 13 speakers · 137 segments
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Good morning, everyone. Let me start by apologizing for the cough drop. I don't know if anybody knows this, but it's the beginning of allergy season, so everybody's in super good moods right now, mostly me. So good morning, everyone. I'd like to call our voting meeting of the Education Committee to order. I'd like to remind everyone that this meeting is being recorded and live-streamed for the members of the public. For those participating virtually, I don't see any, but just in case, please mute your microphones. Members attending in person, please silence all of your electronic devices. We will now take attendance, and Tom, if you'll be so kind, take the roll.
Chairman Schreier.
Here.
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President. Thank you very much. Before we get started on legislation, we have a number of bills to consider. I'd like to introduce, acknowledge, recognize
Representative Cooper for the purposes of a recognition. Thank you, Chairman. Today we have with us Joanna Wang, if you'd stand up, and she is a student at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in computer science with a focus on AI policy and she's with the Institute of Politics. I sit as the chair for the education committee on that institute and so she's shadowing me today and there's a number of students throughout the chamber today and so we just want to welcome you and thank you chairman for allowing me to
recognize her. Absolutely and welcome welcome. So we're going to do something a little bit different today, folks. We are going to start with our resolutions, and I do see, we'll start with House Resolution 417 by Representative Struzzi or Chair Struzzi. I don't believe he's with us today, but is there a motion? So moved by Chair Cutler, and I will second the motion to consider
House Resolution 417. Kate? House Resolution 417, sponsored by Chair Struzzi, designates the month of November 2025 as Indiana University of Pennsylvania Appreciation Month.
Okay. I want to thank Chair Struzzi for bringing this to our attention. Certainly, IUP is one of our favorite institutions of all of the PASHE schools. They do an incredible job of educating folks across the Commonwealth, but certainly in the western part of the state, and we appreciate him for bringing this resolution forward. I will ask my colleagues, are there any other questions or comments on the resolution? Seeing none, I'll ask my colleagues, are there any no votes on House Resolution 417? Seeing none, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Thank you all very much. With that, I will like to ask if anybody would call up House Resolution 434 by Representative Parker. Is there a motion?
It's been motioned by Representative Isaacson and seconded by Representative Frill Otten.
Rep. Parker, do you have any comments on your resolution, ma'am? If you'll come up to the microphones here, ma'am. Ma'am,
in spite of everything, I know you well enough
to know you still need to use the microphone. And thank you for joining us
today, ma'am. And good morning, Chair, and thank you to the committee.
Good morning.
Civic Learning Week has been nationally recognized since 2023 to raise awareness of the importance of civic education in our classrooms. Civic education provides children with the knowledge of how our government works, how and why their voices matter in a democracy, and prepares them for voting and community action when they reach adulthood. The resolution recognizes the week of March 9th through 13th of 2026 as Civic Learning Week in Pennsylvania. I urge the committee's support for this resolution, and thank you so kindly, Mr. Chair.
Yes, ma'am. Thank you very much. Are there any questions or comments on House Resolution 434? Seeing none. Are there any negative votes on House Resolution 434? Seeing none, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Thank you, ma'am. Going ever so slightly out of order, I'd like to consider House Bill 2218 by Representative Steele. She's with us here today. Is there a motion to call up House Bill 2218?
Motion is made by Representative Freelott.
Is there a second?
Representative Young.
Thank you, ma'am. Kate?
House Bill 2218, sponsored by Representative Steele, creates the School Counseling Services Act to require each school entity to implement a comprehensive school counseling plan.
Thank you. Representative Steele.
Thank you, Chair Schwyer, Chair Cutler, and members of the committee. School counselors play an essential role in students' lives. Counselors have the tools, resources, and training to provide the support our children need to thrive in school and in their career pursuits. Despite the importance of this work, school counselors are frequently pulled from their core responsibilities to wear multiple hats at schools, covering classrooms or filling other gaps. My bill would establish the School Counseling Services Act, which will prevent counselors from being pulled to cover others' work and will ensure that school counselors are available to students in their counseling capacity, propelling students on their pathways to success. Thank you.
Thank you, ma'am. Are there any questions or comments from members on House Bill 2218? Chair recognizes Representative Anderson.
I think Representative Steele, this is an excellent idea. There's not a counselor or a teacher in the Commonwealth or possibly in the United States that wants to cover a class when they can work with kids or have a prep period. My question is this. We have a, it's not even significant, it's a crisis of sub shortages in the state of Pennsylvania. We do not, every school every day is short subs. There's some days when schools are short many subs. So let's say real situation, a daily situation, there's not enough subs. And you have administrators covering classes and the professionals the only professionals left are counselors And again I 100 support the idea that counselors should not be required to do this or hopefully they would not But you have a classroom full of 30 kids. What do you do?
Is it okay to respond, Chair?
Yes, ma'am.
Okay, so from my perspective, given that we have robust and abundant research indicating that there's a mental health crisis with American children today, we're seeing more eating disorders, more hospital stays, obesity rates are shooting through the roof, as are anxiety rates, depression rates, and rates of suicide. This is the future of our country, these children. We are in an urgent crisis. This is the one area where we should not be pulling experts who are trained to handle these issues, as well as just beyond guidance as far as their future and career pathways. This is the one area where we have got to have the experts available to these children. Thank you.
I do not disagree with any of what you just said. Thank you. But my question is reality, and any teacher can tell you, there's still a classroom with 30 kids and the only one you have to cover is a counselor what if you're an administrator what do you do somebody needs to be in there with them
thank you sir chair cutler thank you mr chairman um representative steel thank you for bringing the
issue uh to the forefront i do think it's worthy of both our attention and our discussion and talking to everybody on the committee, I think everybody agrees that there is a mental health crisis. I think where the disagreement lies might be how to best approach it going forward. It's one of the reasons why, you know, I personally have worked with Whip Slotsburg on these issues, because we believe that there's a better way or a better approach many times providing the care. My main concern is recognizing the shortage of counselors coupled with the underlying budget discussions as they're currently going on. I would like personally to see more support, like direct support for counselors, whatever that might be in the budget in terms of either programs or ways to get access to more counselors and encourage them to come into public service as opposed to another mandate that could be viewed as a time management piece to fulfill. So I think it really becomes a circular argument, which comes first? Do you get the counselors in and then we work with how to best utilize them? Because I agree that in an ideal world that should never be the case. They unfortunately would be very busy doing their main functions, and that's a sad reality. So at this time I'm a no, but I would rather see ongoing. I'd like to see those discussions in the budget because I think that's the best place to address them and specifically target this as a critical area of need in terms of delivery of not just education, but mental health services. Thank you, sir.
Let the record reflect two things. Number one, we are joined by Representative Friel. Thank you, sir. And second of all, I just heard Chair Cutler ask for additional money in public education. So thank you, sir, for that.
Targeted, Mr. Chairman.
I heard what I heard. You said what you said. Anyway, with that, let me start by saying I am wholeheartedly supportive of this legislation. And I thank you, Representative Steele. This is not the first time we've moved maybe identical, certainly very close to identical legislation as this concept was passed during last year's legislative session. Just a reminder for our colleagues. Over the course of the last three years, we've increased education funding by billions of dollars. with the passage of the Basic Ed Funding Commission recommendations. We have so far invested two years of a nine-year ramp-up of funding for our most at-risk school districts, 380 of them across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition to the added funding for our school districts, which is targeted spending for teachers, support services, things like guidance counselors, as well as curriculum, textbooks, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. We have made six changes to our teacher certification programs in the Commonwealth, and we created the student-teacher stipend and are seeing not only resounding success with that program, although perhaps underfunded, we also passed, as a Senate Republican bill, the new scholarship program that will help add additional teachers to our classrooms. At some point in time, we're going to have to have the conversation of standards and what we're looking to see in the classroom as a result of the additional funding, the added career pathways, et cetera, et cetera. I didn't even mention Grow Your Own and other programs like that. I don't know when the conversation is supposed to begin about when we're supposed to set standards and have outcomes that we're actually funding, trying to get based on our additional funding. I think this is exceptional legislation. There is similar legislation that we'll be considering regarding school nurses later today. And the same arguments will apply there, so I won't bore everybody with the same arguments. But we are funding schools, finally. We are funding – we are creating new pathways for people to go in the field of education, finally. We are funding student teachers, finally. And now is the time for us to have conversations about standards. For those reasons and others, including all the ones that Representative Steele mentioned about the mental health crises that we're having in our schools, I ask for an affirmative vote. And so with that, I'm going to ask for a roll call vote. Tom, just so you know, there will be a roll call on every vote from here on out.
Chairman Schreier.
Yes.
Representatives Abney, Curry, Friel, Isaacson, Kazim. Yes, by designation. Nelson. Yes, by designation. Omara. Friel Otten. Probst. Prokopiak. Smith-Wadell. Yes, by designation. Taycac. Young. Chairman Cutler.
No.
Representatives. Anderson. Cooper. D'Orsi. Gleim. Kozak. McKenzie. Ortitai. No designation. Rosl. Schlegel. Shalaba. No designation. Wattro. No designation. The ayes are 14. The nays are 12. The motion passes. Thank you, sir.
Thank you, everyone. Let the record also reflect that we are joined by both Representatives McKenzie and Representatives Curry. Thank you both for joining us. I know it's a crazy day for everybody today. Moving forward, I'd like to ask if we can consider House Bill 830 by Chair O'Meara. Is there a motion to consider? Thank you, Representative Abney. Is there a second? Thank you, Representative Probst. Kate, if you will give us a description of House Bill 830, there is an amendment to consider.
House Bill 830, sponsored by Representative Omara, requires schools to notify parents and guardians when their child is involved in bullying or cyberbullying within five days of an incident.
Thank you. And we're going to go ahead and ask for consideration of A026. I don't know why I took my glasses off. A02654 by Chair O'Mara. Is there a motion? Thank you, Representative Frill-Ott. And is there a second? Thank you, Representative Isaacson. Kate, will you describe the amendment?
A02654 by Representative O'Mara requires all incidents of alleged bullying to be investigated by a school entity. The amendment also requires a school entity to notify the parents and guardians within 24 hours of a determination that an incident of bullying took place and the school entity's procedures following the investigation.
Thank you. Chair O'Meara, do you have any comments on your amendment?
On the amendment. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This amendment is the result of extensive collaboration with stakeholders representing different education groups, including school administrators and students. a central concern that has been raised throughout discussions of this bill which this is the second session we have worked on this bill but this session with the leadership of chair schweier we really um work to make sure all stakeholders were engaged so we can make sure this policy is as well thought out as possible so there are no unintended consequences um and so that was what those discussions were about it's very important to me and i think all parents and frankly even teachers that parents and guardians have a role when bullying happens at school and we wanted to make sure that that's what our bill was aiming to do but we realized there were some issues and so what this amendment will do is ensure that every report of bullying made to a school by a student must be investigated we were really surprised when doing research on the bullying policy in Pennsylvania that right now that is not a requirement. You would think it would be, but it is not. So we are going to fix that. If the investigation determines bullying did occur, the school must notify the parents or guardians of both the perpetrator and the victim. I believe this amendment ensures transparency, accountability, and the opportunity for families to be involved and to support their child. I respectfully ask all of my colleagues to vote yes on this amendment and really want to thank the staff of the Education Committee for their hard work on this legislation and specifically on this amendment and finding a way that I believe we can make real meaningful change with one small adjustment for our kids in school. So thank you.
Thank you, ma'am. I'd like to recognize Chair Cutler on the amendment.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to thank the good lady for your work on the amendment. This is an issue that we've experienced and lived through with our own kids. So I appreciate your work, and I also appreciate the work of Chair Schreier and the staff, because I know how hard you all have worked on this, and it'll have my support. Thank you, sir.
Any other questions and comments on A02654? Seeing none. We'll take a roll call on the amendment.
Chairman Schreier. Yes. Representatives Abney, Curry, Friel, Isaacson, Kazeem. Yes, by designation. Nelson. Yes, by designation. Omara, Friel Otten, Probst, Prokopiak, Smith-Wadell. Yes, by designation. Takehack, Young. Chairman Cutler. Yes. Representatives Anderson, Cooper, D.R.C., Lime, Kozak, McKenzie, Ortitai. Yes, designation. Rosal, Schlegel, Chalaba. Yes, designation. Wattro Yes designation The ayes are 25 The nays are 1 The motion for the amendment passes Thank you Considering House Bill 830 as amended Chair O do you have any further comments on
your bill, or are you good?
Yeah, just real briefly. This topic originally came to my attention because of a really tragic suicide that resulted in my district at one of our local high schools. and in the aftermath what we discovered was that students who were involved in bullying cases were not their parents weren't always being told and so I'm just really grateful that we it took a number of years and a lot of smart people but that we have found a potential solution that's going to have meaningful impact especially when we see suicide rates skyrocketing among our kids and we see the impact that social media, life, culture, everything is having on today's youth. I think it's important that families are able to support their children no matter what's going on, and I'm really excited that we might be able to make that happen. So it's not often we get to find common ground. So thank you all for the support on the amendment, and I hope we can do that on final passage as well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, ma'am. Chair recognizes
Representative Schlegel. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I certainly appreciate the thoughtfulness
in this legislation. But I would say this, regardless of language, regardless of a bill, regardless of any law that is passed out of this, I would certainly expect every single administrator that they would take every one of these allegations seriously and do whatever they can to make sure that they get to the bottom of it, make sure that students know that we take any incidents seriously, make sure that the parents know what's going on. And I think the communities expect that in all of our school districts. So I just wanted to share that perspective.
Thank you. Thank you, sir. Representative Gleim. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
And while I was a yes on the amendment, because I think it makes the bill better, I will be a no on the bill. Because I don't believe that we use the laws that we have right now under our cyber or just regular bullying policies within the school districts. For instance, we have a law on the books that says that the schools after an incident like this need to report it in PIMS. PIMS is the Pennsylvania Information Management System. and schools don't do it. And so even though you're notifying the parents, if you don't start, you know, documenting these incidents, we're never really going to know how to actually fix the problem within the schools and what problem we have. So I commend the maker of the bill for trying on this issue, but I really think that we need to start looking at our PIMS system.
Thanks. Thank you, ma'am. Are there any other questions or comments on House Bill 830 as amended? Let me just say very quickly, I want to thank Chair O'Meara for her very, very, very hard work on this. And what I said to her privately, I want to say publicly, given all the members and all the staff time and flexibility to work on this bill. As we heard, it's complicated. There are certainly a lot of considerations that we've learned about through the years. I will say the Senate had sent over as part of another bill something that tried to get to this and language that I frankly did not think was implementable. I made that word up, but everybody knows what I mean. I'm chair of education. Just roll with it. Anyway, and sometimes we need a little time and a little space to come up with a better outcome to address the same concerns. So, Chair O'Meara, I just really want to thank you for not only your hard work but your flexibility in helping us get to this point. And as before with the amendment, I'm going to ask for an affirmative vote from members. Tom, if you'll please take the roll.
Chairman Schreier. Yes. Representatives Abney, Curry, Friel, Isaacson, Kazim. Yes, by designation. Nelson. Yes, by designation. Omara, Friel Otten, Probst, Prokopiak, Smith-Wadell. Yes, by designation. Taycac, Young, Chairman Cutler. Yes. Representatives, Anderson, Cooper, Diorci, Lime, Kozak, McKenzie, Ortitai. Yes, by designation. Rosl, Schlegel, Shalaba. Yes, by designation. Watro. Yes, by designation. The ayes are 22. The nays are 4. The motion passes.
Thank you, and thank you everyone for your hard work on this again. Moving forward, I'd like to consider House Bill 1752 by Representative Curry. Do I have a motion to consider it? Made by Representative Prokopiak, seconded by Representative Young. There is an amendment to it, and we'll go ahead and take the amendment before we go from there. I will be offering the amendment. That is A-02316. Is there a motion to consider? Representative Curry, is there a second? Representative Isaacson, thank you. Kate, if you'll please describe A-02316.
A-02316 by Chair Schreier requires the independent study to evaluate whether Smarter Balanced assessments can provide an alternative to the Keystone exams.
Are there any questions or comments on the amendment? We'll take a roll call on amendment A-02346.
Tom? Chairman Schreier. Yes. Representatives Abney. Yes, by designation. Curry. Friel. Isaacson. Kazeem. Yes, by designation. Nelson. Yes, by designation. McKenzie. Ortitai. Yes, by designation. Brazl. Schlegel. Shalaba. Yes, by designation. Watro. Yes, by designation. The ayes are 26. The nays are 0. The motion for the amendment passes.
Thank you. And I'd like to recognize Representative Curry.
Thank you, Chairman. and thank you for putting up the amendment to work with all the stakeholders because this is a really important piece of legislation. Thank you again.
Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments on House Bill 1752 as amended?
Chair Cutler. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the good lady for bringing this proposal forward. I'm going to say something that I think I would love to see as it heads to the floor. Rather than a study, I'd just like to see the change. I think that's something that I think we could probably find consensus on. The reality is if it's good enough to get you into college, it should be good enough to get you there in the first place by graduating. Thank you, sir.
Any other questions or comments on Bill 1752 as amended? Seeing none, we'll take a roll call.
Chairman Schweier. Yes. Representatives Abney. Yes, by designation. Curry. Yes. Friel. Isaacson. Kazim. Yes, by designation. Nelson. Yes, by designation. Omara. Friel Otten. Probst. Prokopiak. Yes, by designation. Smith-Wadell. Yes, by designation. Takak. Yes, by designation. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you, Paul. I apologize. Yun. Yes, by designation. Chairman Cutler. Yes. Representatives Anderson, Cooper, D'Orsi, Lime, Kozak, McKenzie, Ortitai. Yes, by designation. Rosl. Schlegel. Shalaba. Designation, yes. Wattro. Designation, yes. The ayes are 26. The nays are zero. The motion for the bill passes.
Thank you very much. Moving forward, House Bill 2237 by Representative Isaacson. Is there a motion to consider? Representative Taycac, thank you. Seconded by Chair Cutler. Kate, if you'll be so gone.
House Bill 2237, sponsored by Representative Isaacson, makes the new Economy Technology Scholarship Report administered by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency subject to funding. Thank you.
Are there any questions or comments on 2237? Representative Isaacson.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The New Economy Technology Scholarship was a program administered by FIA and was designed to support students pursuing degrees in high-tech fields and encouraging them to work in Pennsylvania. This program, though, has been closed for some time, and FIA continues to be required to generate and submit annual reports on a program as required by the statute. do. My bill simply repeals the obsolete section of this program in the existing law and eliminates unnecessary reporting obligations for a program that no longer receives funding or accepts recipients. I would respectfully ask for a yes vote. Thank you, ma'am. Chair Cutler? Thank you,
Mr. Chairman. Representative Isakson, thank you for working on this issue. One of my own frustrations as being a FIA board member is seeing a report on a program that no longer exists. Knowing all the other important work that we had to do with the board, I'm fully supportive of this and the next bill. And quite frankly, I'd like it if we didn't stop with just these two programs. We should look all through the education world and find everything that needs repealed so we can focus on the matters at hand. Thank you, sir.
I was joining you on the FIA board along with Representative Isaacson. I concur with what everybody said, and I will say this to you, Chair, and I mean this in all honesty. If you find more, we'll run them because we don't want to waste any more staff time than we already do. So with that, I will also ask for an affirmative vote on 2237. I'm going to say the same right now for 2269. But Tom, we'll take the roll.
Chairman Schreier. Yes. Representatives, Abney. Yes, by designation. Curry. Yes. Friel. Yes, by designation. Isaacson. Kazim. Yes, by designation. Nelson. Yes, the designation. Omara. Friel Otten. Probst. Prokopiak. Yes, by designation. Smith-Wadell. Yes, by designation. Taycac. Young. Yes, by designation. Chairman Cutler. Yes. Representatives. Anderson. Cooper. Diorci. Lime. Kozak. McKenzie. Ortitai. Designation, yes. Rosal. Schlegel. Shalaba. Designation, yes. Watro Designation yes The ayes are 26 The nays are zero The motion for the bill passes Thank you sir Up next similar legislation by Representative O Chair O excuse me House Bill 2269 is our motion to consider Representative Probst thank you Is there a second Chair Cutler thank you again Kate
if you'll describe this one as well. House Bill 2269, sponsored by Representative O'Mara,
repeals provisions for the Medical Education Loan Assistance Program and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. Thank you, ma'am. Chair O'Mara, anything to add, ma'am?
Just really quick, I also serve on the FIA board. I think I've been on it now for six years, which is hard to believe, and very supportive of finding ways to make their job and our funding more effective. So thank you for raising this to our attention and moving in. Thanks.
Thank you, ma'am. Seeing no further comments, are there any negative votes on House Bill 2269? Seeing none, the legislation is adopted unanimously. Thank you. Moving forward, last and certainly not least, House Bill 2285 by Representative Borowski. Is there a motion to consider? Thank you, Representative Probst. Is there a second? Thank you, Representative Isaacson. Kate, if you will be so kind as to describe House Bill 2285.
House Bill 2285, sponsored by Representative Borowski, requires that each school building attended by students must have at least one school nurse. It increases the ratio of students to a school nurse from 1,500 to 1 to 750 to 1 and increases the amount of reimbursement for school health services to $12.61 per ADM. Thank you. And I'd like to turn it over to Representative Borowski. Ma'am.
Thank you, Chair Schreier and Chair Cutler.
I appreciate the opportunity and thank you to the members of the Education Committee for considering House Bill 2285. And at the very top, thank you to the staff of the Education Committee for all your help in working with an issue that was brought to me by a constituent who is in my district, who is a school nurse, not at a school in my district, but she came to me and we were talking about something and she told me how she, in one day, she could see over a hundred students. She is one school nurse and one day over a hundred students. So we started to talk about ways that we could fix this, knowing that Pennsylvania is facing a worsening school nursing shortage at a time where the needs for student health are more complex than ever. Chronic health conditions,
medically fragile children who require daily care and medications, and student mental health needs are at an all-time high. What this bill does is establish a school nurse staffing ratio of one certified school nurse for every 750 students. This would ensure that every child has a meaningful access to qualified medical support when they need it during the school day. Additionally, this legislation also makes a common-sense, data-driven approach to modernizing. imagine that, modernizing, Pennsylvania's school health funding system. This funding system was designed in the 1990s and has left Pennsylvania schools struggling to meet the student health challenges of the 21st century. By increasing the non-categorical reimbursement structure for the current flat $9.70 per average daily membership to $12.61 per average daily membership, we can start taking the necessary steps to ensure Pennsylvania's school health funding system can meet the needs of today. This bill is about student health and safety, and I would kindly ask for a yes vote. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, ma'am. Representative Anderson?
Yes. Again, I think this is a great idea. school nurses are overwhelmed. My question is, because as you said, we have a nurse shortage, is there some sort of penalty for schools in the bill if they don't have nurses applying, or they don't have a qualified nurse? Because I don't have a problem with increasing the ratio necessarily, but what happens if they can't find somebody to fill that position, which is a reality in a lot of schools.
Kate, I'm going to ask you to answer that.
In the legislation and statute itself, there's no direct repercussion or consequence for failing to meet the ratio.
So then they don't have to do it. There's no consequence. Why would they do it? Why would a school hire another nurse?
No.
Any other questions or comments on the legislation? Chair Cutler.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My comments on this particular topic are actually very similar to those of the counselors, recognizing that there's a dire need for staff. I'm not sure that Harrisburg simply changing the ratio is enough. So I would like to see, again, targeted funding, Mr. Chairman, so you can quote me again.
I heard funding.
Understood.
We'll have those discussions ongoing through budget season. But I'd like to see targeted funding to actually recruit more school nurses and be more proactive in that world.
Some years ago, we had a situation where we had a nurse practitioner who technically didn't qualify to be a school nurse. She could see patients outside of the school setting, write prescriptions, but couldn't be a school nurse inside. And we did eventually fix that through the Ed Code. However, I think that we should be looking for ways to make school nursing not just more available, but also increasing the pool of potential applicants, similar to how we've done in terms of teacher certifications and things like that. And then lastly, my question would be about the funding. Is there some data behind that going from 590 up to 12 something? Is that enough, or should we have a discussion that it should even be higher? Like, what does an actual reimbursement plan for a 1 to 750 ratio look like?
Thank you, sir. Are there any other questions or comments on House Bill 2285? Seeing none, we'll have a roll call vote.
Chairman Schreier.
Yes.
Representatives Abney.
Yes, by designation.
Curry.
Yes.
Breel.
Yes.
Isaacson. Kazeem.
Yes, by designation.
Nelson.
Yes, by designation.
Omara.
Kriel Otten.
Probst.
Prokopiak.
Yes, by designation.
Smith-Wadell.
Yes, by designation.
Taycac.
Yun.
Yes, by designation.
Chairman Cutler.
No.
Representatives.
Anderson.
Cooper.
Diorci.
Lime.
Kozak.
No designation.
McKenzie.
Ortitai.
No designation.
Rosal
Schlegel
Shalaba, no designation
Watro, no designation
The ayes are 14, the nays are 12 The motion for the bill passes Thank you, sir There's one last bill, House Bill 1045 I've communicated with the prime sponsor of it Representative Kazim And we are going to hold this bill I will say for the record, it is still my intention to consider it We are planning on voting meetings in April As well as well as our hearings. We have multiple hearings in April. April will be a busy month for our committee, but we still hope to consider this legislation. But with respect to the member of our committee, who is the prime sponsor of this legislation, we want to make sure that she's here for that. I know she's on her way to session, but sometimes real life happens. And so with that, I'd like to conclude this meeting and thank everyone for your hard work.
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