Legislative Bills

This bill establishes a grant program to support co-teaching models for special education students. This bill creates the Special Education Co-teacher Pilot Program (co-teaching program); outlines the requirements for a local education agency to receive a grant under the co-teaching program; provides rulemaking authority to the state board to administer the co-teaching program; and specifies allowable uses of grant funding.

This Bill:

• Modifies the formula used by the Office of Homeless Services (office) to disburse funds from the Homeless Shelter Cities Mitigation Restricted Account (account) to municipalities to mitigate the impacts of homeless shelters.
• Provides for the State Tax Commission to subtract a certain amount from a local government's annual local contribution to the account based on the availability of homeless shelter beds within the local government's boundaries.
• Requires certain counties to convene a county winter response task force for the purpose of preparing a county winter response plan, formerly known as a county overflow plan.
• Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a code blue alert for certain weather events that may pose a danger to individuals experiencing homelessness.

This bill reduces the revenue target for the revenue that the minimum basic tax rate generates and repeals the weighed pupil unit (WPU) value rate. It would result in a loss of funding for schools.

2 ▸ adds forcibly kissing a child to the list of actions that may qualify as sexual abuse of
13 a child;