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2017 Bill(s)

* HCS HB 118
Sponsor: Wood, David
Status: S Education
Description: Various changes involving unaccredited school districts. Expand Education Department powers over failing districts. Establish restrictions on student transfers out of unaccredited districts.
See: 
  • House roll call - HA 5 HCS HB 118 (04/11/2017): An amendment to an education bill to repeal the right of a school board to exempt the district from a law prohibiting school from opening earlier than ten days before the first Monday in September.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 643
    Sponsor: Wood, David
    Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight
    Description: Calculate state funding to a school district for summer school based on the "actual" number of hours the school was in session.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • HB 711
    Sponsor: Wood, David
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Let a parent or guardian choose the provider for various school rehabilitation services such as physical therapy and speech therapy. Let the parent/guardian refuse to accept services provided by the school itself.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 885
    Sponsor: Wood, David
    Status: WITHDRAWN
    Description: Repeal a number of laws regulating school district use of funds. Repeal provisions that some Excellence in Education money be used for staff professional development. Also repeal some requirements in the A+ scholarship program. Repeal provisions on reading assessments.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS HB 986
    Sponsor: Wood, David
    Status: H Rules - Legislative Oversight
    Description: Various changes in prescription drug coverage under Medicaid. Restrict to a 15-day trial for the first time a drug is prescribed to a patient and require prior authorization. Require manufactors to explain reasons for drugs with high cost increases. Impose additional restrictions antipsychotic drugs.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status

    • Note: The descriptions of bills, amendments and roll-call votes are written by MDN journalists. MDN's database may not include committee assignments of bills made on the last day of the session since it is too late for the committee to act on the bill and, thus, the delayed assignment has no practical effect.