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2018 Bill(s)

* SS HB 1465
Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
Description: Let two-year community colleges offer four-year baccalaureate degrees, if approved by the Coordinating Board for Higher Education.
See: 
  • House roll call - HB 1465 (01/25/2018): 3rd reading of a bill to let community colleges offer baccalaureate degrees.
  • Senate roll call - SS HB 1465 (03/14/2018): 3rd reading of a bill to allow community colleges to offer BA degrees.
  • House roll call - SS HB 1465 (03/28/2018): Final passage of a bill to let community colleges offer four-year BA degrees.
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1520
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Rules - Administrative Oversight
    Description: Raise the minimum salary for public school teachers, subject to appropriation by the legislature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 1521
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Require the state High School Athletic Association to appear before the legislature's joint committee on education and present various data at least once a year,
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2128
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Workforce Development
    Description: Require the Education Department adopt a policy allowing a student to get one math, science or practical arts credit for a computer science course.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • SS HCS HB 2129
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: GOVERNOR SIGNED
    Description: Require public schools to provide 30 minutes instruction on organ donation upon graduation.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 2220
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Impose a limit on the maximum salary for a public school superintendent. Require public school employee salaries and titles be published in a local newspaper.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HCS HB 2393
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Perfection
    Description: Establish a procedure by which the Transportation Department can make highway memorial designations upon submission of a petition and approval by the legislature's Joint Transportation Commission. Define the category of persons for whom a highway can be named. Currently, highway designations are done through legislation approved by the legislature.
    See: 
  • The Fiscal Note(s)
  • Official legislative description and status
  • HB 2442
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Include financial record examinations of school district finances include costs involving extracurricular activities including travel, rent, athletic director salaires, dues, etc.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2443
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require a school district transfer funds to programs for indusry--recognized certificates based on each student that earns such a certificate in a field that has "high employment value."
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2444
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Provide extra state funds for school districts that were in the lowest ten percent of school districts in per-student assessed property evaluation.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2445
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Elementary & Secondary Education
    Description: Establish provisions by which a parent can transfer a child in the public school district to a school in another district.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2446
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Prohibit a further statewide assessment of public school students starting with the 2019--2000 school year.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 2628
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Limit the governor to use state vehicles for official business travel. Require the governor notify the lieutenant governor about the details of unofficial private or commercial airplane travel.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    * HB 2629
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Require a school district have an armed security officer at every busined occupied by students during school hours.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2630
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H 2nd Read
    Description: Increase the minimum levy required for a school district to recieve full state funding under the School Foundation Program from $2.75 to $3.50.
    See: Official legislative description and status

    HB 2648
    Sponsor: Cookson, Steve
    Status: H Transportation
    Description: Repeal a provision that a motor vehicle license or non-driver ID include te person's weight.
    See: 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.