Education Committee- House

Need to when they go to school so I think it's a great bill for our small school districts not to be inundated with with a lot of unnecessary lawsuits or allow them to focus on the child's education and I think it's a great bill appreciate everyone's again your patience and your time this morning with that I would love to see a a good vote on the bill thank you. What is the will of committee representative long you're recognized. I have a motion do pass Any discussion on the motion. Hearing numbers will of committee all in favor say aye. Pose nee. Graduations your bill has passed. Thank you chairman thank you representative Bentley House bill eleven fifty seven censured into the table would you like to go ahead and run that I would greatly appreciate it thank you chairman you are recognized to present house bill eleven fifty seven. Collins I have really taken this section to really work on bills that will help keep our our constituents safer and each year an average of forty our Kansans died from drowning in fact drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages one to four one then the a number one leading cause of unintentional death children one to four so I this summer I was actually to go to a legislative conference were heard from a and a mother who lost her child at nineteen months old and she started group called every child a swimmer and brought some legislation before our committee that date then I thought you know we really so that we could really use an Arkansas what can we do to decrease the number of drownings at our state so it's a very simple bill this bill does work with the school districts each year at the end of the school year either digitally or. Representative garner you're recognized for a question I just have a quick question what about who's responsible of getting to getting that information to the schools the Department woman with rules the department of education to make sure the schools have we'll have some as I'm to help them reach out to some other assets the Department education can reach out to the department of health they've already reached tell me there's plenty of information they can give to the Department education to get our school districts and also Kacey McGovern with every child this summer it's been more than happy to work with each one of our school district to make sure they have the information to find local yes will be less because I have been off of thank you for bringing that up because every child star has scholarships available to help gets when school started in our state so to me is really exciting and get more stories schools going so they're available they'll be available to each one of our school districts I get her phone number and email personally each one of your school districts to reach out to me for some help. The other questions by the committee. Representive Walker recognized about quick question so I live in a rural area and I just wanna make sure because look into the bill I don't see any legal way and it what happens if a local area has no local option that result in a certification process there's nothing there's no push back and I would just let people know there is not so maybe it's people in your committee might want to reach out and get one started there's no push back to the schools are requirements and they have to they just let them know what's available okay thank you you have a much bigger. The other questions. Seeing none okay I'm sorry. Did I miss someone. We have a motion to property okay yes Sir when I make a motion to pass okay first one make sure there's no one signed up to speak for against his or anyone in the audience that would like to speak for or against the bill. Representative bill your clothes your bill opposed by bill thank you so much for your time and patience and McKenzie had a motion do pass. the discussion on the motion. Here now we have a do pass motion on house bill eleven fifty seven all those in favor say aye opposed nay. Your bill is passed congratulations thank you chairman thank you committee I appreciate your time members representative Hudson house bill eleven sixty one notified me that she would like to pass over this today tensely she can get one issue worked out going to run that on Thursday representative Mayberry eleven eighty five. Not heard from her we'll pass over that today representive Eubanks eleven ninety two is asked pass over his bill today will go to House Bill twelve thirty eight representative Cozart you're recognized. Thank you Mr you raise me personally. You're recognized to present your bill thanks or Ladies and gentlemen this is a bill that we run every two years after we do our adequacy study we have a allotment that we need for transportation for schools that do not have enough funding to the transfer to the transportation funding that we allow them we have quite a few schools that really run over on their transportation and it takes a lot to my buses fuel and maintenance for those buses so quite a few years ago Senator cheat and I got together and we worked this up to figure out how to do this and then there's a funding mechanism to do this and and a lot of people don't always agree with it you know if you look at your school I'm sure you all have look through here and you'll see some schools that getting zero and the reason for that is they use their transportation but they may not use all of it so are they use some of the top of funding the funder transportation which they do not monitor or file it with abscond I'm not sure that's of not asking it what is it up to the. The school yes so they do not get it fund of. Recognized when they do all the records on it if they do not use all the transportation funded up they're not gonna get any extra so a law schools have been schooled on that and so this last time we have a lot of a ESR funds and a rescue funds and so a lot of you some of that so it changed a few this time again and it'll change next time if we do this against what changes every year to do it I've been asked by a couple people who wine some of that some of that happened so let me if you have time I guess I'm maybe last one today on the so we'll just we'll be your one thirty that so. currently there's a. Find out of the net okay say somebody's were student loans certain days but there's there's a definite amount of intense transportation funding allowed for to assist districts with their transportation costs that exceed the funding district received through the bill this is what I just told you. For the current school year of twenty two three three weeks other seven point two million allocated and for the enhanced transportation and house education committees reflect recommended for this next one seven point seven million for the twenty three twenty four eight million for the twenty four twenty five so this is what we're looking at now District allocations for. it has transportation funding are based in part on each district's projected transportation expenditure needed determined by needs determined by the following factors average daily membership average daily number riders average daily route miles in addition allocations are impacted by the degree of which districts transportation costs are paid with funds other than foundation funding and that's where they get caught sometimes by not getting some of this because they use other funds of the enhanced transportation funds such as growth declining enrollment and isolated findings that is available many districts to meet the transportation funding made so. A district transportation fund out allocation can grow or decline owned or declined based on the growth of decline and one more the factors listed above so the number of students funding route miles all those things so there's a lot of factors that change this and I know like that if you look at some of your schools you may have got in funding and I have a list for the last since two thousand seventeen we started this of what it started out some of those schools have changed drastically one way or the other from zero to a hundred thousand or five hundred thousand down to zero so it does change every year it's pretty well stays pretty close but it does change in it and some people ask those questions what it is and I know I had a couple calls on it what concerns but we've always had those concerns over time and it does fluctuate from year to year I'll be glad to answer any questions if you have a. Members any questions from the committee. Seeing none anyone in the audience that would like to speak for or against the bill. The nun. And Cozart tried clothes for your bill yes so what's our I think this is a great bill it's it's something that would like said seventeen we decided it was something that the well law schools very small schools that really struggling with their transportation and this seems to be the cure for we try to figure this out the matrix but if anybody has worked on the matrix years knows that if you raise the amount for transportation funding in the matrix all you're doing is making the big schools richer and the poor schools poor so it just doesn't work so this is what we're trying to do we're gonna fix this eventually we're working on something right now that will fix this we we can get that the session and I appreciate a good vote motion do pass as a member of the committee representative Cozart provided a motion to do pass. On house bill twelve thirty eight. All those in favor the motion say aye. Opposed nay graduations your bill is passed. That's all that we have on our agenda for today of members and colleagues are ready to run their bills we have some that should also be coming off a fiscal impact today so watch your calendars watcher agendas for those new items that will be dropping on and I will I will be reaching out to each one has a bill assigned to our committee to see if they're ready to run or if not we can drop those down to the deferred list to any other other business before the committee meeting is adjourned.