2024 Regular Session SB 1550

• At the request of: (at the request of Senate Interim Committee on Education for Senator Michael Dembrow)
• Regular Sponsors: Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President.
• Bill Title: Relating to state education governance; declaring an emergency.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: Moves certain duties, functions and powers of state education from TSPC and EAC to ODE. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).

Transfers certain duties, functions and powers related to teaching, administrative and personnel licensure from the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to the Department of Education. Retains commission duties, functions and powers related to licensure standards and licensee discipline.

Directs the Department of Education to establish the Educator Advancement Council.

Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

• Fiscal Impact: May Have Fiscal Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Revenue Impact: May Have Revenue Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Current Location: In Senate Committee
• Current Committee: Senate Committee On Education

Subsequent Referral(s)

• Joint Committee On Ways and Means