ENROLLED SENATE
BILL NO. 206	By:	Ford of the Senate

				and

			Coody of the House

An Act relating to schools; creating the P-20 Council Task Force; providing expiration date; setting duties of certain task force; setting membership of certain task force; providing for cochairs; setting quorum of certain task force; providing date meetings may begin; permitting certain meetings; subjecting certain task force to the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act; prohibiting compensation and travel reimbursement; requiring certain report; and providing for noncodification.

SUBJECT:  P-20 Council Task Force

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law not to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows:

A.  There is hereby created until November 1, 2011, the P-20 Council Task Force.  The task force shall study the feasibility, value and structure of a P-20 council or educational partnership that would assure a seamless system of education that maximizes achievements of all students from early childhood through elementary, secondary, postsecondary and/or career technology education.

B.  The task force shall be composed of nine (9) members as follows:

1.  Secretary of Education or designee;

2.  State Superintendent of Public Instruction or designee;

3.  Chancellor of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education or designee;

4.  State Director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education or designee;

5.  Chair of the Senate Education Committee;

6.  Chair of the House of Representatives Common Education Committee;

7.  Chair of the House of Representatives Higher Education and Career Tech Committee;

8.  Chair of the Senate Education Appropriations subcommittee; and

9.  Chair of the House Education Appropriations and Budget subcommittee.

C.  The Secretary of Education, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the State Director of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education and the Chancellor of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education shall serve jointly as the cochairs of the task force.  

D.  A quorum of the task force shall be required in order for any final action of the task force.  For purposes of this section five members shall constitute a quorum.

E.  The task force may meet as often as may be required in order to perform the duties imposed upon it.

F.  The meetings of the task force shall be subject to the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.

G.  Members of the task force shall receive no compensation or travel reimbursement for their service.

H.  The State Department of Education shall provide primary staff support with the State Regents for Higher Education and Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education providing assistance.

I.  The task force shall report its findings, including any legislative recommendations, to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Governor by December 31, 2011.

Passed the Senate the 2nd day of May, 2011.

	
	Presiding Officer of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the 19th day of April, 2011.

	
	Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives