Votes: PA HB1606 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session

Bill Title: In preliminary provisions, providing for duties of Public School Building Construction and Reconstruction Advisory Committee; in school districts, providing for data collection reduction; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for publication of rules, regulations and policies; in school finances, providing for payroll tax; in school district financial recovery, providing for additional criteria; providing for the posting of annual financial information for public school entities; in professional employees, further providing for payment of salaries in cases of sickness, injury or death; in certification of teachers, providing for substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers, further providing for granting provisional college certificates, providing for provisional vocational education certificate and further providing for program of continuing professional education; in pupils and attendance, providing for assignment of students to school districts of the first class A and further providing for exceptional children and education and training and for cost of tuition and maintenance of certain exceptional children in approved institutions; in school health services, further providing for definitions and providing for education of school employees in diabetes care and management, for diabetes care in schools, for possession and use of diabetes medication and monitoring equipment, for liability, for coordinating, supervising or educating not considered delegation and for diabetes care in nonpublic schools; providing for Drug and Alcohol Recovery High School Pilot Program; providing for administrative partnerships between school entities and for the E-chievement Program; in high schools, further providing for courses of study; in charter schools, further providing for definitions, for school staff and for funding for charter schools; in vocational education, further providing for vocational education equipment grants; in community colleges, further providing for election or appointment and term and organization of board of trustees and for financial program and reimbursement of payments; in disruptive student programs, further providing for applications and establishing the Alternative Education Program Account; in private alternative education institutions for disruptive students, further providing for contracts with private alternative education institutions; providing for rural regional college for underserved counties and for educational tax credits; in funding for public libraries, providing for State aid for fiscal year 2016-2017; in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for payments to intermediate units, for special education payments to school districts, for extraordinary special education program expenses and for assistance to school districts declared to be in financial recovery status or identified for financial watch status and providing for Ready-to-Learn Block Grant and for payment of required contribution for public school employees' Social Security; saving an appropriation from lapsing; allocating an appropriation; making related repeals; and making editorial changes.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 14-3)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-13 - Act No. 86 [HB1606 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]

Voting Records

ChamberVoteDateYeaNayNVAbsTotalResultSourceView
HouseHouse Rules: Re-report Bill As Committed2016-07-131503018PassedLinkView
SenateSenate Appropriations: Re-Reported as Amended2016-07-132200022PassedLinkView
SenateSenate Floor: HB 1606 PN 3723, FINAL PASSAGE2016-07-134730050PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Floor: HB 1606 PN 3723, CONCUR2016-07-1317218012202PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Floor: HB 1606 PN 3723, 2015 A9565, SUSP RULES, THOMAS2016-07-1322168012202FailedLinkView
HouseHouse Floor: HB 1606 PN 3723, 2015 A9564, SUSP RULES, THOMAS2016-07-1328162012202FailedLinkView
HouseHouse Floor: HB 1606 PN 3723, 2015 A9563, SUSP RULES, THOMAS2016-07-1333157012202FailedLinkView
SenateSenate Education: Reported as Committed2016-06-1580109PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Appropriations: Re-report Bill As Committed2015-10-272200022PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Appropriations: Re-report Bill As Committed2015-10-272200022PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Floor: HB 1606 PN 2324, FP2015-10-27199004203PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Education: Report Bill As Committed2015-10-191600016PassedLinkView
HouseHouse Education: Report Bill As Committed2015-10-191600016PassedLinkView


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