2021 House Bill 4408

Appropriations: Department of Education budget

Introduced in the House

March 2, 2021

Introduced by Rep. Brad Paquette (R-78)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential Department of Education budget for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 11, 2021

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Amendment offered by Rep. Lori Stone (D-28)

To appropriate the department's full year budget, not just three month’s worth.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 57 to 50 (details)

The House version of a Department of Education budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $135.3 million in gross spending, or three months worth of the total for the year.

Received in the Senate

May 12, 2021

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 19, 2021

Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)

To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

Received in the House

May 19, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.