2021 Senate Bill 84

Appropriations: Department of Education

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R-37)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential supplemental 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 6, 2021

Reported without amendment

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

May 11, 2021

Amendment offered by Sen. Rosemary Bayer (D-12)

To direct spending to "implement a training program to provide resources and programming to pupils in grades 9 to 12 who are interested in a career in teaching and who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the teaching profession".

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-7)

To spend $1.5 million "to extend social emotional consultant support to provider social and mental health services to children age 5 and under".

The amendment failed 15 to 20 (details)

Passed in the Senate 20 to 15 (details)

The Senate version of a Department of Education budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $530.2 million in gross spending, of which, $421.3 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

Received in the House

May 13, 2021

May 19, 2021

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To adopt a substitute version that zeroes-out the appropriations and leaves the bill a "placeholder" to be used to authorize additional spending late.

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 20, 2021

Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of a Department of Education budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $530.2 million in gross spending, of which, $421.3 million is federal money, and the rest is from state and local taxes and fees.

Received in the Senate

May 25, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

To use the bill a a “placeholder” for potential supplemental appropriations to be determined later.

June 10, 2021

Received

To appropriate $1 billion in state tax and other revenue to the new corporate subsidy programs authorized by House Bill 5603 and Senate Bills 769 and 771, plus $409 million federal dollars for relief payments to businesses "afflicted" by the coronavirus epidemic and government responses to it.