CHAPTER NUMBER: 109 
File Code: Primary and Secondary Education
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 494  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
The President (Administration) and Senators Hoffman, Hollinger,
Forehand, Hogan, Blount, Collins,
 Pinsky, Conway, Frosh, and Sfikas
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Gifted and Talented Student Education - Excellence in Education
 Incentive Grant Program
 
Establishing the Excellence in Education Incentive Grant Program in
the State Department of Education; requiring local boards of education
that receive grants to develop and implement specified programs,
provide staff development, and disseminate specified information;
requiring the State Board of Education to establish criteria for
awarding grants and to evaluate and monitor grant programs and
services; and requiring that funding for the Act be provided from
specified amounts in the Governor's budget.
Senate Action
- 1/17
 - First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
 - 1/22
 - Hearing 2/12 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 2/24
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
 - 2/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 2/27
 - Third Reading Passed (47-0)
 - 4/1
 - Returned Passed
 - 4/29
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 109
 
House Action
- 2/28
 - First Reading Ways and Means
 - 3/5
 - Hearing 3/19 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/31
 - Favorable Report by Ways and Means
 - 3/27
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 3/28
 - Third Reading Passed (134-1)
 
- Sponsored by:
 - President of the Senate
 - Administration
 - Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
 - Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
 - Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
 - Senator Jennie M. Forehand, District 17
 - Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
 - Senator Barbara A. Hoffman, District 42
 - Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
 - Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
 - Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
 - Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - BUDGETS
 - EDUCATION, BOARDS OF
 - EDUCATION -see also- PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SPECIAL ED.; HIGHER ED.
 - EDUCATION, STATE BOARD OF
 - MANDATES
 - PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 - RULES AND REGULATIONS
 - STUDENTS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Education
 - (
 8-201 ,
 8-202 ,
 8-203 ,
 8-204 ,
 8-2A-01 ,
 8-2A-02 ,
 8-2A-03 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 -  First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
Amendments: 
- Senate
 - Number: 414001/1 (PDF) Offered on: FEBRUARY 25, 1997  at: 10:30
 Status: Adopted