Senate passes plan to strengthen school safety in House Gun Bill

Then, House members called a press conference to blast their counterparts in the state Senate for not going along with the plan.

“It is my firm belief that Congress should live by the laws it passes, and this bill is a step in the right direction”, Grassley wrote.

When asked if the 5 percent raise would lead to Medicaid cuts, Justice said that it wouldn’t.

The rallies come amid a national movement for teachers.

Sen. Dorsey Ridley attempted to file an amendment to the bill that would restore full cost of living adjustments for teachers, but the motion was not allowed. Retirees like Meg Judd said teachers depend on those raises to keep up with rising expenses.

“I’m not sure how they feel disrespected because I met with several retired teachers”.

House Bill 2757 would provide that veteran teachers are entitled to a due process hearing before an independent hearing officer before they could be summarily fired or not renewed for a subsequent year.

African-American representatives also expressed fears that arming black school employees could leave them vulnerable to being mistaken for attackers by police arriving on the scene of a mass shooting.

The House Ways & Means Committee has been working nonstop since the beginning of January on changing the funding to one that includes higher income taxes, but with lower residential property taxes.

Numerous proposals in the bill came from officials with state education groups, Stivers said. “But more needs to be done and it’s important for the country to unite in the same way the 17 families united in support of this bill“, he said. The state is at least $41 billion short of the money required to pay benefits over the next 30 years.

An amendment proposed by Coe essentially changed HB 140 to reflect the House bill on education funding amendments sponsored by the Joint Education Committee before the session began.

On wintry or rainy days, most Kentucky state lawmakers travel from their offices in the annex through an underground tunnel connected to the Capitol building.

According to the governor, he will send a letter of instruction to the state superintendent to work with the county superintendents to act flexibly with the days that students have missed since the beginning of the strike.

Republican Rep. Elizabeth Porter pushed back at critics who say lawmakers should heed the student protesters’ call for an assault-weapons ban. “If they are upset about it, it’s either they are ill-informed or willfully blind…”

Behning says too many teachers with education degrees are unable to pass the state licensing exam, making the current teacher shortage worse. Most of who voted for the measure weren’t spotted in the tunnel.

“As the Senate is poised to vote on SB 7026 (School Safety Bill), we remain opposed to any policy that will arm administrators, teachers, or staff as a way to defend against a mass shooting”.