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Minutes for HB2738 - Committee on K-12 Education Budget
Short Title
Revising the special education state aid statewide excess costs calculation to count additional funding, requiring the state board of education to determine each school district's excess costs and to establish a special education state aid equalization distribution schedule to distribute certain amounts of special education state aid and requiring school districts to transfer amounts attributable to the special education weighting from their supplemental general funds to their special education funds.
Minutes Content for Tue, Feb 13, 2024
Nick Myers, Office of Revisor of Statutes, read the bill brief for HB2738. (Attachment 1)
The Chair opened the hearing on HB2738.
The following people gave testimony:
Proponents:
Dave Trabert, Kansas Policy Institute (Attachment 2)
Written Only Proponents:
None
Opponents:
Aaric Davis, Superintendent, USD 337 (Attachment 3)
Jayme Morris-Hardeman, President, USD 383 School Board (Attachment 4)
April Hilyard, Butler County Interlocal (Attachment 5)
Jim Karleskint, USA Kansas (Attachment 6)
Leah Fliter, Kansas Association of School Boards (Attachment 7)
Judith Deedy, Game On for Kansas Schools (WebEx) (Attachment 8)
Mary Sinclair, Kansas PTA (WebEx) (Attachment 9)
Written Only Opponents:
Written Only Testimony, Opponents A-L (Attachment 10) Written Only Testimony, Opponents M-Z (Attachment 11)
Thomas Alonzo, Citizen
Ellen Alyce-Merrill, Citizen
Jennifer Ancell, Citizen
Rebekah Anderson, Citizen
Dee Bell, Citizen
Erica Benson, Citizen
Kristen Blackton, Citizen
Shannon Boranyan, Citizen
Gregory Brown, Citizen
Dawn Brumbley, Citizen
Jan Brunks, Citizen
Kellie Bubeck, Citizen
Alice Capson, Citizen
Dan Carpenter, Citizen
Lesa Childers, Citizen
Douglas Conlan, Citizen
Karen Craig, Citizen
Colleen Cunningham, Citizen
Joan Daniels, Citizen
Ray Daniels, Citizen
Jean Daugherty, Citizen
Courtney Deist, Citizen
Susan Fis, Citizen
Corrinne Geisler, Citizen
Danielle Giarla, Citizen
Maureen Goddard, Citizen
Alton Hagen, Citizen
Steve Hall, Citizen
Marilyn Hammond, Citizen
Karl Hanson, Citizen
Marcel Harmon, Citizen
Amy Hill, Citizen
Joan Jacobson, Citizen
Sara Jahnke, Citizen
Karen Johnson, Citizen
Laura Kaiser, Citizen
Danielle Keller, Citizen
Barbara King, Citizen
Deborah Kitchin, Citizen
Jeanne Koontz, Citizen
Lisa Kuhnke, Citizen
Stephanie Larsen, Citizen
Brad Larson, Citizen
Sally Levitt, Citizen
Bonnie Limbird, Citizen
Margaret Lund, Citizen
Leslie Mark, Citizen
Emily Meissen-Sebelius, Citizen
Katrina Morris, Citizen
John Patrick Murphy, Citizen
Adrienne Newlin, Citizen
Rebecka Noel, Citizen
Rebecca Obold-Geary, Citizen
Chelsea O'Donnell, Citizen
Nancy Pence, Citizen
Cynthia Ralston, Citizen
Gay Ramsey, Citizen
Claire Reagan, Citizen
Trish Reedy, Citizen
Katie Roltgen, Citizen
Debra Schneider, Citizen
Carrie Schuenemeyer, Citizen
Roni Schwartz, Citizen
Sheila Sonnenchein, Citizen
Molly Starr, Citizen
Stewart Stein, Citizen
Linda Stinnett, Citizen
Janice Summers, Citizen
Lisa Veglahn, Citizen
Sheena Wilson, Citizen
Erin Woods, Citizen
Jami Woods, Citizen
Karen Burrows, Superintendent USD 507
Jim Edwards, USD 501
Deborah Eplee, Board Member, USD 409
Tim Hayden, Superintendent USD 267
Kelly Jones, Board President USD 497
Rebekah Redelberger, Special Education USD 453
Rod Stewart, Board President USD 108
Roger Stumpf, Superintendent USD 306
Bryce Wachs, Superintendent USD 495
Susan Willis, CFO USD 259
Brent Yeager, Superintendent USD 233
Patty Carter, KASEA
Christine Evans Hands, Merriam City Council President
Greg Kubler, SEK Interlocal
Michael Poppa, Mainstream
Ronald Sarnacki, Cowley County Special Services
Lee Schuenemeyer, Leawood Parents for Education
Lauren Tice Miller, KNEA
Kansas State Board of Education
Neutral:
None
Written Only Neutral:
None
The Chair closed the hearing on HB2738.
