Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Education Committee on March 14, 2001. The 2001 session has ended.
2001 Regular Session
House Bill 6889
AN ACT CONCERNING BILINGUAL EDUCATION.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To make numerous changes to the bilingual education program, including changing the time limit for participation in a bilingual education program from thirty months to thirty consecutive months, not counting kindergarten toward the time limit, extending the time frame for bilingual education teachers to meet all certification requirements, providing for an emergency certificate for bilingual education teachers and teachers of English as a second language, removing the requirement that an eligible student who enters secondary school with fewer than thirty months to graduation be assigned to an English as a second language program, allowing school districts to apply to the commissioner to hire other certified teachers to teach bilingual education programs if the district is unable to hire a bilingual education teacher and changing the exemption provision for the mastery examinations.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
Its course
February 27 to March 14, 2001, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the House of RepresentativesFeb 27 to Mar 14 · stopped15 days
Education CommitteeFeb 27 to Mar 14 · stopped15 days
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives Feb 27 – Mar 14
- Feb 27Introduced and sent to Education Committee
- Mar 14Heard in Education Committee
All 2 actions, as published
- Feb 27REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Mar 14PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses