2018 Senate Bill 853

Appropriations: Department of Education

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 27, 2018

Introduced by Sen. Goeff Hansen (R-34)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Department of Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 24, 2018

Reported without amendment

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

May 3, 2018

Amendment offered

To reduce funding to a department office that manages preschool programs, and increase spending on programs to recruit and train minority teachers.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Education budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2018. This would appropriate $432.5 million in gross spending, of which $330.8 million is federal money.

Received in the House

May 8, 2018

May 10, 2018

Substitute offered

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations except a few $100 "placeholders" on some line items.

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 15, 2018

Passed in the House 107 to 1 (details)

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 5578 and 5579.

Received in the Senate

May 16, 2018

May 23, 2018

Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)

Received in the House

May 23, 2018

Received in the Senate

June 12, 2018

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations