The House has narrowly passed the Conference Committee Report for House Sub SB 387 65-58 (63 votes are required to pass). Contact your Senator NOW as this bill heads to the Senate later today. We oppose this bundling of funding and policy and we oppose this bill’s counting of LOB money as state aid to pretend the state is funding 92% of excess costs as mandated in law. It also abolishes the SPED funding task force and mandates districts spend LOB funds derived from SPED funding contrary to legislative intent. It also has too much in it as you can see from the title. Are you confused about all of this? Likely so are many of the legislators who voted for it, but did so because they were told to.

Please thank those legislators who listened to educators and parents and voted no on this bill. Some of them defied leadership to do so.

Representatives Amyx, Ballard, Bloom, Borjon, Butler, Carlin, Carmichael, Carr, Clifford, Collins, Concannon, Curtis, Ellis, Eplee, Featherston, Goddard, Haskins, Haswood, Helgerson, Highberger, Hougland, Howe, Hoye, Jacobs, Martinez, McDonald, Melton, Meyer, D. Miller, S. Miller, V. Miller, Minnix, Moser, Neighbor, Ohaebosim, Oropeza, Osman, Ousley, Poskin, Probst, Rahjes, L. Ruiz, S. Ruiz, Sawyer, Sawyer Clayton, Schlingensiepen, Schreiber, A. Smith, C. Smith, E. Smith, Stogsdill, Vaughn, Weigel, L. Williams, Winn, Woodard, Xu, and Younger.

Are the following who voted yes on this bill “representing” you? They talk a lot about school accountability. Will you hold them accountable?

Representatives Anderson, Awerkamp, Barth, Bergkamp, Bergquist, Blew, Blex, Bryce, Buehler, B. Carpenter, W. Carpenter, Corbet, Croft, Delperdang, Dodson, Droge, Essex, Estes, Fairchild, Francis, Garber, Gardner, Goetz, Hawkins, Hill, Hoffman, Hoheisel, Howell, Howerton, Humphries, Johnson, Kessler, Landwehr, Lewis, Mason, Maughan, McNorton, Murphy, Neelly, Owens, Penn, Pickert, Poetter Parshall, Proctor, Resman, Rhiley, Robinson, Roth, Sanders, Schmoe, Seiwert, Stiens, Sutton, Tarwater, Thomas, Thompson, Titus, Turk, Turner, Underhill, Waggoner, Wasinger, Waymaster, White, and K. Williams.

Representatives Alcala and Houser were absent.

Originally posted on Facebook on April 4th, 2024.