Legislature Bill Status

MFPE 2019 Legislature Priorities
 
Offense (Bills we support)
 
k-12 - MUS
- HB 27 (Funk) -  Inflate special education funding – Passed House Education.
- HB 128 (Custer) - Increase employer contributions to Game Wardens and Peace Officers retirement plan – Passed 2d Reading House – Hearing House Appropriations, February 5.
- HB 159 (Grubbs) - Fund k-12 schools (absent prek) – Passed House.  Hearing, Senate Finance and Claims, February 7.
- SB 152 (Barrett) – Make 6-mill MUS levy permanent - Heard, Senate Tax, January 31.  Executive Action Thursday, February 7.  

State and University
- HB 175 (Dooling) -  Ratify union negotiated base pay, health insurance, and per diem - Passed House.  Hearing, Senate Finance and Claims, February 7.
- HB 209 (Funk) – Adopt state employee career ladder - Referred to House Appropriations.  Hearing, House Appropriations February 7.
- HB 225 (Schreiner) – Fund k-12 schools (including prek) – Heard, House Education, February 4.
- SB 128 (Cohenour) – Increase state employee longevity  – Heard, Senate State Administration, February 1. _____________________________
 
Defense (Bills we oppose)
SB 139 (Lang) - Incentivize premature teacher and administrator retirement to reward double-dipping at amortization expense of TRS  – Heard, Senate Education, January 28
HB 323 (Tschida) – Repeal purpose of public employee collective bargaining, obliterate continuing membership authorization, confuse or eliminate exclusive representation – Heard, House Business and Labor, February 5.

Taken from Eric Fever's E-mail listserv.