H.B. 407 Public Education Information System: transcript

Yes. If I can just present for my chair, it'll Be just fine. So House bill 4 0 7, first substitute public education Information Systems

Thank you Chair members of the committee. I'm actually gonna be speaking to the second substitute, and I apologize that just went live moments ago. I have discussed some of this with several of you here. The, uh, first substitute was seeking to replace the Aspire system, um, that is currently in place with our many of our charters and some of our districts. Um, and replacing it with a, uh, a new vendor based, uh, SIS that would then allow any, um, in the state to adopt that same system. Um, uh, purely optional. And then put, put the requirements for, um, for data compliance on the LEAs if they so choose to keep their existing system due to the complexity of the fiscal note and the amount of time it took. So, um, I opted for the second substitute, which is gonna remove the move to aspire to, for the removal of Aspire, replace the, um, uh, the piece there that would actually, uh, put that in place. Simply puts in, uh, effect that, uh, the, um, that the LEAs by 2030, uh, one I believe do need to become compliant still with the requirements of, uh, the UEM system. So if we get data, um, uh, validation in place, not only for the SIS but for the school threat assessment piece, um, and then we already appropriated $10 million last year to the State Board of Education for this data piece. And this just makes it clear that they can utilize that money to identify vendors that can provide, uh, that service to local education, uh, agencies, to, um, to bridge that gap, provide that data to the state, uh, in a way that is compliant with the system. So we'll be spending those already appropriated state dollars, um, to help the LEAs become compliant and then require that compliance in five years. Um, this should remove the fiscal notes we'll have, uh, no fiscal impact, um, and still move us forward in the path of, uh, replacing the Aspire system and getting the data compliance in piece in, in place. Um, that's the, the policy outlined in the bill. Happy to take any questions. And I do understand it. Um, it had just dropped and there may be questions.

So that, that's correct. Under the first sub. This, the second sub though, um, removes the, um, the move to the, to remove aspire out of the day this day? No, just, we're gonna wait on this. We're gonna wait on the Aspire piece because the fiscal impact is just too complicated right now at this point in the session. So we're gonna remove all those requirements.

I'm going to, you remember the committee? I will make a motion to adopt second substitute HP 4 0 7.

That? Uh, that outlines my discussion on the bill. All

Yeah. Thank you. I wanna thank the sponsor. I know that he addressed many concerns. Um, I'm gonna be, yes, but I also wanna make sure that I completely understand the bill. Um, and I, I think, I think it's pretty straightforward, but I just wanna make sure. So I'll, I'll be yes for now and hopefully yes on the floor.

I'll waive And the maker of the motion, I'll waive The motion before

Sounds fun.

I will still waive. Okay. Very good.

Seeing none, you still waive? I'll still waive twice. Fourth Time now. Fourth waive.

Second substitute House Bill 4 0 7 Public Education information System by Representative MacPherson. This bill was served in education with the vote 9 0 6

Thank you Mr. Speaker. Motion to circle that motion is in order.

The motion to be forced a house circle second substitute HB 4 0 7.

Thank you Mr. Speaker. This bill originally had a grand design, but after, uh, working with, uh, the State Board of Education and many other, um, partners, we decided that we didn't have the, the time or honestly the ability to tackle the fiscal note, the sub second substitute. Um, this, this bill originally was trying to solve some of the data issues we have between LEAs and the State Board of Education. This has been a long ongoing problem for many, many years. Initially, this bill was going to replace the aspire system that the state board currently manages and runs and runs, um, and, and has developed, uh, for many of the charter schools and smaller LEAs that costs many millions of dollars. Uh, currently this was gonna replace that existing system with a vendor system. They'd go out to RFP, um, and then, uh, they would allow LEAs to, um, move to that system if they so choose this. Go ahead. Hang on just a minute. Representatives. Can we bring the volume down? Thank you Mr. Speaker. Probably all the Senator Vickers on the floor that's creating the noise. Just kidding. Thank you, representative. Go ahead, please. Thank you. So the bill in its current form now instead is just going to put on hold that process. It's still going to, uh, set in place a target date for LEAs within five years. They have to become compatible with the state system also. It, um, we currently, uh, appropriated, uh, $10 million last year to help them solve these data, uh, issues. Um, we also have ongoing data issues when it comes to our, uh, school security and threat assessment, um, info, uh, data sharing between schools. And so what this bill does is essentially puts the LEAs on notice. They've got a five year window now to become compliant with the state system. And then also it ties up that 10 million that's been appropriated to make sure it's earmarked specifically to solving those data issues for the LEAs as well as some of the threat assessment data that's going out there. They al they already created an RFP for about $500,000, but this would allow them to, uh, expand that, to utilize that money, um, to try to identify vendors to help solve this for all of our LEAs statewide. And, uh, that concludes my presentation.

Thank you. Representative discussion to the bill.

Mr. Speaker, I'd like to run House Amendment one for this bill.

Uh, it looked like it did some other things.

Yes, absolutely. Mr. Speaker. Um, we were approached by Yi just saying that in some of the data that has to be provided and shared right now, currently under separate bills, we also are sharing some of that data with our higher education in college and career readiness, uh, programs. And they just wanted to make sure that that is consistent in this language as well.

Back to you Representative MacPherson for summation. Thank You Mr. Speaker. Again, very simple, bill. Now we've already appropriated the money that's, uh, that's currently in there. So there will be no fiscal note. Thank you.