Senate Education Committee will come to order. Miss Chris Pham, please call the roll. Senators Bright. Excused. Kipp. Here. Lundin. Good morning. Michaelson Genet. Present. Rich. Here. Marchman? Excused. Mister chair. Oh, I'm here. That's great. We have a bill for up for action only with a strike below. Senator Bridges. Thank you, mister chair. Really appreciate all the great work that's been done, by advocates and by folks who had concerns with this bill. I think we have reached a fantastic compromise that does not require a separate course for financial literacy, but does require that a required course,
teach financial literacy. One of the things we've seen online is that maybe half the civics course is financial literacy, the other half is civics. There's various different ways, to skin this cat. I don't know if that's a phrase you can use anymore. So there's lots of different ways you can, slice this hamburger. I don't know. Whatever it is, this is a compromise that just about everyone is okay with, nobody's thrilled with, which is how we pass laws. So, ask for someone to move the amendment and vote yes on the new bill. Senator Kim? Thank you. I move l zero two three to h b eleven ninety two.
Thank you. Senator Bridges is gonna explain l zero two three. Just did. I didn't get that. Sorry. Senator Lundin. Thank you very much, mister chair. I'm curious what cats and the cat owners or the cat owners who think their cat owners who are actually owned by the cats might have to say about the amendment. On a serious note, still has graduation requirement baked into it that I'm uncomfortable with, so I'll be a no vote. Senator Bridges. Thank you, mister chair. I appreciate your consistency. Yeah. Go ahead. But not your vote. Ready to roll?
Senator Kipp. I just wanna say I really wanna appreciate, the sponsor being open to working on this and getting it to a point where I am comfortable voting for it and just wanna say thank you. Senator Frizzell, would you like to make any comments? Okay. Just giving everyone a chance here. I would like to say that, you know, I I am opposed to putting in statute standards and there is a gray and graduation requirements. And there is a gray area here, in discussing with the bill sponsors and the advocates for the bill,
the specific part of this, pushing for it to be offered. My concern part of one of my concerns was when I was teaching, I taught in a school of 180 some kids. Whole high school. Small town. Small school. I was the whole department. And trying to force this on rurals and small towns who already are filling the requirements up and the slots I may have taught. World history, American history, American government. You know? And two sections, each six periods and a seven period day. And so I wouldn't know where to put this if this was required on its
own, as in its own class. I know that I did my best to teach economics or a portion of economic, financial literacy, with my students in my American government class. I felt that was part of civics, part of the duty there. And so with this amendment asking that this be added to another class, doesn't say it's very flexible, whether it's math or if it's consumer math, which was an offering, or if it's American government, it allows the local still to be flexible, and I can support that.
So, the motion has been made. Is there any other comments? Senator Kipp? Yes. I just wanted to clarify that on the FAFSA piece, we are not having any, requirements for tracking or record keeping when people opt out of that requirement. Senator Bridges. No forms, no tracking. No forms, no tracking. No Hey. I'll cut you off right there. For the record, I wanna make sure it's Senator Rich. Thank you, mister chair. And I was real close until you start saying it again. No. I'll be a yes. It's good too. Alright.
Senator senator Marchman. Thank you. And, would you please add me to the role? I'm sorry. Oh, yes. Done. It's already done. Thank you. Perfect. Anyway wanted to say thank you for your work on coming to an amendment. I've, you know, heard from different folks that this is reasonable. It's gonna work. So I just really appreciate you taking a second look and figuring out how to make this work, for schools. So thank you. I think this is gonna be so beneficial to students,
to have a dedicated class. So thank you. Again, not a dedicated class. It'll be added inside of another class. I understand. Correct, Senator Bridges? Mister Sherritt could be a dedicated class if the district decides to be in the direction. There's no requirement, that it go in that direction. Again, there's no forms, no tracking. And I just wanna say thanks to the committee for giving us some space to, find the solution. Thank you. I mean And this is just the flexibility it's added. I also note that senator Bright is here. Senator Bright, you like to make any comments? No. Thank you. Alright. Well, senator Marksman. Thanks. I just wanted to add that I know a teacher in,
in Loveland who teaches math, and he has put this in his financial algebra class. Cool. So he does very little well, he does what needs to be done for the algebra, and then he adds all of these other components, because he thinks it's really important. So, so anyway, I appreciate having this leeway because then it can stick into whichever class that it makes sense. So thank you. Last last comment too. CDE had a question about the,
statute that was referenced because this is supposed to be for high school, and not for k through eight. So we're just gonna check that out, double check. And if we have to amend that, we can do that in another committee. So On the floor or in a probes. Yes, sir. Sorry? On the floor or inapproves. Either one. Okay. We need to do that. Yep. Thank you. Mister Chris Family, will you take, the vote? Oh. Right. To the amendment. Do we need yes. We need to. We have an objection to the amendment. Senators Bright? Pass. Yep. Yes. Lundeen? No. Michaelson Janay? Aye. Rich? Yes. Wright? No. Archman?
Aye. Mister chair. Aye for today. That passes five two. Two more and then, Sarah Marksman, will you move this to appropriations? Yes. I move house bill eleven ninety two as amended by l 23 to the committee on appropriations. That's a proper motion. Will you please take the vote? Senators Bright? No. Kipp? Yes. Lundin? No. Michaelson Genet? Aye. Rich? Aye. Archman? Aye. Mister chair? Aye for today. That passes five to two, and you're off to appropriations. And the senate education committee is adjourned,
hopefully, for the last time this session. Just wanna point out appropriate