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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 785

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Relating to: climate change scholarships, funding for special education aid, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Children — Special educational needs Environmental protection Higher educational aids board Public instruction department of Scholarships and loans

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates a climate change scholarship program to be administered by

the Higher Educational Aids Board. The program provides scholarships to students

who are enrolled in an institution of higher education and who are engaged in studies

directly related to programs preparing the students for careers in occupational areas

addressing or responding to climate change. A student may not receive more than

$5,000 in scholarships under this program in each academic year.

The bill also provides additional funding for special education aid the

Department of Public Instruction pays to school districts, independent charter

schools, cooperative educational service agencies, and county children with

disabilities education boards.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Billings (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Hong (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D)

6 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Billings, Anderson, Neubauer, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Hebl, Hong, B. Meyers, Milroy, Ohnstad, Pope, S. Rodriguez, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining; cosponsored by Senators Smith, Roys, Erpenbach, L. Taylor, Larson and Carpenter

  2. Jan 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Jan 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Jan 13, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1