The House is in and taking up SB 3033, the congressional map bill. It is being made effective from passage.
No motions, however, to put the district numbers back to a top-down format, such as 1st in the north and 2nd in the south.
The two broadband bills added to the call have been referred to House Finance.
House dealing with SB 3018, which reimburses the Department of Education the $250,000 it had to transfer to the state Charter School Board because funding wasn’t provided to the new board in the 2022 budget.
Questions from House Democrats revolve around whether this is a one-time spend or will this be an annual $250,000 spend or whether that cost will increase/decrease. House Finance Committee Chairman Eric Householder, R-Berkeley, doesn’t have specific answers.
This is about to become an argument for/against charter schools again, which is really irrelevant at this point. The Legislature created the board and didn’t fund it. Department of Ed had to spend its own money to fund it. This reimburses Dept. That’s the issue at hand.