This is to inform you that Sen. Kate Brown's office has let me know that they filed a pre-session bill for us and it has been drafted. It is LC 2059 and will be Senate Bill 312.

This bill will require school districts to provide copies of their written plans of instruction for talented and gifted students (which every district is already required to have) to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for approval.

In effect the bill changes the "may" in an earlier law to a "shall" in the current law.

The bill would go into effect July 1, 2007 and apply to next school year.

As soon as an electronic version is available on the web, I will send a copy out.

This is a very good time to contact your legislators and ask them to support TAG students. In particular, if your legislator is on one of the education committees, it is very important to contact him or her with your comments.

If you are not sure who your legislators are or how to contact them, go to the legislative website at http://www.leg.state.or.us/
However, if your senator or representative is new this session, you will have to wait: the updated information hasn't yet been added to the website.

Margaret DeLacy
OATAG legislative committee
(503)-774-7017

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Ways and Means Subcommittee on Education
House
Larry Galizio, Chair
Phil Barnhart
David Edwards
Bob Jenson
Susan Morgan

Senate
Richard Devlin, Vice-Chair
Ryan Deckert
Frank Morse
Bruce Starr
Vicki Walker

House Committees
Education Committee:
Peter Buckley, Chair
John Dallum, Vice-Chair
Betty Komp, Vice-Chair
Brian Clem
Mitch Greenlick
Jerry Krummel
John Lim
Arnie Roblan
Gene Whisnant


Education Subcommittee on Education Innovation:
Betty Komp, Chair
Karen Minnis, Vice-Chair
Arnie Roblan, Vice-Chair
Peter Buckley
Ben Cannon
John Dallum
Gene Whisnant


Senate Committee on Education and General Government:
Vicki Walker, Chair
Jeff Kruse, Vice Chair
Rick Metsger
Frank Morse
Ben Westlund