Senate Education

You know, suck up a little bit because it's my bill today, so. But we only going to hear one bill. I have HB 26 1027. I am the prime sponsor. So I will hand the gavel over to my vice chair, Senator Marchman, and I'm just going to present from here if everybody doesn't mind. Very good. Would you like to tell us about HB 26, 1027? Thank you. HB 26, 1027 started in the House, as you can can tell, and it passed through education there, I think unanimously. This is more of a cleanup to help out the board of Cooperative Educational Services executive directors who can retire from para and then come back if they're needed because we do have shortages in people filling these positions. We do this in our school districts with principals and superintendents. So at the BOCES level, we, you know, wanted to just make sure that's on par with what we're doing everywhere else. And the second part of the bill, it basically amends the statute from 25, 315, the post secondary and workforce readiness program, to limit basically that allows BOCEs to apply for grants through those programs and to…