House Appropriations

It's. House Appropriations will come to order. Ms. Pope, please call the roll. Representative Spacenacker. Here. Bottoms. Here. Joseph McCormick. Here. Soper. Here. Taggart. Here. Tatone. Here. Velasco. Here. Zokai. Here. Madam vice chair. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, we're going to go a little out of order from what's in the packet today. We're going to start with 170, move on to 185, and then we'll do Senate Bill 80 afterwards. All right, let's start with Senate Bill 170. Representative Bacon, welcome. What questions do we have for our bill sponsor? Representative Taggart? Mr. Chair, I wonder on page two of our Canary package, which really looks to me like page three, but it's, it's labeled page two. Assistant Majority Leader, you refer to opportunity gaps in several of your bullets and I wonder what opportunity gaps means in this context. I know what it means in a business context, but I'm a little puzzled with what it means here. System Majority Lee breakin. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Representative Taggart. On page two of the bill, and we did workshop the definition of opportunity gap with stakeholders, including our educators. In the bill it says…