House Appropriations

House Appropriations Committee will come to order. Ms. Pope, please call the roll. Representative Spacenecker? Here. Bottoms. Here. Joseph. Here. McCormick. Here. Soper. Here. Taggart. Here. Tatone. Here. Velasco. Here. Zokai. Excused. Madam vice chair. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, folks, thanks for joining us this morning. We have a number of bills to hear this morning. We will move in numerical order. The one note that I will say is when we get to 1365, I will be asking the committee to postpone that bill indefinitely. So if you're here to testify on 1365, that is the likely outcome of that bill. Let's start with 1357. Madam Vice Chair, would you like to describe that bill? I would in just a moment. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. House Bill 1357 is the phase out of the teacher recruitment education program. This was from, was created. This program was created in a bill from 2021 to create an educator career pathway through, through essentially concurrent enrollment in post secondary courses while a student is still enrolled in high school at no tuition cost to the student or their families. For two years after a student's 12th grade year. The…