Schedule for the Week Ahead.  Just a quick blog entry to give everyone a head's up on what next week will look like in the committees constructing the omnibus education funding and policy bills in the House and Senate.  The House told a group of education lobbyists yesterday that their bill will be posted on the House Education Finance Committee on Monday.  The committee will do a walk-through of the bill on Tuesday morning during its scheduled committee time (10:30 AM until 12:00 PM).  They will take testimony on the bill during the same time slot on Wednesday and will do the bill mark-up on Thursday when amendments will be proposed.  The bill must be out of the House Ways and Means Committee by Friday.

The process in the Senate is not quite as well defined, but I expect that the bill will be released early in the week and there will be testimony and mark-up.  The Legislature does not meet on Monday, so it will be somewhat truncated week leading up to the committee deadline--Friday, April 9--for finance bills.

As Bette Davis once said:

Have a Happy Easter everyone!