Topic Index

"ASSET STEM Education Day," May 18, 2016 HR890

"Academic Achievement Month," May 2015 HR301

"Academic Achievement Month," May 2016 HR837

"American Education Week," November 14 through 18, 2016 HR1078

"American Education Week," November 16 through 20, 2015 HR564

"Arts in Education Week," September 13 through 19, 2015 HR499

"Back to School Weeks," August 23 through 29, 2015, and August 30 through September 5, 2015 HR460

"Career and Technical Education Month," February 2015 HR81

"Catholic Schools Week," January 25 through 31, 2015 HR35

"Civic Education Awareness Week," September 17 through 23, 2016 HR969

"Civic Education Awareness Week," September 27 through October 3, 2015 HR471

"Community College Completion Week," October 16 through 22, 2016 HR1038

"Community College Completion Week," October 18 through 24, 2015 HR546

"Digital Learning Day," March 13, 2015 HR148

"Financial Literacy Month," April 2015 HR205

"Head Start Awareness Month," October 2016 HR1048

"Independent College and University Day," April 21, 2015 HR254

"National D.A.R.E. Day," April 21, 2016 HR827

"National Teach Ag Day," September 22, 2016 HR1003

"Pennsylvania Education for Youth Experiencing Homelessness Awareness Week," November 2 through 6, 2015 HR544

"Read Across America Day," March 2, 2015 HR100

"Read Across America Day," March 2, 2016 HR710

"STEAM INITIATIVE WEEK," April 3 through 9, 2016 HR750

"STEAM," the importance of Art in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) HR615

"STEM Initiative Week," April 19 through 25, 2015 HR233

"School Director Recognition Month," January 2015 HR17

"Teacher Appreciation Month," May 2015 HR338

"Teacher Appreciation Month," May 2016 HR853

"Teacher Education Day," May 17, 2016 HR851

"Thaddeus Stevens Day," April 4, 2016 HR702

"The Month of the Young Child," April 2015 HR176

Achieving Better Care by Monitoring All Prescriptions Program (ABC-MAP) Act; opioids; pain management, prescribing practices, further education, requiring, adding section (Amend 2014 P.L.2911, No.191) SB1202 ( Act 124, '16)

Administration, Public School Employees' Retirement Board, pension standards of practice, management of fund and accounts (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1400

Age limits, providing for (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB829

American Bar Association Division for Public Education's 29th National Law-Related Education Conference, October 28 through 30, 2015 HR525

Blood donation education, unit, establishing (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB449

Carbon Career and Technical Institute receiving the highest score on the Pennsylvania School Performance Profile for the second consecutive year HR666

Carbon Monoxide Alarm Standards in Dormitories Act, enacting SB260

Carbon Monoxide Alarm Standards in Schools Act, enacting; carbon monoxide alarm requirements; carbon monoxide alarm requirements in schools; enforcement SB261

Charter and Cyber Charter School Funding Commission, establishing; Charter and Cyber Charter School Funding Commission Act, enacting SB1075

Charter school executive compensation, Legislative Budget and Finance Committee study and report HR432

Charter, cyber schools, new, moratorium, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB321

Committee on Education, directing establishment of select subcommittee on Technical Education and Career Readiness to investigate, review and make recommendations relating to career training programs HR102

Council on Jazz Education and Preservation, Jazz Legacy Fund, establishing SB1234

Dental Law, "practice of dentistry," further defined, continuing education (Amend 1933 P.L.216, No.76) HB2127

Domestic Violence Judicial Education Act, enacting; Judicial Education Program in Domestic Violence, establishing; judges and district judges, attendance, successful completion of program, requiring SB1389

Early childhood, Pay for Success Pilot Program and Pay for Success Trust Fund, established; Office of the Budget and Independent Fiscal Office, duties HB1053

Education reinvestment, oil and gas, severance tax, impact fee (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) HB1142

Educational tax credits, application by business firms (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) HB1875

Educational tax credits, tax credits and limitations (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) HB1876

Educational, fair opportunities, findings and declaration of policy, unfair educational practices, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, powers and duties (Amend 1961 P.L.776, No.341) HB305

Emergency Basic Education Subsidy Fund, establishing, basic education subsidy funding, providing for; adding section (Amend 1949 P.L. 30, No.14) SB807

Emergency Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Scholarship, approval SB1091

Extraction for Education Fund, establishing (Oil and Gas 58 Pa. C.S.) SB395

Flipped model of classroom instruction, Legislative Budget and Finance Committee study and report, including identifying low-performing schools for proposed use HR128

Funding, Legislative Budget and Finance Committee study and report on potential impact on Commonwealth and school districts of Federal education funding loss HR50

Health and Safety; safe opioid prescription education, patient voluntary nonopioid directive, adding chapters (Amend 35 PA.C.S.) SB1368 ( Act 126, '16)

Higher; loan forgiveness program, child welfare workers, establishing; qualifying; funding; tax applicability; PHEAA, annual report to Governor, General Assembly; PHEAA responsibility SB29

Human Services Code; foster care children, school stability, case plan, requiring; educational disruption, minimizing, adding article (Amend 1967 P.L.31, No.21) SB1272

Joint State Government Commission to conduct a Statewide study on reducing the number of school districts in this Commonwealth HR910

Joint State Government Commission, conduct a study and publish a report on optimizing classroom capacities HR556

Judiciary and Judicial Procedure; Pennsylvania Rules of Juvenile Court Procedure, modernizing, making editorial changes (Amend 42 PA.C.S) SB1262

Judiciary and Judicial Procedure; judges, guardians ad litem, domestic violence education and training programs, establishing (Amend 42 PA.C.S.) SB1400

Legislation, education, public school system, substantial and general support for public education (Amend Constitution Article III section 14) HB596

Legislation, unfunded education mandates (Amend Constitution Article III, section 10.1, added) HB1083

Military Affairs, Educational Gratuity Program, awards, educational gratuity, payments, eligibility and qualification requirements; Medal of Honor and Purple Heart Recipient Tuition Waiver Program, established, requirements, regulations; editorial changes (Amend 51 Pa.C.S.) HB1019

Military Affairs; educational gratuity payments (Amend 51 Pa.C.S.) SB345

Natural gas severance tax, adding chapter; Severance Tax for Education Fund, deposit into (Amend 58 Pa.C.S.) SB519

Office of Safe Schools, powers, duties, drug and drug paraphernalia, defining (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB65

Office of Safe Schools; active shooter drills, grants, requiring documentation, (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB867

Pennsylvania American Legion Auxiliary Keystone Girls State Program held the week of June 19, 2016 HR938

Pennsylvania American Legion Auxiliary Keystone Girls State Program, recognizing week-long educational workshop held at Shippensburg University during the week of June 22, 2015 HR403

Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency; Pay It Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania Program (PFPB), establishing; Pay It Forward Pay It Back Pennsylvania Program Fund, establishing; natural gas severance tax on natural gas severance tax on every unconventional gas well (Amend 1963 P.L.549, No.290) SB741

Pennsylvania Human Relations Act; sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, defining and adding to policy findings and declaration; right to freedom from discrimination, housing and public accommodation; unlawful discriminatory practices (Amend 1955 P.L.744, No.222) SB974

Pennsylvania Plant A Seed Education Loan Forgiveness Act, enacting SB1376

Police Officer, Firefighter, Correction Employee and National Guard Member Child Beneficiary Education Act, adding surviving spouses (Amend 1998 P.L.980, No.129) SB25

Preliminary provisions, School District Contribution Fund, established (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1383

Public Library Code, privacy of circulation records, exception (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1180

Public School Code of 1949; historical documents, writings, records use in classrooms, censorship, prohibiting, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB176

Public School Code of 1949; Health-Related Industries Educational Scholarship Program, Health-Related Industries Educational Scholarship Fund, establishing, adding article (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB106

Public School Code of 1949; Loan Guarantor Program, loan forgiveness, medical school students (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB892

Public School Code of 1949; Office of Safe Schools; grant funding, priority to school entities located more than 15 minutes from the nearest law enforcement agency; school safety requirements, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB630

Public School Code of 1949; Pennsylvania Medical Education Loan Assistance Program, physician assistants, adding (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB614

Public School Code of 1949; Student-Weighted Basic Education Funding, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB910

Public School Code of 1949; Substitute Teaching Permit for Prospective Teachers, allowing, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB1312

Public School Code of 1949; adding definitions; competitive bidding procedure, establishing, adding subsection; Department of Education, powers, duties (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB128 SB1308

Public School Code of 1949; antiquated provisions of, repealing (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB794

Public School Code of 1949; child in foster care, dependent care, school stability, educational disruption, homeless, adding definitions; continued enrollment, school of origin, free transportation, providing; educational disruption, timely graduation, providing assistance, adding sections (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB966

Public School Code of 1949; community college, trustees, appointing (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB1122

Public School Code of 1949; development, relief and education for alien minors (DREAM), adding article (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB760

Public School Code of 1949; emergency supplemental payments, eligible school districts, providing, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB1304

Public School Code of 1949; employees, right to accumulated sick leave; alternative payment plan, repealing; persons entitled, repealing; salary while on leave, repealing (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB584

Public School Code of 1949; extensive revisions of charter school provisions (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB856

Public School Code of 1949; guidelines on religious expression, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB51

Public School Code of 1949; mandatory instruction, Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB47

Public School Code of 1949; parent educational information, eating disorders, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB732

Public School Code of 1949; school districts, kindergarten, available to all children in residence within, ages of four and six years (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB216

Public School Code of 1949; school districts, taxation, millage rate increases, school board members, two-thirds majority vote, requiring, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB496

Public School Code of 1949; school districts; growth supplement for 2015-2016 school year, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB458

Public School Code of 1949; school staff; charter school, appropriate State certification, requiring (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB320

Public School Code of 1949; schools, public, private; students, enrollment, attendance, withdrawal, truancy, reporting; compulsory attendance requirements, violation penalties (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB36

Public School Code of 1949; students, teachers, coaches, dating violence education, in school instruction (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB1394

Public School Code of 1949; third class school district operating under special board of control, elementary school students, attendance in other districts, allowing; educational support professional employes, hiring pool, creating (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB354

Public School Code of 1971; Charter and Cyber Charter Financial Accountability and Transparency; financially transparent and accountable; audits, assessments; trustees, administrators, adding subsections (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB830

Public School Funding, Chapter 31, added, First Class School Districts Fund, established (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB531

Retirement, employees, membership, contributions and benefits, member's options, death benefits, payment of benefits; administration, duties of board regarding applications and elections of members, rights and duties of school employees and members (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1186

Retirement, school employees, administration and miscellaneous, Public School Employees' Retirement Board, status and membership (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB867

Retirement, school employees, administration and miscellaneous, management of fund and accounts (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB2174

Retirement, school employees, contributions, actuarial cost method (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB900 HB2065

Retirement, school employees, definitions, construction of part with respect to, Internal Revenue Code; notice to members; credited school and nonschool service; eligibility, annuities, vesting, refunds; contributions; death benefits, payment of benefits; Public School Employees' Retirement Board, duties; employers, school employees and members, rights and duties; repeals (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1332 ( Act 93, '15)

Retirement, school employees, definitions, reference to Public School Employees' Retirement System; membership, contributions, benefits; School Employees' Defined Contribution Plan, Chapter 84, added; administration and miscellaneous provisions, payments to school entities by Commonwealth commencing with 2017-2018 school year; health insurance for retired school employees, "eligible person," further defined, status of program relative to Public School Employees' Retirement Code; transitional provisions; editorial changes (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB2041

Retirement, school employees, definitions; membership, contributions, benefits; School Employees' Defined Contribution Plan, Chapter 84, added; administration and miscellaneous provisions; editorial changes (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1499

Retirement, school employees, eligibility for special early (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB861

Retirement, school employees, membership, contributions and benefits, election to become a Class T-F member (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB2049

Retirement, school employees, membership, contributions and benefits, termination of annuities, return to school service in a substitute teacher position (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1989

Retirement, school employees, supplemental annuity commencing 2015 (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) HB1608

Right-to-Know Law; "school entity", adding to definitions; adding school entity to exceptions for public records (Amend 2008 P.L.6, No.3) SB833

School Security Drills (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB515

School districts; children's residential facilities, funding for schools operating by (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB499

School districts; compulsory attendance requirements, penalties for violations, truancy (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB359

School stability, educational stability of children in foster care (Amend 1967 P.L.31, No.21) HB1808

School-to-work tax credit, adding article (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) SB225

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Higher Education Loan Program (STEM HELP) Act, enacting SB107

State Military College Legislative Appointment Initiative Program Act; sunset provision, repealing (Amend 2012 P.L.232 No.29) SB1194 ( Act 81, '16)

Student Performance Measurement Advisory Commission, adding section (Amend 1949 P.L.30, No.14) SB355

Student protection, post secondary education institution transition to new accreditation HB2338 ( Act 149, '16)

Tax Reform Code of 1971; Education Reinvestment, adding article; natural gas severance tax, imposing; impact fee, providing for distribution; Department of Revenue, Department of Environmental Protection, Public Utility Commission, powers and duties (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) SB116

Tax Reform Code of 1971; work-based learning tax credit, scope of, adding article (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) SB110

Tax credit, education, oversight (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) HB1485

Tax credit, educational, limitations (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) HB752

Taxpayer Protection Act; actuarial cost method; Public School Employees' Retirement Board, administrative duties; (Amend 24 Pa.C.S.) SB7

Tuition Account Programs, contributions for, adding section (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) SB105

Tuition Account Programs, contributions, state income tax return refund (Amend 1971 P.L.6, No.2) SB963

Vehicles, education registration plate; payments to special funds, Technology in Education Fund, established (Amend 75 Pa.C.S.) HB1942

Volunteer Continuing Medical Education Act, enacting SB1410

Volunteer Emergency Service Tuition Credit Program Act, enacting SB26

Volunteer emergency service personnel, loan forgiveness program SB27

Workforce development, Keystone Works Program, "graduate," defined; program; administration; work compensation; eligibility; performance evaluation system; annual report (Amend 2001 P.L.949, No.114) HB286

Youth, foster care system, long-term costs reduction, adoption encouraged, college accessible, postsecondary education, financial assistance HB453

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