Tip sheet: A HOPE bill to encourage students to take tougher classes
Number of working days until the end of the 2016 session of the Legislature: 31
The Senate and House meet at 10 a.m. today. The first bill has yet to receive a floor debate in either chamber, but that’s likely to change soon. The rules committees of both chambers meet Tuesday, and they’re expected to start pushing bills to the floor.
House and Senate committees take up some bills Tuesday afternoon, including one that would clarify the state’s garnishment law. The bill, SB 255, is an effort to fix problems that caused a federal judge to declare the current law unconstitutional last year. It will get its first hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The House Higher Education committee will take up HB 801, Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones' bill to give more weight to certain classes for HOPE -- the harder ones in math and science that students avoid in order to boost their grade point averages.
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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.
