 We did hear from Senator Hooker, who went down to appropriations that they did approve our work and they kept the funding in there, Senator Hooker? They did. They did. They did keep the funding in there and approved it unanimously. So now we are looking at it to amend S16. And if Mr. Demeray wants to be so kind as to take us just through that amendment. Sure, of course. You should have this posted, I believe. Yeah. Okay. First to note that this is an amendment not by the committee because you never have jurisdiction. This is an amendment by individual senators. At this point it's Senator Campion, Ballant, Hardy and Hooker. And as we talked about it amends the powers and duties to include the various subcategories that were recommended by the ACLU. And the only change to this draft from the last one you saw is, oh God, I'm on page numbers again. It's gonna be on page three. Mr. Demeray, can you just tell me just so I'm certain. What draft number is this? It's draft 2.1. 2.1. Thank you. So in F we have some new language regarding social determinants. So FNRVs recommend changes to the types of data collected in the data collection processes regarding suspensions and expulsions as necessary for the collection of all appropriate data related to school discipline in common, including recommendations on the type of data collected in data collection processes to reflect the contribution of social determinants to instances of suspensions and expulsions. I thought that was an excellent addition from Senator Lines. Senator Lines, did you want to say anything or add anything? Senator Perslick, did you? I see you're unmuted. That looks good. This isn't gonna be an easy thing for anybody to do. And as it goes forward, there may be criticisms of that, but I think it's important to raise it right now. I'll move to approve the amendment. Are we improving or endorsing the amendment? Either way, I do that. Okay. Thank you. Motion was made by Senator Chittin to approve draft 2.1 of the amendment. Do I see any discussion? I guess I'm just unclear on the committee's role of this amendment. So you would say the amendment is from these certain senators, but then a committee voted blank in support of the amendment? That's correct. So, and please, I'm looking to anybody who feels free to correct me if this would be treated in a similar way to if a senator outside came in and presented an amendment. And please know I am in no way, if anybody wants to add their name, as I've said all along, please feel free to do so. And that would, and then we will also take a committee vote. Correct me if I have this wrong. I'm looking to other senators and Mr. Demeray in terms of process. Senator Hooker would get up on the floor and say the amendment bill has been moved by Senator Campion and others. Explain the amendment and the amendment came before Senate education and the vote was this and we ask for your support. Right, yeah, that's it because it hasn't been up on the floor yet. So nobody knows what was in the original amendment. It's up to the original sponsors if they concur with our proposals. Yeah. They wanna go forward with it. I mean, otherwise we could do it but it doesn't matter. Senator Hooker. So I guess procedurally the amendment will be printed. The amendment, we'll discuss the amendment. I know Senator Lyons, you discuss the bill and the amendment together. Is that what the procedure would be to be able to discuss the underlying bill and the amendment? That's up to the sponsors of the amendment, how it's handled because it's not a committee amendment. We've just offered our suggestions. That's an excellent point. So I guess I would get up as the lead sponsor on the amendment, explain the amendment. I would then say sit down and then Senator Hooker would get up and say the committee has reviewed the amendment by Senator Campion and others and on a vote of blah, blah, blah, have approved the amendment. And then we can work with Secretary Bloomer. It sounds like this will be up on Wednesday on the floor so we can work with him around, just making sure that we have that process down. Okay. Does that feel comfortable to you Senator Hooker? Oh yeah. Okay, great. Okay, so any other discussion? Seeing none, a motion has been made by Senator Chittenden to move draft 2.1 of the amendment to F16 as proposed by Senator Campion and others. Senator Perslick, would you please take the roll? Yes, Senator Chittenden. Aye. Senator Hooker. Yes. Senator Lines. Yes, yes. Senator Herzlick votes aye. Yes, Senator Tarantini. Aye. And Senator Campion. Is that a yes, you are muted. Yes. Okay. Six zero zero. And thank you and I will present the amendment and then we will open that. Yes, Senator Perslick, please. Process question. Do we do the same thing with that vote as we do if we, that we would do with a bill like to have the record of action and all that or it's just something we say on the floor? It's a great question. It would be a record of action. We'll be, the amendment will be in the calendar and it will have the vote in the calendar. But do we have to do the like email chain of the record of action with Jeannie and all that? For it to get in the calendar? No, just to do it. Like are we still required to do those emails? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Terrific. Last thing. Mr. Demeray, if you wouldn't mind, thanks for all your work so far. And if you would be so kind as just to pull up the language for us to have a look at, we know that $4 million has been put into the expedited budget. I'm losing my notes here. And excuse me again, I'm in the process of trying to post that document. It'll take me a couple of minutes. Okay. I can share it if you want. That'd be great if you would share. Okay, yeah. And this is a reminder that this is the $4 million that has been put in the expedited budget for the after school for all grants program to provide grants for children to attend summer and after school programs. And the Appropriations Committee would like us to get them some language that would help with the direction of some of these dollars. So that is what we are looking at. Okay, here it is. A bit bigger. Okay, so for the record, Jim Demeray of this console, we're looking at draft language on the summer connection grants and summer partnership expansion grants. So there are two main sections here. One is to provide grant funding to existing summer programs. And that's the summer connection grants. And then the other is to provide grant funding to programs that are storing up. And that's the summer partnership expansion grants. So subsection A creates the summer connection grants program to be mentioned by AOE. And the agency will be awarding that grant funding to existing after school and summer programs. The meets the requirements in subsection C, which we'll come to. And the use of that funding will be to collaborate with schools to support learning, behavioral health needs and parent and family involved. Sorry, Jim, we're losing you a little bit. You're losing me? Yeah, thanks. Sorry. No problem. Can you hear me now? Perfectly. Okay. Okay, so use of this funding is for the recipients to collaborate with schools to support learning, behavioral health needs and parent and family involvement of vulnerable student populations and may use this funding for related transportation, staffing, supplies and respect activities and professional development. The each grant would be in the amount of $10,000. And the agency would award grants up to 150 existing after school and summer programs. Then we have the summer partnership expansion grants in subsection B. And that is again created here with the agency administering this program. And this grant funding would assist a school, nonprofit organization, time record center or licensed childcare center closely partnered with a school in starting a summer program. The communities that currently do not have 21C funding or established low cost summer program. And they will meet the requirements of subsection C. The use of the funds is exactly as was the use of the funds for their first program. So we won't repeat it. And then the amount of these grants would be $50,000 each for 50 new summer programs. And the requirements for both the programs is that the recipients shall be a school nonprofit organization, time record center or licensed childcare center closely partnered with a school offering program at low and low cost to parents and families, operate for a minimum of five weeks for a full day and for five days per week have to provide healthy snacks and meals, integrate social and emotional learning and science, technology, engineering and math programming and include outdoor activities and enrichment. And then finally, the recipients of the funding are encouraged to use qualified instructors to provide at least two hours per day of math and the instruction. And that's it. I'm just pulling this up, make sure I have the right one. Okay, so I thought, okay, questions or comments, thought I had sent along and I may not have some comments relating to, well, that's fine. Let's take a look at this. This is where we're at draft 1.1. I don't think we need to pull any real triggers today. I'm just trying to get impressions. This is not new language to us. We have gone through this a little bit. In fact, I believe it might have even been in one of our, Jim, correct me if I'm wrong in one of the drafts of the letter that we sent to approach and we were asked just to pull it out. I think that the only you and I saw that. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Would senators like to take a look at this over the weekend and hear from a couple of folks? Senator Persley, you've been in the thick of this kind of work. Well, I'm just, yeah, but I'm unfamiliar with the kind of process of this type of language. This would be language for the budget though, right? What for the small budget? That is correct. It would be language for the budget. For the little mini budget they're doing right now. It's the fast track, right? It's the fast track budget. Yeah, so the language is great because it's all prepared for approach to stick into the bill. And it's probably if you put a little memo with it saying that the committee has looked at this and supports it. And this is our recommendation for the fast track bill or one of our recommendations because I think we may have two, but... Yeah, no, I think that's the way to go center lines. The only... No, I think you're right on. I just remember having some language from Dr. Morehouse at one point. That talked about some other things. And Jim, do you remember that? Yeah, those were the findings. She sent over a huge list of findings that actually weren't... I wasn't able to just drop in. They were like... So I went back to you at that point and just asked you what you wanted to do and we held off on that for now. So I think it's maybe somewhere in that realm. Yeah, no, that's fine. I don't think we need findings per se. I just thought that maybe there were some other things. Senator Hooker? I thought I remembered some talk about how expeditiously this was going to be distributed and is the agency going to be able to get this money out the door quickly? Although I believe the secretary talked about applications being taken. I mean, is there someplace else that the money can go directly to the after-school programs or to the summer programs in particular since that's coming up quickly? But maybe I'm misremembering. So a couple of things. Secretary Fransch did come in when we were working on this on the letter and supported that and was working with us a little bit, Senator Perslick? Yeah, I wasn't looking closely at the language because I thought I knew what it said, but this does not seem to be the language that I thought it was. Yeah, let me see. That's because that's older. This is the version that we received, I think from the agency of education because the support I had seen talked about the after-school for all grant program. I think, didn't we hear from Holly Morehouse yesterday and have some of her edits on our webpage? That's what I thought. I thought yesterday. Yeah, this is an older version. Let's just look at that. Let's see. I have a rapid education bill with, yes, mine says, and this is why, because I remember talking with Senator Lyons in committee a little bit about this, I do have something that is edited. It says, the summer connection grants program is created and shall be administered by the Department of Children and Families in the Agency of Human Services. That's what mine has. Right, that's the one we want. Yeah, that's the one we want. It is right there. It's on yesterday's thing, page. Under Holly Morehouse? Yes, I think. Yes. Yeah, it's under Holly. And it's got all of the new language, bold and underlined. I hadn't seen that, but I can update this for next week. If senators have it in front of them from our website, it would be great. And I guess Senator Lyons, I don't mean to put you on the spot with this, but Department for Children and Families in the Agency of Human Services, that is your realm and something you know a lot more about. And I don't wanna do anything with that group until you feel like we should. So here's my suggestion on this because I'm unfully supportive of it. And I've got two of my committee members here, but I think what might be helpful is on Tuesday morning, we are looking at H315, which is the little fast track bill. And so why don't Cheryl, why don't you help me remember and Josh send this along, we'll send it along to Nellie and I'll put it up for our review. I don't think we need to call anyone to testify on it, it fits. Senator Lyons, if you were willing to do that, I would be so grateful for you. Oh, good. Because it's also, you're a morning committee, we could work to get it to Senator Kitchell in the afternoon. Well, at the same time, you have Senators Hooker and Taranzini in the committee, and then Senators Pertulik and Chittenden and I can take a look at it over the weekend and see if we have any real concerns, but your willingness to do that would be incredible. I just hope we have time because, you know, we're on the floor Tuesday morning and it's gonna be an overwhelming deluge of bills. Maybe not, it'll be mostly notice. We've got, I think there were two bills or three bills left. Yeah. We can do it, we'll do it. Senator White's back, there's her two bills. That's right. Yeah, she's got two bills. I'm looking at Senators Pertulik and Chittenden. Would you be comfortable with that given, again, it does direct the Department of Children and Families. Yes. Okay, Senator Pertulik, please. Yeah, no. Can I ask? Yeah, please, my head. I just wanted to ask Jim if he thought, if he could get us a copy from Ledge Council rather than a copy from Holly Morehouse. Sure. I'll update the language with this. Yes, and if you can do that, and then I can, you can, if you send it to Nellie Marvel. She's my committee assistant. Oh, sure, yeah. And then I'm gonna send her a heads up that you're doing that and we'll have it on our web page for Tuesday. That way we're all looking at something that's legislatively done. You may wanna make some of your magic corrections to improve it. And I do wanna just set the record straight. This was, I must have forgotten to send this to Mr. Demeroy. So Mr. Demeroy still has a perfect record for the record. Hardly sell. I'm moving in the negatives, but Mr. Demeroy is still perfect. Senator Persley. Yeah, and I just wanna confirm that, Jim, you would do that as a clean copy like you wouldn't have the way Holly did it as like track changes basically. No, no, I do a clean copy. Yeah, yeah. I'm fine with the language. I've already seen it, Holly sent it to me. I think it is great changes. Totally support it and totally support it coming from health and welfare. Yeah, I like it as well. I just, given that it is health and welfare stuff, that's it warrants that yes, Senator. Well, you know, our committee may support it too. So that's a good thing, right? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and we could vote on that later, but I just wanted to say the reason to send it to DCF is in some like DCF is better at it than AOEs. That's where the afterschool for all program, which currently exists and has the structure in place to make it quick. It made more sense to go through there because it's already sent up. Thank you for that. No, it's a good point. Okay, so we have a path forward. Thank you, Senator Lyons and the other members of health and welfare for taking this on. And Mr. Demeray, thank you. You're welcome. We, unless there are further questions, comments or concerns, I think we will be adjourning. Wow. I can make my next meeting. You can make your next meeting. Thank you. Thank you so much, everybody. If you have any questions over the weekend, feel free to contact me. Anybody who needs assistance with any kind of floor reports or anything, just let me know. Senator Chinden, I don't know when they're gonna vote yours out. So it might be on the floor on Wednesday as well. I'm feeling good, so I'm ready to go. Great. Senator- I believe both Chinden's bills from his two committees will both land on the floor at the same day. We can hear- I don't know. E-Bikes, it's actually your bill, Senator Campion. We passed it today. You know, I'm just recording it unless I pass it over to you or you've got to do it. So will the reporters of the bills please check their emails? There's one from John Bloomer. That is of some timeliness. Great. Thank you. Should I go off? Yeah, please. We have-