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[LB737 LB771 LB778 LB857] the Committee on Education Met at 1 Transcript Prepared By the Clerk of the Legislature Transcriber's Office Education Committee January 16, 2018 [LB737 LB771 LB778 LB857] The Committee on Education met at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, in Room 1525 of the State Capitol, Lincoln, Nebraska, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on LB771, LB857, LB737, and LB778. Senators present: Mike Groene, Chairperson; Rick Kolowski, Vice Chairperson; Laura Ebke; Steve Erdman; Lou Ann Linehan; Adam Morfeld; Patty Pansing Brooks; and Lynne Walz. Senators absent: None. SENATOR GROENE: Thank you for attending. We'll start the first public hearing of the Education Committee. Sorry about being late. My clock in my office is the same as that one up there and it needs a new battery. So we will start with how we will operate the committee. Welcome to the Education Committee public hearing. My name is Mike Groene from Legislative District 42. I serve as the Chair of this committee. Committee will take up the bills in the posted agenda. Our hearing today is your public part of the legislative process. This is your opportunity to express your position on the proposed legislation before us today. You are the second house of the Legislature. To better facilitate today's proceedings, I ask that you abide by the following procedures. Please turn off cell phones and other electronic devices; move to the chairs at the front of the room when you are ready to testify. The order of testimony is introducer, proponents, opponents, neutral, and closing remarks. I will leave it open that if we have an awful...we ever have legislation that has a lot of testifiers, I will leave it that we can alternate to give everybody a chance to speak and both sides can be heard. Hopefully, that isn't the situation today. If you will be testifying, please complete the green testifier sheet--I'm assuming it's green again this year-- and hand to the committee clerk, page when you come up to testify. If you have written materials that you would like distributed to the committee, please hand them to the page to distribute, and that is only testifiers that can do that. If you are not going to publicly testify or need to leave early, you can turn the written testimony in, with a completed green testifier sheet, to the clerk or to the page. We need 12 copies of all committee members...for all committee members and staff if you have a handout. If you need additional copies, please ask a page to make copies for you now. When you begin to testify, please state and spell your name for the record. The record, this is all recorded. These mikes are for recorded and we have the transcribers that will put everything you say into the public record. Please be concise. It is my request that testimony limit to I believe we'll start at five minutes today, five minutes, and we will be using the light system. Green is what you will see before you when you start. Yellow means one minute left. And then when the red shows up, please stop. You will be asked questions, some of you will be asked questions by the committee. That's not included in the five minutes. If you would like your position to be known but do not wish to testify, please sign the white form at the back of the room and it will be included in the official record beginning Wednesday, 1/17/2018. Written correspondence testimony not presented at the hearing must be received in the committee office before 9:00 a.m. the day of the hearing. You must include your name, address, and specific request to be included in the public record. That is, if you want to send an e-mail or a letter to the 1 Transcript Prepared By the Clerk of the Legislature Transcriber's Office Education Committee January 16, 2018 committee, you must request that it be in the public record. Otherwise, a private correspondence could end up in there and you wouldn't like that. Please speak directly into the microphone so our transcribers are able to hear your testimony clearly. The committee members with us today will introduce themselves, beginning at my far right. SENATOR LINEHAN: Good afternoon. Senator Lou Ann Linehan from Elkhorn, Waterloo, and Valley. SENATOR KOLOWSKI: Rick Kolowski from District 31, southwest Omaha. SENATOR GROENE: Senator Mike Groene. SENATOR EBKE: I'm Laura Ebke, District 32, Crete, Fairbury, Geneva, Hebron, those areas. SENATOR ERDMAN: Steve Erdman, District 47, ten counties in the Panhandle of Nebraska. SENATOR WALZ: Lynne Walz, District 15, which is all of Dodge County. SENATOR GROENE: My assumption is Senator Pansing Brooks and Senator Morfeld will be joining us, unless they have said to the clerk that they wouldn't be here, but we have not heard that. To my far right...to my left is LaMont Rainey. He is the committee counsel that handles the legislation dealing with public schools. To my right at the end of the table is the committee clerk, Kristina McGovern. Our pages today are Heather Bentley, student at the University of Nebraska; and Sam Baird, student at also the University of Nebraska. Please remember that senators may come and go during our hearing, as they may have bills to introduce in other committees, and nature does call. I'd also like to remind our committee members to speak directly into the microphones and to limit side conversations and making noise on personal devices. The new recording system is very sensitive. The transcribers can pick up anything in the room, basically, so...and it's hard for them to transcribe if there's a lot of background noise. Lastly, we are an electronically equipped committee, so you will see myself and other members looking at their devices. And if you see me typing, I'm typing back to the...somebody in my office to bring me information. But you might see us averting to the electronic equipment. We're not ignoring you. We should be using it for the committee purposes. So let's begin with LB771, Senator Walz, adopt the Child Hunger and Workforce Readiness Act. [LB771] SENATOR WALZ: (Exhibit 1) Good afternoon, Chairman Groene and my colleagues on the Education Committee. My name is Lynne Walz, L-y-n-n-e W-a-l-z, and I proudly represent District 15. I'm here to introduce LB771 which would create the Child Hunger and Workforce 2 Transcript Prepared By the Clerk of the Legislature Transcriber's Office Education Committee January 16, 2018 Readiness Act. Currently, the School Breakfast Program and the National School Lunch Program under the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 provides students of low-income families free or reduced-price meals. These programs are federally funded to participating school districts. Families that make 130 percent or less of the federal poverty level qualify for free meals, which is under $26,546 for a family of three, while families that make between 130 and 185 percent of the poverty level qualify for reduced-price meals, which is in-between $26,546 and $37,777 for a family of three. LB771 would pay the remainder of the balance for the reduced-price lunch for families that are 130 to 185 percent. This cost is 30 cents for breakfast and 40 cents for lunch. Research shows that under the reduced-price category, families are still struggling to make ends meet as rising household expenses, such as childcare and housing, put pressure on budgets. The cost for nonschool meals can quickly add up for a low-income family, leaving many low-income students vulnerable for hunger during the day. The future of economic prosperity in Nebraska is built on the health and success of its children. Work force challenges can only be met when children are able to reach their full potential, beginning in the classroom. Hunger during childhood has the potential to derail proper development, leaving lifelong and negative consequences for cognition, physical and mental health, behavior, and academic performance. For many families, school meals provide a crucial buffer between children and hunger. LB771 would remove barriers to learning for many children in Nebraska by eliminating the copay that low-income students are currently required to pay for school breakfast and lunch. I find this to be an appropriate way to start off the Education Committee. As a former teacher, I have witnessed how important it is for a child to be well-nourished if we want them to be successful in the classroom. In this legislative body we take breaks for lunch, and I've noticed that as we get closer to lunchtime and people are getting hungry our attention starts to fade. It's the same case for children and even more so than adults. We are talking about making sure that every child has the ability to get a hot meal during a school day. For some kids, this might be the only hot meal they get all day. And for some, they might not get a hot meal all weekend until they return to school on Monday. When I was teaching, I intentionally kept snacks in the classroom for students who had not eaten any breakfast. The attitude and focus shift within those students after having food was dramatic. They were more attentive, driven, and willing to learn. And my classroom is just one example. Oftentimes, when a child did not bring lunch money for a third time, they were given a peanut butter or a cheese sandwich for lunch instead of a full meal.
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