Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SR 554 - Senate Study Comm. on Educa- tors Technology Train. - create

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                             A RESOLUTION

  1- 1  Creating the Senate Study Committee on Educators Technology
  1- 2  Training; and for other purposes.

  1- 3  WHEREAS, new and emerging technology offers the potential
  1- 4  for vitally important improvements in education in Georgia;
  1- 5  and

  1- 6  WHEREAS, an essential element in the fulfillment of such
  1- 7  potential is the development and implementation of a
  1- 8  comprehensive plan for the training of educators in the use
  1- 9  of technology; and

  1-10  WHEREAS, no thorough legislative study of this area has been
  1-11  undertaken in recent years.

  1-12  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that there is
  1-13  created the Senate Study Committee on Educators Technology
  1-14  Training to be composed of seven members of the Senate to be
  1-15  appointed by the President of the Senate.  Four of these
  1-16  members shall be the chairperson of the Senate Committee on
  1-17  Higher Education; the chairperson of the Senate Committee on
  1-18  Economic Development, Tourism, and Cultural Affairs; the
  1-19  chairperson of the Senate Committee on Education; and the
  1-20  chairperson of the Senate Committee on Science, Technology
  1-21  and Industry.  The President of the Senate may also appoint
  1-22  as nonvoting advisory members one or more representatives of
  1-23  the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia;
  1-24  one or more representatives of the State Board of Education;
  1-25  and one or more representatives of the State Board of
  1-26  Technical and Adult Education.  The President of the Senate
  1-27  shall designate a member of the committee as chairperson of
  1-28  the committee.  The chairperson shall call all meetings of
  1-29  the committee.

  1-30  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Senate Study Committee on
  1-31  Educators Technology Training shall undertake a
  1-32  comprehensive study of the needs of the state with respect
  1-33  to the training of educators in the use of technology and
  1-34  recommend any actions or legislation which the committee
  1-35  deems necessary or appropriate.  Without limiting the
  1-36  generality of the foregoing, such study should specifically
  1-37  address the methods, facilities, and personnel necessary to


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  2- 1  meet such needs and the provision of such methods,
  2- 2  facilities, and personnel from existing state resources or
  2- 3  new sources or both.   Such study should also specifically
  2- 4  address the funding necessary to meet such needs and include
  2- 5  a plan for the provision of such funding, either through
  2- 6  reallocation of existing funding or new funding or both. The
  2- 7  committee shall be authorized by majority vote of its
  2- 8  membership to expend funds available to the committee to
  2- 9  engage the services of experts, consultants, and staff as
  2-10  determined by the committee to be needed for the purposes of
  2-11  its study.  The committee may also request the provision of
  2-12  services for purposes of its study by any officer, agency,
  2-13  or department of state government, and all officers,
  2-14  agencies, and departments of state government shall
  2-15  cooperate with the committee and provide services so
  2-16  requested to the maximum extent possible.

  2-17  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the committee may conduct such
  2-18  meetings at such places and at such times as it may deem
  2-19  necessary or convenient to enable it to exercise fully and
  2-20  effectively its powers, perform its duties, and accomplish
  2-21  the objectives and purposes of this resolution.  The
  2-22  legislative members of the committee shall receive the
  2-23  allowances authorized for legislative members of interim
  2-24  legislative committees but shall receive the same for not
  2-25  more than five days unless additional days are authorized,
  2-26  except that any advisory member who is an employee of the
  2-27  executive branch of state government shall receive only his
  2-28  or her normal expense reimbursement from agency funds.  The
  2-29  funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this
  2-30  resolution shall come from the funds appropriated to the
  2-31  Senate.  The committee shall make a report of its findings
  2-32  and recommendations, with suggestions for proposed
  2-33  legislation, if any, on or before December 31, 1996.  The
  2-34  committee shall stand abolished on December 31, 1996.














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