Legislators often try to identify barriers through committee hearings in which they seek the advice of those closest to a problem. For example, they might ask several superintendents to come before the committee to talk about barriers related to dealing with high school truancy. Or they might hear from district business officials about the challenges of basing budgets on estimates or preparing budgets that do not coincide with revenue collection. Or district business officials might speak to the problems that emerge when a state regularly fails to pass its budget on time, which just adds to the confusion. Each year, the Education Commission of the States (ECS) tracks the enactment of education provisions. The activity level in states varies by year, as does the number of gubernatorial vetoes, and the number of bills enacted is always much smaller than the number of provisions. This year, ECS staff captured nearly 3,000 provisions of education law affected by the passage of legislation. This article examines specific provisions.