House Education committee approves amendment to H.454 adding legislative members, debates tuition language for non‑operating districts

Representative Casey Tufe, presenting an amendment to H.454 during the House Education Committee meeting in April 2025, said the changes add legislative, nonvoting representation to the district boundary committee and create a new school district voting board task force.

"It puts us in more of a driver's seat of building the governance and the wards within those districts," Representative Casey Tufe said, summarizing the intent behind the task force and the committee membership changes.

The amendment Tufe described would add four nonvoting legislative members to the district boundary committee: two House appointees and two Senate appointees, with restrictions that paired appointees not be from the same political party or the same school district. The amendment also makes a numeric change in the bill text (changing the number 5 to 9), creates a school district voting board task force charged with producing maps and a report by Oct. 15, and amends the bill’s effective date language.

The proposed task force, as described in the…