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Senate panel walks through H.480 strike-all: school safety, reading instruction, virtual learning and Guard tuition language
Summary
Committee counsel presented a strike-all amendment to H.480 that preserves school-safety deadlines, adjusts data-collection timing, revises language to reference school districts, adds virtual-learning statute language, expands supplemental reading instruction coverage, and revises the National Guard tuition-benefit program language.
The Senate Education Committee reviewed a strike-all amendment to H.480 during its April 8 meeting, discussing changes that touch school safety, reading instruction, virtual learning, BOCES grants and the Vermont National Guard tuition program.
Beth St. James, Office of Legislative Council, walked the committee through the draft strike-all amendment and highlighted changes that came from the House-passed version and later agency requests. The amendment retains an earlier effective date for creating behavioral threat assessment teams but delays the effective date for a related data-collection subsection to allow additional time for implementation. Counsel said the amendment changes certain references from "school board" to "school district" at the Agency of Education's request to align…
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