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Committee clears two higher-education cleanup bills, including repeal of obsolete metric-education requirement
Summary
The committee reported two higher-education bills favorably: one (32‑50) removes an obsolete requirement tied to tech-school libraries and a second (32‑51) repeals or updates a metric-education mandate that the presenter described as obsolete; both bills were reported favorably by voice/roll call with unanimous support among present members.
The House Education and Public Works Committee reported two higher-education cleanup measures favorably as noncontroversial items.
The first, numbered 32‑50 in the committee record, addresses technical school library systems: the presenter said the statutory language requiring a conversion to a computer-based automated system is obsolete because the statewide library system known as PASCAL already provides the intended functionality. The presenter described the provision as “obsolete” and moved for passage; the committee reported the bill favorably by recorded vote (15–0 with 3 absent).
The second measure, 32‑51, removes an older metric-education mandate dating to 1977 that required a metric education committee and planning. The presenter characterized the provision as outdated given wider adoption of metric units and moved to remove the requirement; the committee reported that bill favorably by recorded vote (15–0 with 3 absent).
Both measures were framed in committee as housekeeping or cleanup legislation following recommendations from an oversight review of higher-education commission practices. No fiscal impacts or implementation hurdles were raised in the committee transcript.
Clarifying details: presenter cited the PASCAL system as already meeting the statute’s intended goals for library automation; the metric-education provision was described as obsolete and therefore appropriate for repeal or amendment.
Both bills move forward in the legislative process without recorded opposition in committee.
