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Senate committee adopts O'Brien amendment, boosts funding for school spending transparency dashboard
Summary
Committee accepted an amendment by Representative O'Brien to require a public dashboard of school financial data, increased implementation funding to $500,000, and referred House Bill 1329 to Appropriations by unanimous vote.
The Senate Education Committee unanimously approved an amended version of House Bill 1329 that directs the creation of a standardized dashboard for school-district financial and spending data and increases the initial appropriation for the project.
Senators debated whether to keep the bill as a study or require immediate dashboard development; committee members endorsed the latter and adopted an amendment provided by Representative O'Brien that converts the study into a policy implementation with a larger…
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