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Committee lays out bill to codify AG opinion allowing schools to authorize open carry by uniformed school marshals; public testimony absent
Summary
Senate Bill 8-70 would codify a recent attorney general opinion permitting uniformed school marshals to open carry under local board regulations; the committee left the bill pending after closing testimony.
The Committee on Education laid out Senate Bill 8-70 and heard sponsor remarks explaining the bill would codify an attorney general opinion about the authority of school districts to set marshal policies.
Senator Bergwell, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure ‘‘is a codification of an attorney general opinion from this past interim’’ and said local school boards and governing bodies should…
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