Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Education Discrimination Hairstyles topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Senate substitute narrows anti-discrimination bill to school hairstyles
Summary
Senate Bill 38 was perfected on the floor after the sponsor’s substitute narrowed the bill’s scope to discriminatory practices concerning hairstyles in elementary and secondary schools.
Senators adopted a Senate substitute for Senate Bill 38 on the Senate floor and declared the substitute perfected and ordered printed. The sponsor explained that the substitute narrowed the title and scope of the bill to “relating to discriminatory practices as it relates to hairstyles in elementary and secondary educational institutions.”
The sponsor said the substitute’s only substantive change was to the title to specify hairstyles in elementary and secondary educational institutions. Floor debate was brief; the sponsor closed and the chamber adopted the substitute and declared it perfected. The presiding officer announced “the ayes do have it.”
The transcript shows no detailed discussion of implementation, enforcement mechanisms, or statutory cross-references on the floor. The change recorded in the transcript is procedural and focused on narrowing the bill’s subject-matter description prior to perfection and printing.
