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Other committee actions: technical amendments, quorum notes and department briefing
Summary
The House Education Committee adopted several technical amendments to bills on the agenda, noted temporary quorum fluctuations and heard a brief Department of Education update on federal changes under consideration at the U.S. Department of Education.
In addition to the bills discussed in detail, the committee adopted a series of technical amendments to move language or clarify effective dates for fiscal accounting. Committee staff and sponsors asked for short housekeeping votes on engrossing language and emergency clauses.
Committee members briefly lost and regained a quorum during the hearing; the chair paused a few items while members returned. Jacob Oliva, secretary of education, addressed the panel near the end of the session and discussed changes under consideration at the U.S. Department of Education and the potential for greater state flexibility over federal funds. Oliva said he supports greater state authority and that federal discretionary grants are under review, but he emphasized there was no immediate change to K–12 federal funds and that any transition would have a long implementation runway.
The committee completed its agenda and moved bills by voice votes where recorded in the transcript.
