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Committee introduces bill allowing optional unpaid chaplains in schools after amending deadline language
Summary
The House Committee on Education voted to introduce RS 32,325, a bill that would let school districts adopt volunteer chaplain programs with criminal background checks; the committee removed a provision that would have required districts to file a decision by a specific date.
Representative Dale Hawkins introduced RS 32,325 on March 13, saying the proposal would allow school districts that choose to do so to have volunteer chaplains available to teachers and students.
The bill would add school chaplains to existing statute language and include criminal background checks for volunteers. Hawkins told the committee the program would be voluntary and “doesn't cost the State any money.”
The issue that drew most of the committee's discussion was a three-line provision (page 2, lines 22–24) that would have required districts to file a decision about adopting the program by a specified date. Representative…
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