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Bill would require schools used as polling places to cancel classes or separate students on election days
Summary
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on House Bill 1387, which would require districts to cancel classes or ensure distinct separation between students and voters when a school building is used as a polling place.
Calling the Senate Education Committee back to order, the panel took testimony on House Bill 1387, a proposal that would require school districts to either cancel classes or ensure there is no opportunity for contact between students and voters when a school building is used as a polling place.
Representative Pat Heinert, District 32, told the committee the measure was intended to "protect our kids on election days." He described visiting a Bismarck elementary school on election day and seeing students and voters using adjacent spaces and said the bill language requires schools to "shall cancel classes or separate students to ensure there is no opportunity for student contact with a voter." He told committee members…
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