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Committee approves cap on fee waivers for school extracurricular trips
Summary
The committee unanimously passed House Bill 397, which limits the number of fee‑waived extracurricular trips a student eligible for a school fee waiver may take without additional principal review; in‑state high school association trips are excluded.
The Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Standing Committee unanimously voted to pass out House Bill 397, the school fee waiver amendments, which places a modest limit on how many school trips a student qualifying for a fee waiver may attend without review.
Representative Welton, the bill sponsor, described that students qualifying for fee waivers currently may attend an unlimited number of fee‑based trips, sometimes resulting in a…
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