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Committee advances substitute for omnibus education bill, extends funding provisions and adds discipline reform amendment
Summary
The committee adopted a substitute for House Bill 712 containing a range of changes to prior statutes (including items tied to Senate Bill 727), extended a sunset for a funding provision and adopted an amendment to limit zero-tolerance disciplinary policies; the substitute was voted "do pass."
The House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education adopted a committee substitute for House Bill 712 that bundles several changes tied to prior enactments and technical fixes to school funding and personnel provisions. Committee members also adopted an amendment that limits use of zero-tolerance disciplinary policies.
The nut graf: the substitute leaves in place components of Senate Bill 727 (including the CPI language), clarifies school funding language related to the 169-day…
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