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Committee holds bill to define "medically fragile" students pending implementation details
Summary
Senate Bill 135, which would add two definitions to create distinct categories for medically fragile students and potentially re-route services and funding, was held by the Senate Education Committee so sponsors can clarify how the new definitions would be applied and how funding or service pathways would change.
The Senate Education Committee voted to hold Senate Bill 135, Educational Medical Services Amendments, after members asked for clearer application and implementation details for two new definitions the bill would add to state code.
Sponsor testimony described the measure as an attempt to create distinct categories for students with medical needs so that smaller districts could move some intensive service costs to health partners and free local special-education funds for other…
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