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Senate committee sends school-district contracting transparency bill to full Senate
Summary
The Senate Education Committee gave a unanimous, favorable recommendation to First Substitute House Bill 144, which would require the attorney general’s office to review and share certain settlement agreements between the U.S. Department of Justice and local education agencies with the local school board.
A Senate Education Committee on Feb. 2025 voted unanimously to send First Substitute House Bill 144, a measure aimed at increasing transparency around certain settlement agreements between the U.S. Department of Justice and local school districts, to the full Senate.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative DeFe, told the committee, “This is an important bill. This is a transparency bill,” and said the measure would “direct[] the attorney general's…
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