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Committee hears 48-page statutory cleanup to update higher‑education and workforce language
Summary
Representative Willard Haley presented House Bill 606, a statute-cleanup bill that removes outdated programs and renames workforce units to reflect current governance; the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development supported the measure.
Representative Willard Haley presented House Bill 606 to the Missouri House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development and described it as a large but straightforward statutory cleanup.
"I doubt if you've ever heard that there's a 48 page simple easy bill," Representative Willard Haley said, explaining the measure updates agency names and repeals statutes for programs that no longer operate.
Haley said the bill renames the Division of Workforce Development within the Department of Economic…
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