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Idaho House Education Committee holds House Bill 43 after debate over public-records exemption for school safety plans
Summary
The House Committee on Education voted 7-6 to hold House Bill 43 — a school-safety housekeeping bill that would clarify background checks, emergency operation plans and staff training — in committee subject to the call of the chair after members debated whether records of emergency plans and training should be exempt from public disclosure.
BOISE, Idaho — The House Committee on Education on Jan. 30 debated House Bill 43, a school-safety “housekeeping” bill introduced by Representative Chris Mathias, and voted 7-6 to hold the measure in committee subject to the call of the chair.
Representative Chris Mathias, District 19, told the committee HB 43 would separate a single paragraph of current law into clearer subparts to require background checks for anyone with unsupervised contact with students, require creation and annual review of emergency operations plans, and require initial and annual emergency-operations training for school staff. “Anyone who has unsupervised contact with students, regardless of the frequency…needs to be subjected to these background check systems,” Mathias said, referencing Idaho Code §33-130.
Committee members focused most of their discussion on a proposed subsection that would make records and information generated under the bill’s new emergency-plan and training provisions exempt from public disclosure.…
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