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Senate committee hears bill to require public votes before school boards reject gifts
Summary
Sen. Keith Murphy sponsored legislation requiring school boards to discuss and vote in public before rejecting monetary or in‑kind gifts; proponents said the bill would increase transparency after a high‑profile local dispute over lunch debt donations.
Senate Bill 69, introduced to the Senate Education Committee Feb. 1 by Sen. Keith Murphy, would require local school boards to discuss and publicly vote on any decision to reject gifts, grants or donations to the district. Murphy framed the bill around a widely publicized local incident in which a school business administrator declined a church donation and pursued debt collection for unpaid lunch balances.
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