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Committee backs measure allowing 18‑year‑old students to leave campus to vote; bill passes committee 12‑0
Summary
House Bill 1178 would direct local school boards to adopt policies allowing students age 18 and older to leave campus to vote. Student sponsor and the Secretary of State supported the bill; the committee voted a "do pass" recommendation 12‑0 with one absent.
Representative Anna Novak introduced House Bill 1178, authored with input from a Beulah High School senior, as a measure directing school boards to adopt a policy allowing students 18 and older to leave campus to vote in elections.
Sophia Dosto, the student sponsor, told the committee she had seen upperclassmen miss the opportunity to vote because they were "stuck in class and did not wanna risk being counted as absent." She testified the bill would "remove barriers that could…
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