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Panel reviews technical updates to interstate compact protecting military children (HB118)
Summary
Representative Ed Buttry introduced House Bill 118 to update Montana’s participation in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, revising federal citations and changing state assessment language to use the compact’s per-student amount.
Representative Ed Buttry introduced House Bill 118 to update Montana’s participation in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, telling the House Education Committee the bill revises federal citations and changes how Montana’s annual compact assessment is calculated.
"I'm Representative Ed Buttry. I represent House District 21," Buttry said as he opened the hearing. He told the committee the bill updates U.S. code citations in several places and replaces an existing $2-per-military-child cap and a $5,000 annual ceiling with the per-student amount and maximum set by the interstate compact.
The change removes a fixed…
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