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Committee sends House Bill 224 to Senate floor after lawmakers clarify background checks and school emergency plans
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 224 to the Senate floor with a due‑pass recommendation after lawmakers agreed the bill clarifies background checks and emergency‑planning requirements for local school districts.
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 224 to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation after the bill’s sponsor told members it modernizes a poorly written subsection of current code.
Representative Chris Mathias (R‑District 19) said House Bill 224 is a housekeeping measure that clarifies three elements of the existing statute’s subsection 16: background checks for persons who have unsupervised contact with students, school emergency operations plans…
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