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Committee sends school safety advisory board restructuring bill to floor after debate on membership
Summary
House Bill 42, which would shrink the state school safety and security advisory board to a smaller voting membership while retaining a broad invited list of experts, was recommended to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation by an 8-4 roll call after testimony from education and law enforcement stakeholders.
Representative Ted Hill, R., presented House Bill 42 to the House Committee on Education, saying the bill would restructure the state school safety and security advisory board to address chronic quorum problems.
"We'd like to maintain the broad spectrum of stakeholder representation," Hill said, while explaining the bill would reduce the formal voting membership to a smaller group so the board can reliably meet and act. Hill told the committee the intent is to retain invited experts while creating a "lean" panel of voting members.
Matthew Reiber of the State Board of Education told the committee the state board supports the bill and that the "invite list" of experts would remain unchanged even as formal voting membership is reduced. "We still want the experts in the room," Reiber said, and…
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