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House panel introduces bill to let school districts offer volunteer chaplains, removes deadline language
Summary
A House Education committee introduced Representative Dale Hawkins’s proposal to let local districts offer volunteer chaplains for staff and students, after members removed language that would have required districts to act by a set date.
Representative Dale Hawkins (State Representative, Legislative District 2) introduced RS 32-325 on March 13, asking the House Committee on Education to allow school districts to adopt a volunteer school chaplain program and to add school chaplains to existing statutory language requiring background checks.
The proposal would amend Idaho Code provisions Hawkins said are currently at "33-130" and add a new subsection—identified in the bill text as "33‑121 2(b)"—to describe chaplain duties. Hawkins told the committee the program would be voluntary, unpaid, and would not require state funding: "Fire departments have chaplains, police stations have chaplains. These are all unpaid volunteer positions. And, I just…
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