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House Education committee advances rewrite of school safety code to second reading
Summary
The House Committee on Education voted to introduce RS32361, a replacement for House Bill 43 that separates school-safety requirements into discrete provisions for background checks, emergency operations plans and staff training; sponsor Representative Chris Mathias said Idaho law already protects emergency response plans from public disclosure.
The House Committee on Education introduced RS32361, a replacement for House Bill 43, and voted to send it to the second-reading calendar with a due-pass recommendation.
Representative Chris Mathias, who sponsored the replacement RS, told the committee the current code attempts to do three distinct things in a single paragraph and that RS32361 disentangles them. "We expect school districts to develop and maintain a safe environment for students by A, developing a system of background checks for all persons who have unsupervised…
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