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House concurs with Senate on H.480; bill adds school safety, phone‑free policy and other education changes
Summary
The Vermont House concurred in the Senate amendment to H.480, a miscellaneous education bill that includes school safety changes, cardiac response requirements, and a directive for the Agency of Education to develop a model bell‑to‑bell cell‑phone policy.
The Vermont House concurred in the Senate’s proposal of amendment to House Bill 4‑80, a miscellaneous education bill, and ordered the bill to be sent to the governor.
The member from Williston (Representative) reported the Senate’s changes and described the bill’s principal provisions: delayed deadlines for behavioral threat assessment team implementation, clarified roles for school boards and superintendents in policy and procedure development, amended the State Board search timeline for a secretary of education, expanded the Vermont National Guard tuition benefit within the Guard’s existing appropriation, added cardiac emergency planning and athletic emergency action plan requirements to school emergency operations templates, and changed energy performance contracting rules so districts may enter contracts up to 20 years without voter…
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