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Committee creates study panel to review education law after debate over membership makeup

2838458 · April 1, 2025
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Summary

The committee approved House Resolution 887 to create a study committee to review and recommend housekeeping changes to education statutes. An amendment to specify a particular majority/minority makeup of the study committee was debated, tied in a hand-count and failed; the resolution then carried.

The House Education Committee approved House Resolution 887 (LC492403) to create a study committee tasked with reviewing and recommending clean-up changes to education-related code sections.

Chairman Blackman, the resolution's sponsor, described the panel as a code-revision exercise to identify statutory provisions that are obsolete or in need of update to reduce administrative burden and restore local control where appropriate.…

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