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Committee advances attendance bills to General Register and finance committee after technical and policy fixes
Summary
The Education Policy Committee advanced three related student attendance measures on March 25, placing two bills on the General Register and sending a third to Education Finance for fiscal review.
Committee leaders and sponsors described three related attendance measures and moved them forward on March 25 after extensive technical discussion and public testimony.
Representative Keeler summarized House File 62 as a consolidation of existing attendance law into a single “landing spot” without new funding or new provisions; the committee voted to place HF62 on the General Register. Representative Keeler then presented House File 2,067, described as an “attendance minibus” consolidating policy changes developed by the task force: clarifying which school officials may record absences, specifying that time with a full‑time school employee counts toward attendance, and tightening notification requirements so…
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