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Education subcommittee advances bill letting virtual schools seek textbook waivers
Summary
The Education Instruction Subcommittee voted to send House Bill 380, as rewritten by Amendment 4,881, to the full education committee. The bill creates a waiver process for LEAs on textbook and instructional-material requirements for virtual schools and directs state education authorities to adopt a permanent review method.
The Education Instruction Subcommittee advanced House Bill 380 on a voice vote after adopting Amendment 4,881, which the sponsor said rewrites the bill.
House Bill 380, presented by Chairman Slater, would establish a process for local education agencies (LEAs) to apply for a waiver related to the textbooks and instructional materials used by virtual schools. The bill also would require the State Board of Education and the Department (as named in the bill) to consider the unique needs of virtual schools and to establish a permanent method of reviewing and approving textbooks and instructional materials for those schools. Chairman Slater described the measure as addressing the "unique needs of virtual schools."
Committee members added Amendment 4,881 to the bill; the amendment was described on the record as a rewrite. After the amendment was added, the committee called the question and the clerk reported the vote as "5 aye, 0 nay, and 1 present not voting." The committee chair announced that HB 380 had received a majority and that the bill would move to the full education committee.
No substantive questions were recorded for the bill sponsor during the committee discussion.
The action taken was limited to the committee vote to forward the bill as amended; no final legislative enactment occurred at the meeting.
