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Committee adopts amendment and favorably reports House Bill 57 on released-time religious instruction
Summary
The Senate Education Committee adopted amendment AM0819 to House Bill 57, allowing districts local flexibility on time limits for released-time religious instruction and barring monetary damages for alleged pre-effective-date violations; ranking member Ingram objected and raised implementation concerns; the committee then favorably reported the bill.
The Senate Education Committee on June 24 adopted amendment AM0819 to House Bill 57 and then favorably reported the bill to the next stage.
Vice Chair Blessing moved the amendment and explained its intent: it “permits a district to adopt different time limits on student attendance in released time courses in religious instruction than the limits established under current law,” and the amendment would “prohibit any court from awarding monetary damages for claims arising from alleged violations of the law…
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