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Committee approves bill to treat GED as equivalent to high school diploma for employment

EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE · February 15, 2023
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Summary

The Senate Education Committee voted to pass House Bill 1091, a technical bill clarifying that a GED or equivalent will be treated the same as a high school diploma for employment purposes, after Representative Carol Dolby described the change as a clarifying definition.

Representative Carol Dolby presented House Bill 1091 as a narrowly tailored clarification of existing law. "All this bill is is a definition bill stating that if an individual receives a GED or an equivalent thereto,…

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