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Committee quickly advances teacher-licensure measure and an additional bill by voice vote
Summary
The committee approved HB1678 (allowing some higher-ed teaching experience to count toward K-12 licensure) and HSB576 by voice vote; HB1678 had brief testimony from Senator James Church and Department of Education official Ivy Pfeffer.
The Senate Education Committee advanced two additional measures by voice vote during the same hearing session.
House Bill 16-78: Senator James Church presented HB16-78 on behalf of Representative Allen to allow the Arkansas Department of Education to promulgate rules permitting higher-education teaching experience to count toward a K-12 teaching license. Ivy Pfeffer of the Department of Education said reciprocity processes apply for out-of-state instructors and that the Department would craft rules to clarify eligibility. A committee member moved "do pass" and the bill passed by voice vote.
House/Senate Bill 576: Senator Clark briefly presented HSB576; the bill recorded no fiscal impact in the hearing and the committee passed it by voice vote near adjournment.
Both measures recorded voice approval in committee; the hearing transcript does not include roll-call tallies for those votes.
