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Senate Education Committee advances renaming of corrections school, extends Right to Read timeline and moves several short measures
Summary
The committee passed shorthand items including changing the corrections school system name (SB264), consolidating corrections education (SB265), extending Right to Read timelines (SB62), requiring earthquake drills in susceptible areas (SB249), and allowing private schools to send officers to the law-enforcement academy (SB159); a lengthy higher-education amendment was held to be engrossed and returned later.
The Senate Education Committee advanced or approved several mostly noncontroversial bills during its session and deferred a lengthy higher-education amendment for further review.
Correctional school renaming: Senators approved SB264 to rename references to the 'corrections school system' as the 'Arkansas Correctional School District' and advanced SB265, which sponsors described as consolidating Department of Corrections educational programs into a single, integrated district. Both bills passed by voice vote with no roll-call tally recorded.
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