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Senate Education Committee passes four bills on higher education and technical institutes

EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE · January 23, 2019
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Summary

The Senate Education Committee passed four bills in the same hearing: SB 56 (amending Higher Ed Coordinating Board membership), SB 96 (repeal of vocational housing-construction authority), SB 108 (repeal of annual reporting requirement for vocational technical centers), and SB 119 (move Riverside vocational/technical school to another agency).

The Arkansas Senate Education Committee passed four bills after a presentation by Microsoft/CertiPort on Imagine Academy.

Senate Bill 56: An act to amend membership of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board (technical changes). Anne Plummer of the Department of Higher Education told the committee the bill would reduce the number of board members required to have previously served on an institution board from six to three and confirmed other statutory composition requirements remain (congressional district representation and…

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