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Committee advances plan for statewide, standardized school maps for emergency responders

House Education Committee · January 22, 2026
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Summary

Rep. Rick Ladd described a plan to use a portion of a $10 million public-school infrastructure appropriation to fund a statewide mapping RFP and vendor work to create live, GPS-enabled school maps and five years of maintenance; the department and vendors described data security, cross-platform formats and a summer implementation window.

Representative Rick Ladd told the committee HB 15-03 would let the Department of Education allocate existing Public School Infrastructure Fund dollars to create standardized, live maps of school facilities for emergency responders. He said the Public School Infrastructure Fund already includes $10 million in HB2 and that an estimated $2.8 million would cover mapping statewide with vendor maintenance; the committee was told the remainder would continue to be available…

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