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Governor signs a package of bills on education, licensing, housing and emergency aid at Capitol ceremony
Summary
At a ceremonial event on the Capitol Campus, the governor signed a broad group of House bills touching education, professional licensing, disaster assistance, housing incentives and local government technical fixes; most measures were presented briefly by their sponsors and signed without recorded debate.
At a ceremonial signing on the Capitol Campus, the governor signed a batch of House bills covering education, licensing and local-government issues, saying the measures will ease administrative burdens, expand opportunities and help communities respond to disasters.
The governor signed a range of measures including bills to expand notification for high-school dual-credit programs (HB 1146), ban commercial octopus farming (HB 1153), remove U.S. citizenship as a requirement for some professional licenses (HB 1889), and authorize a new state public-assistance program for disasters that do not meet the threshold for a federal declaration (HB 2020). The governor described the physician assistants licensure compact (HB 1917) as a way to expand telehealth and mobility for clinicians and said the leasehold excise tax exemption in HB 2003 could help…
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