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Committee narrows penalties, delays school‑building reports and rejects transfer amendment in SB 239
Summary
The committee approved changes to Senate Bill 239 that delay school‑building reporting to 2027, remove a proposed 25% tuition‑support penalty for missing reports and repeal a county executive appointment provision; a separate transfer amendment failed, and the bill passed the committee 6–4.
The Committee on Education approved an amended version of Senate Bill 239 that delays several reporting deadlines for school buildings, removes a proposed 25% reduction in tuition support for failure to submit building reports, and repeals a provision that would have allowed county executives to appoint members to certain charter‑school boards.
Representative Tesco summarized amendment No. 13, saying it ‘‘moves the effective dates of many of the things in the bill’’ and delays building reporting until 2027 to…
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