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Committee hears towns’ experiences, school boards’ concerns on bill easing withdrawal from cooperative districts
Summary
Supporters told the Senate Education Committee HB 13‑74 would restore local control and relieve small towns paying disproportionate costs; school boards warned the change could increase administrative burden and that statutes already provide safeguards for liabilities and asset distribution.
The Senate Education Committee took testimony on House Bill 13‑74, which would change the process for towns seeking to withdraw from cooperative school districts by eliminating the current requirement that other member towns approve a withdrawing town's departure.
Representative Mary Murphy, sponsor of HB 13‑74, framed the bill as a fairness measure for small towns that can be outvoted in cooperatives and said the measure retains the feasibility and suitability study and raises…
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