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Senate Education Committee trims home‑education bill, removes warrant carve‑out and penalty language
Summary
The committee adopted a committee amendment to HB 12‑68 that deletes provisions limiting agency entry/inspection and a penalty section. Lawmakers split (3–2), with debate centering on conflicts with family‑court processes, warrant execution and statutory overlap.
The Senate Education Committee voted to report House Bill 12‑68 as amended after removing language that would have restricted entry and inspection of homes used for home education and that would have added a new penalty provision.
The move came after a pointed round of questioning over language on page 3 (Roman numerals 6–7, lines 5–16) that one committee member warned "creates a carve out for basically families that are providing homeschool education" and "that's just gonna be problematic in the application of the warrants being executed in a…
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