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Committee walks through H.931: moratorium tweaks, interstate compact, class-size timing and new background checks
Summary
Senate members reviewed H.931, a miscellaneous education bill covering exceptions to a moratorium on new independent schools for therapeutic-school ownership changes, rejoining the interstate compact for education, a temporary timing fix for class-size enforcement, and new background-check requirements for Agency of Education hires.
Committee members shifted to a line-by-line walkthrough of H.931, described as a miscellaneous education bill containing several disparate changes, including amendments to an existing moratorium on new independent schools, readoption of the interstate compact for education, adjustments to class-size enforcement timing, and new background-check obligations for agency employees.
On the moratorium: H.931 preserves the budget-year moratorium on initial approvals for new independent schools but adds a carve-out allowing changes in ownership of already-approved therapeutic independent schools to be processed (the school must be approved at the time of ownership…
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