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Rep. Travis advances bill to require rural impact studies for policy changes
Summary
Representative Travis’ Bill 558 would allow lawmakers to request Legislative Services Agency (LSA) studies assessing how proposed measures would affect rural communities and small school systems; LSA said it can provide the research but cautioned some analyses go beyond its usual fiscal notes. The committee advanced the bill on a voice vote.
Representative Travis’s Bill 558, intended to give lawmakers a formal way to request a rural-impact study, advanced from the Urban and Rural Development Committee after a short debate and a voice vote.
The bill, introduced by Representative Travis, would allow a member to ask the Legislative Services Agency to prepare a report describing how a proposed law would affect rural communities and, in his presentation, small and single-school school systems. "We need somewhere to have this information," Travis said, arguing that consolidation or administrative changes can carry costs and community impacts that differ…
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