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Subcommittee moves forward bill allowing counties to adopt elected superintendents
Summary
House Bill 1849, which would let county voters elect a superintendent if the county commission adopts that option, advanced to full education after a technical discussion about who elects officials, salary authority, and governance implications.
Representative Butler (S11) presented House Bill 1849, which would permit county commissions to adopt a process allowing voters in a district to elect the school superintendent rather than have the superintendent hired by the school board. Butler said the proposal is permissive and that school operations and superintendent job functions would remain largely the same.
Members asked whether the county commission or voters enact the change, how a transition would work, and who would set the superintendent's salary; Butler said the county commission would vote to allow an elected superintendent and citizens would then elect the superintendent, and he noted salary-setting was not specifically addressed in the bill. The committee voted to report the bill to full education with a recorded 3 ayes and 2 nays.
