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2021 SESSION
SB 1225 Broadband services; school boards to appropriate funds for expansion of services for education.
Introduced by: Jennifer B. Boysko | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Broadband services; education. Authorizes school boards to appropriate funds for the purposes of promoting, facilitating, and encouraging the expansion and operation of broadband services for educational purposes. The bill authorizes school boards to partner with private broadband service providers to promote, implement, and subsidize broadband for educational purposes to the households of students who would qualify for (i) a child nutrition program or (ii) any other program recognized or adopted by the local school board as a measuring standard to identify at-risk students.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/21 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101489D
- 01/11/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/18/21 Senate: Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/18/21 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 01/20/21 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 01/28/21 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 0-N)
- 01/29/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (35-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/21 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/02/21 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 02/05/21 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/21 House: Read first time
- 02/05/21 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/08/21 House: Continued to Special Session 1 in Education by voice vote