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Good morning, #akleg. The House Education Committee is about to take up a new version of HB 105, the bill that has been colloquially known as the governor's "bathroom bill" for public schools: akleg.gov/basis/get_docu…
The new version strips out references to bathrooms by biological gender and requires school districts to open single-person bathrooms. It preserves the requirement that parents opt into (rather than out of) sex-ed classes. It exempts sexual abuse education from that requirement.
A bit of confusion in committee after McKay called for an end to debate and to vote on advancing the bill. The committee erroneously said McKay's move passed and they voted to advance the bill. They're now backtracking. #akleg
The bill will advance from committee on a 4-3 margin; they're simply doing closing comments first. #akleg
It'll go to the House Judiciary Committee next. There's no other committee referrals, but an amendment passed today by Rep. Himschoot appears to add a cost to the bill, which would ordinarily add a finance committee referral at the end. #akleg
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