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Senate Education

Wednesday, March 18, 2026·56m·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Education sent a one-line audit cleanup, HB26-1191, to the consent calendar without dissent, then spent the bulk of its day taking testimony on SB26-103, the Access Act, before sponsors laid the still-unfinished bill over for action to April 1.

Key Actions

·Examination of School District RecordsPassed

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Notable Quotes

These deserts don't wait for an accountability score. They exist now and under current law we only deploy the tools to fight them after a school has already been rated as failing.

Janice MarchmanMarchman's core argument that at-risk interventions should come before, not after, a school is rated failing.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Janice Rich, Janice Marchman, Chris Kolker
Excused (2)Cathy Kipp, Marc Snyder
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TranscriptPreview
Chris Phelan, please take the roll. Senators Bright. Here. Frizzell. Here. Kip. Excused. Rich. Here. Snyder. Excused. Marchman. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. We have a quorum, and I know we're waiting for one. Bill sponsor, who is chairing judicial, said he would come up, but I think we could start right, Senator? Okay, Senator Frazelle, you go ahead, and you can just start us off on HB 1191. Go ahead, Senator Frazelle. Thank you, Mr. Chair and Committee members, I'm here today to present House Bill 26:1191 to you for your consideration. As the chair of the Legislative Audit Committee, it is my great pleasure to bring this bill on behalf of the Legislative Audit Committee. This is simply a language cleanup. Really should have been done way back in 2021, but it wasn't. And so here we are five years later. All this does is it makes the examination, the review of state education fund expenditures on capital construction projects, discretionary rather than mandatory. I don't know. It's pretty simple. That's. That's what I have. That's what you have. That's it. Any questions for the bill sponsor? See? None. Do we have any testimony? No. No testimony. Do you
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