The Senate Education Committee reviewed four bills addressing paid adoption leave for K-12 educators, school construction safety language, autism committee membership, and mandatory hotline numbers on student ID cards. No formal votes on any of the four bills were recorded in the transcript.
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“This issue was brought to us by one of our constituents who works in the K12 public education system. And he and his partner were planning to adopt a child.”
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Sign in to subscribeSam. Senator David Sicola. Here. Senator Stephanie Hansen. Absent. Senator Nicole Poor. Here. Senator Eric Buxton. Absent. And Senator Dave Lawson present. With this sufficient number of being present, the Education Committee will move to the agenda. Do I have enough to do? Yes. I'd like to make a motion. We approve the minutes. Thank you. Senator Scola has made a motion to approve the March 18 minutes. Senator Lockman has seconded that motion. All in favor, please say aye or raise your hand. Aye. Any opposed? Seeing none opposed. The minutes from the March 18 meeting are hereby approved. We will now turn to the legislative portion of the agenda. And as protocol, I will turn to Education Committee members first for questions and then follow by calling on additional senators present and then we will move to public comment. First, a bill on the agenda is House Bill 262. It's an act to amend Title 14 of the Delaware Code relating to paid leave. Senator Cruz is the prime Senate sponsor on this bill. He's here with us today, so I will defer to him to present. I feel like I got the little chair today. There you…
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