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News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
February 5, 2019

Senate bills for ESA, give teacher pay raises pass committee, head to Senate

Two hot topic bills have passed the Senate education committee. Senate Bill 2675, which initially would expand the Education Scholarship Account (ESA), was replaced by a committee sub that removed expansion and only extended the repealer by five years. This version of the bill makes no changes to the ESA. Currently, there are over 400…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 5, 2019

House and Senate pass HeartBeat bills out of Committee

An unexpected turn of events late Tuesday, the Senate Public Health Committee passed SB 2116 and moments later the House Public Health Committee passed HB 732, both coined “The HeartBeat bill.” In the Senate:  The bill, authored by Senator Joey Fillingane, would prevent a physician from performing an abortion if a heartbeat is detected. Typically…