Legislative Update
Bills Introduced
This session I have introduced several bills regarding schools and making sure that parents and students have all the information they need to make the best educational choices, and that students are safe in school.
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HF 427 - Requires that class syllabi must be shared with parents, so that parents can be well-informed and know what their students will be learning. This bill passed the Senate last session with a strong bipartisan vote.
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HF 331 - School districts would be able to share personnel files, between HR departments, for prospective teachers being interviewed. This would help prevent bad actors from jump districts, and HR departments have the same data privacy regulations.
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HF 256 - We have used great situational training for our law enforcement for years, and need to leverage it for teachers and school staff training in dangerous situations.
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HF 426 - Student physical privacy provided for.
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HF 248 - Prohibit pornographic or sexually explicit material in school libraries. If you can’t air it during primetime, why should children be exposed to it in school?
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HF 113 - Establishes the student religious liberties act, preventing public schools from discriminating against students or parents based on religious viewpoint or expression.
Blackout Bill Passes House Floor
This week we debated the majority's Blackout Bill, which doesn’t take into account Minnesota winters, and would require Minnesota to move to a 100% clean energy standard by 2040. Besides the bill making utility bills extremely unaffordable, costing each Minnesotan an extra $1,600 just in energy costs every year, it would cause other costs to rise as a result, causing every household to be hit with over $3,800 in extra costs yearly. At a time when energy costs are already on the rise, it is the wrong way/path, and the wrong time to attempt a bill like this.
You may remember the warnings of brownouts and blackouts for our region, this past summer, winter is also peak energy usage time. This Blackout Bill would also be dangerous for Minnesotans, making our energy grid unreliable and increasing the potentiality of blackouts and brownouts. In Minnesota, especially with our frequently severe winter storms, blackouts can be deadly. I voted no on the bill.
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