Story by David Beard, The Dominion Post
Charleston, W.V. The representatives also transferred a house bill to tighten the drunk drivers.
Mike Pachkin
SB 152, as came from the Senate, will require a public primary or secondary school or higher education institute to display at a specific speed in each class, a poster or frame copy of the national motto – we trust in God – if the poster or frame copy is donated, or purchased with personal money and provided to the school. The poster or copy will also bear the images of the US and the state flag under the motto. There will be no other word or information in it.
The house education version specifies the poster or frame -rich copy. This eliminates the flag of the kingdom from the picture.
For higher education institutions, it restricts compulsory placements for the “main building” of the institution – except for that option – and allows alternative placements in other buildings.
Delegate Mike Pukhin, D-Kanwa said he fully agrees with the motto, but also agrees to the religious establishment section of the US Constitution, and this bill can violate it by establishing a religion on each other in public places. For example, the Judaism does not reveal the name of God, discharging the act.
Delegate Rick Griffith, D-Venne, supported it with some reservations, can be politically expedient keeping in mind such bills, and he wants the Legislature to put bible love and concern in all state laws.
The committee approved the bill on a voice vote, in which Pukhin is the only audio no. This house goes next to the judiciary. A version of the bill unanimously passed the Senate and approved house education but died in the house judiciary last year.
The SB 280 is the intelligent design bill. This is a sentence long and home education changed a word.
The Senate version reads: “A public school board, school superintendent, or school principal will prevent a public school class teacher from discussing or answering questions to students about the universe and/or scientific principles of life.”
The committee turned “May” into “May”.
Pushkin offered a failed amendment to add history and social studies to the teaching of scientific principles as well as scientific principles.
After this failure and before the vote, Pukhin said that he agrees with the essence of the bill: should be able to teach teachers and students should be able to ask whatever questions they want.
He said that in 2022, voters rejected a constitutional amendment, which would have established that the State Board of Education Rules and Policies are subject to legislative reviews, and the bill may be subject to the challenge of the court to beat the legislative authority.
No one voted against it in a voice vote and it went next to the judiciary.
Heather postponed
HB 5597 is the bus driver bill.
It states that a school bus driver, who is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs, while students are present in the school bus, they will also be charged with the risk of a child who pose a risk of injury by a guardian.
R-Nicolus lead sponsor Heather Tullee said that the bill originated from an incident in the county here, where a driver dropped six beer down before running a bus filled with 50 children.
The news reports of March 2023 stated that a witness saw the bus incorrectly and almost crash. When the driver was arrested and no student was in the bus on the charge of rape DUI. He failed on a breather and blown away .118 on a breath -taking. The legal limit .08. He was later fired that month.
The school district contacted local MLAs, as the incident had expressed the allegation of rape to express them, which kept them inside by the driver.
Tuli said inadequate results leave the question open that the driver is going to driving elsewhere in a separate school system.
Bill, he said, “sends a serious message that we are serious about protecting our students and our children.”
The voice vote was unanimous and it also goes to the judiciary.