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No education bills on the floor
of the House or Senate today

No legislation affecting public education was on the floor of the House or Senate today.

Tomorrow is dedicated to committee work, therefore, the full House and Senate will not be meeting again until Wednesday.

Among the bills to be considered Tuesday in committee is SB 27, the Anti-Doxing Act, which is in the House Non-Civil Judiciary Committee. The bill states:

"A person commits the offense of doxing when he or she intentionally posts personally identifiable information of a second individual, or of a person of a close relation to such second individual, without such second individual's consent and does so with reckless disregard as whether the information in such post will cause a third party who could read, receive, view, or watch the post, to cause such second individual, or a person of a close relation to such second individual, to

(A) Be placed in actual fear of stalking, serious bodily injury, or death, as a result therefrom; or

(B) Suffer a significant economic injury or mental anguish as a result therefrom."

"For purposes of this subsection, for a person to be guilty of the offense of aggravated doxing, the second individual, or a person of a close relation to such second individual, must have been placed in actual fear of stalking, serious bodily injury, or death, or suffered a significant economic injury or mental anguish." Penalties increase if serious injury or death results.

"Personally identifiable information includes details like a person's residence, phone number, employer, and other information, whether is publicly available or not."

The Senate Committee on Children and Families will hear HB 1009, which would require public schools to implement policies that prevent high school students from using their cell phones during the school day.

The committee will also hear HB 1118, a bill that would increase the amount of paid parental leave for full-time, state-employee "birth mothers" (including educators) from six to nine weeks. If enacted, fathers would have six weeks of paid leave and mothers nine.

The House Retirement Committee and the Senate Retirement Committee will also meet though no legislation pertaining to the Teachers Retirement System (TRS) or the Public School Employees Retirement System (PSERS) is on their agendas.

The Senate Education Committee has scheduled a meeting for tomorrow but no agenda has been set.

State Sen. Nabilah Islam Parkes resigns her seat