Rep. Martinez asks to postpone House Bill 10-93; committee approves

Rep. Rhett Martinez asked the House Education Committee to postpone House Bill 10-93 indefinitely after the Department of Higher Education provided a memo and said it would convene a working group to address the bill's goals.

Martinez told the committee that higher-education institutions offering prison education courses and the Department of Higher Education had "gracefully offered a memo that accomplishes exactly what the bill was intended to do," and that because the department would form a working group the bill was no longer needed.

Martinez moved to postpone the measure indefinitely; the motion was seconded by AML Bacon. The committee conducted a roll-call vote at the sponsor's request and the chair announced the bill had been postponed indefinitely.

The committee did not adopt any amendments before postponing the bill. There were no further scheduling actions on House Bill 10-93 recorded at the hearing.