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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It will be effective July 1. All of the divisions wanting masks now will be fine with no masks next school year, if not sooner. They just didn't want to be forced to do it in the midst of the Omicron surge.[/quote]

It will be effective in ~2 weeks [/quote]

Yeah. July 1st - you're smoking something wild.[/quote]

Clearly you’re not actually following the developments so not sure why you’re bothering to comment.[/quote]

Come again?

[u][i]The governor is adding an emergency clause to make the legislation effective immediately, which is all but certain to be endorsed by a 50% majority (all that is needed) in the house/senate. All sides are fast tracking and it’s estimated that the law can be in place by late February. Keep up [/i][/u][/quote]

NP here. YEP.  An emergency clause now only needs majority approval to become effective vs having to wait July 1. Used to be super majority, 4/5 approval, but the democrats under Filler-Corn dropped that requirement when they were in power and it's coming back to bite the democrats in the @ss.  So in the end, the joke is on them. In the House of Delegates the Republicans have a majority; in the Senate IF there was a tie (which there won't be because Peterson and at least Morrisey wil vote yes), they would bring in Sears to break the tie.

It's done. It's over. Just like with opening schools, school boards like ACPS absolutely refused to come up with reasonably measures or off ramp plans to open and open effectively and serve the students. So Peterson and Dunnavant co-sponsored the original senate bill that later was interpreted as being a mask mandate and has been used by school boards as the rationalization why they now cannot make masks optional.  Governor was very clear when running he would take steps to remove that requirement.  He tried the "soft opening" of an executive order, but you had the same schools unwilling to work with it or consider the options, dug in their heels once again, and sued.

In those suits those school boards used this SB as the reason why they were required to keep a mask mandate. So if the school districts state that they must follow the state law SB, then the Governor worked with the General Assembly to amend the state law SB and that is exactly what happened. The same co-sponsored sponsored the amendment, same ones from last year. They are following all the rules, all the procedures, the law.  Why anyone is surprised this is happening I can't understand. Many districts have shown in the past with refusing to open that they are incapable of flexibility and leading, so they had to be pushed once before. Now it is happening again.

Honesty I wouldn't be surprised if the same school boards try and sue again, this time claiming absolutely no one can tell them what to do under the state constitution, thereby claiming they aren't subject to any state laws. If that happens I will have really lost any hope for honest leadership.[/quote]

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