Raised H.B. No. 5217
Session Year 2026

AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION AS THE DEPARTMENT HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

To make the Commissioner of Education the department head of the Department of Education.

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