Private schools in South Dakota will not be required to administer medical cannabis, after a legislative committee approved a revised package of rules around K-12 schools use proposed by the state’s leading education agency.
The original rules package, rejected last month, had included private schools under their umbrella of regulatory authority, but pushback from legislators at a June meeting sent an attorney for the South Dakota Department of Education back to the drawing board.
On Monday, July 19, before the bipartisan, bicameral Rules Committee, Amanda LaCroix, counsel for DOE, said they’d contacted counterparts in Colorado state government to clarify whether rules on Jan. 1, 2019 in the Centennial State required private schools, as well as public schools, to allow for students who are legal prescription-holders to access medical cannabis on site.
Read the full story at the Grand Forks Herald.