2025 bills / H.B. 156
H.B. 156 Education Board Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes state law on how the state superintendent of public instruction is appointed and what that job's authority and duties are. It also changes the scope of work for State Board of Education employees and sets how much independence local school districts and charter schools have from the state superintendent and those employees.
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Official description
- defines terms
- amends provisions regarding the appointment, authority, and duties of the state superintendent of public instruction
- amends provisions regarding the scope of authority and duties of employees of the State Board of Education (state board)
- amends provisions to describe the level of autonomy of local education agencies relative to the state superintendent and state board employees
- makes technical and conforming changes
Your legislators on this bill
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 156 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 156 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 1 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote, which it did not pass · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how