2025 bills / H.B. 157
H.B. 157 Energy Education Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill directs the Office of Energy Development to create and keep up energy education programs and classroom lessons for grades K-12, and to train educators in teaching them. It also requires the office to build energy-related workforce programs, set up an advisory group to guide this work, and report on it each year to a legislative committee.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires the Office of Energy Development (office) to:
- develop and maintain energy education programs and curricula for grades K-12
- develop and provide professional development training for educators
- develop energy related workforce development programs
- establish the Energy Education and Workforce Development Advisory Group (advisory group)
- outlines the responsibilities and duties of the advisory group
- requires the office to report annually to the Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Interim Committee
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 157 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 157 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
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 2 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how