2025 bills / H.B. 204
H.B. 204 Stipends for Future Educators Grant Program 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 changes the Future Educators Stipends grant program so that student teachers qualify no matter which institution they attend. It also limits program funds for a student teacher who gets money from another state program, allows one-time funding from a certain account in certain cases, and requires the State Board of Education to report yearly the expected cost of those one-time amounts to the Legislative Fiscal Analyst.
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Official description
- provides that a student teacher is eligible for the program regardless of the institution at which the student teacher is enrolled
- limits the availability of program funds if the student teacher receives funding from another state program
- provides for one-time funding from a certain account in certain circumstances
- requires the State Board of Education to annually report the anticipated cost of certain one-time appropriations to the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 204 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 204 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
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 22 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how