2025 bills / H.B. 246
H.B. 246 Statewide Online Education 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 lets the State Board of Education audit samples of online courses and requires it to create a report card for approved online course providers. It also expands the providers' performance reporting duties, requires regular communication between providers and students' main schools, adds a standard model syllabus template for online courses, and requires a central statewide registration system for parents and students.
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Official description
- authorizes the State Board of Education (state board) to conduct sample audits of online courses
- expands performance reporting requirements for an authorized online course provider
- requires the state board to establish a report card for an authorized online course provider
- facilitates regular communication between an authorized online course provider and a primary LEA of enrollment
- implements a model syllabus template for online courses
- requires the state board to create a centralized registration system for parents and students
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 246 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 246 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
- 7 yes, 3 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 64 yes, 3 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 2 no, 3 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how