2025 bills / H.B. 250
H.B. 250 Public Employee Gender-specific Language Requirements (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would stop the State Board of Education, local education agencies, and other public employers from disciplining employees for using gender-specific language in certain situations. It would also require a public employer that has a rule requiring employees to use gender-specific language to accommodate someone to excuse the employee from discipline in certain cases.
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Official description
- prohibits the State Board of Education, a local education agency, or a public employer from taking disciplinary action against an employee for using gender-specific language in certain circumstances
- requires a public employer that has a rule or policy requiring an employee to use gender-specific language to accommodate another individual to exempt the employee from disciplinary action in certain circumstances
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 250 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 250 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: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 51 yes, 13 no, 11 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 2 yes, 3 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how