2025 bills / H.B. 281
H.B. 281 Health Curriculum and Procedures Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
According to the official description, this bill:
- defines terms
- requires any health care provider to obtain informed parental consent before providing or facilitating telehealth or another health care service to a student within a public school
- establishes requirements for certain restricted services, including:
- identifying who may and may not provide a restricted service
- requiring informed parental consent and certain parental notification
- ensures that a local or state rule or policy does not create an exemption for otherwise prohibited endorsement, promotion, or disparagement of a certain religious belief or viewpoint
- modifies required health instruction, including:
- establishing statutory purposes for the curriculum the state board establishes
- adding situational awareness and the "success sequence"
- reorganizing duties and prohibitions regarding instruction, discussion, and advocacy of certain concepts
- amends the effect of prior informed written parental consent and the allowable subjects in sex education instruction
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · 1/31/2025 3:16 PMWho voted how
- 13 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 1/31/2025 3:17 PMWho voted how
- 11 yes, 2 no, 3 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · 1/31/2025 3:26 PMWho voted how
- yes, undefined noHouse vote, which failed · 2/11/2025 2:37 PM
- 48 yes, 19 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · 2/11/2025 2:46 PMWho voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/25/2025 9:40 AMWho voted how
- 2 yes, 2 no, 3 absentSenate Education Committee: Senate vote, which failed · 2/25/2025 9:56 AMWho voted how
- 4 yes, 1 no, 2 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · 2/26/2025 6:04 PMWho voted how
- 21 yes, 7 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · 3/7/2025 3:58 PM
- 53 yes, 16 no, 6 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 3/7/2025 8:41 PM