2025 bills / H.B. 397
H.B. 397 School Fee Waiver Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill would require school districts and charter schools to waive the fee for one school trip per student each academic year. It would also let districts set a cap on waivers and let a student request a waiver for a second trip.
Plain-English summary written by AI from the official description. Check the official text below.
Official description
- defines terms
- makes technical changes
- requires a local education agency to waive the fee for one school trip per academic year for each student
- limits the number of fee waivers a student may receive
- requires local education agencies to establish a cap on fee waivers
- allows a student to request a fee waiver for a second trip
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- An alert the day H.B. 397 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 397 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how