2025 bills / H.B. 408
H.B. 408 School Board Referendum Amendments (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
The bill lets voters who live in a school district hold a local referendum to challenge legislative actions taken by their local school board, including decisions to raise or impose a tax. It makes some related technical changes, and it contains exceptions to the referendum process.
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Official description
- defines terms
- subject to certain exceptions, establishes a process for voters who are residents of a school district to hold a local referendum on any legislative action taken by the local school board, including the local school board's decision to increase a tax or impose a new tax
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 408 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 408 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, 3 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 40 yes, 33 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 4 noSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how