2025 bills / H.B. 477
H.B. 477 School Trespass 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 says that public comment made at a local school board meeting, if it follows certain rules, cannot be the basis for a criminal trespass charge. It also narrows the definition of school property covered by the criminal trespass law and makes some technical wording changes.
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Official description
- states that public comment in a local school board meeting that complies with certain restrictions may not be the basis for criminal trespass
- defines and amends terms regarding criminal trespass upon school property, narrowing the scope of the property in question
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 477 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 477 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
- 9 yes, 1 no, 6 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 49 yes, 19 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 2 no, 4 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 17 yes, 7 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how