2025 bills / S.B. 188
S.B. 188 School District Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill sets rules for creating new school districts from existing ones, including lowering the approval needed to voters only within the proposed new district and lowering the municipal share needed to propose one. It also governs how the transition works: redistricting school board seats, moving employees, records, funds, property and debts, resolving disputes through an arbiter, and extending employee salary and benefit protections by one year.
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Official description
- defines terms
- enacts dates regarding the redistricting of local school board districts after the creation of certain new school districts
- amends the duties of the Office of the Legislative Auditor General to include receiving and providing certain information during the transition process from divided to new school districts
- extends, by an additional year, the rights of transferred employees regarding salary and benefits
- reduces the body of voters whose approval is required to create a new school district to voters within the proposed new school district
- reduces the threshold for interlocal participants to propose a new school district to a majority of municipalities that are participants in the interlocal agreement
- amends certain dates regarding election cycles following the creation of a new school district
- amends certain deadlines for the duties of municipal legislative bodies, county legislative bodies, local school boards, and other entities under certain circumstances after the creation of a new school district
- enacts provisions regarding the transition from a divided school district to new and reorganized new school districts, including:
- school district employee and other personnel issues
- records of the divided school district
- the actual transfer of funds, property, assets, and liabilities
- retrospectively voiding certain agreements or policies
- resolution of disputes between school districts through an agreed upon or appointed arbiter
- requires a government entity to send an invoice before requiring payment of past fees before processing a new request
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 188 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 188 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
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 11, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentConference Committee - Final Passage · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentConference Committee - Final Passage · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how