S.B. 56 Citizenship Education Amendments: transcript
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Senate Education Committee, Jan 29, 2026
- Sen. John D. Johnson (Chair, presiding)1:49:54
Okay, so let's come back. We, we do have an amendment online, so I want to come back to SB 56 and I guess it's amendment two. So, uh, someone wanna move that amendment? I guess we already have someone that wanted to do that. So we'll come back to Senator Fillmore. Thanks. We're back on this bill. Yes.
- Unknown speaker1:50:15speaker not certain
Do we need to call it or anything? Okay. We're hearing? Yeah, I, I kind of did that. That's fine. Okay. Uh,
- Sen. Lincoln Fillmore1:50:22
I will move amendment two in my name that makes the bill permissive. Okay. So the amendment basically makes the bill permissive. It's what you talked about before. Okay.
- Sen. John D. Johnson (Chair, presiding)1:50:34
So, uh, any discussion to that motion? All in favor of adopting, uh, amendment two. Say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair rules? That is unanimous. Thank you very much. Now we'll come back to, uh, the Committee for action. Senator Riebe, you wanna, did we have public comment on this? Okay, we'll come back to Senator Riebe.
- Sen. Kathleen A. Riebe1:51:10
Thank you. I'd like to make a motion that we send Senate Bill 56 citizenship education amendments out with a favorable recommendation.
- Sen. John D. Johnson (Chair, presiding)1:51:19
Okay. So the motion is to send out SB 56 as amended amendment as amendment with amendment two. Mm-hmm. Okay. With the favorable recommendation discussion on that motion. See none. Come back to Senator Riebe. To sum,
- Sen. Kathleen A. Riebe1:51:42
Thank you, I, uh, appreciate that amendment. If that will get us over the finish line. Uh, I think students frequently say, why didn't I learn this in school? Uh, I have my own kids saying that to me. I have kids I work with saying that to me, and they're like, how come I didn't learn this in school? So we learn algebra, geometry, chemistry, phys ed, we learn all these things that really are, um, important. They are very important. But when we think about our kids' lives and their safety and their legal responsibilities and financial wellbeing, this is something that is super important to them. Uh, I know as a student in high school, if somebody told me about, uh, a an elective that I could take that would give me practical knowledge in the practical world and keep me outta trouble, I might've taken that class, but I wasn't such a great student. So maybe I wasn't, I wouldn't have. So, um, I think that this bill might alleviate our need for more, um, law schools would create less litigious society, uh, keep us out of trouble. So I would respectfully ask you to support Senate Bill 56. Thank you.
- Sen. John D. Johnson (Chair, presiding)1:52:48
Okay. So the motion on the table is to send out Senate bill 56 as amended with Amendment two. Right? All I have to say is as amended, right? So as amended Citizenship Education Amendments with a favorable recommendation, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? No, no, no. Yeah. 3, 2, 2 to three. Yep. So that motion fails. Uh, I'm looking for one further. Motion. Motion to aurn.
- Sen. Stephanie Balderree1:53:26
Motion to adjourn. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.
- Sen. John D. Johnson (Chair, presiding)1:53:30
We are adjourned. I.