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2024 SESSION

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HB 1088 Climate change and environmental literacy; instructional materials, model policies.

Introduced by: Betsy B. Carr | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Board of Education; instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy; model policies and procedures for selection. Requires the Board of Education to make available to each local school board instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy that are based on and include peer-reviewed scientific sources. The bill requires the Board of Education to develop, adopt, and make available to each local school board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewed scientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructional materials on climate change and environmental literacy, including a requirement for any such selected material to accurately portray changes in weather and climate patterns over time, the impacts of human activity on changes in weather and climate patterns, and the effects of climate change on people and resources.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104636D  pdf | impact statement
• 03/25/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1088ER)  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• Governor's veto explanation

HISTORY

• 01/10/24  House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104636D
• 01/10/24  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 01/26/24  House: Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
• 01/30/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
• 01/30/24  House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 01/31/24  House: Reported from Education (12-Y 10-N)
• 01/31/24  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 01/31/24  House: Assigned App. sub: Elementary & Secondary Education
• 02/05/24  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
• 02/07/24  House: Reported from Appropriations (12-Y 10-N)
• 02/09/24  House: Read first time
• 02/12/24  House: Read second time and engrossed
• 02/13/24  House: Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N)
• 02/13/24  House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N)
• 02/14/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
• 02/14/24  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 02/21/24  Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
• 02/29/24  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
• 03/01/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/24  Senate: Read third time
• 03/04/24  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 03/05/24  Senate: Read third time
• 03/05/24  Senate: Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N)
• 03/25/24  House: Enrolled
• 03/25/24  House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1088ER)
• 03/25/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/26/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/27/24  House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
• 03/27/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
• 04/02/24  Governor: Vetoed by Governor
• 04/17/24  House: House sustained Governor's veto