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2024 SESSION
SB 225 School bd. policy; parental notification of responsibility of safe storage of firearms in household.
Introduced by: Stella G. Pekarsky | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
School board policies; parental notification; safe storage of firearms in the household. Requires each local school board to develop and implement a policy to require the annual notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of the parent's legal responsibility to safely store any firearm present in the household, risks associated with improperly stored firearms, statistics relating to firearm-related accidents, injuries, and death among youth, and other tips and strategies. The bill requires each school board to make such parental notification available in multiple languages on its website. This bill is identical to HB 498.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104957D pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108005D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB225ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104957D
- 01/08/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/10/24 Senate: Moved from Judiciary to Courts of Justice due to a change of the committee name
- 01/17/24 Senate: Rereferred from Courts of Justice (11-Y 0-N)
- 01/17/24 Senate: Rereferred to Education and Health
- 01/24/24 Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
- 02/01/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/02/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/24 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/06/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 16-N)
- 02/13/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/24 House: Read first time
- 02/13/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/15/24 House: Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 02/20/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 2-N)
- 02/21/24 House: Reported from Education with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/21/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24108005D-H1
- 02/23/24 House: Read second time
- 02/26/24 House: Read third time
- 02/26/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24108005D-H1
- 02/26/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB225H1
- 02/26/24 House: Passed House with substitute (53-Y 43-N)
- 02/26/24 House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 43-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: Title replaced 24108005D-H1
- 03/04/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/04/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB225ER)
- 03/04/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/26/24 Senate: Governor's recommendation received by Senate
- 04/17/24 Senate: Senate rejected Governor's recommendation (19-Y 21-N)
- 04/17/24 Senate: Communicated to Governor
- 04/17/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024