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2024 SESSION

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SB 235 Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.

Introduced by: Ghazala F. Hashmi | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Policies on parental notification of instructional material that includes sexually explicit content; scope and use. Provides that nothing in the law requiring the Department of Education to develop and make available to each school board model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and requiring each school board to adopt policies that are consistent with but may be more comprehensive than such model policies or that is in such model policies or school board policies shall be construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school. This bill is identical to HB 571.

FULL TEXT

• 01/09/24  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104437D  pdf | impact statement
• 02/21/24  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB235ER)  pdf | impact statement

AMENDMENTS

• House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• Governor's veto explanation

HISTORY

• 01/09/24  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104437D
• 01/09/24  Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
• 01/16/24  Senate: Assigned Education and Health Sub: Public Education
• 01/25/24  Senate: Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N)
• 01/26/24  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/29/24  Senate: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/30/24  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 18-N)
• 02/13/24  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/13/24  House: Read first time
• 02/13/24  House: Referred to Committee on Education
• 02/14/24  House: Reported from Education (12-Y 9-N)
• 02/16/24  House: Read second time
• 02/19/24  House: Read third time
• 02/19/24  House: Passed House (53-Y 46-N)
• 02/19/24  House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N)
• 02/21/24  Senate: Enrolled
• 02/21/24  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB235ER)
• 02/21/24  House: Signed by Speaker
• 02/24/24  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/01/24  Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 1, 2024
• 03/01/24  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 8, 2024
• 03/08/24  Governor: Vetoed by Governor
• 03/09/24  Senate: Passed by for the day
• 04/17/24  Senate: Passed in enrolled form rejected (22-Y 18-N)
• 04/17/24  Senate: Requires 2/3 members present