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2024 SESSION
HB 571 Sexually explicit content; policies on parental notification of instructional material.
Introduced by: Karrie K. Delaney | 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 SB 235.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102157D pdf | impact statement
- 02/29/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB571ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102157D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/24 House: Assigned Education sub: K-12 Subcommittee
- 02/06/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 2-N)
- 02/07/24 House: Reported from Education (14-Y 8-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 (55-Y 40-N)
- 02/13/24 House: VOTE: Passage (55-Y 40-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/22/24 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (9-Y 5-N)
- 02/23/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/26/24 Senate: Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)
- 02/29/24 House: Enrolled
- 02/29/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB571ER)
- 02/29/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 03/14/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto