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Votes at a glance: key Senate Education Committee roll calls (May 20, 2025)
Summary
The Senate Committee on Education recorded roll‑call votes on several bills during the May 20 hearing. Below are the committee outcomes as read aloud on the record; several bills were reported favorably to the full Senate with unanimous or near‑unanimous committee support.
This summary lists bills that the Senate Committee on Education took formal roll‑call action on during the May 20, 2025 hearing. The clerk called the roll on each measure and the committee recorded the following outcomes as part of the public hearing transcript:
- Senate Bill 207 (relating to excused absences for mental health care appointments): Reported favorably to the full Senate. Vote recorded: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 568 (relating to special education funding; new committee substitute adopted): Committee substitute adopted and SB 568 reported favorably to the full Senate. Roll call recorded: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 920 (committee substitute relating to medication administration in open‑enrollment charter schools): Committee substitute adopted and reported favorably. Roll call: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1207 (parenting and paternity awareness instruction): Reported favorably. Roll call: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1396 (committee substitute concerning national education standards): Committee substitute adopted and reported favorably. Roll call: 9 ayes, 2 nays.
- Senate Bill 1619 (use of epinephrine delivery devices): Reported favorably. Roll call: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1273 (Higher Education Research Security Council substitute): Committee substitute adopted and reported favorably. Roll call: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1741 (preventing espionage at institutions of higher education substitute): Committee substitute adopted and reported favorably. Roll call: 11 ayes, 0 nays.
Several other bills were laid out, heard, or left pending during the hearing (including SB 326 on antisemitism, SB 605 on charter expansion, SB 226 on kinship enrollment, and committee substitutes discussed in the hearing). Some matters that received testimony were left pending subject to the chair’s call and were not finalized by a committee roll call during this session.
Notes on procedure: The committee recorded each roll call on the hearing record; the clerk announced tallies for the measures above as shown in the transcript. This summary records the on‑the‑record committee outcomes only; floor action or final enactment requires additional full‑Senate and legislative steps.
