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Votes at a glance: key bills advanced from the committee (calendar actions and tallies)
Summary
The committee handled multiple education-related bills. This roundup lists each bill recorded during the session, its committee outcome and vote tally where recorded in the transcript.
The following is a concise list of bills and formal actions recorded during the committee hearing. Each entry lists the bill number, a brief description (if discussed), the committee action and the vote tally as recorded in the transcript.
- House Bill 1153 (Representative Lynn): Eliminate the reduced-price category for school lunches and provide free lunches for that group. Committee action: moved out of finance. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 9997 (Representative Stevens): Prevents county-authorized charter schools from charging tuition to students transferring from another LEA within the same county. Committee action: moves out to calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 1162 (Representative Stevens): Clarifies charter authorization and LEA overlap language so charter schools authorized by a county may operate within municipal limits in certain cases. Committee action: moves out to calendar and rules. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 1163 (Representative Stevens): Change state portion of charter school funding to be paid directly to charter schools rather than routed through LEAs. Committee action: moves out to finance. Vote: 15 ayes, 4 nays.
- House Bill 902 (Representative Jones): Request to roll the bill to the first calendar of 2026; motion approved without objection (rolled to first calendar of 2026).
- House Bill 1036 (Representative Zim Baum): Executive-session authority for university boards regarding senior administrator contracts; bill amended and moved out to calendar and rules. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 138 (Chairman Haston): Establishes a CTA grant fund for CTE curriculum purchases; amendment changed funding to non-recurring; moved out to finance. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 1002 (Chairman Haston): Allow pre-K teacher use of approved universal reading screener for evaluations if LEA already uses the screener; bill amended and moved out to calendar and rules. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 1003 (Chairman Haston): Changes to online/self-paced program compliance and regulatory cleanup for category 3 schools; bill amended and moved out to calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 1 nay.
- House Bill 138? / House Bill 1308 (Chairman Haston/others): Efficiency bill (consolidation of administrative items for schools, tutoring grants, remote instruction flexibility, reporting streamlining). Committee action: moved out of calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 1 nay.
- House Bill 87 (Chairman Slater): Learning pod protection act and homeschool learning-pod recognition; amended and advanced to calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 380 (Chairman Slater): Interim plan for virtual-school instructional material approval process and Textbook and Instructional Materials Commission guidance; amendment added and advanced to calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 958 (Chairman Slater; amendment): Federal education-deregulation cooperation task force; bill moved out to finance. Vote: 14 ayes, 3 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 665 (Chairman Spiecki): Student directory access and recruiter access for armed forces at public senior high schools; advanced to calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 708 (Chairman Supiki): Expanded subpoena authority for State Board of Education accountability hearings; moved out to calendar and rules. Vote: 18 ayes, 1 nay.
- House Bill 1193 / HB 11 93 (Chairman Supiki): Teacher evaluation landscape analysis and advisory committee; advanced to calendar & rules. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 662 (Representative White): Proposed nine-member board of managers to oversee Shelby County Schools under specified triggers. Committee action: advanced from committee (moved off finance). Vote: 15 ayes, 4 nays.
- House Bill 401 (Chairman White): Address federal-mandated pre-K special education funding pressures; approved and moved to finance. Vote: 19 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 662 (follow-up): See full coverage in separate article.
Note: Where the transcript records a tally, that tally is listed above. Several bills were amended on the committee floor; amendment identifiers are recorded in the transcript and should be referenced in official minutes for full statutory text.
Ending: The committee handled a broad slate of education-policy measures ranging from student nutrition to charter-school finance to athletics policy. Several bills were amended on the floor before being advanced. Readers seeking the full text, amendment language, or roll-call by-member votes should consult the official committee minutes and bill files.
