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Votes at a glance: House Education Committee (final day) — April 2, 2025
Summary
The House Education Committee processed multiple bills on its final scheduled day. This roundup lists each bill the committee voted on, the outcome reported by the committee clerk, and brief descriptions where available.
On the committee's final day the House Education Committee moved several bills forward. Below are the items the committee recorded votes on in this session, the committee disposition, and the vote tallies as announced by the clerk in committee.
- House Bill 675 (item 14): Testing reform — committee recorded 15 ayes, 3 nays; moved to Government Operations. - House Bill 1270 (item 15): Protections against coerced speech — committee recorded 14 ayes, 3 nays, 1 present not voting; moved to Finance. - House Bill 6 (item 17): Voluntary pre‑K enrollment flexibility — committee recorded 17 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting; moved to Calendar and Rules. - House Bill 47 (item 18): Rolled — the committee rolled HB 47 to the second calendar of 2026 (postponed). - House Bill 134 (item 19): Restrict Red Dye 40 in school nutrition programs — committee recorded 14 ayes, 4 nays; moved to Calendar and Rules. - House Bill 1344 / 13 44 (item 5 on leader calendar): TSU funds/transfer language — recorded as moving to Finance (tally not specified in the recorded excerpt). - House Bill 764 (item 11): Training for searches and preservation of rights — committee recorded 18 ayes, 0 nays; moved to Calendar and Rules. - House Bill 1175 (item 12): Daycare and use of underutilized properties — committee recorded 18 ayes, 0 nays; moved to Government Operations. - House Bill 392 (item 21): Career/technical grade threshold for very small schools — committee recorded 17 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting; moved to Calendar and Rules. - House Bill 1147 (item 22): Tuition waiver for children of line‑of‑duty law enforcement/firefighters — committee recorded 17 ayes, 0 nays; moved to Finance. - House Bill 505 (item 27): School safety alert grant expansion (Alyssa’s Law) — committee recorded 18 ayes, 0 nays; moved to Government Operations. - House Bill 485 (item 28): Hybrid virtual days for extreme weather — committee recorded 18 ayes, 0 nays; moved to Calendar and Rules. - House Bill 1113 (item 29): Concussion/health advisory changes — committee recorded 18 ayes, 0 nays; moved to Finance. - House Bill 348 (item 31): Maintenance of effort obligations — committee recorded 17 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting; moved to Finance. - House Bill 178 (item 32): 'Success sequence' in family‑life curriculum — committee recorded 15 ayes, 4 nays; moved to Calendar and Rules.
Where the transcript did not include a clerk's numerical tally for a bill that the committee reported as moving on (for example, one leader‑filed item), the committee record in this roundup notes the disposition but marks the tally as not specified. The committee adopted a number of subcommittee amendments and at least two untimely subcommittee amendments were added on the floor of the committee during this session; those are reflected in the individual bill discussions above where noted.
This roundup is a summary of committee action as recorded by the committee clerk and participants during the hearing. It does not attempt to restate bill text or final floor language; committees often amend language after this stage and some measures will return for additional committee consideration.
