Bills › 90th General Assembly
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 24, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Public schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools would be required to teach students about the history and meaning of several holidays. This instruction and certain patriotic exercises must happen on the holiday itself or during the school days right before or after it. These changes apply to students in grades K through 12.1
Read the official explanation
_____ schools. The bill provides that the social studies curriculum provided to students enrolled in grades through in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools shall include appropriate patriotic exercises and relevant civic and historical instruction that conveys to students the meaning and significance of Dr.’s birthday, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, George Washington’s birthday, Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Constitution Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Bill of Rights Day. The bill establishes that the patriotic exercises and relevant civic and historical instruction shall take place on the day of the holiday, or if that day is not a school day, then the immediately preceding or following school day or week.3.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a school district from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, school districts are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill.
House subcommittee
Named January 24, 2024. On February 1, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-0.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
2 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 1, 2024 (1), January 31, 2024 (1) · on the Legislature’s site