SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Authorizes parents to appeal a local school board's denial of school enrollment requests to the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (Item #42)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2020
Committee Review
Oct 2020
House Passage
Oct 2020
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Sep 28, 2020
Last action Oct 22, 2020
Floor votes · House Oct 14, 2020
How they voted
65–10
Passed · 11 other
Total votes 86
Oct 14, 2020
D
Democratic30
53% Yea
I
Independent1
0% Nay
R
Republican55
89% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
2
Committee
6
Oct 22, 2020
Committee
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Oct 21, 2020
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Oct 20, 2020
Committee
Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Oct 14, 2020
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
upper
Oct 14, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 79, nays 12. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Oct 12, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (15-0).
lower
Sep 28, 2020
Committee
Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mark Wright
RRepublican
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