TEACHERS/CERTIFICATION: Provides relative to criminal history review with respect to teacher certification (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
May 2022
Senate Passage
Jun 2022
Governor
Introduced Feb 23, 2022
Last action Jun 3, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Jun 1, 2022 · House May 3, 2022
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 37
Jun 1, 2022
D
Democratic11
81% Yea
R
Republican26
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
4
Committee
8
Amendments
2
Jun 1, 2022
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
Jun 1, 2022
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 31, 2022
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 24, 2022
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 23, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 9, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
upper
May 3, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 26, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (15-0).
lower
Mar 28, 2022
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Mar 24, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments (9-0).
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Feb 23, 2022
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
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