SCHOOLS/CHOICE: Creates and provides for a program to provide state funding for the education of certain students who have been victims of bullying and are not enrolled in public school (RR1 INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
May 2022
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 3, 2022
Last action May 26, 2022
Floor votes · House May 5, 2022
How they voted
42–13
Passed · 15 other
Total votes 70
May 5, 2022
D
Democratic23
43% Nay
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican46
80% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
2
Committee
6
Amendments
3
May 26, 2022
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 26, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
upper
May 25, 2022
Introduced
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
upper
May 10, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
upper
May 5, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 66, nays 18. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 26, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments (15-0).
lower
Apr 7, 2022
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 6, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments (8-3).
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Mar 3, 2022
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 11 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Barry Ivey
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Jack McFarland
RRepublican
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Laurie Schlegel
RRepublican
Co
Paula Davis
RRepublican
Co
Phillip DeVillier
RRepublican
Co
Raymond E. Garofalo
RRepublican
Co
Rhonda Butler
RRepublican
Co
Scott McKnight
RRepublican
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