SCHOOLS/EMPLOYEES: Creates the "Protect Teachers Act"
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 13, 2023
Signed Jun 6, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 26, 2023 · House Apr 27, 2023
How they voted
30–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 35
May 26, 2023
D
Democratic12
75% Yea
R
Republican23
91% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 26, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 22, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 27, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 24, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (11-0-1).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
Mar 13, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
1 primary · 25 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Valarie Hodges
RRepublican
Co
Alan Seabaugh
RRepublican
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Delisha Boyd
DDemocratic
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Joe Stagni
RRepublican
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
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