This week showed significant legislative momentum with several major bills advancing toward floor consideration. Board members should closely monitor HB 0145/Suits Against the Government (McFarland), which has been placed on the House calendar for second reading after passing through committees—this bill would substantially increase statutory liability limits for tort claims against school districts and other governmental…
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This week showed significant legislative activity with several key education and property tax bills advancing. Board members should closely monitor HB 0127/Required Instruction in Cursive Writing (Overdorf), which has now moved to the Education & Employment Committee after passing its first subcommittee, mandating cursive writing instruction and proficiency demonstrations by specified grades. Notably, SB 0156/Criminal Offenses…
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This week saw increased legislative activity with several new bills advancing through the process. Board members should particularly monitor HB 0127/Required Instruction in Cursive Writing (Overdorf), which is now scheduled for committee hearing on November 18th at 1:00 pm before the Student Academic Success Subcommittee—this bill would mandate cursive writing instruction and demonstration of proficiency by…
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This week brought significant new activity in K-12 education bills, with several noteworthy filings and committee movements. Board members should particularly monitor HB 0305/Statewide, Standardized Assessments (Harris) and its Senate companion SB 0342 (Arrington), which would require DOE to develop multilingual versions of state assessments and allow parents to prohibit their use in certain languages—a potentially controversial…
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Last week saw several new K-12 education bills filed that warrant board member attention. HB 0235/Prohibited Discrimination Based on Hairstyle (Driskell) was filed and has already advanced to the Education Administration Subcommittee—this bill would prohibit discrimination based on protected hairstyles in K-20 public education and specified private schools. Additionally, SB 0252 (Jones), an identical companion bill known as…
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This week’s legislative tracking shows relatively minimal movement on K-12 education bills, with no significant actions taken since the last update. However, board members should monitor several bills that could directly impact district operations: HB 0023/Educator Certifications and Training (Daley), which would require mass casualty incident training for all educators and is currently in the…
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Committee weeks are officially underway! In addition to the filed bills you’ll see in the report from Dr. Kim McDougal at the Arrow Group, the Speaker of the House announced in a memorandum (sent to all school board members by FSBA last week) that several bills have been filed to address property tax reform, all…
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May 13, 2025 Today the House held a session to vote to approve Concurrent Resolution HB 1633 Extension of the 2025 Legislative Session which extends the session until 11:59 pm on June 30, 2025. The Senate did not return to Tallahassee and currently indicates their intent to complete session by 11:59 pm on June 6,…
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May 5, 2025 Overtime! Late Friday night, the House and Senate chambers announced an agreement to extend the 2025 Legislative Session until Friday, June 6, at 11:59 pm for the budget, conforming and implementing bills and the Rural Renaissance package, which is a priority of President. Albritton. The chambers also announced that the framework of…
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April 28, 2025 We have completed Week 8, and as you have probably heard, the House and Senate have yet to agree on a tax package in policy or in number. Without an agreement on the tax package, the two sides are unable to agree to a total budget allocation. Both the House and Senate…
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