Committee
Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB190 | In school health services, providing for eating disorder awareness and education. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
| HB201 | In intermediate units, further providing for powers and duties of the intermediate unit board of directors and for capital subsidy. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
| HB354 | Providing for "What Is Your Pennsylvania Story" guidelines for school entities; and imposing duties on the Department of Education. | Crossed Over | 04/09/2025 |
| HB819 | In certification of teachers, further providing for continuing professional development; providing for access to rigorous courses of study for all students; establishing the Access to Rigorous Courses of Study for All Students Grant Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Education. | Crossed Over | 04/11/2025 |
| SB9 | Providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harm suffered by designation. | Crossed Over | 02/03/2025 |
| SB10 | Establishing the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success Scholarship Program and the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success Scholarship Fund. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| SB27 | In charter schools, providing for cyber charter school moratorium. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SB28 | In terms and courses of study, providing for Black history education. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB59 | In community colleges, further providing for definitions, for powers and duties of State Board of Education and for degrees. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB77 | In pupils and attendance, further providing for excuses from attending school. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB86 | Providing for in-State tuition for undocumented individuals. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB114 | Providing for training for long-term care, for criteria for nurse aides and for limitation on department. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB116 | In terms and courses of study, providing for credit for employment at congregate care facility. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB126 | In preliminary provisions, providing for special provisions applicable to 2025-2026 school year. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB127 | In terms and courses of study, repealing provisions relating to Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations instruction and providing for Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations instruction required. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB128 | In terms and courses of study, providing for online curriculum availability. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB139 | In pupils and attendance, providing for exception from compulsory education for certain children with disabilities. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SB180 | In pupils and attendance, further providing for Nonprofit School Food Program, repealing provisions relating to school lunch and breakfast reimbursement and establishing the Universal School Meal Program and the Universal School Meal Fund; and making an interfund transfer and an appropriation. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| SB220 | In certification of teachers, providing for instructional certificate grade spans and age levels; and making an editorial change. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SB227 | In duties and powers of boards of school directors, further providing for State convention or association, delegates, expenses and membership. | Crossed Over | 02/03/2025 |
| SB229 | In school safety and security, establishing the Cell Phone Lockable Bag Pilot Program. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SB230 | In terms and courses of study, providing for parental control relating to instructional materials and books containing sexually explicit content. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| SB239 | In preliminary provisions, providing for mandate waiver program. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SB246 | In student supports, providing for parental and employee notification of certain incidents. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| SB250 | Providing for display of the Preamble of the Constitution of Pennsylvania in each school building. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| SB254 | Providing for the STEM Grant Program; and making an appropriation. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| SB258 | Providing for standards for carbon monoxide alarms in dormitories; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SB259 | Providing for standards for carbon monoxide alarms in schools; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| SB304 | Providing for military education scholarship account; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| SB310 | In high schools, providing for Free Application for Federal Student Aid. | Crossed Over | 02/18/2025 |
| SB315 | In career and technical education, further providing for career and technical education equipment grants. | Crossed Over | 02/26/2025 |
| SB354 | In charter schools, further providing for funding for charter schools, for provisions applicable to charter schools and for applicability of other provisions of this act and of other acts and regulations. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| SB378 | In preliminary provisions, providing for student data privacy and protection; conferring powers and imposing duties on the Department of Education; and imposing penalties. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| SB402 | Providing for administration of emergency anti-seizure medication. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| SB422 | In terms and courses of study, providing for supplemental mathematics program for kindergarten through grade five. | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| SB432 | In the State System of Higher Education, providing for educational opportunities for foster and adopted children. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| SB433 | In intermediate units, further providing for powers and duties of the intermediate unit board of directors and for capital subsidy. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| SB452 | In additional special funds and restricted accounts, providing for Safe Path Restricted Account; and making a transfer. | In Committee | 03/26/2025 |
| SB459 | Establishing the Statewide Imagination Library Program and the Imagination Library of Pennsylvania Restricted Account; and imposing duties on the Department of Education. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| SB463 | Authorizing the provision or sale of Pennsylvania milk in Pennsylvania schools. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| SB470 | In terms and courses of study, further providing for firefighter and emergency service training and establishing the Secondary Education Fire Training Pilot Program and the Fire Training Fund. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| SB479 | In terms and courses of study, providing for moment of silence on January 6 anniversary. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| SB492 | In suicide prevention in institutions of higher education, further providing for definitions and providing for required suicide prevention and crisis management information. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| SB496 | In educational tax credits, further providing for school participation in program. | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| SB541 | In school safety and security, providing for panic alerts. | In Committee | 04/02/2025 |
| SB544 | Requiring the display in public school buildings of certain historical documents relating to the foundation of law. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| SB547 | In certification of teachers, further providing for continuing professional development; providing for access to advanced courses for all students; establishing the Access to Advanced Courses for All Students Grant Program; and imposing duties on the Department of Education. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| SB573 | In terms and courses of study, providing for blood donation education. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| SB589 | In terms and courses of study, further providing for physical education. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| SB598 | Providing for display of the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States in each school building. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| SB606 | In duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for posting of offers of employment for certain administrators; and, in intermediate units, providing for posting of offers of employment for certain staff. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| SB619 | In school health services, further providing for sudden cardiac arrest and electrocardiogram testing. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| SB620 | In grounds and buildings, providing for automated external defibrillator placement, inspection, maintenance and plan; in school health services, further providing for automatic external defibrillators; and, in charter schools, further providing for provisions applicable to charter schools and for applicability of other provisions of this act and of other acts and regulations. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| SB625 | In duties and powers of boards of school directors, providing for admission fees for school-sponsored activities. | In Committee | 05/12/2025 |
| SB631 | Providing for parental consent for virtual mental health services provided by a school entity. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| SB645 | In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions; in terms and courses of study, further providing for subjects of instruction and flag code and providing for handwriting instruction required; and, in charter schools, further providing for provisions applicable to charter schools and for applicability of other provisions of this act and of other acts and regulations. | In Committee | 04/21/2025 |
| SB663 | In terms and courses of study, providing for deaf and hard of hearing education. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| SB679 | In preliminary provisions, providing for minimum hourly wage or living wage for education support professionals; in duties and powers of boards of school directors, further providing for majority vote required and recording; and imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry. | In Committee | 04/28/2025 |
| SB698 | In grounds and buildings, further providing for acquisition of buildings, sites for school buildings and playgrounds, and disposing thereof. | In Committee | 04/30/2025 |
| SB700 | In evidence-based reading instruction, further providing for definitions and for evidence-based reading instruction curriculum and providing for reading screening, for reading deficiency and identification, for school entity duties and reading intervention plan, for parent notification, for grants to school entities, for funding and for reporting; and establishing the Evidence-based Reading Instruction Restricted Account. | In Committee | 04/30/2025 |
| SB706 | In educational tax credits, further providing for limitations. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| SB720 | In school health services, further providing for health services and for vision screening and examinations, providing for eye health and vision examinations and further providing for examinations by examiners of own choice. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| SB733 | In higher education accountability and transparency, further providing for exit counseling. | In Committee | 05/12/2025 |
| SB749 | In student supports, providing for parental notification. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| SB753 | Establishing the Put Down Roots PA Pilot Program; and providing for duties of Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. | In Committee | 05/12/2025 |
| SB761 | In school finances, further providing for fiscal year relating to first class school district and for fiscal year relating to second, third and fourth class school districts; and, in collective bargaining, further providing for submission to mediation and for fact-finding panels. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| SB781 | In pupils and attendance, further providing for definitions and providing for mental health days. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| SB799 | In charter schools, further providing for funding for charter schools. | In Committee | 05/28/2025 |
| SR8 | Urging the Governor to develop a comprehensive legislative plan to improve basic education in the public schools of this Commonwealth and to establish an advisory commission to study and make specific recommendations for components of the plan. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| SR68 | Urging the Congress of the United States to fully cooperate with Federal efforts to eliminate the United States Department of Education, reaffirming Pennsylvania's sovereign authority over its educational system and recognizing the need for State-led education solutions to improve outcomes for Pennsylvania students. | In Committee | 04/02/2025 |