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Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB17 | In terms and courses of study, further providing for subjects of instruction and flag code. | Crossed Over | 06/25/2025 |
| HB190 | In school health services, providing for eating disorder awareness and education. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
| HB191 | In certification of teachers, repealing provisions relating to CPR instruction; and, in school health services, repealing provisions relating to automatic external defibrillators and providing for AED and CPR instruction and procedure, for Automated External Defibrillator Program and for availability and specifications of automated external defibrillators. | Crossed Over | 06/18/2025 |
| 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/09/2025 |
| HB538 | In sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking education, prevention and response at institutions of higher education and private licensed schools, further providing for scope of article, for definitions, for education program and for follow-up; and making an editorial change. | Crossed Over | 06/24/2025 |
| HB681 | In school health services, further providing for health services, for reports and for interagency coordinating council for child health, nutrition and physical education; and, in terms and courses of study, further providing for physical education. | Crossed Over | 06/18/2025 |
| 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 |
| HB938 | In the State System of Higher Education, further providing for Board of Governors. | Crossed Over | 07/22/2025 |
| HB1326 | In pupils and attendance, further providing for computation of distances; and, in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, providing for pupil transportation data. | Crossed Over | 06/18/2025 |
| HB1402 | In certification of teachers, providing for State certificate fee reduction and further providing for professional educator discipline fee . | Crossed Over | 06/18/2025 |
| HB1403 | In certification of teachers, further providing for program of continuing professional and paraprofessional education. | Crossed Over | 06/24/2025 |
| HB1404 | In certification of teachers, further providing for certificates qualifying persons to teach, for standard employment application, for career and technical instructional certificate and for postbaccalaureate certification; and abrogating regulations. | Crossed Over | 06/24/2025 |
| HB1405 | In certification of teachers, further providing for career and technical instructional certificate. | Crossed Over | 06/18/2025 |
| HB1407 | In certification of teachers, further providing for instructional certificate grade spans and age levels and duties of department and providing for instructional certificate grade spans and age levels; and abrogating a regulation . | Crossed Over | 07/22/2025 |
| HB1500 | In preliminary provisions, providing for Cyber Charter School Funding and Policy Council and furthe r providing for advertising and sponsorships; in pupils and attendance, further providing for exceptional children and education and training; in charter schools, further providing for definitions, for funding for cyber charter schools, for powers and duties of department and for assessment and evaluation, providing for fund balance limits, further providing for cyber charter school requirements a | Crossed Over | 06/06/2025 |
| HB1505 | In early learning programs, further providing for definitions. | Crossed Over | 07/14/2025 |
| HB1626 | In career and technical education, further providing for Barber Training Through Career and Technical Center Pilot Program. | Crossed Over | 06/30/2025 |
| HB1627 | In career and technical education, further providing for Cosmetology Training Through Career and Technical Center Pilot Program. | Crossed Over | 06/30/2025 |
| 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 |
| SB33 | Providing for comprehensive school counseling services. | In Committee | 06/18/2025 |
| 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. | Crossed Over | 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 weapon 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 certification of teachers, providing for assessment of basic skills; in pupils and attendance, further providing for exceptional children and education and training; in school safety and security, further providing for School Safety and Security Grant Program and providing for school safety and mental health grants for 2025-2026 school year; in Drug and Alcohol Recovery High School Program, further providing for scope of program and selection of students and for enrollment of students; in cha | 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 |
| SB375 | In certification of teachers, repealing provisions relating to CPR instruction; in school safety and security, further providing for School Safety and Security Grant Program; and, in school health services, further providing for definitions, repealing provisions relating to automatic external defibrillators, providing for AED and CPR instruction and procedure, establishing the Automated External Defibrillator Program and providing for availability and specifications of automated external defibri | Crossed Over | 06/06/2025 |
| 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. | Crossed Over | 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 |
| SB791 | In school finances, further providing for school districts lying in more than one county or in more than one municipality and limitation on total tax revenues. | In Committee | 06/03/2025 |
| SB799 | In charter schools, further providing for funding for charter schools. | In Committee | 05/28/2025 |
| SB816 | In school health services, providing for parent educational information regarding eating disorders. | In Committee | 06/03/2025 |
| SB835 | In grounds and buildings, further providing for display of United States flag and development of patriotism. | In Committee | 06/09/2025 |
| SB838 | Further providing for definitions. | Crossed Over | 06/06/2025 |
| SB839 | In terms and courses of study, providing for media literacy education. | In Committee | 06/06/2025 |
| SB858 | In pupils and attendance, further providing for military child advance enrollment. | In Committee | 06/18/2025 |
| SB877 | In career and technical education, further providing for Barber Training Through Career and Technical Center Pilot Program. | Crossed Over | 06/23/2025 |
| SB878 | In career and technical education, further providing for Cosmetology Training Through Career and Technical Center Pilot Program. | Crossed Over | 06/23/2025 |
| SB900 | Providing for Commonwealth support for a Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Staff Member Loan Forgiveness Program and an Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselor Loan Forgiveness Program; and imposing duties on the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. | In Committee | 07/08/2025 |
| SB922 | Further providing for application for license, for issuance and renewal of license and for promulgation of rules and regulations. | Crossed Over | 07/15/2025 |
| SB927 | In charter schools, further providing for enrollee wellness checks. | In Committee | 07/08/2025 |
| SB930 | In student supports, further providing for definitions; in school safety and security, further prov iding for definitions, for School Safety and Security Committee, for school safety and security assessment providers, for School Safety and Security Grant Program, for school safety and security coordinator, for school safety and security training and for reporting and memorandum of understanding; in school security, further providing for training, for school resource officers, for school security | In Committee | 07/10/2025 |
| SB934 | In cyber charter schools, further providing for enrollment and notification. | In Committee | 07/08/2025 |
| SB951 | In community colleges, further providing for definitions and for financial program and reimbursement of payments. | In Committee | 07/23/2025 |
| SB969 | Establishing the Educational Freedom for Families Program and the Teacher Excellence Incentive Fund; and imposing duties on the Department of Education and the State Treasurer. | In Committee | 08/15/2025 |
| SB973 | In terms and courses of study, providing for early human life development education. | In Committee | 08/15/2025 |
| SB974 | In miscellaneous provisions relating to institutions of higher education, further providing for Dual Credit Innovation Grant Program. | In Committee | 08/25/2025 |
| SB982 | Providing for basic education and bullying and cyberbullying prevention and response. | In Committee | 08/27/2025 |
| SB984 | In pupils and attendance, further providing for attendance policy at charter, regional charter and cyber charter schools, for procedure when child is truant, for procedure by school when child habitually truant, for procedure upon filing of citation and for penalties for violating compulsory school attendance requirements, repealing provisions relating to study of truancy procedure, providing for department supports to prevent truancy and further providing for reports to Superintendent of Public | In Committee | 08/27/2025 |
| SB999 | In school health services, further providing for seizure recognition and related first aid training. | In Committee | 09/12/2025 |
| SB1026 | In Safe2Say Program, further providing for definitions and for Safe2Say Program; in postsecondary institution sexual harassment and sexual violence policy and online reporting system, further providing for definitions, for policy for postsecondary institution sexual harassment and sexual violence and for online reporting system; and making an editorial change. | In Committee | 10/03/2025 |
| 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 |
| SR119 | Urging the Congress of the United States to support the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 and amend or repeal Federal law relating to program requirements in order to allow for the availability of whole milk and 2% reduced fat milk, flavored or unflavored, in elementary and secondary schools in Pennsylvania and urging the United States Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Health and Human Services to update Federal standards relating to the establishment of dietary guidelines in order | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 06/04/2025 |