Home instruction; removes certain criteria for parents.
Summary
Home instruction; parents; criteria. Removes the four enumerated criteria—holding a high school diploma, being a teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education, providing the child with a program of study or curriculum that may be delivered through a correspondence course or distance learning program or in any other manner, or providing evidence of the ability to provide an adequate education for the child—by which a parent is permitted to provide home instruction for his school-age child. The bill does not affect the requirement for such a parent to annually provide a description of the home instruction curriculum before the school year begins and evidence of the child's academic progress after the school year ends.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 10, 2025
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Floor votes
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
1
Committee
3
Jan 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2025
Committee
Assigned Educ sub: K-12 Subcommittee
lower
Jan 10, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Geary Higgins
RRepublican
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