Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on February 4, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 2183
School curriculum; allow public schools and charter schools to offer elective courses relating to certain religious texts.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.
AN ACT TO ALLOW SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS TO OFFER STUDENTS ELECTIVE SOCIAL STUDIES COURSES RELATING TO, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES, THE OLD TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE, OR THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE PURPOSE OF ANY SUCH COURSE SHALL BE TO TEACH STUDENTS THE RELEVANT TEXT'S CONTENTS, HISTORY, LITERARY STYLE AND INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND CULTURE; TO PROVIDE THAT A STUDENT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO USE A SPECIFIC TEXT TRANSLATION AS PART OF A COURSE; TO PROVIDE THAT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS OFFERING SUCH COURSES SHALL FOLLOW APPLICABLE LAWS RELATED TO RELIGION IN SCHOOLS AND SHALL MAINTAIN RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
January 20 to February 4, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
EducationJan 20 to Feb 4 · stopped15 days
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.