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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 459

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: requiring voter education instruction in the elementary and high school grades and incorporating voter education instruction into the state model social studies standards. (FE)

School School — Attendance School — Curriculum School — Employee State superintendent of public instruction Voting Wage

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires school boards and operators of independent charter schools

to include, as part of the social studies curriculum, at least one hour of voter

education instruction in each elementary and high school grade. The bill specifies

specific information that must be provided to pupils in the elementary grades,

middle school grades, and high school grades. The bill also requires the state

superintendent of public instruction to incorporate voter education instruction into

the model academic standards for social studies and to develop model curriculum on

the same subject.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D)

21 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Baldeh (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Drake (D) , Emerson (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Neubauer (D) , Pope (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D)

Full history

  1. Jul 21, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Roys, Smith, Agard, Larson, Ringhand and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Hintz, Snodgrass, Shelton, Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Drake, Emerson, Hebl, Hesselbein, B. Meyers, Neubauer, Pope, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck and Vruwink

  2. Jul 21, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Aug 9, 2021 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1