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HB1155 Repealing the home education advisory council.

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Repealing the home education advisory council.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

4

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
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Your Wallet

Minimal fiscal savings from eliminating one advisory council.

4
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Your Community

Eliminates a channel through which homeschool families could influence education policy, reducing their representation in government decisions affecting their children.

4
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Your Freedom

While framed as deregulation, removing the advisory council reduces homeschool families' formal voice in shaping policies that affect their educational freedom.

Status

Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/07/2026; Senate Journal 11

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Katy Peternel (R)

The Short Version

Repeals the home education advisory council, eliminating the body that provides guidance on homeschooling policy. Passed the House with amendments 180-156. Proponents see it as reducing bureaucracy; opponents worry about losing an important voice for homeschool families in policy discussions.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Those seeking to reduce government advisory bodies

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Homeschool families who lose a formal advisory channel
  • ▼ Education policymakers who lose expert homeschool input

Roll Call Detail (2 votes)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 2 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 180 for , 7 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 149 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Adopt Amendment 2026-03-11
Passed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

183R
Voted to Adopt Amendment (183)
5R + 146D
Voted Against Amendment (151)
33
Absent
25
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (183)

Republicans (183)

Voted Nay (151)

Republicans (5)
Democrats (146)
Absent (33)

Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Love (R) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Patricia Cornell (D) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Ron Dunn (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , Tom Dolan (R)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-03-11
Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

180R
Voted to Pass (180)
7R + 149D
Voted Against (156)
33
Absent
23
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (180)

Republicans (180)

Voted Nay (156)

Republicans (7)
Democrats (149)
Absent (33)

Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Love (R) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , Jennifer Rhodes (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Patricia Cornell (D) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Ron Dunn (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , Tom Dolan (R)

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