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HB121 Relative to school district financial requirements and district probation processes.

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Relative to school district financial requirements and district probation processes.

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

Could improve fiscal management of school districts but may also lead to cuts if a district is placed on probation.

4
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Your Community

State probation of school districts could override local democratic control of schools and lead to austerity measures.

4
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Your Freedom

Reduces local autonomy over school district governance by allowing state intervention.

Status

Pending Motion Committee Amendment # 2026-1629s; 05/07/2026; Senate Journal 11

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Glenn Cordelli (R)

The Short Version

Establishes financial requirements and a probation process for school districts in financial distress. Could lead to state intervention in local school governance for districts failing to meet financial standards.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Fiscally conservative advocates
  • ▲ State education department oversight

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ School districts that could face state takeover
  • ▼ Local school boards losing autonomy
  • ▼ Students in districts placed under probation

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

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 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 185 for ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 2 for , 154 against ) .

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

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-01-07
Passed

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

185R + 2D
Voted to Pass (187)
0R + 154D
Voted Against (154)
36
Absent
18
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (187)

Republicans (185)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (154)

Democrats (154)
Absent (36)

Adam Presa (R) , Allison Knab (D) , Bill Boyd (R) , Cassandra Levesque (D) , Charles Foote (R) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , David Lundgren (R) , David Luneau (D) , David Nagel (R) , Deborah Aylward (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Fred Davis (D) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Gary Daniels (R) , Heath Howard (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , Karel Crawford (R) , Larry Gagne (R) , Laurence Miner (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Mary Murphy (R) , Merryl Gibbs (D) , Michael Cahill (D) , Michael Harrington (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Bordes (R) , Myles England (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Shane Sirois (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Tom Dolan (R) , Travis Toner (R)

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