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HB1452 Relative to parent-taught driver education as an alternative to traditional driver education programs.

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Relative to parent-taught driver education as an alternative to traditional driver education programs.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

6

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

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Your Wallet

Would have saved families the cost of professional driver ed ($400-800), but increased crash risk costs.

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Your Community

Professional driver education produces safer teen drivers; removing this requirement could increase crash rates.

7
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Your Freedom

Would have expanded parental choice in education, though at potential safety cost.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 178-155 02/05/2026 House Journal 3 P. 59

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Aidan Ankarberg (I)

The Short Version

Would have allowed parents to teach driver education instead of requiring certified programs. Killed 178-155 due to safety concerns, as professional driver education has been shown to reduce teen crash rates.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Families seeking to avoid driver ed costs
  • ▲ Parents wanting to teach their own children

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Road safety
  • ▼ Young drivers who may receive inconsistent training

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 ( 149 for , 30 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 6 for , 148 against ) .

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

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-02-05
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

30R + 148D
Voted to Kill the Bill (178)
149R + 6D
Voted to Keep It Alive (155)
35
Absent
26
Not voting
Show all 394 individual votes

Voted Yea (178)

Republicans (30)
Democrats (148)

Voted Nay (155)

Republicans (149)
Democrats (6)
Absent (35)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Anita Burroughs (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Brian Nadeau (R) , Bryan Morse (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Cathy Kenny (R) , Daniel Popovici-Muller (R) , David Lundgren (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , George Sykes (D) , Gregory Hill (R) , Jack Flanagan (R) , Janet Lucas (D) , Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R) , Kevin Verville (R) , Linda Gould (R) , Matthew Coker (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Michael Murphy (R) , Mike Ouellet (R) , Paul Terry (R) , Peter Varney (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Ross Berry (R) , Russell Muirhead (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sayra Devito (R) , Stephanie Payeur (D) , Ted Gorski (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Vicki Wilson (R)

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