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SB 33 Requires schools to post policies on "authorized" materials and create formal complaint processes for parents.

Education Dead

Requires schools to post policies on "authorized" materials and create formal complaint processes for parents.

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

Adds administrative costs for establishing formal complaint processes

3
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Your Community

Creates infrastructure for organized challenges to school materials

3
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Your Freedom

Expands parent review rights but may reduce variety of educational materials

Status

Dead. Senate voted non-concur.

Sponsor

Sen. Kevin Avard (R)

The Short Version

Would have created a formalized pipeline for book challenges and material complaints. Every district would have had to adopt and publicly post which materials are "authorized," and establish a complaint process for parents who think materials are "harmful to minors" or "offensive." Killed when the Senate voted non-concur — but the infrastructure for organized book-banning campaigns came back stronger in SB 434.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Groups organizing material challenges in schools

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Teachers and librarians
  • ▼ Students (reduced material access)

Connected Organizations

Moms for Liberty

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 ( 181 for , 3 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 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).

181R
Voted to Pass (181)
3R + 154D
Voted Against (157)
39
Absent
18
Not voting
Show all 395 individual votes

Voted Yea (181)

Republicans (181)

Voted Nay (157)

Republicans (3)
Democrats (154)
Absent (39)

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) , 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) , Louise Andrus (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) , Peter Varney (R) , Sallie Fellows (D) , Sandra Panek (R) , Sayra Devito (R) , Shane Sirois (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Tom Dolan (R) , Travis Toner (R)

Full Analysis

SB 33 was the beta version of SB 434. Sponsored by Sen. Kevin Avard, it would have required every school district to publicly post lists of "authorized" materials and create formal complaint processes for parents who found materials objectionable.

The bill died when the Senate voted non-concur, but its sponsors learned from the failure. The concepts in SB 33 — formalized complaint processes, vague standards for "harmful" or "offensive" content, and the framework for organized challenges — all reappeared in SB 434, but expanded to cover not just library books but all instructional materials, speakers, artwork, and classroom content.

SB 33 matters because it shows the iteration strategy. When one book-banning bill fails, the next session brings a more sophisticated version. The goal hasn't changed; the tactics have gotten better.

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