Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 5/17/2025 10:45 AM

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• S429 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – 2025 Public Safety Act. Bans hemp-derived products on school grounds and creates a criminal offense for exposing children to controlled substances.

• H328 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Prohibits the use of tobacco products, vapor products, or hemp-derived consumable products on public school grounds.
• H329 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Encourages all private church schools and schools of religious charter to prohibit the use of tobacco and hemp-derived consumable products on school grounds. (There is no enforcement mechanism included in the bill.)
• H636 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Promoting Wholesome Content for Students. Requires public school boards to establish a library advisory board to review all library media for addition to a school library. Mandates that library media is not appropriate for the age, grade level, intellectual development, and ability level for ANY age or age group of children if it includes descriptions or visual depictions of sexual activity or is pervasively vulgar. Requires the State Board of Education to maintain a publicly accessible database of all library media that have been rejected as a result of this law.
• S227 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Eliminating “DEI” in Public Education. Prohibits public education institutions from promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) concepts such as racial guilt or meritocracy criticism in professional development programs, and bans the use of public funds for such programs.

• H38 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Prohibits a payment card network from maintaining records of individuals in the state who own firearms and from declining a lawful firearm payment card transaction.
• H674 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – The Firearms Liberty Act. Allows lifetime concealed handgun permits, lets permit holders who let their permit lapse renew without retaking a safety course, and authorizes the use of biometric safes for storing defensive devices in schools.
• S50 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Protects the right to carry a concealed handgun without a permit and allows individuals to obtain a concealed handgun permit for reciprocity in other states.
• S280 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Permits authorized employees and volunteers at private schools to carry weapons on school property and allows concealed handguns at schools that are also religious worship sites during services or religious events.

• H519 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Parents’ Medical Bill of Rights. Updates regulations on when minors can consent to medical treatment without parental consent by: 1. Removing the current allowance for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease, abuse of controlled substances or alcohol, and emotional disturbances. 2. Retaining only the diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy as long as their is no inducement of an abortion. The bill also ensures parents have the right to access their minor children’s medical records. Currently parents cannot access their child’s medical records relating to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, abuse of controlled substances or alcohol, or emotional disturbances without that child’s consent. (Companion to S759)

• S558 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Eliminates “DEI” in Public Higher Ed. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from implementing or advancing policies related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

• H606 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Extends the statute of limitations for medical malpractice for gender transition procedures to 10 years after the minor’s 18th birthday.
• S442 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Parents Protection Act. Clarifies current state law by asserting that a parent, guardian, or caretaker who raises or refers to a child based on the child’s biological sex will not be accused of abuse or neglect just for doing so AND prohibits any agency of the state from denying or delaying the opportunity to become an adoptive parent based on the parent’s refusal, unwillingness, or lack of support to enable the child to engage in a gender transition. (Companion to H560)

• H805 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Aims to prevent the exploitation of individuals through the distribution of pornographic images without consent, sets strict requirements for online entities to verify the age and consent of individuals in such images before publication.

• H83 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Increases penalties for sharing harmful material or performances with minors, creates a new crime for repeated indecent exposure, requires sex offender registration for certain offenses, and prevents ride services from picking up minors without parental consent.

• H301 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Protects minors under age 16 from harmful social media websites by requiring parental consent for accounts for minors aged 14 or 15 and prohibiting accounts for minors under age 14.

• H171 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Eliminates funding, promotion, support, implementation or maintenance of any Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives in state and local government and all publicly funded schools.