IN SB0523 | 2025 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 16 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-06 - Senators Byrne, Rogers, Schmitt added as coauthors
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on January 16 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-06 - Senators Byrne, Rogers, Schmitt added as coauthors
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]
Summary
School chaplains. Allows a principal or superintendent of a public school, including a charter school, to employ, or approve as a volunteer, a school chaplain if certain requirements are met. Allows a school chaplain to provide: (1) secular advice, guidance, and support services; and (2) nonsecular advice, guidance, and support services if certain conditions are met. Provides that, with exceptions, communications made by a student to a school chaplain are privileged and confidential.
Title
School chaplains.
Sponsors
| Sen. Stacey Donato [R] | Sen. Jeff Raatz [R] | Sen. Gary Byrne [R] | Sen. Linda Rogers [R] |
| Sen. Daryl Schmitt [R] |
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Senate | Senators Byrne, Rogers, Schmitt added as coauthors |
| 2025-02-06 | Senate | Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| 2025-01-16 | Senate | First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development |
| 2025-01-16 | Senate | Authored by Senators Donato and Raatz |
