In the Senate's Education Committee since June 6, 2025.
2025–2026 Regular Session
House Bill 1500
An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in preliminary provisions, providing for Cyber Charter School Funding and Policy Council and further providing for advertising and sponsorships; in pupils and attendance, further providing for exceptional children and education and training; in charter schools, further providing for definitions, for funding for cyber charter schools, for powers and duties of department and for assessment and evaluation, providing for fund balance limits, further providing for cyber charter school requirements and prohibitions, providing for cyber charter school fund balance accountability, further providing for establishment of cyber charter school, for cyber charter school application, for enrollment and notification, for enrollee wellness checks and for applicability of other provisions of this act and of other acts and regulations and providing for cyber charter school moratorium; and, in reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for extraordinary special education program expenses.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the House of Representatives
Sponsor
38 co-sponsors
Peter Schweyer, Gina H. Curry, Paul Friel, Jennifer O'Mara, Danielle Friel Otten, Tarah Probst, Jim Prokopiak, Ismail Smith-Wade-El, Lisa A. Borowski, Tim Brennan, TINA M. DAVIS, David M. Delloso, Kyle Donahue, Justin C. Fleming, Nancy Guenst, Jim Haddock, Liz Hanbidge, Carol Hill-Evans, Joseph C. Hohenstein, John C. Inglis III, Leanne Krueger, Jeanne McNeill, Chris Pielli, Nikki Rivera, Benjamin V. Sanchez, Michael H. Schlossberg, Melissa L. Shusterman, Mandy Steele, Arvind Venkat, Tarik Khan, Dave Madsen, Malcolm Kenyatta, Mary Jo Daley, STEVE SAMUELSON, Carol Kazeem, Abigail Salisbury, Jacklyn Rusnock, ROBERT FREEMAN
Its course
May 30, 2025 to June 3, 2026, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action15 actions on 6 days
In the House of RepresentativesMay 30 to Jun 45 days
EducationMay 30 to Jun 23 days
AppropriationsJun 3 to Jun 41 day
In the SenateFrom Jun 4
EducationFrom Jun 6
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
House of Representatives, third reading104–98
Passed · Jun 4
Amendments
Each amendment offered, and what became of it.
House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted
Adopted Jun 3
House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted
Adopted Jun 4
Text
Each version as the General Assembly printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.
In the House of Representatives May 30 – Jun 4
- May 30Sent to EDUCATION
- Jun 2EDUCATION recommended it
- Jun 3Read a second time
- Sent to APPROPRIATIONS
- Amended in APPROPRIATIONS
- Jun 4APPROPRIATIONS recommended it as amended
- Passed the House of Representatives, 104 to 98
In the Senate Jun 6
- Jun 6Arrived in the Senate
- Sent to EDUCATION
All 15 actions, as published
- May 30Referred to EDUCATION, May 30, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 2Reported as committed, June 2, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 2First consideration, June 2, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 2Laid on the table, June 2, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 2Removed from table, June 2, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 2Corrective Reprint, Printer's No. 1807, June 2, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 3Second consideration, June 3, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 3Re-committed to APPROPRIATIONS, June 3, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 3Amended in House Committee on APPROPRIATIONS, June 3, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 3, 2026(Remarks see House Journal Page 764-769), June 3, 2026House of Representatives
- Jun 4Re-reported as amended, June 4, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 4Third consideration and final passage, June 4, 2025 (104-98)House of Representatives
- Jun 4(Remarks see House Journal Page 788-797), June 4, 2025House of Representatives
- Jun 6In the SenateSenate
- Jun 6Referred to EDUCATION, June 6, 2025Senate