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LB538

Require the State Board of Education to develop a model policy regarding discrimination and antisemitism, require school boards to adopt a policy regarding discrimination and antisemitism, and provide for Title VI coordinators

Failed

Introduced by Brian Hardin, District 48

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Require the State Board of Education to develop a model policy regarding discrimination and antisemitism, require school boards to adopt a policy regarding discrimination and antisemitism, and provide for Title VI coordinators

Where it stands

Indefinitely postponed

April 17, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

Unicameral votes

10 recorded votes · each counted separately

Unicameral votes

10 recorded votes · each counted separately

UnicameralStage: Hardin FA960 adopted · February 6, 2026

32

Yes

1

No

16

Absent or Not Voting

49 senators recorded in this Legislature vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Robert Hallstrom1Yes
Robert Clements2Yes
Victor Rountree3Not Voting
Brad Von Gillern4Yes
Margo Juarez5Not Voting
Machaela Cavanaugh6Not Voting
Dunixi Guereca7Not Voting
Megan Hunt8Not Voting
John Cavanaugh9Yes
Wendy DeBoer10Not Voting

Bill history

  1. Date of introduction

  2. Referred to Education Committee

  3. Notice of hearing for February 03, 2025

  4. Strommen priority bill

  5. Placed on General File with AM1385

  6. Education AM1385 filed

  7. Hardin FA330 to AM1385 filed

  8. Hardin FA331 to AM1385 filed

  9. Hardin FA332 to AM1385 filed

  10. Hardin MO322 Bracket until June 9, 2025 filed

  11. Hardin MO324 Recommit to the Education Committee filed

  12. Hardin MO325 Indefinitely postpone filed

  13. Title printed. Carryover bill

  14. Sanders priority bill

  15. Education AM1385 pending

  16. Hardin MO322 withdrawn

  17. Hardin MO324 withdrawn

  18. Hardin MO325 withdrawn

  19. Hardin FA330 withdrawn

  20. Hardin FA331 withdrawn

  21. Hardin FA332 withdrawn

  22. McKinney AM1866 to AM1385 filed

  23. McKinney AM1866 pending

  24. Conrad AM1861 to AM1385 filed

  25. McKinney AM1866 lost

  26. Cavanaugh, M. MO385 Reconsider the vote taken on AM1866 filed

  27. Cavanaugh, M. MO385 failed

  28. Conrad AM1861 adopted

  29. Education AM1385 adopted

  30. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

  31. Placed on Select File with ER112

  32. Enrollment and Review ER112 filed

  33. Enrollment and Review ER112 adopted

  34. Hardin AM1972 filed

  35. Hardin FA955 filed

  36. Hardin FA955 adopted

  37. Hunt AM2009 to AM1972 filed

  38. Hunt AM2009 lost

  39. Hardin AM1972 adopted

  40. Hughes FA957 filed

  41. Hughes FA957 adopted

  42. Hardin FA960 filed

  43. Hardin FA960 adopted

  44. Cavanaugh, M. MO398 Reconsider the vote taken on FA960 filed

  45. Cavanaugh, M. MO398 pending

  46. Kauth AM2014 filed

  47. Cavanaugh, M. MO398 pending

  48. Passed over

  49. Cavanaugh, M. MO399 Indefinitely postpone filed

  50. Indefinitely postponed

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