Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Education Committee on June 27, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 5
Requires the governing board of each public university in this state to adopt a personnel policy that includes institutional standards for faculty qualifications.
What it does
The synopsis the Legislative Assembly published with the bill.
Digest: The Act directs higher learning schools to have a policy that requires certain teachers to have obtained at least a master's degree. The Act provides for exceptions. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Requires the governing board of each public university in this state to adopt a personnel policy that includes institutional standards for faculty qualifications. Requires that the standards include that faculty must have obtained at least a master's degree. Provides for exceptions to the policy.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
Its course
March 10 to June 27, 2025, 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 action4 actions on 4 days
In the SenateMar 10 to Jun 27 · stopped109 days
Waiting for a committeeMar 10 to Mar 111 day
EducationMar 11 to Jun 27 · stopped108 days
Text
Each version as the Legislative 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 Legislative Assembly published it is below.
In the Senate Mar 10 – Jun 27
All 4 actions, as published
- Mar 10Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.Senate
- Mar 11Referred to Education.Senate
- Apr 2Public Hearing held.Senate
- Jun 27In committee upon adjournment.Senate