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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 159: Statewide, Standardized Assessments

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 159 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 14, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Statewide, Standardized Assessments. Primary sponsor: Rita Harris (Democratic). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Education Administration Subcommittee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Statewide, Standardized Assessments; Requires development of statewide standardized assessments & portions of coordinated screening & monitoring system in specified languages by specified school year; provides requirements for DOE; authorizes parents to prohibit use of such assessments & system in languages other than English.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Rita HarrisPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse44
Daryl CampbellCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99
Anna EskamaniCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Education Administration Subcommittee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  4. Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
  5. Referred to Education & Employment Committee
  6. Referred to PreK-12 Budget Subcommittee
  7. Referred to Education Administration Subcommittee
  8. Filed

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source