Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Appropriations Committee on March 26, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.
2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1459
AN ACT CONCERNING TEACHER SALARIES.
What it does
The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.
To establish a minimum salary for teachers and require the Comptroller to distribute a grant to pay any difference between a teacher's current salary and such minimum salary.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor
In the House of Representatives
2 co-sponsors
Its course
March 6 to March 26, 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 action7 actions on 5 days
In the SenateMar 6 to Mar 26 · stopped20 days
Education CommitteeMar 6 to Mar 2418 days
Appropriations CommitteeMar 24 to Mar 26 · stopped2 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the General Assembly recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
Education Committee30–15
Mar 24
Who voted how
Yea Antonio Felipe, Bobby G. Gibson Jr., Christopher Poulos, David DeFronzo, Douglas McCrory, Emmanuel Sanchez, Frank Smith, Gary A. Winfield, Hector Arzeno, Henry J. Genga, Iris N. Sanchez, Jennifer Leeper, John-Michael Parker, Juan R. Candelaria, Julie Kushner, Kadeem Roberts, Kenneth Gucker, Kevin Brown, Mae Flexer, Mary Welander, Maryam Khan, Moira Rader, Nicholas Menapace, Patricia Billie Miller, Patrick Biggins, Robin E. Comey, Savet Constantine, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, Susan M. Johnson, Trenee McGee
Nay Anne Dauphinais, Chris Stewart, Devin R. Carney, Eric C. Berthel, Greg S. Howard, Heather S. Somers, Irene M. Haines, Karen Reddington-Hughes, Kathy Kennedy, Lezlye Zupkus, Mark W. Anderson, Martin Foncello, Mitch Bolinsky, Ryan Fazio, Tina Courpas
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 Senate Mar 6 – Mar 24
- Mar 6Introduced and sent to Education Committee
- Mar 7Heard in Education Committee
- Mar 24Education Committee recommended it and sent it to Appropriations Committee
All 7 actions, as published
- Mar 6REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
- Mar 7PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
- Mar 24Joint Favorable Change of ReferenceBoth houses
- Mar 25FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
- Mar 26RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
- Mar 26FAV. CHG. OF REF., SEN. TO COMM. ONSenate
- Mar 26FAV. CHG. OF REF. HOUSE TO COMM. ONHouse of Representatives