2026 Regular Session
HB4149
Strong Readers Act; references; legislative findings; declaring intent of the Legislature; reading screenings; reading deficiencies; parent notifications; State Department of Education; reading panel; alternate reading assessments; promotion to fourth grade; retaining third grade; good-cause exemptions; intensive reading instruction; intensive acceleration class; reporting requirements; teacher training requirements; eighth-grade reading level; driver license; remedial reading for driver licenses; alternative reading proficiency tests; motorcycle licenses; testing site requirements; documentation requirements; out of state test results; school enrollment, completion, or lawful excuse for minors to obtain a driver license; violations; alternate route to obtain driver license; employer fines; attendance officers; Department of Public Safety; license cancellation; definitions; exceptions; forms; effective date; emergency.
Legislative progress
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Recorded floor votes
1 roll call are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
February 18, 2026 · House
House: Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS
Passed
10 yea–0 nay
Committee referrals
February 16, 2026 · House
Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
February 16, 2026 · House
Appropriations and Budget
February 3, 2026 · House
Rules
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
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House Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
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House Referred to Appropriations and Budget
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House Withdrawn from Rules Committee
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House Second Reading referred to Rules
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House Authored by Representative Hasenbeck
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House First Reading