2026 Regular Session
SB1778
Strong Readers Act; modifying number of screening instruments to be approved by the State Board of Education beginning in certain school year. Emergency.
Legislative progress
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Partner positions
Dislikes
No public reasoning provided.
The SDE has been given $7 BILLION DOLLARS since 2003 per their own admission and we are ranked 50th in academics? Where has all this money gone? No accountability. Where are the audits for this money and now they want more to do what they should have been doing already for 20+ years. This has become what looks like a giant money laundering scheme.
SB1778 uses literacy as an entry point to expand state control, standardize children into workforce pipelines, and reduce parental authority — it’s workforce development policy disguised as reading reform. SB1778 follows the same policy architecture used nationally to connect early education to labor-force pipelines. Literacy is treated not as a family-directed educational goal, but as an input metric for long-term economic productivity. This is consistent with the P-20 / cradle-to-career workforce model, where literacy is the first measurable labor input.
Recorded floor votes
6 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
February 24, 2026 · Senate
Senate: Education Committee: DO PASS AMENDED CS
Passed
7 yea–1 nay
March 4, 2026 · Senate
Senate: Appropriations Committee: DO PASS
Passed
24 yea–0 nay
March 25, 2026 · Senate
Senate: THIRD READING
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
45 yea–2 nay · 1 absent
April 7, 2026 · House
House: Appropriations and Budget Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS
Passed
28 yea–0 nay
April 13, 2026 · House
House: THIRD READING
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
87 yea–5 nay · 7 absent
April 20, 2026 · Senate
Senate: FOURTH READING
Passed
43 yea–2 nay · 3 absent
Committee referrals
March 30, 2026 · House
Appropriations and Budget
February 24, 2026 · Senate
Appropriations
February 3, 2026 · Senate
Education
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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Senate Approved by Governor 04/21/2026
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Senate Sent to Governor
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House Signed, returned to Senate
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Senate Enrolled, to House
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Senate Referred for enrollment
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Senate Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 43 Nays: 2 View roll call
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Senate HAs adopted View roll call
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Senate HAs read
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House Engrossed, signed, to Senate
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House Referred for engrossment
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House Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 87 Nays: 5 View roll call
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House Coauthored by Representative(s) Wolfley, Roberts, Hill, Williams
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House General Order
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House Coauthored by Representative(s) Caldwell (Chad)
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House CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee
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House Second Reading referred to Appropriations and Budget
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House First Reading
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Senate Engrossed to House
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Senate Referred for engrossment
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Senate Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 2 View roll call
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Senate Title restored
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Senate General Order, Amended by Floor Substitute
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Senate Coauthored by Representative Hasenbeck
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Senate Coauthored by Representative Staires
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Senate Placed on General Order
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Senate Reported Do Pass Appropriations committee; CR filed View roll call
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Senate Coauthored by Representative Hilbert (principal House author)
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Senate Referred to Appropriations
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Senate Title stricken
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Senate Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed View roll call
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Senate Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee
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Senate Authored by Senator Pugh
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Senate First Reading