BILL · 2025–26 SESSION

HB 1189: School volunteers/conviction

Addressing parental involvement through volunteering in schools after a criminal conviction.

Summary

Requires school districts and other public educational entities to follow specific procedures when receiving, evaluating, approving, and denying applications from students' parents, grandparents, guardians, and legal custodians who are volunteering to have unsupervised access to minors or individuals with developmental disabilities and who have criminal convictions on their record checks.

From the House Bill Analysis 2025 (HB 1189), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to parental involvement through volunteering in schools after a criminal conviction;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

HB 1189 (2023–24) Total confinement release · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1189 (2021–22) Tax increment financing · Enacted · Chapter 207, Laws of 2021
HB 1189 (2019–20) Ferry system performance · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1189 (2017–18) Massage therapy exemptions · Enacted · Chapter 77, Laws of 2017
HB 1189 (2015–16) City, district publ. records · Did not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate
HB 1189 (2013–14) Fish and wildlife commission · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1189 (2011–12) Family leave insurance prog. · Did not pass · died in committee
HB 1189 (2009–10) Retail store carryout bags · Did not pass · stalled on the House floor