BILL · 2025–26 SESSION
SB 6261: School enroll. declaration
Requiring signed declarations of intent of school enrollment or home-based instruction.
Summary
- Requires parents who do not enroll their children in public or private school at age six to file a signed declaration with the local school district in which they reside during the school years the children turn six and seven.
- Specifies that the declaration should include if they are planning to, or currently receiving, home-based instruction or planning to enroll in public or private school.
- Provides that the compulsory attendance requirements and the home-based instruction requirements are not applicable until children turn eight.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 21, 2026
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Lisa Wellman (D-41)
- Introduced
- January 21, 2026 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 21, 2026
- Requested by
- Other
AN ACT Relating to requiring signed declarations of intent of school enrollment or home-based instruction;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Lisa Wellman (D-41)
2 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- First reading, referred to Early Learning & K-12 Education.
SB 6261 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6261 (2023–24) Theft from first responders
- SB 6261 (2019–20) Farm labor contractor system
- SB 6261 (2017–18) State need grant eligibility
- SB 6261 (2015–16) Human remains
- SB 6261 (2013–14) Statements by juveniles
- SB 6261 (2011–12) Incompetence to stand trial
- SB 6261 (2009–10) Utility services collections
- SB 6261 (2007–08) Adult youth programs