2025 Regular Session
HB238
Provides relative to tax benefits for adoption and for donations to foster care organizations and provides relative to tax deductions for certain education-related expenses (EN NO IMPACT GF RV See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Recorded floor votes
5 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 8, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 238 FINAL PASSAGE (#302)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
95 yea–0 nay · 9 absent
June 1, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 238 FINAL PASSAGE (#527)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
36 yea–0 nay · 3 absent
June 3, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 238 REJECT SENATE AMENDMENTS (#814)
Passed
95 yea–0 nay · 10 absent
June 11, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 238 ADOPT CONFERENCE REPORT (#1212)
Passed
100 yea–0 nay · 5 absent
June 11, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 238 ADOPT (#941)
Passed
36 yea–0 nay · 3 absent
Committee referrals
May 13, 2025 · Senate
Revenue & Fiscal Affairs
April 1, 2025 · House
Ways and Means
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 Effective date: 06/20/2025.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 349.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
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Senate Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report. View roll call
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Senate Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays. View roll call
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House Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted. View roll call
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House Rules suspended.
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House Conference Committee report received. Lies over under the rules.
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Senate Conference committee report received.
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House Notice of Senate conferees appointed.
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Senate Senate conference committee members appointed: Foil, Mizell, and Womack.
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Senate Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
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House House conferees appointed: McFarland, Emerson, and Chenevert.
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Senate Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
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House Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 06/03/2025.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported with amendments.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/08/2025.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (11-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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House Prefiled.