Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate on December 15, 2025. The 2024–2025 session has ended.
2024–2025 Session
Senate Bill 3978
"Student-Parent Protection Act"; ensures equal rights and opportunities for parenting students enrolled in institutions of higher education.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the Senate
Sponsor from Dec 12
Its course
December 16, 2024 to December 15, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.
Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.
Every action2 actions on 2 days
In the SenateDec 16 to Dec 15 · stopped364 days
Higher EducationDec 16 to Dec 15364 days
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the Legislature recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
Do pass · Dec 15, 2025
Who voted how
Yea Andrew Zwicker, Carmen F. Amato Jr., Joseph P. Cryan, Paul D. Moriarty, Robert W. Singer
Text
Each version as the Legislature printed it.
l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.
What happened
In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.
In the Senate Dec 16 – Dec 15, 2025
- Dec 16Introduced in the Senate and sent to Higher Education
- Dec 15, 2025Higher Education recommended it
- Read a second time
All 2 actions, as published
- Dec 16INT 1RS REF SHISenate
- Dec 15, 2025REP 2RSSenate