THE 89TH LEGISLATION

BILLS RELATING TO K-12

The following bills related to K-12 education have been passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and
sent to and/or signed by the governor. For bills sent to the governor within 10 days of final
adjournment, which is June 2, 2025, the governor has until 20 days after final adjournment to sign
the bill, veto it, or allow it to become law without a signature. If the governor neither vetoes nor signs
the bill within the allotted time, the bill becomes law.

House Bills
 HB 2 (Buckley, Creighton) provides $8.5 billion in new funding to public schools. See a
summary. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 6 (Leach/Perry) makes several changes to student discipline, including increasing the
allowable days of in school suspension to ten; removing mandatory placements in DAEP for
vape possession; and providing funding for virtual DAEP placements. 6-2-25 Sent to the
Governor
 HB 9 (Meyer, Bettencourt) increases the property tax exemption to $250,000 for tangible
personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income (business
personal property) and establishes that certain reporting is only required for individuals
whose business personal property is greater than that amount. 5-22-25 Sent to the
Governor
 HB 20 (Gates, Schwertner) requires the commissioner of education to establish and
administer the Applied Sciences Pathway program to provide opportunities for students to
concurrently earn high school diplomas and certificates from institutions of higher education.
The commissioner will be required to approve participation in program partnerships between
school districts or open-enrollment charter schools and institutions of higher education. 6-2-
25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 22 (Noble, Hinojosa) establishes that all intangible personal property is not taxable. The
bill also repeals provisions of the Tax Code related to the taxation of intangible personal
property held by certain insurance companies, savings and loan associations, and
transportation businesses and the taxation of intangible property by a taxing unit
generally. 5-27-25 Signed by the Governor; 1-1-26 Earliest Effective Date
 HB 27 (K. King, Flores) amends the curriculum requirements for the foundation high school
program, requiring students to successfully complete at least one-half credit in personal
financial literacy and one credit in economics, world geography, or world history for
graduation. This provision applies only to students entering ninth grade during or after the
2025-26 school year. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 33 (McLaughlin, Flores), the Uvalde Strong Act, establishes and amends provisions in
the Education Code, Government Code, Local Government Code, and Occupations Code
regarding school security, law enforcement training, and mental health resources for first
responders. 5-26-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 100 (Leo-Wilson, Middleton) prohibits a school district or open-enrollment charter school
from adopting or using instructional material included on the list of rejected instructional
materials maintained by the SBOE. The bill also prohibits the use of local funds and funds
from the Instructional Materials and Technology Allotment to purchase instructional materials
that are on the SBOE list of rejected instructional materials. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 117 (Schoolcraft, Campbell) establishes the Governor’s Task Force on Governance of
Early Childhood Education and Care under TEA to address governance and operational
challenges within Texas’ early childhood education system. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 120 (Bell, Schwertner) establishes various provisions on career and technical education,
including expanding Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program eligibility and increasing
certain allotments under the Foundation School Program. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 121 (K. King, Nichols) authorizes TEA to commission as a peace officer an employee
who had been certified as qualified to be a peace officer by the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement. An employee commissioned as a peace officer by TEA would have the
powers, privileges, and immunities of a peace officer while carrying out peace officer
duties. 6-2-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 163 (Cortez, Blanco) repeals legal provisions applying to the possession and
administration of epinephrine by certain entities such as amusement parks, restaurants,
child-care facilities, day camps or youth camps, private or independent institutions of higher
education, restaurants, sports venues, and youth centers; and authorizes an entity in Texas,
including government entities, to adopt a policy regarding the maintenance, administration,
and disposal of epinephrine auto-injectors. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 210 (Guillen, Hinojosa) – Under the bill, a vendor that bid on or received a contract from
a school district or open-enrollment charter school commits an offense if any individual
 serving on the board of trustees or governing body of the district or school: had a substantial
interest in the vendor or a subcontractor hired by the vendor; was related in the second
degree by consanguinity or affinity to an individual who had a substantial interest in the
vendor; or had received or been promised a gift or in-kind services with a value of more than
$250. 5-29-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 HB 229 (Troxclair, Middleton) requires a governmental entity that collects vital statistics
information that identifies the sex of an individual for the purposes of complying with
antidiscrimination laws or gathering public health, crime, economic, or other data to identify
each individual as either male or female based on stated definitions. 5-30-25 Sent to the
Governor
 VETOED: HB 353 (Patterson, Hagenbuch) creates a criminal offense for trespass on or near
school or day-care center property. 5-13-25 Sent to the Governor; 5-24-25 Vetoed by the
Governor
 HB 367 (Rosenthal, Menendez) requires a student or the student’s parent or guardian to
provide on a required form a certification from a Texas-licensed physician specifying certain
information, as determined by the physician, in order for a school district to excuse a student
from attending school because of a serious or life-threatening illness or related treatment. 5-
30-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 549 (Vasut, Johnson) requires each school district to make available at each campus at
least one airway clearance device appropriate for use on the majority of students enrolled at
the campus. A district would have to comply with the bill only if the district could obtain an
airway clearance device through donation of the device in the original packaging or purchase
or lease of the device using appropriated or donated money. 6-2-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 762 (Leach, Bettencourt) requires a political subdivision, other than a public or teaching
hospital, that enters into a contract or employment agreement, including the renegotiation or
renewal of an existing contract or agreement, that contained a provision for severance pay
with an employee or independent contractor to: include a requirement that tax-funded
severance pay could not exceed the amount of 20 weeks’ compensation, at the rate when
the employment or contract was terminated, excluding paid time off or accrued vacation
leave; and
prohibit an employee or independent contractor terminated as a result of misconduct from
receiving severance pay. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 824 (Jones, Middleton) requires the SBOE, in adopting TEKS for the government
component of the social studies curriculum for high school students, to adopt essential
knowledge and skills to develop each student’s civic knowledge, including: the role of
government officials, such as statewide elected and county officials and city councilors; the
voting process and election laws in Texas; the eligibility requirements to run for elected office
in the state; Robert’s Rules of Order; and the elected officials who represented the student at
each level of government. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 1178 (Cunningham, Campbell) requires SBEC to establish a temporary certificate for
educators certified by other states and immediately issue the certificate to a person who
applied for a certificate of educators from outside the state. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 1188 (Manuel, Zaffirini) requires a school district, at a child’s first individualized education
program (IEP) committee meeting, to provide the parent or guardian of a student who had an
intellectual disability or developmental delay with information about services and public
benefits provided by the local intellectual and developmental disability authority (LIDDA),
including under home- and community-based service waiver programs established by the
federal Social Security Act. 5-29-25 Signed by the Governor; 5-29-25 Earliest Effective
Date
 HB 1458 (Metcalf, Creighton) authorize a school district’s board of trustees to allow the chief
of police of the school district police department to appoint reserve police officers for the
district. The board could limit the number of reserve police officers the school district police
chief could appoint. 5-28-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 1481 (Fairly, Creighton) requires a school district’s board of trustees or an open-
enrollment charter school’s governing body to adopt, implement, and ensure the district or
school complied with a written policy prohibiting a student from using a personal
communication device while on school property during the school day. 5-28-25 Sent to the
Governor
 HB 1522 (Gerdes, Kolkhorst) requires the notice of a meeting of a governmental body to be
posted in a place publicly accessible at all times for at least three business days, rather than
72 hours, before the scheduled meeting date, rather than the meeting time. A notice for a
meeting at which a governmental body will discuss or adopt its budget would be required to
include a physical copy of the budget unless the budget had been made clearly accessible
on its website’s homepage. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 1533 (Button, Bettencourt) amends certain provisions related to the training of appraisal
review board (ARB) members and notice and appeal procedures in taxpayer protests of
property appraisals. 5-26-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 1586 (Hull, Kolkhorst) requires the Department of State Health Services to develop a
blank affidavit form for a person to use in claiming an exemption from a required
immunization and post the affidavit form in a printable format on its website. A person cannot
be required to provide any information to obtain the affidavit form. 5-28-25 Sent to the
Governor
 VETOED: HB 2243 (Oliverson, Creighton) establishes the Texas Commission on Teacher
Job Satisfaction and Retention to develop and make recommendations for improving teacher
job satisfaction and retention. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor; 6-22-25 Vetoed by the
Governor
 HB 2310 (Ordaz, Parker) requires TEA, in collaboration with the Health and Human Services
Commission and the Texas Workforce Commission, to develop and implement a strategic
plan to improve early learning and educational opportunities for young children with
disabilities or developmental delays. 5-28-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 2495 (Dutton, Zaffirini) grants a parent (or a nonparent, licensed child-placing agency, or
the Department of Family and Protective Services) appointed as sole managing conservator
of a child the right to designate the school the child will attend and to enroll the child in the
school, subject to any eligibility or admissions requirement. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 VETOED: HB 2520 (Johnson, Middleton) adds a board of managers to the entities defined
as governmental bodies under the Open Meetings Act. It also amends the Open Meetings
Act to require the written notice of a governmental body’s meeting to include an agenda for
the meeting that was sufficiently specific to inform the public of each subject to be
considered in the open portion of the meeting and describe any subject to be considered in
the closed portion of the meeting, if applicable. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor; 6-22-25
Vetoed by the Governor
 HB 2598 (Button, Zaffirini) amends certain provisions in the Education Code, Government
Code, and Occupations Code to replace references to “licensed specialist in school
psychology” with “school psychologist.” 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 2674 (Cook, Hagenbuch) prohibits TEA, the State Board of Education, or any
educational institution from making any rule that had the effect of increasing the regulation of
a homeschool program. 5-28-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 2757 (Frank, Hagenbuch) authorizes the board of trustees of a school district to adopt a
policy to allow a person whose parent or guardian was an active-duty member of a foreign
military force stationed in the state to establish the person’s age for purposes of determining
eligibility by demonstrating that the person would turn the required age during the school
year for which the person was seeking admission. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 2894 (Hickland, Flores) removes the requirement for a municipality to be adjacent to a
U.S. military installation as long as the municipality’s loss of property tax revenue attributable
to the disabled veterans’ homestead exemption was at least 10 percent of the municipality’s
general fund revenue for a fiscal year. 5-26-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 3093 (Villalobos, Hinojosa) amends how certain ad valorum property tax rates are
calculated for an affected taxing unit in counties located on the Gulf of Mexico with a
population below 500,000. 5-24-25 Filed Without the Governor’s Signature; Effective
Immediately
 HB 3112 (Tepper, Perry) specifies that the Open Meetings Act does not require a
governmental body to conduct an open meeting to deliberate a cybersecurity measure,
policy, or contract solely intended to protect a critical infrastructure facility, as defined by the
bill, in the governmental body’s jurisdiction. It exempts information from provisions of the
Public Information Act requiring public information to be available to the public during the
normal business hours of a governmental body if the information related to certain topics. 5-
31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 3126 (Darby, Zaffirini) establishes provisions on small school district program
participation in the TRS-ActiveCare program, which would only apply to school districts that
elected to discontinue participation in the program effective September 1, 2022. The bill
allows school districts that elected not to participate to rejoin the program before the fifth
anniversary of the effective date of the discontinuation if the district meets certain
requirements. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 3372 (Metcalf, Middleton) prohibits a school administrator from performing personal
services or receiving any financial benefit for the performance of personal services for:
any business entity that conducted or solicited business with the school district that
employed the administrator; an education business that provided services regarding the
curriculum or administration of any school district; or another school district, charter school,
or regional education service center. 6-2-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 3546 (Martinez, Hughes) changes the date by which a resolution under Education Code
sec. 11.059(e) could be adopted to December 31, 2030, and would specify that such a
resolution could only be adopted until the date the November election was canvassed. The
section would expire January 1, 2036. It extends the authorization under Election Code sec.
41.0052(a-1) to any independent school district that held its general election for officers on a
date other than the November uniform election date. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 3627 (Tepper, Sparks) authorizes the chair of the State Board of Education to: employ
personnel as necessary to assist SBOE in performing its duties; prescribe the duties of
personnel; compensate personnel through funds made available by the Legislature; and
determine whether to promote, terminate, or take any other employment action regarding
personnel. 5-28-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 3629 (Noble, Zaffirini) prohibits a person who was required to register as a sex offender
from being eligible to serve as a trustee of an independent school district. 5-31-25 Sent to
the Governor
 HB 3711 (Capriglione, Sparks) establishes that an offense under the Open Meetings Act
committed by a county or municipal officer or school district board of trustees member is an
offense against public administration under the investigative authority of the Public Integrity
Unit within the Department of Public Safety. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 4214 (Curry, Middleton) requires each governmental body, each year by October 1, to
notify the attorney general of the current mailing and email address designated for receiving
written public information requests. 5-31-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 4219 (Capriglione, Zaffirini) require a public information officer to notify a requestor in
writing within 10 business days of receiving a request for public information if the applicable
governmental body determined it had no information responsive to the request. Read
more. 5-22-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 4236 (Martinez Fischer, Bettencourt) establishes a task force to examine the use and
effect of the school district property value study and develop recommendations on the
elimination or replacement of the study and alternative methods by which the purpose of the
study could be accomplished. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 4310 (Vasut, Hughes) authorizes a member of the governing board of a governmental
body or nongovernmental entity to inspect and duplicate public information maintained by the
body or entity if the member was acting in an official capacity. For the bill’s purposes, a
nongovernmental entity would mean an entity that executed a contract with a governmental
 body that had a stated expenditure of at least $1 million in public funds for the purchase of
goods or services or resulted in such an expenditure in a fiscal year. 5-31-25 Sent to the
Governor
 HB 4623 (Little, Paxton) makes a public school liable for an act or omission that was
committed by a professional school employee against a student enrolled in the school that
was sexual misconduct, as defined by the bill, or failure to report suspected child abuse or
neglect. 6-2-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 4687 (Gervin-Hawkins, Bettencourt) establishes that a member of the governing body of
a charter school campus or program is immune from liability and suit to the same extent as a
school district trustee. 5-30-25 Sent to the Governor
 HB 4945 (Ashby, Nichols) requires TRS to conduct a study on the feasibility of offering
members who were Texas A&M Forest Service wildland firefighters and were employed in
positions related to wildland firefighting alternative service retirement benefits. 5-26-25 Sent
to the Governor
 HJR 34 (Guillen, Middleton) adds a proposal on the November 4, 2025, ballot that reads:
“The constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for an exemption from
ad valorem taxation of the amount of the market value of real property located in a county
that borders the United Mexican States that arises from the installation or construction on the
property of border security infrastructure and related improvements.” 11-4-25 Election date

Senate Bills
 SB 2 (Creighton, Buckley) establishes an education savings account (ESA) program. Read
more. 5-3-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 4 (Bettencourt, Meyer) increases the school district residence homestead tax exemption
from $100,000 to $140,000 of the appraised value of a residence homestead. A school
district impacted by property tax reductions authorized by the bill would be eligible for
additional state aid as outlined in the bill. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 10 (P. King, Noble) requires a public elementary or secondary school to display in a
conspicuous place in each classroom a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten
Commandments. The poster or copy must be at least 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall and
has to include only the text of the Ten Commandments in a size and typeface legible to a
person with average vision from anywhere in the classroom. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 11 (Middleton, Spiller) authorizes a school district’s board of trustees or a charter
school’s governing body that was not operated by or affiliated with a religious organization
to, by record vote on a resolution, adopt a policy requiring every campus to provide students
and employees with an opportunity to participate in a period of prayer and reading of the
Bible or other religious text on each school day. 5-27-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 12 (Creighton, Bettencourt) establishes and amends Education Code provisions
regarding parental rights, school district grievance policies, and the prohibition of diversity,
equity, and inclusion duties, among other provisions. 6-20-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-
25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 13 (Paxton, Buckley) establishes and amends Education Code provisions regarding the
acquisition of school library materials, processes for challenging materials, school library
standards, and parental access to information related to school libraries. 6-20-25 Signed by
the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 24 (Campbell, Leach) requires the State Board of Education to adopt TEKS for grades 4-
12 social studies that develops students’ understanding of communist regimes and
ideologies, and includes age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction. 5-27-
25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 25 (Kolkhorst, Hull) establishes a statewide nutrition advisory committee, manufacturer
warning label requirements for food products with certain ingredients, nutrition curriculum
and physical education requirements for public schools and higher education institutions,
and nutrition and metabolic health continuing education requirements for certain health
professionals. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 57 (Zaffirini, Gonzalez) requires the committee or team of a student with an IEP or a
Section 504 plan to consider whether the student’s disabilities or impairments require the
school district to provide any specific accommodations for the student during a mandatory
school drill. If so, the committee or team must identify each disability or impairment that
requires accommodation and specify required accommodations compliant with guidelines
established by the education commissioner for each disability or impairment. 6-1-25 Sent to
the Governor
 SB 127 (Hall, Money) reenacts and amends Code of Criminal Procedure provisions
regarding statutes of limitations for certain offenses, including failure to report child abuse or
neglect. 5-30-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 204 (Paxton, Leo-Wilson) requires TEA to create, not later than January 1, 2026, and
maintain, a handbook that explains all rights of a parent regarding the education of the
parent’s child, including a student’s rights that the parent may enforce on the student’s
behalf. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 207 (Paxton, Leo-Wilson) requires a school district to excuse a student from attending
school for a temporary absence resulting from an appointment with a mental health
professional for the student or the student’s child if the student commenced classes or
returned to school on the same day of the appointment. The bill applies beginning with the
2025-26 school year. 5-30-25 Signed by the Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 226 (West, Bernal) requires a parental child safety placement agreement to include a
letter from the Department of Family and Protective Services that contains the child’s
residence address during the placement. The bill prescribes specific language for the letter,
including that the letter serves as proof of residence for the purposes of public school
admission. 5-27-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 260 (Huffman, Bonnen) changes the amount of the school safety allotment to which a
public school district is entitled. The allotment will be increased from $10 per ADA and
$15,000 per campus to $20 per ADA and $33,540 per campus. 6-2-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 314 (Hughes, Harris Davila) prohibits certain food additives from being included in free or
reduced-price meals provided by school districts. 5-27-25 Signed by the Governor;
Effective Immediately
 SB 326 (King, Capriglione) requires a public school district, open-enrollment charter school,
and a public institution of higher education, in taking disciplinary action against a student for
behavior that violates the applicable entity’s student code of conduct and that may
reasonably be determined to have been motivated by antisemitism. 5-20-25 Signed by the
Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 401 (Paxton, Frank) requires, rather than allows, a public school to provide an otherwise
eligible, non-enrolled student the opportunity to participate in UIL activity on behalf of the
school, unless the applicable school district board or the governing body of a charter school
adopted a policy declining to grant the opportunity to participate. 5-30-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 412 (Middleton, Patterson) amends the Penal Code related to affirmative defense to
prosecution for the sale, distribution, or display of harmful material to a minor that the sale,
 distribution, or exhibition was by a person having scientific, educational, governmental, or
other similar justification. 5-19-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 519 (Middleton, Metcalf) requires the Texas Historical Commission to create and
administer a grant program to promote educational engagement with the history of Texas.
The grants would be awarded annually to nonprofit entities that host a statewide Texas
history competition for school-aged students and that publish works on Texas history written
by students or faculty members. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 546 (Menendez, Craddick) revises exceptions to the requirement that a school bus,
school activity bus, multifunction school activity bus, or school-chartered bus operated by or
contracted for use by a public school district for the transportation of schoolchildren be
equipped with a three-point seat belt for each passenger, including the operator. 5-30-25
Sent to the Governor
 SB 568 (Bettencourt, Buckley) revises and set out provisions relating to special education in
public schools, including funding for special education under the foundation school program.
The conference committee report has been enrolled. It must be signed in the Senate and
House before being sent to the governor. 6-20-25 Signed by the Governor; See Remarks
at End of Bill for Effective Dates
 SB 569 (Bettencourt, Bell) relates to the provision of virtual education in public schools and
to certain waivers and modifications by the commissioner of education to the method of
calculating average daily attendance in an emergency or crisis for purposes of preserving
school district funding entitlements under the Foundation School Program during that
emergency or crisis; authorizing a fee. 5-6-25 Signed by the Governor; Effective
Immediately
 SB 599 (West, Davis) prohibits a political subdivision from adopting or enforcing an
ordinance, order, or other measure that requires a group day-care home or family home
licensed, registered, or listed under Human Resources Code provisions relating to the
regulation of certain facilities, homes, and agencies that provide child-care services to
comply with health and safety standards that exceed the standards established by statute or
HHSC rule. 5-15-25 Signed by the Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 765 (Kolkhorst, Landgraf) amends the Government Code to establish that information in
the custody of a governmental body that relates to fraud detection and deterrence measures
is confidential and excepted from the public availability requirement of state public
information law. 5-19-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 843 (Kolkhorst, Buckley) requires TEA to develop and maintain a database that includes
current information regarding school district or open-enrollment charter school, including
charter district, bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects. 5-28-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 865 (Alvarado, Leach) adds CPR training and certification to provisions requiring each
school nurse, assistant school nurse, athletic coach or sponsor, physical education
instructor, marching band director, cheerleading coach, and any other school employee
specified by the commissioner of education and each student who served as an athletic
trainer to participate in the instruction of and receive and maintain certification in the use of
an automated external defibrillator (AED). 6-2-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 870 (Birdwell, Slawson) allows a school marshal to open carry a handgun (no longer
must be concealed) if in uniform that identifies them as a school marshal. 5-19-25 Signed by
the Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 920 (Sparks, Howard) allows a school district, charter school, or private school to adopt a
policy permitting an employee, including a nurse, to administer nonprescription medication to
a student without further authorization or written protocol from the student’s health care
provider under certain conditions. 5-30-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest
Effective Date
 SB 965 (Parker, Leach) establishes that the right of an employee of a school district or
charter school to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty cannot be infringed
upon by the district or charter school or another state governmental entity, unless the
infringement was: necessary to further a compelling state interest; and narrowly tailored
using the least restrictive means to achieve that interest. 5-27-25 Sent to the Governor
 VETOED: SB 974 (Eckhardt, Turner) allows a person employed by a school district as a
teacher to serve on the appraisal review board of an appraisal district. A member of a school
district’s board of trustees or a school district employee would commit a class A
misdemeanor (up to one year in jail and/or a maximum fine of $4,000) offense if the person
communicated with a teacher who was a member of the appraisal review board with the
intent to influence a decision by the member in the member’s capacity as a member of the
appraisal review board. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor; 6-22-25 Vetoed by the Governor
 SB 991 (Bettencourt, Gonzalez) relates to the inclusion of chronically absent students and
truant students as students at risk of dropping out of school and the collection and reporting
of data regarding those students. It defines a “chronically absent student” as a student who
was absent from school for more than 10 percent of the school’s required operation and
 instructional time within a school year or an enrollment period that exceeded 30 instructional
days. Read more. 5-22-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 1049 (King, Frank) requires a school district or open-enrollment charter school, on the
request of a parent or legal guardian of a student enrolled at the district or school and
subject to the adopted attendance policy, to excuse that student from attending school to
attend a released time course, defined as a course in religious instruction offered by a
private entity, for at least one but not more than five hours a week. 6-1-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 1062 (Kolkhorst, Smithee) amends the Government Code to authorize a governmental
entity, in lieu of publishing a notice in a newspaper in certain counties, to publish such notice
in a digital newspaper if that digital newspaper meets certain criteria. 5-19-25 Signed by the
Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 1173 (Perry, Spiller) relates to the amount of an expenditure made by certain political
subdivisions for which a competitive procurement method may be paid. 5-21-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 1177 (Alvarado, Leach) requires a fire safety inspection of a public or private school,
including an open-enrollment charter school, required by a state or local law, rule, regulation,
or ordinance to include an examination of each automated external defibrillator on the school
campus to determine whether the defibrillator is fully functional. The bill requires a
representative of the school campus to present each automated external defibrillator for
inspection. 5-29-25 Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 1191 (Creighton, Harris Davila) requires, rather than allows, the education commissioner
to develop a standard method of computing a student’s high school GPA that provides for
additional weight to be given to each honors course, AP course, IB, or dual credit course
completed by a student. The bill also would require the commissioner to provide for
additional weight to be given to each OnRamps dual enrollment course. 6-1-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 1207 (P. King, Leo-Wilson) requires the parenting and paternity awareness program that
a public school district must use in its high school health curriculum and may use in its
middle or junior high school curriculum to include information related to adoption, including
information specified in the bill. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 1241 (Middleton, Leo-Wilson) revises the criteria that an applicant must meet to qualify
for automatic admission as an undergraduate student at a general academic teaching
institution. 5-23-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 1332 (Hancock, Hull) relates to a group health benefit plan policy or contract holder’s
obligation to pay premiums on behalf of an individual after the individual’s eligibility for group
coverage terminates. 5-21-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 1366 (Nichols, King) requires the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation (TCLR)
by rule to require that information relating to construction or maintenance work zones be
included in the curriculum of each driver education course or driving safety course. 5-19-25
Signed by the Governor; 9-1-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 1418 (Campbell, Ashby) addresses the terminology and evaluation methods related to
assessment instruments administered to Texas public school students. It replaces the term
ACT-Plan with PreACT throughout the Education Code. The bill tasks the commissioner of
education with determining how satisfactory performance on the PreACT will equate with
other assessments for fulfilling end-of-course (EOC) requirements. If a student does not
meet satisfactory performance standards on the PreACT, they will be required to take the
appropriate EOC assessment. The bill states that the PreACT is included in the list of
acceptable college preparation assessments. Section 39.202 is also revised to include the
PreACT when evaluating the performance of students for the purpose of academic
distinction designations concerning postsecondary readiness. The updated criteria require
tracking and acknowledging student success in relation to the PreACT. 5-27-25 Signed by
the Governor; 5-24-25 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 1453 (Bettencourt, Meyer) authorizes the governing body of a taxing unit to approve a
debt rate that exceeds the debt rate for the taxing unit as determined under relevant
provisions of the Tax Code for calculating the debt rate if at least 60 percent of the governing
body’s members approved a motion that: stated the determined and proposed rates and the
difference between the two rates; and described the purpose for which the excess revenue
collected from the proposed rate will be used. 5-27-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 1494 (Johnson, Anchia) amends the deadline from December 31, 2016, to 2025, by
which a governing body of a political subdivision that held its general election for officers on
a date other than the November uniform election date could change the date of its election to
the November election date. The bill also would specify that a governing body could only
 change the date of its election to the November uniform election date in odd-numbered
years. 6-20-25 Signed by the Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 1502 (Bettencourt, Troxclair) prohibits the governing body of a public school district from
adopting, without an election, a tax rate in response to a disaster, including a tornado,
hurricane, flood, wildfire, or other calamity, but not including a drought, epidemic, or
pandemic, that has impacted the district, for certain tax years. 5-27-25 Signed by the
Governor; 1-1-26 Earliest Effective Date
 SB 1619 (Zaffirini, Cortez) expands and clarifies regulations surrounding the maintenance
and administration of epinephrine delivery devices in Texas. 5-19-25 Signed by the
Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 1858 (Hagenbuch, Leach) defines a law enforcement agency for the purposes of the
bulletproof vest and body armor program as an agency of the state or an agency of a
political subdivision of the state authorized by law to employ peace officers, including an
independent school district. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 1952 (Paxton, Hull) requires HHSC to oversee the participation of local education
agencies as SHARS program providers, including administering provider training and
providing information and guidance regarding the program to those providers, including on
applicable federal and state regulatory requirements. Read more. 5-22-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 2185 (Hinojosa, Dutton) mandates school districts benefiting from exceptions to submit
additional data on their alternative language education methods to TEA. It establishes a
structured system for financial support, wherein the agency reviews and approves districts
for funding, capping the total allotment at $10 million per biennium. 5-22-25 Sent to the
Governor
 SB 2237 (Bettencourt, Bell, Cecil) requires a political subdivision that enters an employment
agreement, or renewal or renegotiation of an existing agreement, that provides for severance
pay with an executive employee to include: a requirement that severance paid from tax
revenue could not exceed the compensation the employee would have been paid for 20
weeks, excluding paid time off or vacation leave; and a prohibition of severance pay if the
employee was terminated for misconduct. For purposes of the bill, an executive employee of
a political subdivision would mean a chief executive officer (CEO) of a political subdivision
other than a school district, an agency or department head, a school district superintendent,
or a charter school CEO. 5-27-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 2314 (Creighton, Wilson) requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to
create, maintain, and administer, as a direct admissions and financial aid portal, an
electronic platform and submission portal, known as My Texas Future (MyTexasFuture.Org),
to facilitate the awareness and application of public high school students into institutions of
higher education. 5-19-25 Signed by the Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 2398 (Campbell, Cunningham) requires TEA to: develop a list of nonmedical academic
accommodations a public school district may offer to a student diagnosed with a concussion
or other brain injury; develop a form for use by districts describing the accommodations a
district may offer; and make the form available on TEA’s website for use by districts, district
educators or administrators, students, and parents or guardians. Districts providing these
accommodations must make the form describing the available accommodations available to
employees and students under certain conditions. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 2520 (Bettencourt, Noble) revises statutory provisions relating to the limitation on the
total amount of property taxes imposed by a public school district on the residence
homestead of an individual who is disabled or elderly. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 2786 (Creighton, Lambert) exempts certain students from assessment requirements
under the Texas Success Initiative. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SB 2929 (Creighton, Louderback) allows referees, judges, and other officials at school
extracurricular athletic activities to eject spectators without first issuing a verbal warning. 5-
19-25 Signed by the Governor; Effective Immediately
 SB 2986 (Campbell, Leach) authorizes a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or
institution of higher education to allow a religious organization to use the district’s or school’s
facilities to a host religious worship, services, sermons, or assemblies under certain
conditions. 6-1-25 Sent to the Governor
 SJR 2 (Bettencourt, Meyer) proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of
the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district. 11-4-
25 Election date
 SJR 34 (Hughes, Frank) proposes a constitutional amendment protecting the right of parents
to raise their children. 11-4-25 Election Date