HB2310

HB2310 requires the Texas Education Agency, working with the Health and Human Services Commission and 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. The work must address inclusion in prekindergarten—including school-district/community child-care partnerships—early childhood special education and subsidized child care. The agencies must coordinate with state, regional and local agencies, the governor’s Texas Early Learning Council, nonprofits and relevant social-service providers. Final law, Section 1, subsections (a)–(b).

The plan must contain inclusion strategies signed by all three agency leaders, identify barriers and recommend needed changes to law, rules, guidance, funding and implementation. It must address provider staffing, training, sustainability and effectiveness; use of existing resources; smoother transitions from early childhood intervention to early childhood special education and then special education; and stronger partnerships among schools, child-care programs and intervention providers. These are required planning subjects, not a promise that every recommended legal or funding change has already been adopted. Final law, Section 1, subsection (c).

The initial plan had to be posted on all three agencies’ websites and submitted by TEA to the governor, lieutenant governor and House speaker by September 1, 2026. For later four-year plans, TEA must update and submit the plan by September 1 of the last state fiscal year covered by the existing plan; all three agencies must publish the update. The law took effect immediately on June 20, 2025 after receiving the required two-thirds votes. The initial publication deadline has passed, but this explanation does not certify whether the agencies met it. Final law, Section 1(d) and Sections 2–3; official history.