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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB2674

HB2674 prohibits the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education and other educational institutions described by Education Code Section 1.001(a) from adopting a rule or policy that regulates a home school’s educational progr…

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Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the regulation of home school programs.

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Official report lists House author(s): Cook, Luther, Leo Wilson, Buckley, Kerwin. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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HB2674 prohibits the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education and other educational institutions described by Education Code Section 1.001(a) from adopting a rule or policy that regulates a home school’s educational program.
The act applies beginning with the 2025–26 school year and took effect September 1, 2025.
This three-section act does not create a home-school funding entitlement, licensing program, curriculum standard or new criminal penalty.

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What does it do?

HB2674 prohibits the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education and other educational institutions described by Education Code Section 1.001(a) from adopting a rule or policy that regulates a home school’s educational program. The referenced subsection covers educational institutions supported wholly or partly by state tax funds unless the code specifically excludes them. The prohibition is directed at those bodies’ rules and policies; it is not worded as a repeal of every statute that can affect a home-school family. Final law, Section 1; covered-institution reference.

The act applies beginning with the 2025–26 school year and took effect September 1, 2025. Although the House supplied a two-thirds vote, the Senate’s 20–11 vote fell short of the 21 votes needed for immediate effect. The September date in the law therefore applies. Final law, Sections 2–3 and certified votes; history.

This three-section act does not create a home-school funding entitlement, licensing program, curriculum standard or new criminal penalty. It does not amend the compulsory-attendance exemption statute. Its effect in a dispute about a particular rule or another statute would depend on those provisions, not on treating the title as blanket immunity from law. Complete final law; attendance exemptions.

What changed along the way?

The introduced and House committee texts proposed prohibiting a rule that had the effect of increasing regulation, using the home-school-program reference in Section 29.916(a)(1). Cook’s amendment, adopted May 12, replaced that operative wording with the final prohibition on any adopted rule or policy that regulates a home-school educational program, specified Section 1.001(a) and changed the new section number to 1.010. The final text is therefore not merely the introduced “increasing regulation” formulation. Introduced; House text; Cook amendment.

Martinez Fischer’s amendment failed on May 12. It proposed an exception for regulation authorized by Education Code Chapter 29, Subchapter J, for an educational program paid for with state money distributed under that subchapter. That proposed exception is not in HB2674’s enacted text. Its rejection does not, by itself, establish the outcome of every question about conditions in a separate funding law. Full failed amendment; both dispositions.

The engrossed, Senate and enrolled texts retain Cook’s amendment without further substantive change. The House passed the bill 103–41, with two present and not voting, and the Senate passed it 20–11. Engrossed; Senate text; enrolled; text index.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Home-school families gain an express statutory protection against educational-program rules and policies from the covered bodies. Those institutions lose authority to adopt rules or policies within the prohibition’s scope. Supporters of parental control may value that protection, while people seeking additional educational oversight may view the restriction as limiting that option. The sources do not establish a change in student outcomes or quantify families’ avoided compliance costs. Final law.

The Legislative Budget Board’s May 15, 2025 engrossed fiscal note anticipates no state or local fiscal implication, as does its April 21 introduced note. Neither estimates private litigation costs or educational benefits. Engrossed fiscal note; introduced fiscal note.

Official sources

Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.