SB769

SB769 directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to report to the Legislature by December 1, 2027 on college enrollment and success for students with disabilities. The report must address, to the extent practicable, enrollment numbers and percentages, enrollment barriers, supportive institutional policies, accessibility services and accommodations, information institutions provide about legal rights, and recommendations for action. Required report and contents.

The law covers students protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. It uses those federal coverage rules rather than creating a new medical-diagnosis list. The federal definition includes physical or mental impairments substantially limiting major life activities and specified record-of or regarded-as coverage, subject to the federal rules and limitations. SB769 is a reporting law, not a replacement for those protections or a new guarantee of admission or a particular accommodation. State-law coverage reference; ADA disability definition; Section 504.

Covered public higher-education institutions must provide necessary information when the board requests it. The board may request information from covered private or independent institutions, but this act does not impose the same mandatory-response wording on them. The report concerns both categories. Subsections (c)–(d); Institutional definitions.

Signed May 20, 2025, the act took effect September 1, 2025; the House’s 97 yes votes did not meet the 100 needed for the immediate-effect clause. The new reporting section expires September 1, 2028. That expiration ends this reporting provision, not the federal disability-rights laws. Vote certifications, effective-date clause and expiration; Official effective date.