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HB2598 replaces the statutory title “licensed specialist in school psychology” with “school psychologist.” The renamed credential is still the licens…
Official caption: Relating to a school psychologist licensed under the Occupations Code.
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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)…
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the regulation of home school programs.
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HB2757 lets a school district's board adopt a policy allowing a child whose parent or guardian is an active-duty member of a foreign military force s…
Official caption: Relating to a public school policy for establishing age for purposes of admission into the school for certain children of foreign military members.
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HB2851 requires services that consolidate applications to medical or dental schools to include applications to Texas nursing schools, beginning with …
Official caption: Relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated application service.
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HB2853 removes the fixed dollar caps on the University of Texas at El Paso student-union fee.
Official caption: Relating to student union building fees at The University of Texas at El Paso.
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HB2856 directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to study whether regional online portals could help reserve clinical rotations at health…
Official caption: Relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on the feasibility of implementing a statewide system for coordinating clinical training placements.
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HB3041 changes how Texas public colleges evaluate students educated in nonaccredited private schools, including home schools, and expressly includes …
Official caption: Relating to measures to support the enrollment of students with a nontraditional secondary education at public institutions of higher education, including eligibility for certain student financial assistance programs.
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HB3062 requires Texas public higher-education institutions to provide entering undergraduates with research-based instruction on fentanyl prevention …
Official caption: Relating to fentanyl prevention and drug poisoning awareness education for students enrolled in public institutions of higher education.
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HB3126 created a one-time route back into the state school employee health coverage program for entities that left effective September 1, 2022.
Official caption: Relating to the election of certain entities to participate in the uniform group coverage program for active school employees; imposing a fee.
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HB3204 updates the law governing Sam Houston State University's Polytechnic College and opens specified education and workforce programs to it.
Official caption: Relating to the Polytechnic College at Sam Houston State University, including the college's eligibility to participate in certain programs.
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HB3254 lets qualifying current State Board of Education members and their dependents participate in the state employees group benefits program, but w…
Official caption: Relating to the eligibility of members of the State Board of Education and their dependents to participate in the state employees group benefits program.
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Beginning September 1, 2026, HB3307 expands which continuing-education courses may count when someone renews an agreement with the comptroller to arb…
Official caption: Relating to the continuing education required in order for a person to renew the person's agreement with the comptroller of public accounts to serve as an arbitrator in an appeal through binding arbitration of an appraisal review board order determining a protest.
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HB3372 limits financial benefits that school-district administrators may receive for personal services outside their district duties.
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting certain personal services performed by school district administrators; providing a civil penalty.
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HB3546 gives independent school districts statewide the option to move their general elections for officers from another date to the November uniform…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of an independent school district to change the date of the general election for officers.
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HB3627 allows the State Board of Education chair to hire personnel to help all board members perform the board's duties.
Official caption: Relating to allowing the chair of the State Board of Education to employ personnel to assist in performing the board's duties.
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HB3629 makes a person ineligible to serve as an independent school district trustee while required to register as a sex offender under Texas Code of …
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district.
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HB4044 expands Texas's historic-building rehabilitation tax-credit eligibility to include qualifying expenses of public higher-education institutions…
Official caption: Relating to certain expenditures by public institutions of higher education and university systems that are eligible for certain tax credits.
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HB4236 creates a six-member legislative study group to examine how the comptroller's school-district property-value study affects annual state school…
Official caption: Relating to the creation of a study group to evaluate the school district property value study conducted by the comptroller of public accounts.
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HB4361 directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules establishing standardized procedures for timely emergency notifications a…
Official caption: Relating to establishing policies regarding the timely issuance of emergency notifications at public institutions of higher education.
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HB4623 creates a civil route to hold an independent school district or open-enrollment charter school liable for specified misconduct involving an en…
Official caption: Relating to liability of public schools and professional school employees for sexual misconduct involving students.
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HB4687 extends school-district-style immunity protections to specified charter-school governing bodies and adult high school charter programs.
Official caption: Relating to the applicability of certain immunity and liability laws to certain charter school campuses or programs.
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HB4848 requires each public university system’s administration to ensure that one or more institutions in the system offer competency-based bachelor’…
Official caption: Relating to requiring that competency-based baccalaureate degree programs be offered at certain public institutions of higher education.
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HB4945 directs the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) to study alternative retirement benefits for Texas A&M Forest Service wildland firefighte…
Official caption: Relating to a study by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas on the feasibility of offering alternative service retirement benefits to certain members of the retirement system engaged in wildland firefighting or employed in positions related to wildland firefighting.
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HB5092 expands the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority's role at the former Reese Air Force Base to support national-security and critical-infrastr…
Official caption: Relating to the operation and dissolution of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority and to agreements between Texas Tech University and the authority.
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HB5180 requires a Texas public institution of higher education to give an eligible graduate two diplomas if the institution merged, was acquired by a…
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of a diploma to a student graduating from a public institution of higher education that has undergone a merger, acquisition, or name change.
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HB5646 entitles students at Texas public higher-education institutions to resident tuition and fee rates if they are enrolled and in good standing in…
Official caption: Relating to admission of and resident tuition rates and fees at public institutions of higher education for certain students in military-related programs.
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SB2 creates Texas education savings accounts: state-supported accounts that pay approved education providers, rather than unrestricted cash paid to p…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program.
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SB4 raises the general school-district residence-homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, removing another $40,000 of qualifying home value fro…
Official caption: Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.
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SB10 directs public elementary and secondary schools to display a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments in a conspicuous place in eve…
Official caption: Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
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SB12 expands parental access, consent and complaint procedures in public education while restricting defined diversity, equity and inclusion duties, …
Official caption: Relating to parental rights in public education, to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion duties, and social transitioning, and to student clubs at public schools.
