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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SB2Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

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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SB4Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

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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SB10Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

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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SB12Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

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.

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SB13Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

SB13 gives parents access to school library catalogs and checkout information, lets them restrict their own child’s borrowing, and creates district-w…

Official caption: Relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the establishment of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials.

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SB23Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

SB23 raises the extra residence-homestead exemption for an adult who is disabled or is 65 or older from $10,000 to $60,000.

Official caption: Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the appraised value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.

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SB24Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

SB24 directs the State Board of Education to adopt appropriate social-studies knowledge and skills for grades 4–12 that develop students' understandi…

Official caption: Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.

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SB25Signed by governor

Regular session · Source-checked explanation published

SB25 combines nutrition education, protections for school physical activity, professional continuing education and a food-warning-label requirement.

Official caption: Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.

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SB26Did not become law

Regular session · Explanation in preparation

Relating to public education, including the rights and compensation of public school educators and funding for teacher compensation under the Foundation School Program.

Official report Senate author(s): Creighton

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