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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.
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.
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.
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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SB37 gives public-college governing boards and senior administrators more control over curriculum, leadership and faculty governance, and creates a s…
Official caption: Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman.
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SB57 strengthens school emergency planning for students and staff with disabilities or impairments.
Official caption: Relating to provisions and plans by public schools to ensure the safety of individuals with disabilities or impairments during a mandatory school drill or a disaster or emergency situation.
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SB60 lets public junior-college libraries donate certain low-value materials to any person or organization.
Official caption: Relating to the disposition by a public junior college library of certain library materials.
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SB204 requires a plain-language parental-rights handbook and parental-rights training for school-district trustees.
Official caption: Relating to a handbook on parental rights in education and training requirements on parental rights in education for a member of the board of trustees of a school district.
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SB207 expressly includes mental-health appointments in the school excused-absence rule for health-care appointments.
Official caption: Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to attend mental health care appointments.
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SB260 raises the school safety allotment’s base amounts from $10 to $20 per student in average daily attendance and from $15,000 to $33,540 per eligi…
Official caption: Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB314 restricts specified additives in free or reduced-price meals provided by Texas school districts and open-enrollment charter schools under the c…
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts.
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SB326 requires Texas public schools and public higher-education institutions to use the existing statutory definition of antisemitism, including its …
Official caption: Relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism.
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SB365 lets Texas public colleges offer a broader academic fresh start, but it does not require every college to use a five-year cutoff.
Official caption: Relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education is entitled to an academic fresh start.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB401 changes eligible home-school students’ access to UIL activities from a school opt-in to an opt-out system.
Official caption: Relating to participation by non-enrolled students in University Interscholastic League-sponsored activities.
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SB413 requires more visible records of independent school-district board meetings.
Official caption: Relating to the meetings of the boards of trustees of independent school districts.
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SB568 rewrites Texas special-education oversight, services and school funding.
Official caption: Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program.
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SB569 creates a new framework for public-school virtual and hybrid courses, programs and campuses.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of virtual education in public schools and to certain waivers and modifications by the commissioner of education to the method of calculating average daily attendance in an emergency or crisis for purposes of preserving school district funding entitlements under the Foundation School Program during that emergency or crisis; authorizing a fee.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB646 broadens mental-health professional student-loan repayment and raises the statutory assistance limits, subject to available funding and service…
Official caption: Relating to repayment of certain mental health professional education loans.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB769 directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to report to the Legislature by December 1, 2027 on college enrollment and success for st…
Official caption: Relating to a report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding enrollment and success in higher education for students with disabilities.
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SB800 adds a required video to new-student sexual-misconduct policy orientations and adds the National Sexual Assault Hotline to student ID cards at …
Official caption: Relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking resources and policy orientation.
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SB826 makes driving while intoxicated in an active school crossing zone a state jail felony.
Official caption: Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB843 directs the Texas Education Agency to maintain a database of school bonds, taxes and bond-funded projects, including specified charter-school b…
Official caption: Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB865, the Landon Payton Act, expands school CPR certification and requires more detailed cardiac-emergency response plans.
Official caption: Relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators and to a cardiac emergency response plan for certain school employees and volunteers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB870 lets appointed school marshals openly carry a handgun while wearing a uniform identifying them as a school marshal.
Official caption: Relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school marshal.
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SB912 requires covered health-profession licensing agencies to verify continuing-education compliance before renewing a license and to establish elec…
Official caption: Relating to the verification of health care practitioner continuing education compliance through the establishment of continuing education tracking systems.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB920 allows school districts, open-enrollment charter schools and private schools to adopt policies permitting employees, including nurses, to give …
Official caption: Relating to the administration of nonprescription medications to certain public and private school students.
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SB965 adds an express protection for religious speech or prayer by school-district and open-enrollment charter-school employees while on duty.
Official caption: Relating to the right of a public school employee to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB991 adds chronic absence and qualifying truancy to the reasons a student under age 26 is classified as at risk of dropping out.
Official caption: Relating to the inclusion of chronically absent and truant students as students at risk of dropping out of school and the collection and reporting of data regarding those students.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1049 requires public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to allow qualifying absences for privately offered religious instruction.
Official caption: Relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of attending a released time course.
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SB1191 requires the education commissioner to develop a standard method for calculating high-school grade point averages, and requires school distric…
Official caption: Relating to the development of a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average.
