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HB2 is a broad Texas public-school law, not just a single teacher raise.
Official caption: Relating to public education and public school finance.
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HB27 makes personal financial literacy a required part of the foundation high-school program for students entering ninth grade in 2026–27 or later.
Official caption: Relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public schools.
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HB33 requires schools and emergency agencies to prepare, coordinate, train and learn from responses to school shootings.
Official caption: Relating to active shooter incidents at primary and secondary school facilities and other emergencies.
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HB42 raises annual Higher Education Fund allocations from $393.75 million to $590.625 million—a 50% increase—and redistributes that money among eligi…
Official caption: Relating to the amount and allocation of the annual constitutional appropriation to certain agencies and institutions of higher education and to the permissible uses of that money.
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HB102 gives qualifying ROTC, corps-of-cadets and maritime-academy students access to early registration when their public higher-education institutio…
Official caption: Relating to early registration for students in military-related programs at public institutions of higher education.
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HB117 creates a temporary governor’s task force to review how Texas agencies manage early-childhood education and care and recommend improvements.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the governor's task force on the governance of early childhood education and care.
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HB120 expands support for career pathways and certain students finishing college-linked programs after high school, and requires more information abo…
Official caption: Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program.
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HB121 updates Texas public-school safety requirements.
Official caption: Relating to measures for ensuring public school safety, including the commissioning of peace officers by the Texas Education Agency, the composition of the board of directors of the Texas School Safety Center, and public school safety and security requirements and resources.
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HB126 loosens several Texas restrictions on compensation for college athletes’ name, image and likeness, often called NIL: payment for using an athle…
Official caption: Relating to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student athletes and student athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher education.
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HB127 creates a university research-security council and rules for covered public higher-education institutions on foreign gifts, partnerships, resea…
Official caption: Relating to measures to protect institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; increasing a criminal penalty.
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HB148 creates an annual training requirement for appraisal-district directors in counties with 75,000 or more residents.
Official caption: Relating to the qualification of candidates for, and the training and education of members of, the board of directors of an appraisal district.
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HB210 creates a criminal offense for a vendor bidding on or receiving a school-district or open-enrollment charter-school contract when specified fin…
Official caption: Relating to contracting with a school district or open-enrollment charter school by a vendor with whom a member of the board of trustees or governing body of the district or school or a related individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal offense.
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HB322 expands the permitted uses of Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grants to include acquiring, implementing and maintaining technology needed t…
Official caption: Relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program.
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HB367 requires school districts to adopt a physician-certification form for absences caused by a student’s serious or life-threatening illness or rel…
Official caption: Relating to verification of excused absences from public school for students with severe or life-threatening illnesses.
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HB549, the Westyn Bryan Mandrell Act, requires a school district to make at least one suitable airway-clearance device available at each district cam…
Official caption: Relating to the availability and use of airway clearance devices at public school campuses and to contracts for medication for respiratory distress and training at public schools.
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HB718 bars a Texas public institution of higher education from signing a partnership contract to build student housing with a private entity that has…
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting a public institution of higher education from partnering with certain private entities for the construction of a student housing facility.
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HB791 directs the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to issue specialty license plates displaying “With Loyal Hearts” along the bottom and the Centra…
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of Central Catholic High School specialty license plates.
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HB824 directs the State Board of Education to include specific civic knowledge when it adopts the standards for the government component of high-scho…
Official caption: Relating to the inclusion of civics instruction in public school government curriculum requirements for high school students.
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HB1022 removes the description of Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College as an “upper-level” educational center.
Official caption: Relating to the course levels offered at Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College.
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HB1105 requires Texas public higher-education institutions to waive tuition and laboratory fees for a student employed as a paramedic by a Texas poli…
Official caption: Relating to the exemption of tuition and laboratory fees at public institutions of higher education for certain paramedics.
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The Caytlin Handley Act requires a school district to give the parent or legal guardian of a student with an intellectual disability or developmental…
Official caption: Relating to the provision of information regarding a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to the parents or guardians of certain special education students.
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HB1211 extends the qualifying enrollment deadline for a Texas public-college tuition-and-fee exemption from a student's 25th birthday to their 27th b…
Official caption: Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain students who were under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1458 expands who can fill the armed-security-officer role under the existing school-district campus requirement.
Official caption: Relating to the armed security officers required to be present at public schools and the appointment of reserve police officers by a school district police department.
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HB1481 requires school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to adopt, implement and comply with a written policy prohibiting student use of …
Official caption: Relating to school district and open-enrollment charter school policies regarding student use of personal communication devices.
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A student enrolled in a Texas massage school must have a permit that includes a photograph of the student's face.
Official caption: Relating to massage student permits.
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HB1586 makes the state's blank immunization-exemption affidavit available to print online without supplying personal information to obtain it.
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from required immunizations for school enrollment.
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HB1851 lets qualifying school districts receive surplus Department of Public Safety vehicles and other law-enforcement equipment through an existing …
Official caption: Relating to the disposition of certain surplus motor vehicles and other law enforcement equipment by the Texas Facilities Commission to certain school districts.
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HB1868 requires a study—not an immediate reduction in the dual-credit funding threshold.
Official caption: Relating to a study on changes to performance tier funding for dual credit or dual enrollment courses under the public junior college state finance program and the capacity of the state's workforce to teach dual credit or dual enrollment courses.
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HB2081 establishes the Building Better Futures Program to support inclusive college-based education, occupational skills training and services for st…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Building Better Futures Program to support educational and occupational skills training opportunities and support services for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities at public and private institutions of higher education.
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HB2495 expressly adds the right to designate a child’s school and enroll the child there, subject to the school’s eligibility and admissions requirem…
Official caption: Relating to certain rights of a child or a parent or the sole managing conservator of a child in relation to the child's enrollment in school.
