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Bill NumberAuthorCaptionSummaryNotes
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HB 29MurrRelating to the elimination of school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes and the creation of a joint interim committee on the elimination of those taxeseliminating M&O, keeping enrichment, forming committee to understand if consumption (sales) tax could replace M&ONon-official draft (no lege council signature) - wanted low bill number
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hb 31HinojosaRelating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance systemreplaces "average attendance" with "average enrollment"
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hb 34TothRelating to a public school classroom safety review and referral program for students who engage in violent criminal conduct; creating a criminal offense.Creates classroom safety review program and classroom safety review board to determine appropriate punishment for students who have committed violent crime
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HB 36TalaricoRelating to the membership of a public school's threat assessment and safe and supportive school team and committee and the permissible uses of the school safety allotment under the public school finance system.Removes the ability to pay for security from the school safety allotment
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HB 37González, MRelating to the creation of the Texas Commission on Assessment and Accountability.Creates commission modeled after the school finance and special education commissions. Report would be due December 2024. Commission must include ways for the accountability system to go beyond standardized test measures. Non-lege council draft
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HB 43SpillerRelating to the repeal of or limitations on certain state and local taxes, including school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes, the enactment of state and local value added taxes, and related school finance reform; imposing taxes.Removes all M&O taxing authority of school districts after 2028 if district voters approve removal. Schools districts submit budgets to commissioner who prepares report to lege on how much is needed to fund schools with all current (2023) funding levels.
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HB 45Morales, CRelating to ethnic studies instruction in public schools.
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HB 60VasutRelating to the inclusion of instruction regarding the beginning of human life in the health curriculum for public school students.
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HB 62TalaricoRelating to establishing an Office of Early Childhood to coordinate, consolidate and integrate early childhood programs
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HB 72ZweinerRelating to the instruction about bullying and harassment in the required health curriculum for public school students.
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HB 74BernalRelating to the establishment of the Texas Teacher Recruitment Scholarship Program and the Texas Teacher Retention Incentive Program.
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HB 83ZweinerRelating to authorizing the use of a writing portfolio assessment to assess writing performance for public school students.
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HB 86Morales, CRelating to required maintenance on heating and air conditioning systems at public school instructional facilities and to the liability of certain facilities handling hazardous substances for damages caused to public schools.Makes school district liable for cleaning and repairing all filters of all air conditioning systems in all schools.
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HB 97BernalRelating to certain public school instructional requirements and prohibitions and the incorporation of certain instructional activities as part of student courseworkRepeals all measures of sb 3 (87(2)) Toths CRT bill
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HB 98MoodyRelating to the provision of on-campus mental health services by a school district and reimbursement under Medicaid for certain services provided to eligible students.Allows district to contract with local mental health authority to provide mental health services on campus
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HB 99González, MRelating to digital citizenship instruction in public schools.
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HB 108CortezRelating to privileged parking and the issuance of specialty license plates for certain classroom teachers and retired classroom teachers; imposing a fee.Exempts retired teachers with at least 20 years in teaching from parking fees from government issued meters
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HB 114Thompson, EdRelating to the possession of e-cigarettes on public school property or at certain school events; creating a criminal offense.Creates a class b misdemeanor for possessing more than 5 e-cigarettes on campus
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HB 128BernalRelating to the exemption of certain school district and open-enrollment charter school employees from jury service.
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HB 131MurrRelating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day.
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HB 133González, MRelating to prohibiting the use of certain restraints on students enrolled in public schools who receive special education services.
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HB 135BernalRelating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system.Switches ADA to enrollment (similar to Hinojosa bill)
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HB 158NobleRelating to the confidentiality of certain information held by the Texas Education Agency.Requires personal information of teachers to be confidentail
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HB 160BucyRelating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a biennial study on providing additional cost-of-living adjustments based on the effects of increased inflation.COLA for TRS
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HB 166González, MRelating to the appointment of an educational representative for certain students with disabilities.This bill relates to the appointment of an educational representative for certain students with disabilities upon the student’s 18th birthday.
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HB 174OliversonRelating to the allocation and deposit of certain surplus state revenue to the property tax relief fund for use in reducing school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes.Deposits 90% of GR funds above 104 percent of the total amount of general rev funds receiveds during the preceding biennium
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HB 185González, MRelating to the inclusion of chronically absent students as students at risk of dropping out of school and the collection and reporting of data regarding those students.Adds chronically absent students to at-risk category; defines as more than ten days absent in six-week grading period
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HB 195González, MRelating to provisions and plans by public schools to ensure the safety of individuals with disabilities during a disaster or emergency situation.
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HB 201KlickRelating to a requirement to report through the Public Education Information Management System the number of students transported from a school district or open-enrollment charter school for a mental health emergency detention.
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HB 202BucyRelating to a pay raise for certain state employees.Gives every employee of a state agency a $10,000 raise (or proportional raise if part-time)
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HB 221TothRelating to a requirement that an election for a member of a board of trustees of an independent school district is partisan.requires candidate to disclose the political party they are aligned with and if they are not aligned with a political party to state that on application; also moves election to general election date for state and county officers and only allows for four year terms with elections occuring biennially with one half of board being up for election.
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HB 229CortezRelating to the issuance of Central Catholic High School specialty license plates."Money deposited to that account may be used only by the Texas Education Agency to make grants to a nonprofit organization for the purpose of providing education services."
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HB 231SwansonRelating to the purchase of online library resources for primary and secondary schools by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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HB 249RogersRelating to a school security volunteer program in certain counties.Allows for certain retired law enforcement officers to provide school security in schools located in counties with less than 150k pop
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HB 263BernalRelating to the requirements for the revision of a charter for an open-enrollment charter school.Limits the amount of times a charter can apply for expansion and limits allowable expansion to charters who serve the average special education students in the state and in the largest ISD in the county
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HB 268TothRelating to the repeal of or limitations on certain state and local taxes, including school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes, the enactment of state and local value added taxes, and related school finance reform; imposing taxes.Same as Spiller's tax bill (HB 43)
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HB 272Johnson, JRelating to the terminology used to refer to an individualized education program team.Changes ARD committee to IEP Team
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HB 277SwansonRelating to abolishing certain county boards of education, boards of county school trustees, and offices of county school superintendent.Each county board of education, board of county school trustees, and office of county school superintendent in a county with a population of 3.3 million or more is abolished effective September 1, 2025,
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HB 285BernalRelating to the expulsion of public school students for engaging in conduct that constitutes serious offenses.
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HB 301RogersRelating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.COLA for TRS
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HB 313BernalRelating to the compensatory education allotment for homeless students or students in foster care under the Foundation School Program.increases weight for homeless and foster care students to 2.41
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HB 316BernalRelating to social work services in public schools.Defines school social worker
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HB 323BucyRelating to requiring fine arts as part of the foundation curriculum for public schools.
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HB 331HowardRelating to the costs of expansion of open-enrollment charter schools.Commissioner cannot approve charter expansion without adjusting total amounts due to each school district and charter. Charters must report number of students enrolled and their total student capacity
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HB 332CanalesRelating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
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HB 333BucyRelating to the establishment of the School Psychologists Shortage Task Force.
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HB 337BucyRelating to eliminating certain state-required end-of-course assessment instruments not required by federal law and eliminating graduation requirements based on satisfactory performance on certain end-of-course assessment instruments.
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HB 338OliversonRelating to content ratings for books and other written materials used in public schools.Requiring publishers to include content rating to books in order to sell to schools
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HB 339HowardRelating to voter registration application forms in high schools.
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HB 341GoodwinRelating to funding for small and mid-sized open-enrollment charter schools.Limits the small and mid-sized allotment applying to charter schools under 5k and to the average of the allotment for the districts in the county
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HB 342BucyRelating to providing free full-day prekindergarten for certain children.Free PreK for all four years olds
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HB 345GoodwinRelating to the requirements for a request for the revision of a charter for an open-enrollment charter school.Requires the commissioner to report on charter expansions to the SBOE. Report includes if the charter the commissioner is approving for expansion has: served a similar demographic as the schools in the same county, approximate revenue loss over the next ten years for neighboring schools, and any additional costs the state may take on. SBOE must meet 90 days within the notice given from the commissioner and vote against the charter to stop the expansion or the expansion is considered approved. Commissioner must also report to the state the amount of additional cost to the state.
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HB 346JettonRelating to a sales and use tax exemption for school supplies purchased by a teacher.Allows for a sales tax exemption for teachers of public, private, or charter schools purchasing school supplies under $100
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HB 348BucyRelating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system.Switches ADA to Average Enrollment. Requires that the agency use the enrollment at the first day of every semester to calculate average enrollment.
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HB 358JettonRelating to a study and report regarding optimal school district size and academic effectiveness.Report would be due December 2024
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HB 360TothRelating to requiring the disclosure of certain information regarding public school teaching materials and activities.Requires school districts on the 5th day of every month to make available to the public or upload to school website a list of, disaggregated by subjects and grade-level, all information or teaching material that was assigned, distributed, or otherwise presented to the district's students during a class in which the student received credit or an eductional event the student is required to attend. All information must be maintain for at least a year and the district must make public how they document, review, and approve materials. If requested by the parents of five different students (who are not siblings), the school must conduct a review of the material to ensure it is appropriate for the grade level used and aligned with the TEKS. This is not required for schools with under 300 enrollment or less than 50 enrolled at a campus.
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HB 363HowardRelating to the establishment of a task force to study the effect of delayed school start times on students.Study the impact of school start times
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HB 364BucyRelating to the inclusion of information about the process of voting as part of the social studies curriculum requirements for public high school students.Requires school districts to include at least one lesson on voting, including exposure to and using the voting machines used in the county they are located in. To the extent possible seek help from county officials.
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HB 368Johnson, JarvisRelating to the establishment of the African American studies advisory board by the State Board of Education.The SBOE shall establish and maintain an African American studies advisory board for the purpose of broadening the content in social studies, African American studies, and any other identified courses to include citizenship, culture, economics, science, technology, geography, and politics as they relate to the history of African Americans.
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HB 377BucyRelating to establishing a joint select committee to study the feasibility and sustainability of providing a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
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HB 391GoldmanRelating to the repeal of the franchise tax.
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HB 395HowardRelating to requiring public schools to use the wet bulb globe temperature to determine whether conditions are unsatisfactory for student outdoor activities due to severe heat.Districts shall utlize "wet bulb globe temperature" which means a comprehensive measurement of environmental conditions that accounts for ambient temperature, relative humidity, wind, and solar radiation. Districts shall use this to determine satisfactory or unsatisfactory conditions outside activities, including: athlelic activities, recess, extracurricular activities conducted outdoors or other related activities.
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HB 429SchofieldRelating to annual cost-of-living increases applicable to benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.Increases benefit by with inflation
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HB 453SchofieldRelating to the use of public schools as polling place locations.school district and fails to make the building available in accordance with Subsection (c) (section describing public polling place), the district may not designate the building as a polling place for an election for the board of trustees or for a school district bond election until after the fifth anniversary of the date of the election in which the district failed to comply with this section
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HB 459HullRelating to prohibiting the physical restraint of or use of chemical irritants on certain public school students by peace officers and school security personnel under certain circumstances.Prohibits school security officials from using restraint or mace on children under 10
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HB 473HullRelating to parental rights regarding a threat assessment of a student conducted by a public school's threat assessment and safe and supportive school team.Require a parent to be notified when a district is conducting a threat assessment on their child. District shall provide an opportunity for the parent to participate in-person or remotely in the assessment, submit to the team information regarding the assessment, the team shall present the threat assessment results to the parent once they are done.
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HB 478HullRelating to parental approval for a student's participation in human sexuality instruction in public schools.Makes the requirement for parents to opt in to human sexuality permanent
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HB 498MezaRelating to policies and procedures for addressing bullying and harassment in public schools.Adds harrassment to bullying statute, required anti-bully curriculum, defines harrassment as "AConduct that constitutes bullying or harassment may include conduct that occurs due to: (1) another student ’s actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, or religion; (2) a distinguishing characteristic of another student; or (3) a student ’s association with a person or group with one or more of the actual or perceived characteristics described by Subdivisions (1) and (2).
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HB 508 PattersonRelating to the academic assessment of public school students.Gets rid of end of course exams and replaces them with an assment that satisfies the requirements for academic assesment of secondary "exit-level" assessment starting in 2025
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HB 516WuRelating to requiring a school district or open-enrollment charter school to report data regarding certain disciplinary or law enforcement actions taken against students.Requires superintendent to submit no later than the 60th day after the last day of school a full report to the agency of all of the security and discipline related incidents that occured in the district (from teacher requests for students to visit behavioral therapists to sending student to JJAEP, etc, anything involving security or discipline)
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HB 529BailesRelating to eligibility for appointment to the board of managers of a school district or open-enrollment charter school.A person cannot be appointed to the board of managers unless they are eligible to be elected to the board of directors of the school district
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HB 531BailesRelating to the management and operation of open-enrollment charter schools, including certain contracts involving management and operation.
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HB 557VasutRelating to the establishment of an educational expenses reimbursement program.Creates a voucher - calls it a "reimbursement" for any and all educational expenses the parent makes related to education incuding tuition, tutoring, hardware, and therapies.
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HB 574Leo-WilsonRelating to the inclusion of instruction regarding the beginning of human life in the health curriculum for public school students.
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HB 577Leo-WilsonRelating to the repeal of or limitations on certain state and local taxes, including school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes, the enactment of state and local value added taxes, and related school finance reform; imposing taxes.Same as HB 43 and HB 268
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HB 579BurnsRelating to procedures for the alternative assessment of certain public school students that receive special education services and alternative accountability plans for certain campuses.AS filed: This bill would allow the parent or person standing in parental relation to a student with significant cognitive disabilities to request that their student be exempted from the administration of an alternative assessment. If requested, the student's admission, review and dismissal (ARD) committee would work with the parent to determine if the student should be exempted. If exempted, the student would then be assessed using an alternative method. The commissioner would develop an alternative assessment method for each applicable subject and adopt rules to necessary to implement the alternative assessment methods. Specialized support campuses would be identified as those campuses in which 90% of student receive special education services and a significant percentage of the students either take an alternative assessment or are unable to provide an authentic academic response on the assessment instrument. The commissioner, along with stakeholders, would establish appropriate accountability guidelines for specialized support campuses to create an alternative accountability plan based on the specific student population served by the campus. By December 1, 2026, the Commissioner would submit to state leaders a report regarding the evaluation of specialized support campuses. Was a refile from last session; Disability Rights registered against.
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HB 628ShaheenRelating to creating a temporary educator certification for certain military service members.Allows for retired or honorable discharged military service members to be granted a temporary teaching certification for no more than five years, not subject to renewal, and will have a mentor teacher for the first two years of teaching.
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HB 699FrankRelating to determining the student enrollment of a public school that allows non-enrolled students to participate in University Interscholastic League activities for purposes of assigning a University Interscholastic League classification.When assigning league classification to a public school based on student enrollment, the league must use the same student enrollment calculation formula for a school that allows a non-enrolled student to participate in a league activity as the formula used to determine the student enrollment of a school that does not allow a non-enrolled student to participate in the league activity
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HB 768AllenRelating to the use of personal leave during school holidays by school district employees.A school district employee with available PTO can utilize those PTO on days that are designated school holidays to earn pay
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HB 890BellRelating to school district hearings regarding complaintsComplains must be given an initial administrative hearing, an opportunity to appeal the decision from the hearing, and a resolution within 120 calendar days.
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HB 900PattersonRelating to the regulation of books sold to or included in public schoolAs filed, this bill (Redistricting Explicit and Adult-Designated Educational Resources – shall be known as “READER”) requires The TX State Library and Archives Commission in consultation with SBOE to adopt standards for school districts to consider in developing, implementing, or expanding library services related to “sexually explicit material…that describes or portrays sexual conduct…in a patently offensive way.” And…goes on to require schoolbook vendors provide a “Rating” for books with sexually “explicit” behavior sold in the previous year. (Book Ratings: Somewhat similar to HB 338).
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HB 920Klicklibraries.The bill would expand the authorization of school personnel and volunteers that may provide respiratory distress medication, like albuterol. An advisory committee would advise on the training for personnel and volunteers to administer the medication. The bill would remove the requirement that a school nurse must have written notification from a parent or guardian that a student has been diagnosed as having asthma. ----Schools would be required to refer the student to the student’s primary care physician on the day medication is administered and inform the student’s parent or guardian of the referral, if the school does not have notification from the student’s parent or guardian on an asthma diagnosis. ----- Schools would be required to report specific information within 10 days on the administration of the medication for respiratory distress. The bill would also permit individuals who act in good faith in administering, ordering, supervising, processing, prescribing, or dispending any respiratory distress medication, to be immune from civil or criminal liability or disciplinary actionSame as SB 294 Johnson that was heard last week in Senate Education
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HB 1002PriceRelating to the membership of a public school concussion oversight team and the removal of a public school student from an interscholastic athletic activity on the basis of a suspected concussion.Adds physical therapist to the concussion oversight team as long as the PT has gone through concussion training as required in statuteSenate Companion to SB 1261
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HB 1067VanDeaverRelating to the detachment and annexation of school district territory by petition.Requires hearings on annexation/detachment of parts of a school district to be presented to each board of trustees the annexation impacts 30 days after the first petition is submitted/requested. Within 10 days the board of trustees must post the info publically and within 15 days of the hearing, must share any impact to the community. If the board fails to adopt changes within 45 days it is considered to be rejected.
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HB 1212JettonRelating to verification of excused absences from public school for the purpose of observing religious holy days.School district cannot require documentation from Clergy member and must accept note from the student's parent/guardian
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HB 1225MetcalfRelating to the administration of certain required assessment instruments in paper format.Parent/Guardian may request that standardized tests (including EoCs) are given in paper format
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HB 1297DuttonRelating to vision screenings for students in public or private school.Defines electronic eye chart in statute and allows an electronic eye chart to be used for eye screenings
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HB 1416BellRelating to accelerated instruction provided to public school students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments.As filed, the bill makes several adjustments to the requirements that were established in HB 4545, including:

- authorizes parental opt outs of accelerated learning requirements; - limits supplemental accelerated instruction requirements to reading and math; - requires 15 hours minimum accelerated instruction with a 30 hour average; - relaxes the student/teacher ratio to 4:1; - eliminates accelerated learning committees and instead requires written plans for students who remain below grade level for 2 or more years; - requires tutoring only when a district receives compensatory education funding and eliminates requirements if there is no funding source. 		Recommend BCEC Support; Senate Companion to Paxton SB 1261
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HB 1605BuckleyRelating to instructional material and technology, the adoption and
revision of essential knowledge and skills of the public school foundation
curriculum, and creating allotments for the procurement of certain
instructional materials under the Foundation School Program; authorizing a fee.		This bill relates to the curation of instructional materials and technology; the adoption and revision of TEKS and creates an allotment for the procurement of certain instructional materials including authorizing a fee.
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HB 1614DuttonRelating to the eligibility for free prekindergarten programs in public schools of certain children who are eligible for the subsidized child-care program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission.Allows for a child who is at least three years old to be eligible to enroll in state-provided PreK if they are enrolled in a partnership between a school district or open-enrollment charter school and a community based provider that is Nationally accredited, Texas Rising Star Program provider with a three-star certification or higher, Texas School Ready! participant, a head start provider, or high-quality prek provider OR child care provided through TWC
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HB 1662BurnsRelating to certain requirements and procedures regarding the posting of a school district's employment policy on the district's Internet website.Any employee policy that is adopted by the school board, including compensation plans,
employee leave conditions and procedures, and professional development requirements must be posted on the district website once the policy is adopted.
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HB 1789BuckleyRelating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.As filed, the bill provides an exception to the nepotism law for the hiring of a bus driver, if the board of trustees approves.
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HB 1883BhojaniAdds All Saints Day, Christmas, Diwali, Eid al-Adha, Eidal-Fitr, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, Vaisakhi, Vesak, and Yom Kippur to the days an assessment cannot be given.
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HB 1955BuckleyRelating to establishing residency for purposes of admission into public schools.Moves notice of attending the district from 10 days to 90 daysSenate Companion - SB 1008 from Senator Flores
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HB 2162DuttonRelating to reading instruction, assessment instruments, and interventions provided to public school students.*Non-lege Council draft* Bans the use of the three-cueing system and defines it in statute; requires the commission to adopt reading instruments - which must include foundational literacy compenents, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension - to assess k-3 reading abilities, including whether they are a disk for dyslexia or have reading difficulties. Reading instrucments may be given no more than three times a year. Superintendent must report on results of instruments no more than 30 days after results, and based on results districts must implement reading interventions that consist of HQIMs, are implemented during school hours without taking students out of other classes, be provided by teacher who has attending a reading academy, can monitor the progress of reading abilities. District must report to parents AND contract with third-party tutoring service which the parent can choose but must be no more than $1000. Commissioner must include this info in his early education report. Removes requirement to only complete elements of bill if money is appropriated.
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HB 2484GuillenRelating to the safety of a referee, judge, or other official at a public school extracurricular activity and prohibiting certain conduct by a spectator related to those officials' safety.Bans a spectator of a UIL competition, including a parent/guardian, if that person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes bodily injury to the referee, judge, or other UIL official in retaliation for or as a result of the officials actions taken in performing their UIL duties
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HB 2729HarrisRelating to staff member requirements for high quality prekindergarten
programs.		Each preK supervisor must be certified and every PreK teacher must have a child development associate or early childhood credential or montessori credential. A entity that contracts with a school district must also "attempt to maintain" a average ratio in any preK class of one certified teacher or aide to 11 students.
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HB 2923DuttonRelating to the operation of free prekindergarten programs by certain school districts and to the early education allotment under the Foundation School Program.As filed, the bill would require a school district to contract with a community-based child-care provider to provide prekindergarten if the commissioner determines that: (1) a district election for the purpose of issuing bonds for the construction or repurposing of a classroom facility to provide the prekindergarten class has failed in the 24 month; or (2) the district cannot adequately staff the prekindergarten class. The bill would provide an additional early education allotment for prekindergarten students served under any contract forced by the commissioner's actions in the amount of the basic allotment multiplied by 0.2 per ADA. The bill would apply beginning with the 2023-24 school year.
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HB 2929LozanoRelating to continuing education and training requirements for classroom teachers and public school counselors.*Non lege council draft* - Removes requirement of teachers to receive PD on special education, 504, students with mental health conditions, intellectual disability or biligual students from the 25% PD requirement every five years.