TX SB 609
died on adjournmentRelating to requiring independent school districts, home-rule school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools to comply with legally required policies.
Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · upper
- Introduced
- 2024-12-13
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2025-04-17 — Referred to Public Education
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Paxtonprimary
- Kingcosponsor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2024-12-13
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
filing,introduction
2024-12-13
Filed
filing
2025-02-03
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-02-03
Referred to Education K-16
referral-committee
2025-02-27
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-02-27
Considered in public hearing
2025-02-27
Testimony taken in committee
2025-02-27
Left pending in committee
2025-03-13
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-13
Vote taken in committee
2025-03-17
Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable
2025-03-17
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-03-24
Co-author authorized
2025-04-03
Placed on intent calendar
2025-04-08
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-04-08
Record vote
2025-04-08
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-04-08
Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction
2025-04-08
Amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure
2025-04-08
Record vote
2025-04-08
Passed to engrossment
2025-04-08
Record vote
2025-04-09
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-04-09
Record vote
2025-04-09
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-04-09
Passed
passage
2025-04-09
Record vote
2025-04-09
Reported engrossed
2025-04-10
Received from the Senate
introduction
2025-04-17
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-04-17
Referred to Public Education
referral-committee
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Votes
passage
2025-04-08 · pass · 22-8
Member-level votes (31)
- Bettencourt: yes
- Birdwell: yes
- Blanco: yes
- Campbell: yes
- Creighton: yes
- Flores: yes
- Hagenbuch: yes
- Hall: yes
- Hancock: yes
- A. Hinojosa: yes
- J. Hinojosa: yes
- Huffman: yes
- Hughes: yes
- Kolkhorst: yes
- Middleton: yes
- Nichols: yes
- Parker: yes
- Paxton: yes
- Perry: yes
- Schwertner: yes
- Sparks: yes
- Zaffirini: yes
- Alvarado: no
- Cook: no
- Eckhardt: no
- Gutierrez: no
- Johnson: no
- Menéndez: no
- Miles: no
- West: no
- King: absent
other
2025-04-08 · fail · 11-19
Member-level votes (31)
- Alvarado: yes
- Blanco: yes
- Cook: yes
- Eckhardt: yes
- Gutierrez: yes
- J. Hinojosa: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Menéndez: yes
- Miles: yes
- West: yes
- Zaffirini: yes
- Bettencourt: no
- Birdwell: no
- Campbell: no
- Creighton: no
- Flores: no
- Hagenbuch: no
- Hall: no
- Hancock: no
- A. Hinojosa: no
- Huffman: no
- Hughes: no
- Kolkhorst: no
- Middleton: no
- Nichols: no
- Parker: no
- Paxton: no
- Perry: no
- Schwertner: no
- Sparks: no
- King: absent
passage
2025-04-09 · pass · 23-7
Member-level votes (31)
- Bettencourt: yes
- Birdwell: yes
- Blanco: yes
- Campbell: yes
- Creighton: yes
- Flores: yes
- Hagenbuch: yes
- Hall: yes
- Hancock: yes
- A. Hinojosa: yes
- J. Hinojosa: yes
- Huffman: yes
- Hughes: yes
- Kolkhorst: yes
- Middleton: yes
- Nichols: yes
- Parker: yes
- Paxton: yes
- Perry: yes
- Schwertner: yes
- Sparks: yes
- West: yes
- Zaffirini: yes
- Alvarado: no
- Cook: no
- Eckhardt: no
- Gutierrez: no
- Johnson: no
- Menéndez: no
- Miles: no
- King: absent
Related bills
- Companion bill: HB 4699
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