Bill Commons

TX HB 8

enacted

Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

Texas · 892 · lower

Quick answers

Did TX HB 8 pass?

Yes. TX HB 8 has been enacted into law as of 2025-09-17. Latest recorded action (2025-09-17): See remarks for effective date

What is TX HB 8 about?

TX HB 8 is a bill in the 892 titled “Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.”.

Who sponsors TX HB 8?

Bettencourt, Wilson, Landgraf and 3 others are the primary sponsors of TX HB 8, joined by 61 cosponsors.

Introduced
2025-08-18
Latest action
2025-09-17 — See remarks for effective date
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Bettencourtprimary
  • Wilsonprimary
  • Landgrafprimary
  • Metcalfprimary
  • Bell, Keithprimary
  • Buckleyprimary
  • Hughescosponsor
  • Huffmancosponsor
  • Hinojosa, Adamcosponsor
  • Hallcosponsor
  • Hagenbuchcosponsor
  • Campbellcosponsor
  • Birdwellcosponsor
  • Whartoncosponsor
  • Virdellcosponsor
  • Teppercosponsor
  • Swansoncosponsor
  • Slawsoncosponsor
  • Shofnercosponsor
  • Schoolcraftcosponsor
  • Richardsoncosponsor
  • Piersoncosponsor
  • Paulcosponsor
  • Pattersoncosponsor
  • Orrcosponsor
  • Noblecosponsor
  • McQueeneycosponsor
  • McLaughlincosponsor
  • Luthercosponsor
  • Lujancosponsor
  • Louderbackcosponsor
  • Lopez, Janiecosponsor
  • Leo Wilsoncosponsor
  • Leachcosponsor
  • LaHoodcosponsor
  • Kitzmancosponsor
  • Kerwincosponsor
  • Huntercosponsor
  • Hullcosponsor
  • Holtcosponsor
  • Hicklandcosponsor
  • Hefnercosponsor
  • Hayescosponsor
  • Harris Davilacosponsor
  • Harriscosponsor
  • Harlesscosponsor
  • Guillencosponsor
  • Gerencosponsor
  • Gerdescosponsor
  • Frankcosponsor
  • Doraziocosponsor
  • Currycosponsor
  • Cunninghamcosponsor
  • Craddickcosponsor
  • Cookcosponsor
  • Caincosponsor
  • Buttoncosponsor
  • Sparkscosponsor
  • Bonnencosponsor
  • Bell, Cecilcosponsor
  • Alderscosponsor
  • Bumgarnercosponsor
  • Perrycosponsor
  • Paxtoncosponsor
  • Parkercosponsor
  • Kolkhorstcosponsor
  • Kingcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-08-15

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-08-18

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  3. 2025-08-18

    Referred to Public Education

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-08-21

    Considered in public hearing

  5. 2025-08-21

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  6. 2025-08-21

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  7. 2025-08-23

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  8. 2025-08-24

    Committee report distributed

  9. 2025-08-24

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  10. 2025-08-25

    Considered in Calendars

  11. 2025-08-26

    Placed on Major State Calendar

  12. 2025-08-26

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  13. 2025-08-26

    Postponed

  14. 2025-08-26

    Laid out as postponed business

  15. 2025-08-26

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  16. 2025-08-26

    Amendment amended

    amendment-amendment

  17. 2025-08-26

    Amendment adopted as amended

    amendment-passage

  18. 2025-08-26

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  19. 2025-08-26

    Record vote

  20. 2025-08-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  21. 2025-08-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  22. 2025-08-26

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  23. 2025-08-26

    Record vote

  24. 2025-08-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  25. 2025-08-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  26. 2025-08-26

    Passed to engrossment as amended

    amendment-passage

  27. 2025-08-26

    Record vote

  28. 2025-08-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  29. 2025-08-26

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  30. 2025-08-26

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  31. 2025-08-26

    Passed as amended

    amendment-passage,passage

  32. 2025-08-26

    Record vote

  33. 2025-08-26

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  34. 2025-08-26

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  35. 2025-08-26

    Reported engrossed

  36. 2025-08-26

    Received from the House

    introduction

  37. 2025-08-27

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  38. 2025-08-27

    Referred to Finance

    referral-committee

  39. 2025-08-27

    Posting rule suspended

  40. 2025-08-27

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  41. 2025-08-27

    Considered in public hearing

  42. 2025-08-27

    Testimony taken in committee

  43. 2025-08-27

    Vote taken in committee

  44. 2025-08-27

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

    committee-passage-favorable

  45. 2025-08-27

    Printing rule suspended

  46. 2025-08-27

    Ordered not printed

  47. 2025-08-27

    Co-sponsor authorized

  48. 2025-08-27

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  49. 2025-08-27

    Record vote

  50. 2025-08-27

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  51. 2025-08-27

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  52. 2025-08-27

    Amended

    amendment-passage

  53. 2025-08-27

    Record vote

  54. 2025-08-27

    Passed to 3rd reading as amended

    amendment-passage

  55. 2025-08-27

    Record vote

  56. 2025-08-27

    Three day rule suspended

  57. 2025-08-27

    Record vote

  58. 2025-08-27

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  59. 2025-08-27

    Passed

    passage

  60. 2025-08-27

    Record vote

  61. 2025-08-27

    Remarks ordered printed

  62. 2025-08-28

    Senate passage as amended reported

    amendment-passage

  63. 2025-08-28

    Senate Amendments distributed

  64. 2025-08-28

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  65. 2025-09-03

    Point of order withdrawn

    withdrawal

  66. 2025-09-03

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

  67. 2025-09-03

    Record vote

  68. 2025-09-03

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  69. 2025-09-03

    Reason for vote recorded in Journal

  70. 2025-09-03

    Text of Senate Amendment(s)

  71. 2025-09-03

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  72. 2025-09-03

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

  73. 2025-09-03

    Signed in the House

    passage

  74. 2025-09-03

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  75. 2025-09-04

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  76. 2025-09-17

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  77. 2025-09-17

    See remarks for effective date

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • passage

    2025-08-26 · pass · 78-58

    Member-level votes (159)
    • Alders: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Cain: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • DeAyala: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Frank: yes
    • Gerdes: yes
    • González, M.: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris Davila: yes
    • Hayes: yes
    • Hefner: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Holt: yes
    • Hopper: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Isaac: yes
    • Kerwin: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • LaHood: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lowe: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Luther: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Money: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Olcott: yes
    • Oliverson: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Pierson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Schatzline: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Schoolcraft: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Swanson: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Tinderholt: yes
    • Toth: yes
    • Troxclair: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Vasut: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Virdell: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Allen: no
    • Anchía: no
    • Bernal: no
    • Bhojani: no
    • Bowers: no
    • Bryant: no
    • Bucy: no
    • Canales: no
    • Cole: no
    • Collier: no
    • Cortez: no
    • Darby: no
    • Davis, A.: no
    • Davis, Y.: no
    • Dutton: no
    • Flores: no
    • Gámez: no
    • Garcia, L.: no
    • Garcia Hernandez: no
    • Gervin-Hawkins: no
    • González, J.: no
    • Goodwin: no
    • Guerra: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hernandez: no
    • Hinojosa: no
    • Howard: no
    • Johnson: no
    • Jones, J.: no
    • Jones, V.: no
    • Lalani: no
    • Lambert: no
    • Little: no
    • Longoria: no
    • Lopez, R.: no
    • Manuel: no
    • Martinez: no
    • Fischer: no
    • Meza: no
    • Moody: no
    • Morales, E.: no
    • Muñoz: no
    • Ordaz: no
    • Perez, M.: no
    • Perez, V.: no
    • Plesa: no
    • Raymond: no
    • Romero: no
    • Rose: no
    • Rosenthal: no
    • Simmons: no
    • Talarico: no
    • Thompson: no
    • Turner: no
    • Walle: no
    • Ward Johnson: no
    • Wu: no
    • Zwiener: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Harris(C: not voting
    • Campos: absent
    • Geren: absent
    • Morales Shaw: absent
    • Noble: absent
    • Phelan: absent
    • Reynolds: absent
    • Vo: absent
    • Garcia: absent
    • J: absent
    • Gates: absent
    • King: absent
    • Morales: absent
    • C: absent
    • Rodríguez Ramo: absent
    • Harris: yes
    • Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
    • Rodríguez Ramos: absent
    • Simmon: absent
    • Garcia, J.: absent
    • Morales, C.: absent

  • passage

    2025-08-27 · pass · 21-5

    Member-level votes (30)
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • Alvarado: no
    • Cook: no
    • Gutierrez: no
    • Johnson: no
    • Zaffirini: no
    • Eckhardt: absent
    • Menéndez: absent
    • Miles: absent
    • West: absent

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 8 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-08-27 · pass · 21-5

    Member-level votes (30)
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • Alvarado: no
    • Cook: no
    • Gutierrez: no
    • Johnson: no
    • Zaffirini: no
    • Eckhardt: absent
    • Menéndez: absent
    • Miles: absent
    • West: absent

  • passage

    2025-09-03 · pass · 79-47

    Member-level votes (151)
    • Alders: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Cain: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • DeAyala: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Frank: yes
    • Gates: yes
    • Gerdes: yes
    • Geren: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris: yes
    • Harris Davila: yes
    • Hayes: yes
    • Hefner: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Holt: yes
    • Hopper: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Isaac: yes
    • Kerwin: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • LaHood: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lowe: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Luther: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Money: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Olcott: yes
    • Oliverson: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Pierson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Schatzline: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Schoolcraft: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Swanson: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Tinderholt: yes
    • Toth: yes
    • Troxclair: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Vasut: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Virdell: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Allen: no
    • Barry: no
    • Bell, K.: no
    • Bernal: no
    • Bowers: no
    • Bryant: no
    • Bucy: no
    • Canales: no
    • Cole: no
    • Collier: no
    • Davis, A.: no
    • Flores: no
    • Gámez: no
    • Garcia Hernandez: no
    • Gervin-Hawkins: no
    • González, J.: no
    • González, M.: no
    • Goodwin: no
    • Harrison: no
    • Hinojosa: no
    • Howard: no
    • Johnson: no
    • Little: no
    • Longoria: no
    • Lopez, R.: no
    • Manuel: no
    • Martinez: no
    • Meza: no
    • Moody: no
    • Muñoz: no
    • Perez, V.: no
    • Phelan: no
    • Plesa: no
    • Raymond: no
    • Romero: no
    • Rose: no
    • Rosenthal: no
    • Simmons: no
    • Spiller: no
    • Talarico: no
    • Thompson: no
    • Turner: no
    • Vo: no
    • Walle: no
    • Ward Johnson: no
    • Wu: no
    • Zwiener: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Mr. Speaker(C): not voting
    • Anchía: absent
    • Davis, Y.: absent
    • Dean: absent
    • Garcia, L.: absent
    • Guerra: absent
    • Hernandez: absent
    • Jones, J.: absent
    • Jones, V.: absent
    • Fischer: absent
    • Morales, E.: absent
    • Morales Shaw: absent
    • Reynolds: absent
    • Bhojani: absent
    • Campos: absent
    • Cortez: absent
    • Dutton: absent
    • Garcia, J.: absent
    • Lalani: absent
    • Lambert: absent
    • Morales, C.: absent
    • Ordaz: absent
    • Perez, M.: absent
    • Rodríguez Ramos: absent

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=892&Bill=HB8

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:35:18.766313Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=TX&identifier=HB 8. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.
  • Some documents have no extracted text yet, so version comparison may be limited.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.