TX HB 3629

enacted

Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district.

Texas · 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) · lower

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Did TX HB 3629 pass?

Yes. TX HB 3629 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-06-20): Effective immediately

What is TX HB 3629 about?

TX HB 3629 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district.”.

Who sponsors TX HB 3629?

Lalani, Leo Wilson, Buckley and 3 others are the primary sponsors of TX HB 3629, joined by 47 cosponsors.

Introduced: 2025-03-25
Latest action: 2025-06-20 — Effective immediately
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

2025-06-20
Effective immediately
became-law
2025-06-20
Signed by the Governor
executive-signature
2025-05-31
Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt
2025-05-31
Signed in the Senate
passage
2025-05-30
Signed in the House
passage
2025-05-29
Reported enrolled
enrolled
2025-05-29
Senate passage reported
passage
2025-05-28
Record vote
2025-05-28
Passed
passage
2025-05-28
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-28
Record vote
2025-05-28
Three day rule suspended
2025-05-28
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-28
Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
reading-2
2025-05-28
Laid before the Senate
receipt
2025-05-28
Placed on local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-25
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-25
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-05-25
Reported favorably w/o amendments
committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-23
Vote taken in committee
2025-05-23
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-22
Left pending in committee
2025-05-22
Testimony taken in committee
2025-05-22
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-22
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-22
Co-sponsor authorized
2025-05-16
Referred to Education K-16
referral-committee
2025-05-16
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-05-15
Received from the House
introduction
2025-05-15
Reported engrossed
2025-05-15
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-15
Record vote
2025-05-15
Passed
passage
2025-05-15
Read 3rd time
reading-3
2025-05-14
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-14
Record vote
2025-05-14
Passed to engrossment as amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-14
Amended
amendment-passage
2025-05-14
Read 2nd time
reading-2
2025-05-11
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-09
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-01
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-04-30
Committee report distributed
2025-04-30
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing
2025-04-22
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-22
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-08
Left pending in committee
2025-04-08
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-08
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-25
Referred to Public Education
referral-committee
2025-03-25
Read first time
introduction,reading-1
2025-03-03
Filed
filing

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Documents

Votes

passage
2025-05-14 · pass · 136-0
Member-level votes (153)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: yes
- Anchía: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bernal: yes
- Bhojani: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Bowers: yes
- Bryant: yes
- Bucy: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Cain: yes
- Campos: yes
- Canales: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Collier: yes
- Cook: yes
- Cortez: yes
- Craddick: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Davis, A.: yes
- Davis, Y.: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dutton: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Flores: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gámez: yes
- Garcia, L.: yes
- Garcia Hernandez: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Gervin-Hawkins: yes
- González, J.: yes
- González, M.: yes
- Goodwin: yes
- Guerra: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Harrison: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Hinojosa: yes
- Hopper: yes
- Howard: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Jones, J.: yes
- Jones, V.: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Little: yes
- Longoria: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lozano: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- Martinez: yes
- Fischer: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Money: yes
- Moody: yes
- Morales, C.: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Ordaz: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Perez, M.: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Talarico: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Vasut: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Vo: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Present: not voting
- Speaker: not voting
- Harris(C: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Buckley: absent
- Holt: absent
- Johnson: absent
- Lambert: absent
- Olcott: absent
- Pau: absent
- Garcia: absent
- J: absent
- Geren: absent
- Manuel: absent
- Morales Shaw: absent
- Shofner: absent
- Wall: absent
passage
2025-05-15 · pass · 142-0
Member-level votes (153)
- Alders: yes
- Allen: yes
- Anchía: yes
- Barry: yes
- Bell, C.: yes
- Bell, K.: yes
- Bernal: yes
- Bhojani: yes
- Bonnen: yes
- Bowers: yes
- Bryant: yes
- Buckley: yes
- Bucy: yes
- Bumgarner: yes
- Button: yes
- Campos: yes
- Canales: yes
- Capriglione: yes
- Cole: yes
- Collier: yes
- Cook: yes
- Cortez: yes
- Craddick: yes
- Cunningham: yes
- Curry: yes
- Darby: yes
- Davis, A.: yes
- Davis, Y.: yes
- Dean: yes
- DeAyala: yes
- Dorazio: yes
- Dyson: yes
- Fairly: yes
- Flores: yes
- Frank: yes
- Gámez: yes
- Garcia, J.: yes
- Garcia, L.: yes
- Garcia Hernandez: yes
- Gates: yes
- Gerdes: yes
- Geren: yes
- González, J.: yes
- González, M.: yes
- Goodwin: yes
- Guerra: yes
- Guillen: yes
- Harless: yes
- Harris Davila: yes
- Harrison: yes
- Hayes: yes
- Hefner: yes
- Hernandez: yes
- Hickland: yes
- Hinojosa: yes
- Holt: yes
- Hopper: yes
- Howard: yes
- Hull: yes
- Hunter: yes
- Isaac: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Jones, J.: yes
- Jones, V.: yes
- Kerwin: yes
- King: yes
- Kitzman: yes
- LaHood: yes
- Lalani: yes
- Lambert: yes
- Landgraf: yes
- Leach: yes
- Leo Wilson: yes
- Little: yes
- Longoria: yes
- Lopez, J.: yes
- Lopez, R.: yes
- Louderback: yes
- Lowe: yes
- Lozano: yes
- Lujan: yes
- Luther: yes
- Manuel: yes
- Martinez: yes
- Fischer: yes
- McLaughlin: yes
- McQueeney: yes
- Metcalf: yes
- Meyer: yes
- Meza: yes
- Money: yes
- Moody: yes
- Morales, C.: yes
- Morales, E.: yes
- Morales Shaw: yes
- Morgan: yes
- Muñoz: yes
- Noble: yes
- Olcott: yes
- Oliverson: yes
- Ordaz: yes
- Orr: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Perez, M.: yes
- Perez, V.: yes
- Phelan: yes
- Pierson: yes
- Plesa: yes
- Raymond: yes
- Reynolds: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Rodríguez Ramos: yes
- Romero: yes
- Rose: yes
- Rosenthal: yes
- Schatzline: yes
- Schofield: yes
- Schoolcraft: yes
- Shaheen: yes
- Shofner: yes
- Simmons: yes
- Slawson: yes
- Smithee: yes
- Spiller: yes
- Swanson: yes
- Talarico: yes
- Tepper: yes
- Thompson: yes
- Tinderholt: yes
- Toth: yes
- Troxclair: yes
- Turner: yes
- VanDeaver: yes
- Villalobos: yes
- Virdell: yes
- Vo: yes
- Walle: yes
- Ward Johnson: yes
- Wharton: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wu: yes
- Zwiener: yes
- Present: not voting
- Speaker: not voting
- Cain: not voting
- Vasut(C: not voting
- Absent: absent
- Dutton: absent
- Gervin-Hawkins: absent
- Pau: absent
- Excused: absent
- Harris: absent
- Ashby: absent

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ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03600_HB03699/HB 3629.xml

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