Bill Commons

TX SB 24

enacted

Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.

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

Quick answers

Did TX SB 24 pass?

Yes. TX SB 24 has been enacted into law as of 2025-06-20. Latest recorded action (2025-06-20): Effective immediately

What is TX SB 24 about?

TX SB 24 is a bill in the 89th Legislature (2025 Regular Session) titled “Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.”.

Who sponsors TX SB 24?

Campbell, Bettencourt, Creighton and 17 others are the primary sponsors of TX SB 24, joined by 7 cosponsors.

Introduced
2025-03-05
Latest action
2025-06-20 — Effective immediately
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Campbellprimary
  • Bettencourtprimary
  • Creightonprimary
  • Floresprimary
  • Hagenbuchprimary
  • Hallprimary
  • Hinojosa, Adamprimary
  • Huffmanprimary
  • Hughesprimary
  • Kolkhorstprimary
  • Middletonprimary
  • Parkerprimary
  • Paxtonprimary
  • Perryprimary
  • Schwertnerprimary
  • Leachprimary
  • Oliversonprimary
  • Metcalfprimary
  • Hefnerprimary
  • Kitzmanprimary
  • Harriscosponsor
  • Plesacosponsor
  • Blancocosponsor
  • Kingcosponsor
  • Sparkscosponsor
  • Vocosponsor
  • Buckleycosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-05

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

    filing,introduction

  2. 2025-03-05

    Filed

    filing

  3. 2025-03-06

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  4. 2025-03-06

    Referred to Education K-16

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-11

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  6. 2025-03-11

    Considered in public hearing

  7. 2025-03-11

    Testimony taken in committee

  8. 2025-03-11

    Left pending in committee

  9. 2025-03-13

    Considered in public hearing

  10. 2025-03-13

    Vote taken in committee

  11. 2025-03-17

    Reported favorably as substituted

    committee-passage-favorable

  12. 2025-03-17

    Committee report printed and distributed

  13. 2025-03-19

    Co-author authorized

  14. 2025-03-19

    Placed on intent calendar

  15. 2025-03-24

    Co-author authorized

  16. 2025-03-24

    Not again placed on intent calendar

  17. 2025-03-25

    Placed on intent calendar

  18. 2025-03-26

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  19. 2025-03-26

    Record vote

  20. 2025-03-26

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  21. 2025-03-26

    Amendment(s) offered

    amendment-introduction

  22. 2025-03-26

    Amendment fails of adoption

    amendment-failure

  23. 2025-03-26

    Record vote

  24. 2025-03-26

    Passed to engrossment

  25. 2025-03-26

    Record vote

  26. 2025-03-26

    Three day rule suspended

  27. 2025-03-26

    Record vote

  28. 2025-03-26

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  29. 2025-03-26

    Passed

    passage

  30. 2025-03-26

    Record vote

  31. 2025-03-26

    Reported engrossed

  32. 2025-03-27

    Received from the Senate

    introduction

  33. 2025-04-09

    Read first time

    introduction,reading-1

  34. 2025-04-09

    Referred to Public Education

    referral-committee

  35. 2025-04-30

    Considered in public hearing

  36. 2025-04-30

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  37. 2025-04-30

    Left pending in committee

  38. 2025-05-01

    Considered in formal meeting

  39. 2025-05-01

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

    committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  40. 2025-05-08

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

    filing

  41. 2025-05-08

    Committee report distributed

  42. 2025-05-09

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  43. 2025-05-19

    Considered in Calendars

  44. 2025-05-21

    Placed on General State Calendar

  45. 2025-05-21

    Read 2nd time

    reading-2

  46. 2025-05-21

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  47. 2025-05-21

    Record vote

  48. 2025-05-21

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  49. 2025-05-21

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  50. 2025-05-21

    Record vote

  51. 2025-05-21

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  52. 2025-05-21

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  53. 2025-05-21

    Record vote

  54. 2025-05-21

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  55. 2025-05-21

    Amendment tabled

    deferral

  56. 2025-05-21

    Record vote

  57. 2025-05-21

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  58. 2025-05-21

    Passed to 3rd reading

  59. 2025-05-21

    Record vote

  60. 2025-05-21

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  61. 2025-05-22

    Read 3rd time

    reading-3

  62. 2025-05-22

    Rules suspended

  63. 2025-05-22

    Additional sponsor(s) authorized

  64. 2025-05-22

    Passed

    passage

  65. 2025-05-22

    Record vote

  66. 2025-05-22

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  67. 2025-05-23

    House passage reported

    passage

  68. 2025-05-23

    Reported enrolled

    enrolled

  69. 2025-05-26

    Signed in the Senate

    passage

  70. 2025-05-26

    Signed in the House

    passage

  71. 2025-05-27

    Sent to the Governor

    executive-receipt

  72. 2025-06-20

    Signed by the Governor

    executive-signature

  73. 2025-06-20

    Effective immediately

    became-law

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • passage

    2025-03-26 · pass · 28-3

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Cook: no
    • Eckhardt: no
    • Miles: no

  • other

    2025-03-26 · fail · 9-18

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Eckhardt: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Bettencourt: no
    • Birdwell: no
    • Campbell: no
    • Flores: no
    • Hagenbuch: no
    • Hall: no
    • Hancock: no
    • A. Hinojosa: no
    • Huffman: no
    • Hughes: no
    • King: no
    • Kolkhorst: no
    • Middleton: no
    • Nichols: no
    • Parker: no
    • Paxton: no
    • Perry: no
    • Sparks: no
    • Creighton: absent
    • Miles: absent
    • Schwertner: absent
    • West: absent

  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSSB 24 be placed on its third reading and final passage.

    2025-03-26 · pass · 28-3

    Member-level votes (31)
    • Alvarado: yes
    • Bettencourt: yes
    • Birdwell: yes
    • Blanco: yes
    • Campbell: yes
    • Creighton: yes
    • Flores: yes
    • Gutierrez: yes
    • Hagenbuch: yes
    • Hall: yes
    • Hancock: yes
    • A. Hinojosa: yes
    • J. Hinojosa: yes
    • Huffman: yes
    • Hughes: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kolkhorst: yes
    • Menéndez: yes
    • Middleton: yes
    • Nichols: yes
    • Parker: yes
    • Paxton: yes
    • Perry: yes
    • Schwertner: yes
    • Sparks: yes
    • West: yes
    • Zaffirini: yes
    • Cook: no
    • Eckhardt: no
    • Miles: no

  • passage

    2025-05-21 · pass · 112-20

    Member-level votes (154)
    • Alders: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Cain: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cook: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • DeAyala: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dutton: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Frank: yes
    • Gámez: yes
    • Garcia, L.: yes
    • Gates: yes
    • Gerdes: yes
    • Geren: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris(C): yes
    • Harris Davila: yes
    • Harrison: yes
    • Hayes: yes
    • Hefner: yes
    • Hickland: yes
    • Holt: yes
    • Hopper: yes
    • Howard: yes
    • Hull: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Isaac: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Kerwin: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • LaHood: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Little: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Louderback: yes
    • Lowe: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Luther: yes
    • Manuel: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Money: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Olcott: yes
    • Oliverson: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Phelan: yes
    • Pierson: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Schatzline: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Schoolcraft: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Slawson: yes
    • Smithee: yes
    • Spiller: yes
    • Swanson: yes
    • Talarico: yes
    • Tepper: yes
    • Tinderholt: yes
    • Toth: yes
    • Troxclair: yes
    • Turner: yes
    • VanDeaver: yes
    • Vasut: yes
    • Villalobos: yes
    • Virdell: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Allen: no
    • Campos: no
    • Davis, A.: no
    • Davis, Y.: no
    • Flores: no
    • Garcia, J.: no
    • González, J.: no
    • González, M.: no
    • Hernandez: no
    • Jones, J.: no
    • Meza: no
    • Moody: no
    • Reynolds: no
    • Rodríguez Ramos: no
    • Romero: no
    • Rosenthal: no
    • Thompson: no
    • Ward Johnson: no
    • Wu: no
    • Zwiener: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Bryant: not voting
    • Collier: not voting
    • Morales: not voting
    • C: not voting
    • Morales Shaw: not voting
    • Ros: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Gervin-Hawkins: absent
    • Jones: absent
    • V: absent
    • Bernal: absent
    • Cole: absent
    • Garcia Hernandez: absent
    • Guerra: absent
    • Hinojosa: absent
    • Lalani: absent
    • Lopez, R.: absent
    • Fischer: absent
    • Simmons: absent
    • Vo: absent

  • passage

    2025-05-22 · pass · 119-13

    Member-level votes (155)
    • Alders: yes
    • Anchía: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Barry: yes
    • Bell, C.: yes
    • Bell, K.: yes
    • Bernal: yes
    • Bhojani: yes
    • Bonnen: yes
    • Bowers: yes
    • Buckley: yes
    • Bucy: yes
    • Bumgarner: yes
    • Button: yes
    • Cain: yes
    • Campos: yes
    • Canales: yes
    • Capriglione: yes
    • Cole: yes
    • Cortez: yes
    • Craddick: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Curry: yes
    • Darby: yes
    • Dean: yes
    • DeAyala: yes
    • Dorazio: yes
    • Dutton: yes
    • Dyson: yes
    • Fairly: yes
    • Frank: yes
    • Gámez: yes
    • Garcia, J.: yes
    • Garcia, L.: yes
    • Garcia Hernandez: yes
    • Gates: yes
    • Gerdes: yes
    • Geren: yes
    • Goodwin: yes
    • Guillen: yes
    • Harless: yes
    • Harris(C): 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
    • Kerwin: yes
    • King: yes
    • Kitzman: yes
    • Lalani: yes
    • Lambert: yes
    • Landgraf: yes
    • Leach: yes
    • Leo Wilson: yes
    • Longoria: yes
    • Lopez, J.: yes
    • Lopez, R.: yes
    • Lowe: yes
    • Lozano: yes
    • Lujan: yes
    • Luther: yes
    • Manuel: yes
    • Martinez: yes
    • Fischer: yes
    • McLaughlin: yes
    • McQueeney: yes
    • Metcalf: yes
    • Meyer: yes
    • Morales, E.: yes
    • Morgan: yes
    • Muñoz: yes
    • Noble: yes
    • Olcott: yes
    • Oliverson: yes
    • Ordaz: yes
    • Orr: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Paul: yes
    • Perez, M.: yes
    • Perez, V.: yes
    • Phelan: yes
    • Pierson: yes
    • Plesa: yes
    • Raymond: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Rose: yes
    • Schatzline: yes
    • Schofield: yes
    • Schoolcraft: yes
    • Shaheen: yes
    • Shofner: yes
    • Slawson: 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
    • Vo: yes
    • Walle: yes
    • Wharton: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Allen: no
    • Collier: no
    • Flores: no
    • González, J.: no
    • González, M.: no
    • Meza: no
    • Moody: no
    • Reynolds: no
    • Romero: no
    • Rosenthal: no
    • Ward Johnson: no
    • Wu: no
    • Zwiener: no
    • Present: not voting
    • Speaker: not voting
    • Bryant: not voting
    • Morales: not voting
    • C: not voting
    • Morales Shaw: not voting
    • Simmon: not voting
    • Absent: absent
    • Gervin-Hawkins: absent
    • LaHoo: absent
    • Cook: absent
    • Little: absent
    • Louderback: absent
    • Money: absent
    • Rodríguez Ramos: absent
    • Smithee: absent
    • Virdell: absent
    • Davis: absent
    • A: absent
    • Y: absent
    • Guerra: absent
    • Jones: absent
    • V: absent

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Official source

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 24.xml

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