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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the automatic admission to general academic teaching institutions and eligibility for certain scholarships of a student who is the valedictorian of the student's high school graduating class."
+description: "Relating to the automatic admission to general academic teaching institutions and eligibility for certain scholarships of a student who is the valedictorian of the student's high school graduating class."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 539"
+citation: "Texas HB 539 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education--Higher--Admission & Attendance (I0257)", "Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)", "SCHOLARSHIPS (S2123)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ashby", "Kolkhorst", "Leman", "Nevárez", "Springer", "Stucky"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 50
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2018-12-17"
+last_action: "2019-06-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/715d8e9d-28fc-4fc7-969c-f750632642c1"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00500_HB00599/HB 539.xml"
+source_hash: "53225eeb7cac92a6160d5699d90b9a69b0f3ee93f73dda6048e443f473a87f28"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
+---
+
+# Texas HB 539 (86) — Relating to the automatic admission to general academic teaching institutions and eligibility for certain scholarships of a student who is the valedictorian of the student's high school graduating class.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/86R/billtext/html/HB00539I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **147–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ashby — primary (person)
+- Kolkhorst — primary (person)
+- Leman — primary (person)
+- Nevárez — primary (person)
+- Springer — primary (person)
+- Stucky — primary (person)
+- Allison — cosponsor (person)
+- Anderson, Charles "Doc" — cosponsor (person)
+- Bailes — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bernal — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Burns — cosponsor (person)
+- Button — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Clardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Cyrier — cosponsor (person)
+- Dutton — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- González, Mary — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Holland — cosponsor (person)
+- Huberty — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Ken — cosponsor (person)
+- Kuempel — cosponsor (person)
+- Lang — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
+- Murr — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Raney — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanford — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheffield — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Talarico — cosponsor (person)
+- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-12-17** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-02-20** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-02-20** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-27** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-02-27** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-02-27** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-03-06** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-03-06** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-03-06** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-11** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-03-12** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-03-12** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-03-13** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-03-27** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-02** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-04-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-02** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-04-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-04-03** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-04-03** Record vote
+- **2019-04-03** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-04-03** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-04-04** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-04-08** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-04-08** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-08** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-08** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2019-05-08** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-16** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-16** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-19** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-19** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-19** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-22** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2019-05-22** Laid before the Senate
+- **2019-05-22** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2019-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-22** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-22** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Senate passage reported
+- **2019-05-24** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-28** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-10** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-10** Effective immediately
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/715d8e9d-28fc-4fc7-969c-f750632642c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+