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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula."
+description: "Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "86"
+identifier: "HB 963"
+citation: "Texas HB 963 (86)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education--Primary & Secondary--Curriculum (I0228)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance (I0250)", "Science & Technology (I0751)", "TECHNICAL EDUCATION (S0453)", "EDUCATION", "STATE BOARD OF (V0086)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell, Cecil", "Bernal", "Howard", "Johnson, Jarvis", "Taylor"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 57
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-22"
+last_action: "2019-06-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e459d9a6-ede4-4152-97db-b22a2a73346b"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00900_HB00999/HB 963.xml"
+source_hash: "71541a7a7cba637052a08c8c9db7622036c31944f5c3e909b8c39efcb3f38c3d"
+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 963 (86) — Relating to the availability of school district trustee information on the Internet and a review of the essential knowledge and skills of certain curricula.
+
+## 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/HB00963I.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- other — **122–18** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **122–18** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **138–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell, Cecil — primary (person)
+- Bernal — primary (person)
+- Howard — primary (person)
+- Johnson, Jarvis — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-22** Filed `filing`
+- **2019-02-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-02-25** Referred to Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-02** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-04-02** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2019-04-02** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-04-17** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2019-04-17** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-04-24** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2019-04-25** Committee report distributed
+- **2019-04-25** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2019-04-26** Considered in Calendars
+- **2019-04-30** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2019-05-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-01** Passed to engrossment
+- **2019-05-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-02** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Record vote
+- **2019-05-02** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-02** Reported engrossed
+- **2019-05-02** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2019-05-03** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-03** Referred to Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-09** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2019-05-09** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-09** Left pending in committee
+- **2019-05-14** Considered in public hearing
+- **2019-05-15** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-05-15** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2019-05-17** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2019-05-19** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2019-05-19** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2019-05-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-19** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-19** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2019-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-19** Passed to 3rd reading as amended
+- **2019-05-19** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2019-05-19** Three day rule suspended
+- **2019-05-19** Record vote
+- **2019-05-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-05-19** Passed `passage`
+- **2019-05-19** Record vote
+- **2019-05-20** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2019-05-20** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2019-05-20** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** Record vote
+- **2019-05-23** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2019-05-23** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2019-05-25** Reported enrolled
+- **2019-05-26** Signed in the House
+- **2019-05-27** Signed in the Senate
+- **2019-05-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-06-14** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2019-06-14** Effective immediately
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e459d9a6-ede4-4152-97db-b22a2a73346b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+