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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the expansion of the Texas Innovative Adult Career Education (ACE) Grant Program to include certain nonprofit organizations providing job training to veterans."
+description: "Relating to the expansion of the Texas Innovative Adult Career Education (ACE) Grant Program to include certain nonprofit organizations providing job training to veterans."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "87"
+identifier: "HB 626"
+citation: "Texas HB 626 (87)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ADULT EDUCATION (S0458)", "Charitable & Nonprofit Organizations (I0055)", "Education--Junior College Districts (I0225)", "Labor--Workforce Development (I0495)", "Military & Veterans (I0535)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Fierro", "Guillen", "Rosenthal", "Tinderholt", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 53
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-11-23"
+last_action: "2021-05-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00b3ea96-9d32-412c-ab48-c1930e30b933"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00600_HB00699/HB 626.xml"
+source_hash: "0ac98815631943e7f80377784acb851cc108a8206a39d3db6e7f3cb637a6844d"
+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 626 (87) — Relating to the expansion of the Texas Innovative Adult Career Education (ACE) Grant Program to include certain nonprofit organizations providing job training to veterans.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00626I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00626E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00626H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00626S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/HB00626F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- other — **147–0** (fail) · upper
+- passage — **147–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Fierro — primary (person)
+- Guillen — primary (person)
+- Rosenthal — primary (person)
+- Tinderholt — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-11-23** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-03-01** Referred to Defense & Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-03-15** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2021-03-15** Left pending in committee
+- **2021-03-22** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-03-22** Committee substitute considered in committee
+- **2021-03-22** Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-22** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-03-30** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2021-03-30** Committee report distributed
+- **2021-03-31** Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
+- **2021-04-06** Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
+- **2021-04-09** Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
+- **2021-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed to engrossment
+- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Record vote
+- **2021-04-09** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-04-09** Reported engrossed
+- **2021-04-12** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2021-04-13** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-04-13** Referred to Vet Affairs & Border Security `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-21** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-04-21** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-04-21** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2021-04-23** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-23** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-04-23** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2021-04-29** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2021-04-29** Laid before the Senate
+- **2021-04-29** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-29** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-04-29** Three day rule suspended
+- **2021-04-29** Record vote
+- **2021-04-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-29** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-29** Record vote
+- **2021-04-29** Senate passage as amended reported
+- **2021-04-29** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2021-04-29** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2021-05-03** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2021-05-03** Record vote
+- **2021-05-03** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2021-05-03** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2021-05-04** Reported enrolled
+- **2021-05-05** Signed in the House
+- **2021-05-05** Signed in the Senate
+- **2021-05-06** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-18** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-18** Effective on 9/1/21 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00b3ea96-9d32-412c-ab48-c1930e30b933`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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