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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to financial support and incentives for comprehensive regional universities."
+description: "Relating to financial support and incentives for comprehensive regional universities."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "87"
+identifier: "SB 1295"
+citation: "Texas SB 1295 (87)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["DROPOUTS & AT-RISK STUDENTS (S0088)", "Education--Higher--Finance (I0232)", "Education--Higher--General (I0231)", "Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)", "HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD", "TEXAS (V4280)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ashby", "Coleman", "Creighton", "Morrison", "Pacheco", "Wilson"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-03-09"
+last_action: "2021-05-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c623ca4-2263-4b5a-9313-45d73f365f85"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/87R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB01200_SB01299/SB 1295.xml"
+source_hash: "08cef46023b27540688634d9d160b986b043721a145fb9ff8ff6aa0faf7e12f4"
+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 SB 1295 (87) — Relating to financial support and incentives for comprehensive regional universities.
+
+## 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/SB01295I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01295E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01295H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01295S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB01295F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **119–26** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ashby — primary (person)
+- Coleman — primary (person)
+- Creighton — primary (person)
+- Morrison — primary (person)
+- Pacheco — primary (person)
+- Wilson — primary (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Buckley — cosponsor (person)
+- Burns — cosponsor (person)
+- Campos — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Darby — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- Frullo — cosponsor (person)
+- Goldman — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Herrero — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson, Julie — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Ken — cosponsor (person)
+- King, Tracy O. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
+- Miles — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
+- Paddie — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
+- Perez — cosponsor (person)
+- Perry — cosponsor (person)
+- Price — cosponsor (person)
+- Raney — cosponsor (person)
+- Rogers — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
+- Springer — cosponsor (person)
+- Stucky — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
+- VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
+- West — cosponsor (person)
+- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)
+- Zwiener — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-09** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
+- **2021-03-09** Filed `filing`
+- **2021-03-18** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-03-18** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-31** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2021-03-31** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-03-31** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2021-03-31** Left pending in committee
+- **2021-04-07** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-04-13** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-04-14** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-04-14** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-04-19** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-04-19** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-19** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2021-04-20** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2021-04-21** Co-author authorized
+- **2021-04-21** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
+- **2021-04-21** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-04-21** Three day rule suspended
+- **2021-04-21** Record vote
+- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-21** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-21** Record vote
+- **2021-04-21** Reported engrossed
+- **2021-04-22** Received from the Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-04-26** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-04-26** Referred to Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-06** Considered in public hearing
+- **2021-05-06** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-05-10** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
+- **2021-05-10** Committee report distributed
+- **2021-05-10** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2021-05-11** Laid out in lieu of companion
+- **2021-05-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-11** Passed to 3rd reading
+- **2021-05-11** Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-05-12** Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-12** Record vote
+- **2021-05-12** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2021-05-18** House passage reported
+- **2021-05-18** Reported enrolled
+- **2021-05-19** Signed in the Senate
+- **2021-05-19** Signed in the House
+- **2021-05-19** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-05-30** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-30** 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/3c623ca4-2263-4b5a-9313-45d73f365f85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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