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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district."
+description: "Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "HB 3629"
+citation: "Texas HB 3629 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crimes--Against Persons--Sexual (I0171)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel (I0246)", "Education--School Districts (I0220)", "SEXUAL OFFENDERS (S0099)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Buckley", "Lalani", "Leo Wilson", "Noble", "Shaheen", "Zaffirini"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 52
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-03"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e43c760-6699-4103-981d-3a7e3c30fff5"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03600_HB03699/HB 3629.xml"
+source_hash: "115c4a719b8b89421e1e277904df4bb397f45607d05b35f854a7217be760c9ba"
+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 3629 (89R) — Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district.
+
+## 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/89R/billtext/html/HB03629I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03629E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03629H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03629S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03629F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passage — **142–0** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **136–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Buckley — primary (person)
+- Lalani — primary (person)
+- Leo Wilson — primary (person)
+- Noble — primary (person)
+- Shaheen — primary (person)
+- Zaffirini — primary (person)
+- Alders — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bucy — cosponsor (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Craddick — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- Garcia, Josey — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Holt — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Louderback — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
+- Lujan — cosponsor (person)
+- Luther — cosponsor (person)
+- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
+- McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
+- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
+- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ordaz — cosponsor (person)
+- Orr — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Phelan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Plesa — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
+- Villalobos — cosponsor (person)
+- Virdell — cosponsor (person)
+- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-03** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-03-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-03-25** Referred to Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-04-08** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2025-04-08** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-04-22** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-04-22** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-30** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-04-30** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-05-01** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-05-09** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-05-11** Placed on General State Calendar
+- **2025-05-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-14** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-14** Passed to engrossment as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-14** Record vote
+- **2025-05-14** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-15** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-15** Record vote
+- **2025-05-15** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-15** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-05-15** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2025-05-16** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-05-16** Referred to Education K-16 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-22** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2025-05-22** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-05-22** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-22** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-05-22** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-05-23** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-23** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-05-25** Reported favorably w/o amendments `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-25** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
+- **2025-05-25** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-05-28** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
+- **2025-05-28** Laid before the Senate `receipt`
+- **2025-05-28** Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-28** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-28** Three day rule suspended
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-28** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-29** Senate passage reported `passage`
+- **2025-05-29** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-05-30** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-05-31** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-05-31** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-20** Effective immediately `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e43c760-6699-4103-981d-3a7e3c30fff5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
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