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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools."
+description: "Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
+legislature: "Texas Legislature"
+session: "89R"
+identifier: "HB 6"
+citation: "Texas HB 6 (89R)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS (S0283)", "CHILD MENTAL HEALTH CARE CONSORTIUM", "TEXAS (V1267)", "Civil Remedies & Liabilities (I0065)", "Crimes--Juvenile (I0190)", "Criminal Procedure--Sentencing & Punishment (I0205)", "Disabilities", "Persons with (I0380)", "EDUCATION", "COMMISSIONER OF (V9954)", "EDUCATION", "STATE BOARD OF (V0086)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools (I0245)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Discipline (I0244)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--General (I0230)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel (I0246)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Special (I0243)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers (I0242)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Virtual Education (IT7R2)", "Education--School Districts (I0220)", "Mental Health & Substance Abuse (I0019)", "Minors--Health & Safety (I0533)", "Minors--Juvenile Justice (I0534)", "PARENTAL CONSENT (S0318)", "PARENTAL NOTIFICATION (S0319)", "RECORDS MANAGEMENT (S0205)", "TELEMEDICINE (S0219)", "Tobacco Products (I0818)", "Weapons (I0887)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Buckley", "Harris", "Hull", "Leach", "Metcalf", "Perry"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 111
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-02-20"
+last_action: "2025-06-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b90ded71-06ec-4921-980b-85def2ed779e"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 6.xml"
+source_hash: "5e60f262c62c9b452866c803e95d63e95374190e85e1ebc70049154079f5a972"
+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 6 (89R) — Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.
+
+## 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/HB00006I.HTM)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00006E.HTM)
+3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00006H.HTM)
+4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00006S.HTM)
+5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00006F.HTM)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSHB 6 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — **29–2** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **114–19** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **24–7** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **114–19** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **29–2** (pass) · upper
+- passage — **121–21** (pass) · lower
+- passage — **124–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Buckley — primary (person)
+- Harris — primary (person)
+- Hull — primary (person)
+- Leach — primary (person)
+- Metcalf — primary (person)
+- Perry — primary (person)
+- Alders — cosponsor (person)
+- Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Barry — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell, Keith — cosponsor (person)
+- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
+- Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
+- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
+- Button — cosponsor (person)
+- Cain — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
+- Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Curry — cosponsor (person)
+- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
+- Dyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Fairly — cosponsor (person)
+- Frank — cosponsor (person)
+- Gates — cosponsor (person)
+- Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
+- Geren — cosponsor (person)
+- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
+- Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Hancock — cosponsor (person)
+- Harless — cosponsor (person)
+- Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
+- Hefner — cosponsor (person)
+- Hickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Holt — cosponsor (person)
+- Hopper — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
+- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
+- Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
+- LaHood — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
+- Louderback — cosponsor (person)
+- Lujan — cosponsor (person)
+- Luther — cosponsor (person)
+- McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
+- Meyer — cosponsor (person)
+- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
+- Money — cosponsor (person)
+- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
+- Noble — cosponsor (person)
+- Orr — cosponsor (person)
+- Patterson — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul — cosponsor (person)
+- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
+- Phelan — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richardson — cosponsor (person)
+- Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
+- Schofield — cosponsor (person)
+- Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
+- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
+- Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
+- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
+- Slawson — cosponsor (person)
+- Smithee — cosponsor (person)
+- Sparks — cosponsor (person)
+- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
+- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
+- Tepper — cosponsor (person)
+- Tinderholt — cosponsor (person)
+- Toth — cosponsor (person)
+- Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
+- Vasut — cosponsor (person)
+- Wharton — cosponsor (person)
+- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
+- **2025-02-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-02-25** Referred to Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-03-18** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
+- **2025-03-18** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-04-03** Considered in formal meeting
+- **2025-04-03** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
+- **2025-04-03** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
+- **2025-04-08** Committee report distributed
+- **2025-04-09** Committee report sent to Calendars
+- **2025-04-09** Considered in Calendars
+- **2025-04-15** Placed on Major State Calendar
+- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-15** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-15** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Amendment fails of adoption `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-15** Reason for vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-15** Amendment withdrawn `amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal`
+- **2025-04-15** Passed to engrossment as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-15** Record vote
+- **2025-04-15** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Record vote
+- **2025-04-16** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-16** Passed as amended `amendment-passage, passage`
+- **2025-04-16** Record vote
+- **2025-04-16** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-04-16** Reported engrossed
+- **2025-04-16** Received from the House `introduction`
+- **2025-04-24** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-24** Referred to Education K-16 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
+- **2025-05-08** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-08** Testimony taken in committee
+- **2025-05-08** Left pending in committee
+- **2025-05-15** Considered in public hearing
+- **2025-05-15** Vote taken in committee
+- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-20** Committee report printed and distributed
+- **2025-05-21** Placed on intent calendar
+- **2025-05-22** Co-sponsor authorized
+- **2025-05-22** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
+- **2025-05-22** Record vote
+- **2025-05-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2025-05-22** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-22** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Record vote
+- **2025-05-22** Three day rule suspended
+- **2025-05-22** Record vote
+- **2025-05-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-05-22** Passed `passage`
+- **2025-05-22** Record vote
+- **2025-05-22** Remarks ordered printed
+- **2025-05-23** Senate passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-23** Senate Amendments distributed
+- **2025-05-23** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
+- **2025-05-28** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
+- **2025-05-28** Record vote
+- **2025-05-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
+- **2025-05-28** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
+- **2025-05-28** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
+- **2025-05-31** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-06-01** Signed in the House `passage`
+- **2025-06-01** Signed in the Senate `passage`
+- **2025-06-02** 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/b90ded71-06ec-4921-980b-85def2ed779e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).
+