---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the use of individual graduation committees and other alternative methods to satisfy certain public high school graduation requirements."
description: "Relating to the use of individual graduation committees and other alternative methods to satisfy certain public high school graduation requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "86"
identifier: "SB 213"
citation: "Texas SB 213 (86)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools (I0245)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Testing (I0229)", "Education--School Districts (I0220)", "EDUCATION AGENCY", "TEXAS (V9941)", "HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD", "TEXAS (V4280)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huberty", "Seliger"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 48
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-12-04"
last_action: "2019-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9d33ff2-ac43-4eae-ac42-943b4e201e3b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/86R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00200_SB00299/SB 213.xml"
source_hash: "1c358e22cea3fd4f4626eaad5faa83ab1a38a795e141de556f8ce846dc5363a6"
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 213 (86) — Relating to the use of individual graduation committees and other alternative methods to satisfy certain public high school graduation requirements.

## 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/SB00213I.HTM)

## Votes

- passage — **145–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Huberty — primary (person)
- Seliger — primary (person)
- Birdwell — cosponsor (person)
- Flores — cosponsor (person)
- Huffman — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Lucio — cosponsor (person)
- Menéndez — cosponsor (person)
- Miles — cosponsor (person)
- Nichols — cosponsor (person)
- Paxton — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Powell — cosponsor (person)
- Rodríguez — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
- Watson — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Zaffirini — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-12-04** Received by the Secretary of the Senate `filing`
- **2018-12-04** Filed `filing`
- **2019-02-01** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Referred to Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2019-03-19** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-03-19** Testimony taken in committee
- **2019-03-19** Left pending in committee
- **2019-03-20** Co-author authorized
- **2019-03-26** Considered in public hearing
- **2019-04-02** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-02** Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-02** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2019-04-03** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-04** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-09** Co-author authorized
- **2019-04-11** Placed on local & uncontested calendar
- **2019-04-11** Laid before the Senate
- **2019-04-11** Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
- **2019-04-11** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-11** Three day rule suspended
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-11** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-11** Record vote
- **2019-04-11** Reported engrossed
- **2019-04-11** Received from the Senate `introduction`
- **2019-04-12** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-04-12** Referred to Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Considered in formal meeting
- **2019-04-17** Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) `committee-passage`
- **2019-04-18** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- **2019-04-22** Committee report distributed
- **2019-04-22** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2019-04-24** Laid out in lieu of companion
- **2019-04-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-04-24** Passed to 3rd reading
- **2019-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-04-25** Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-25** Record vote
- **2019-04-25** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2019-04-26** House passage reported
- **2019-04-26** Reported enrolled
- **2019-04-29** Signed in the Senate
- **2019-04-29** Signed in the House
- **2019-04-29** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-07** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-07** See remarks for effective date

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9d33ff2-ac43-4eae-ac42-943b4e201e3b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).