---
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).