republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/851/hb-21.md

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Bill	Relating to public school finance, including funding for the recruitment and retention of teachers and the support of participants in the public school employees group insurance program.	Relating to public school finance, including funding for the recruitment and retention of teachers and the support of participants in the public school employees group insurance program.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	851	HB 21	Texas HB 21 (851)	bill	Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools (I0245) Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance (I0250) Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers (I0242) AUTISM & PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS (S0566) DYSLEXIA (S9807) FOUNDATION SCHOOL FUND (S0734) DEAF TEXAS SCHOOL FOR THE (V1199) EDUCATION AGENCY TEXAS (V9941) EDUCATION COMMISSIONER OF (V9954) PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCE TEXAS COMMISSION ON (V1148)	enacted	Bernal Huberty Taylor, Larry Zerwas	5	115	0	2017-07-18	2017-08-16	openstates	ocd-bill/c8c6f68b-3747-4298-a168-2ca39cdda398	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/851/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 21.xml	27fe22c3dd939405c63d4bb30968c0cbceb41a5191a1b82b4f94d09fdec244c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 21 (851) — Relating to public school finance, including funding for the recruitment and retention of teachers and the support of participants in the public school employees group insurance program.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Bernal — primary (person)
• Huberty — primary (person)
• Taylor, Larry — primary (person)
• Zerwas — primary (person)
• Allen — cosponsor (person)
• Anderson, Rodney — cosponsor (person)
• Arévalo — cosponsor (person)
• Bohac — cosponsor (person)
• Bonnen, Dennis — cosponsor (person)
• Burns — cosponsor (person)
• Burrows — cosponsor (person)
• Button — cosponsor (person)
• Clardy — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Cortez — cosponsor (person)
• Darby — cosponsor (person)
• Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
• Giddings — cosponsor (person)
• Guillen — cosponsor (person)
• Herrero — cosponsor (person)
• Kacal — cosponsor (person)
• Koop — cosponsor (person)
• Landgraf — cosponsor (person)
• Lozano — cosponsor (person)
• Minjarez — cosponsor (person)
• Moody — cosponsor (person)
• Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Murr — cosponsor (person)
• Neave — cosponsor (person)
• Nelson — cosponsor (person)
• Paddie — cosponsor (person)
• Phelan — cosponsor (person)
• Price — cosponsor (person)
• Raney — cosponsor (person)
• Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Schubert — cosponsor (person)
• Shine — cosponsor (person)
• Springer — cosponsor (person)
• Stephenson — cosponsor (person)
• Stucky — cosponsor (person)
• Thompson, Ed — cosponsor (person)
• Uresti, Tomas — cosponsor (person)
• VanDeaver — cosponsor (person)
• Villalba — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)
• Wray — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-07-18 Filed filing
• 2017-07-20 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2017-07-20 Referred to Public Education referral-committee
• 2017-07-24 Considered in public hearing
• 2017-07-24 Committee substitute considered in committee
• 2017-07-24 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2017-07-24 Left pending in committee
• 2017-07-25 Considered in public hearing
• 2017-07-25 Committee substitute considered in committee
• 2017-07-25 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-07-26 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
• 2017-07-26 Committee report distributed
• 2017-07-26 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2017-07-31 Recommitted to committee
• 2017-07-31 Scheduled for formal meeting on . . .
• 2017-07-31 Considered in formal meeting
• 2017-07-31 Committee substitute considered in committee
• 2017-07-31 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-07-31 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
• 2017-07-31 Committee report distributed
• 2017-08-01 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2017-08-01 Considered in Calendars
• 2017-08-04 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2017-08-02 Calendars Committee rule adopted
• 2017-08-02 Record vote
• 2017-08-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2017-08-04 Passed to engrossment
• 2017-08-04 Record vote
• 2017-08-04 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-04 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2017-08-07 Passed passage
• 2017-08-07 Record vote
• 2017-08-07 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-07 Reported engrossed
• 2017-08-08 Received from the House introduction
• 2017-08-08 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2017-08-08 Referred to Education referral-committee
• 2017-08-11 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2017-08-11 Considered in public hearing
• 2017-08-11 Testimony taken in committee
• 2017-08-11 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-08-11 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2017-08-14 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2017-08-14 Laid before the Senate
• 2017-08-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amendment fails of adoption
• 2017-08-14 Record vote
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amendment withdrawn amendment-withdrawal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amendment fails of adoption
• 2017-08-14 Record vote
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amendment fails of adoption
• 2017-08-14 Record vote
• 2017-08-14 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-14 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Vote reconsidered
• 2017-08-14 Amendment to amendment offered
• 2017-08-14 Amendment amended amendment-amendment
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Amendment adopted as amended
• 2017-08-14 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-14 Passed to 3rd reading as amended
• 2017-08-14 Record vote
• 2017-08-14 Remarks ordered printed
• 2017-08-14 Remarks ordered printed
• 2017-08-15 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2017-08-15 Record vote
• 2017-08-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2017-08-15 Passed passage
• 2017-08-15 Record vote
• 2017-08-15 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-15 Senate passage as amended reported
• 2017-08-15 Senate Amendments distributed
• 2017-08-15 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
• 2017-08-15 1 hr. notice-to suspend rules
• 2017-08-15 Rules suspended
• 2017-08-15 Record vote
• 2017-08-15 Motion to concur in Senate amendment(s)
• 2017-08-15 Point of order overruled
• 2017-08-15 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
• 2017-08-15 Record vote
• 2017-08-15 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-15 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
• 2017-08-15 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
• 2017-08-15 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
• 2017-08-15 Reported enrolled
• 2017-08-15 Signed in the House
• 2017-08-15 Signed in the Senate
• 2017-08-16 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-08-16 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2017-08-16 See remarks for effective date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8c6f68b-3747-4298-a168-2ca39cdda398. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).