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Bill Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate students to general academic teaching institutions. Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate students to general academic teaching institutions. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 2538 Texas SB 2538 (88)
bill
Education--Higher--Admission & Attendance (I0257)
Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs (I0223)
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (U0397)
enacted
Cole
Creighton
Longoria
5 49 2 2023-03-10 2023-06-02 openstates ocd-bill/aae5556d-14b0-4949-8bec-8b7941441d87 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02500_SB02599/SB 2538.xml 8677cd433cac7b1980bbd980235d0c4bca7162d6ae4a465f0df6b07beff1475d 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 2538 (88) — Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate students to general academic teaching institutions.

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

Votes

  • passage — 1440 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1289 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Cole — primary (person)
  • Creighton — primary (person)
  • Longoria — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-03-10 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2023-03-10 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-23 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-23 Referred to s/c on Higher Education by Pres referral-committee
  • 2023-04-13 Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
  • 2023-04-13 Considered by subcommittee
  • 2023-04-13 Testimony taken in subcommittee
  • 2023-04-13 Left pending in subcommittee
  • 2023-04-17 Considered by subcommittee
  • 2023-04-17 Reported from s/c favorably w/o amendments
  • 2023-04-19 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-19 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-04-24 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-24 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-24 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-04-27 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-27 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-04-27 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-04-27 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-27 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-04-27 Record vote
  • 2023-04-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-27 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-27 Record vote
  • 2023-04-27 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-27 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-28 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-28 Referred to Higher Education referral-committee
  • 2023-05-03 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-05-03 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-06 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-06 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-08 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-12 Considered in Calendars
  • 2023-05-16 Placed on General State Calendar
  • 2023-05-16 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-16 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2023-05-16 Record vote
  • 2023-05-16 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-17 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-17 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-17 Record vote
  • 2023-05-17 House passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-17 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-18 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-19 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-19 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-02 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-02 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aae5556d-14b0-4949-8bec-8b7941441d87. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).