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Bill Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day. Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 SB 68 Texas SB 68 (88)
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5 49 1 2022-11-14 2023-05-24 openstates ocd-bill/9cf32c25-51f7-4ea3-94c0-14ca590c9049 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/88R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 68.xml be4cd2d9fe004e10ea4dda4e033093c3d0375fe829ebe029bbdb75c7a44a4837 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Texas SB 68 (88) — Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day.

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 — 1394 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Murr — primary (person)
  • Talarico — primary (person)
  • Zaffirini — primary (person)
  • LaMantia — cosponsor (person)
  • Springer — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-11-14 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2022-11-14 Filed filing
  • 2023-02-15 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-02-15 Referred to Education referral-committee
  • 2023-03-08 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-03-08 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-03-08 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-03-08 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-03-13 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-04-05 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-05 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-04-06 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-06 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-06 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-04-17 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-19 Co-author authorized
  • 2023-04-20 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-04-19 Not again placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-04-20 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-04-20 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2023-04-20 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-04-20 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-04-20 Record vote
  • 2023-04-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-04-20 Passed passage
  • 2023-04-20 Record vote
  • 2023-04-20 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-04-21 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2023-04-25 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-04-25 Referred to Public Education referral-committee
  • 2023-04-28 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-04-28 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-02 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-05-03 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-05-03 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2023-05-10 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2023-05-10 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-10 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2023-05-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-11 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-11 Record vote
  • 2023-05-11 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-11 House passage reported passage
  • 2023-05-11 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-12 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-12 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-12 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-05-24 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-05-24 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9cf32c25-51f7-4ea3-94c0-14ca590c9049. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).