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Bill Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 892 HB 8 Texas HB 8 (892)
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EDUCATION AGENCY
TEXAS (V9941)
EDUCATION
COMMISSIONER OF (V9954)
Education--Primary & Secondary--Accountability (I0007)
Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools (I0245)
Education--Primary & Secondary--Testing (I0229)
Education--School Districts (I0220)
HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
TEXAS (V4280)
INTERNET (S0130)
Interim Studies (I0448)
State Finances--Management & Control (I0748)
WORKFORCE COMMISSION
TEXAS (V0470)
enacted
Bell, Keith
Bettencourt
Buckley
Landgraf
Metcalf
Wilson
4 77 10 2025-08-15 2025-09-17 openstates ocd-bill/30d9e146-eff9-48bc-b338-3c5bb49b28d6 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/892/billhistory/house_bills/HB00001_HB00099/HB 8.xml b2b8f74998a0e6945899dfabde08055164866bd82b9d7f588c40e045833f8ba8 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Texas HB 8 (892) — Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • passage — 8256 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 7163 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 7947 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 8642 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 7947 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 7858 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 215 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 215 (pass) · upper
  • passage — 215 (pass) · upper
  • Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 8 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — 215 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Bell, Keith — primary (person)
  • Bettencourt — primary (person)
  • Buckley — primary (person)
  • Landgraf — primary (person)
  • Metcalf — primary (person)
  • Wilson — primary (person)
  • Alders — cosponsor (person)
  • Bell, Cecil — cosponsor (person)
  • Birdwell — cosponsor (person)
  • Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
  • Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
  • Button — cosponsor (person)
  • Cain — cosponsor (person)
  • Campbell — cosponsor (person)
  • Cook — cosponsor (person)
  • Craddick — cosponsor (person)
  • Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
  • Curry — cosponsor (person)
  • Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
  • Frank — cosponsor (person)
  • Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
  • Geren — cosponsor (person)
  • Guillen — cosponsor (person)
  • Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
  • Hall — cosponsor (person)
  • Harless — cosponsor (person)
  • Harris — cosponsor (person)
  • Harris Davila — cosponsor (person)
  • Hayes — cosponsor (person)
  • Hefner — cosponsor (person)
  • Hickland — cosponsor (person)
  • Hinojosa, Adam — cosponsor (person)
  • Holt — cosponsor (person)
  • Huffman — cosponsor (person)
  • Hughes — cosponsor (person)
  • Hull — cosponsor (person)
  • Hunter — cosponsor (person)
  • Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
  • King — cosponsor (person)
  • Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
  • Kolkhorst — cosponsor (person)
  • LaHood — cosponsor (person)
  • Leach — cosponsor (person)
  • Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
  • Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
  • Louderback — cosponsor (person)
  • Lujan — cosponsor (person)
  • Luther — cosponsor (person)
  • McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
  • McQueeney — cosponsor (person)
  • Noble — cosponsor (person)
  • Orr — cosponsor (person)
  • Parker — cosponsor (person)
  • Patterson — cosponsor (person)
  • Paul — cosponsor (person)
  • Paxton — cosponsor (person)
  • Perry — cosponsor (person)
  • Pierson — cosponsor (person)
  • Richardson — cosponsor (person)
  • Schoolcraft — cosponsor (person)
  • Shofner — cosponsor (person)
  • Slawson — cosponsor (person)
  • Sparks — cosponsor (person)
  • Swanson — cosponsor (person)
  • Tepper — cosponsor (person)
  • Virdell — cosponsor (person)
  • Wharton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-08-15 Filed filing
  • 2025-08-18 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-08-18 Referred to Public Education referral-committee
  • 2025-08-21 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-08-21 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2025-08-21 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-08-23 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-08-24 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-08-24 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-08-25 Considered in Calendars
  • 2025-08-26 Placed on Major State Calendar
  • 2025-08-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-08-26 Postponed
  • 2025-08-26 Laid out as postponed business
  • 2025-08-26 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2025-08-26 Amendment amended amendment-amendment
  • 2025-08-26 Amendment adopted as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-26 Amendment tabled deferral
  • 2025-08-26 Record vote
  • 2025-08-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-08-26 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-26 Amendment tabled deferral
  • 2025-08-26 Record vote
  • 2025-08-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-08-26 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-26 Passed to engrossment as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-26 Record vote
  • 2025-08-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-08-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-08-26 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-26 Passed as amended amendment-passage, passage
  • 2025-08-26 Record vote
  • 2025-08-26 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-08-26 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-08-26 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-08-26 Received from the House introduction
  • 2025-08-27 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-08-27 Referred to Finance referral-committee
  • 2025-08-27 Posting rule suspended
  • 2025-08-27 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-08-27 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-08-27 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-08-27 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-08-27 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-08-27 Printing rule suspended
  • 2025-08-27 Ordered not printed
  • 2025-08-27 Co-sponsor authorized
  • 2025-08-27 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  • 2025-08-27 Record vote
  • 2025-08-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-08-27 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
  • 2025-08-27 Amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-27 Record vote
  • 2025-08-27 Passed to 3rd reading as amended amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-27 Record vote
  • 2025-08-27 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-08-27 Record vote
  • 2025-08-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-08-27 Passed passage
  • 2025-08-27 Record vote
  • 2025-08-27 Remarks ordered printed
  • 2025-08-28 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2025-08-28 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2025-08-28 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2025-09-03 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
  • 2025-09-03 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2025-09-03 Record vote
  • 2025-09-03 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-09-03 Reason for vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-09-03 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  • 2025-09-03 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-09-03 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  • 2025-09-03 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-09-03 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-09-04 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-09-17 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-09-17 See remarks for effective date

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/30d9e146-eff9-48bc-b338-3c5bb49b28d6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).