republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/hb-824.md

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Bill	Relating to the inclusion of civics instruction in public school government curriculum requirements for high school students.	Relating to the inclusion of civics instruction in public school government curriculum requirements for high school students.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	HB 824	Texas HB 824 (89R)	bill	EDUCATION STATE BOARD OF (V0086) Education--Primary & Secondary--Curriculum (I0228)	enacted	Allen Cunningham Jones, Jolanda LaHood Leo Wilson Middleton	5	59	2	2024-11-12	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/db8bde84-66a5-468c-a7b5-97af3769562e	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00800_HB00899/HB 824.xml	2d9f4ef171c201f5c1cc8d5aa7505b5550c907e890fc30817af3c1210eb429cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas HB 824 (89R) — Relating to the inclusion of civics instruction in public school government curriculum requirements for high school students.

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 — 123–18 (pass) · lower
• passage — 124–18 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)
• Cunningham — primary (person)
• Jones, Jolanda — primary (person)
• LaHood — primary (person)
• Leo Wilson — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Bhojani — cosponsor (person)
• Bowers — cosponsor (person)
• Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
• Cain — cosponsor (person)
• Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Davis, Aicha — cosponsor (person)
• DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
• Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
• Flores — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia, Josey — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia, Linda — cosponsor (person)
• Gerdes — cosponsor (person)
• Gervin-Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
• Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
• Guillen — cosponsor (person)
• Howard — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Lalani — cosponsor (person)
• McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Meza — cosponsor (person)
• Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
• Morales, Christina — cosponsor (person)
• Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
• Muñoz — cosponsor (person)
• Phelan — cosponsor (person)
• Plesa — cosponsor (person)
• Raymond — cosponsor (person)
• Reynolds — cosponsor (person)
• Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Rodríguez Ramos — cosponsor (person)
• Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
• Simmons — cosponsor (person)
• Vasut — cosponsor (person)
• Ward Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Wharton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-12 Filed filing
• 2025-03-05 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Public Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 Referred to s/c on Academic & Career-Oriented Education by chair referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
• 2025-04-03 Considered by s/c in public hearing
• 2025-04-03 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
• 2025-04-03 Left pending in subcommittee
• 2025-04-22 Recalled from subcommittee
• 2025-04-22 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-04-22 Committee substitute considered in committee substitution
• 2025-04-22 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-30 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-04-30 Vote reconsidered in committee
• 2025-04-30 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-06 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-06 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-07 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-08 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-10 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-12 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-12 Passed to engrossment
• 2025-05-12 Record vote
• 2025-05-12 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-13 Passed passage
• 2025-05-13 Record vote
• 2025-05-13 Reported engrossed
• 2025-05-14 Received from the House introduction
• 2025-05-14 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Referred to Education K-16 referral-committee
• 2025-05-15 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-21 Posting rule suspended
• 2025-05-22 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-05-22 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-22 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-05-22 Left pending in committee
• 2025-05-23 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-23 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-05-25 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-25 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-05-25 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-05-28 Co-sponsor authorized
• 2025-05-28 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-05-28 Laid before the Senate receipt
• 2025-05-28 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-28 Three day rule suspended
• 2025-05-28 Record vote
• 2025-05-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-28 Passed passage
• 2025-05-28 Record vote
• 2025-05-29 Senate passage reported passage
• 2025-05-30 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-30 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-31 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-31 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
• 2025-06-20 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db8bde84-66a5-468c-a7b5-97af3769562e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).