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Bill Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods. Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 89R SB 2231 Texas SB 2231 (89R)
bill
Education--Higher--Admission & Attendance (I0257)
Education--Higher--State Coordination (I0224)
Education--Higher--Student Fees (I0234)
HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
TEXAS (V4280)
enacted
Hinojosa, Adam
Wilson
5 48 2 2025-03-11 2025-05-21 openstates ocd-bill/2ac3a43f-d038-4006-97b2-ec35be67b794 ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB02200_SB02299/SB 2231.xml 2262dbad0e7452280b63ac6656b32cf8f827a0a29a6864330b41147754dd4cfc 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
legislation
bill
us-tx

Texas SB 2231 (89R) — Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

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 — 10124 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 12225 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
  • Wilson — primary (person)
  • Paxton — cosponsor (person)
  • West — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2025-03-11 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
  • 2025-03-11 Filed filing
  • 2025-03-25 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-03-25 Referred to Education K-16 referral-committee
  • 2025-04-03 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2025-04-03 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-03 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2025-04-03 Left pending in committee
  • 2025-04-08 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-08 Vote taken in committee
  • 2025-04-09 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-04-09 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-04-09 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2025-04-14 Co-author authorized
  • 2025-04-16 Co-author authorized
  • 2025-04-16 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2025-04-16 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2025-04-16 Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment reading-2
  • 2025-04-16 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-04-16 Three day rule suspended
  • 2025-04-16 Record vote
  • 2025-04-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-04-16 Passed passage
  • 2025-04-16 Record vote
  • 2025-04-16 Reported engrossed
  • 2025-04-17 Received from the Senate introduction
  • 2025-04-22 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2025-04-22 Referred to Higher Education referral-committee
  • 2025-04-29 Considered in public hearing
  • 2025-04-29 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2025-05-01 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2025-05-01 Committee report distributed
  • 2025-05-02 Committee report sent to Calendars
  • 2025-05-07 Laid out in lieu of companion
  • 2025-05-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2025-05-07 Passed to 3rd reading
  • 2025-05-07 Record vote
  • 2025-05-07 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2025-05-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2025-05-08 Passed passage
  • 2025-05-08 Record vote
  • 2025-05-08 House passage reported passage
  • 2025-05-08 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2025-05-09 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2025-05-09 Signed in the House passage
  • 2025-05-09 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-21 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-21 Effective immediately became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ac3a43f-d038-4006-97b2-ec35be67b794. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).