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| Bill | Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman. | Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman. | us/states/tx | Texas Legislature | 89R | SB 37 | Texas SB 37 (89R) |
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5 | 98 | 11 | 2025-03-13 | 2025-06-20 | openstates | ocd-bill/6baa4eb7-d2eb-4e3c-8ef0-ab6ef8c664ec | ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00001_SB00099/SB 37.xml | d9cb75940e1fe1597a68e2ea57b46baf9bef9696acae1fc6f45f32e1a973c8a9 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Texas SB 37 (89R) — Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
- House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- passage — 83–47 (pass) · upper
- passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
- adoption of Floor Amendment No. 2 — 0–0 (pass) · upper
- passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
- other — 11–20 (fail) · upper
- passage — 83–53 (pass) · lower
- passage — 83–47 (pass) · lower
- passage — 85–56 (pass) · lower
- passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
- passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
- passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Creighton — primary (person)
- Shaheen — primary (person)
- Bettencourt — cosponsor (person)
- Birdwell — cosponsor (person)
- Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
- Hughes — cosponsor (person)
- Middleton — cosponsor (person)
- Schwertner — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-03-13 Received by the Secretary of the Senate
filing, introduction - 2025-03-13 Filed
filing - 2025-03-17 Read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2025-03-17 Referred to Education K-16
referral-committee - 2025-03-20 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- 2025-03-20 Considered in public hearing
- 2025-03-20 Testimony taken in committee
- 2025-03-20 Left pending in committee
- 2025-03-25 Co-author authorized
- 2025-04-03 Considered in public hearing
- 2025-04-03 Vote taken in committee
- 2025-04-08 Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-04-08 Committee report printed and distributed
- 2025-04-10 Co-author authorized
- 2025-04-10 Placed on intent calendar
- 2025-04-15 Co-author authorized
- 2025-04-15 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- 2025-04-15 Record vote
- 2025-04-15 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-04-15 Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction - 2025-04-15 Postponed
- 2025-04-15 Laid out as postponed business
- 2025-04-15 Amended
amendment-passage - 2025-04-15 Record vote
- 2025-04-15 Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction - 2025-04-15 Amended
amendment-passage - 2025-04-15 Vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-04-15 Amendment(s) offered
amendment-introduction - 2025-04-15 Amendment fails of adoption
amendment-failure - 2025-04-15 Record vote
- 2025-04-15 Passed to engrossment as amended
amendment-passage - 2025-04-15 Record vote
- 2025-04-16 Co-author authorized
- 2025-04-16 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- 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 Statement(s) submitted
- 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 - 2025-05-06 Considered in public hearing
- 2025-05-06 Committee substitute considered in committee
substitution - 2025-05-06 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- 2025-05-07 Public hearing continued on . . .
- 2025-05-07 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- 2025-05-07 Left pending in committee
- 2025-05-19 Considered in formal meeting
- 2025-05-19 Committee substitute considered in committee
substitution - 2025-05-19 Reported favorably as substituted
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-05-22 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
filing - 2025-05-22 Committee report distributed
- 2025-05-22 Committee report sent to Calendars
- 2025-05-22 Considered in Calendars
- 2025-05-24 Placed on Major State Calendar
- 2025-05-24 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2025-05-24 Point of order withdrawn
withdrawal - 2025-05-24 Amendment withdrawn
amendment-withdrawal, withdrawal - 2025-05-24 Passed to 3rd reading
- 2025-05-24 Record vote
- 2025-05-24 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-05-25 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2025-05-25 Postponed
- 2025-05-25 Laid out as postponed business
- 2025-05-25 Passed
passage - 2025-05-25 Record vote
- 2025-05-25 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-05-26 Co-author authorized
- 2025-05-26 House passage as amended reported
amendment-passage - 2025-05-28 House amendment(s) laid before the Senate
- 2025-05-28 Read
- 2025-05-28 Senate refuses to concur
- 2025-05-28 Senate requests conference committee
- 2025-05-28 Senate appoints conferees
- 2025-05-28 Senate refuses to concur-reported
- 2025-05-28 Senate requests conference committee-reported
- 2025-05-28 Senate appoints conferees-reported
- 2025-05-29 House grants request for conference committee
- 2025-05-29 House appoints conferees
- 2025-05-29 House grants request for conf comm-reported
- 2025-05-29 House appoints conferees-reported
- 2025-05-29 Conference committee report filed
filing - 2025-05-30 Conf. Comm. Report distributed
- 2025-05-31 Senate adopts conference committee report
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-05-31 Record vote
- 2025-05-31 House adopts conference committee report
committee-passage-favorable - 2025-05-31 Record vote
- 2025-05-31 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- 2025-05-31 Senate adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- 2025-05-31 House adopts conf. comm. report-reported
- 2025-06-01 Reported enrolled
enrolled - 2025-06-01 Signed in the Senate
passage - 2025-06-02 Signed in the House
passage - 2025-06-02 Sent to the Governor
executive-receipt - 2025-06-20 Signed by the Governor
executive-signature - 2025-06-20 Effective on 9/1/25
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6baa4eb7-d2eb-4e3c-8ef0-ab6ef8c664ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).