republic-os/legislation/us/states/tx/89r/sb-965.md

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Bill	Relating to the right of a public school employee to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.	Relating to the right of a public school employee to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.	us/states/tx	Texas Legislature	89R	SB 965	Texas SB 965 (89R)	bill	Education--Primary & Secondary--General (I0230) Religion (I0646)	enacted	Bettencourt Campbell Creighton Hall Hinojosa, Adam Kolkhorst Leach Middleton Parker Paxton	5	59	6	2025-01-29	2025-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/0fa573f8-e0e0-42ff-8425-a8a0aaac6dce	ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/senate_bills/SB00900_SB00999/SB 965.xml	57b256b4da30d8ac20210d448c256f406e6425d7d7b3854ca7a49f67dbeb9ad3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-tx

Texas SB 965 (89R) — Relating to the right of a public school employee to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.

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 — 20–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
• passage — 20–11 (pass) · upper
• other — 11–20 (fail) · upper
• passage — 86–48 (pass) · lower
• passage — 84–52 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bettencourt — primary (person)
• Campbell — primary (person)
• Creighton — primary (person)
• Hall — primary (person)
• Hinojosa, Adam — primary (person)
• Kolkhorst — primary (person)
• Leach — primary (person)
• Middleton — primary (person)
• Parker — primary (person)
• Paxton — primary (person)
• Alders — cosponsor (person)
• Bonnen — cosponsor (person)
• Buckley — cosponsor (person)
• Cain — cosponsor (person)
• Capriglione — cosponsor (person)
• Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Curry — cosponsor (person)
• DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
• Dorazio — cosponsor (person)
• Flores — cosponsor (person)
• Harrison — cosponsor (person)
• Hefner — cosponsor (person)
• Hickland — cosponsor (person)
• Hopper — cosponsor (person)
• Hull — cosponsor (person)
• Isaac — cosponsor (person)
• Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
• King — cosponsor (person)
• LaHood — cosponsor (person)
• Leo Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Little — cosponsor (person)
• Lozano — cosponsor (person)
• McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
• Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
• Morgan — cosponsor (person)
• Noble — cosponsor (person)
• Olcott — cosponsor (person)
• Oliverson — cosponsor (person)
• Patterson — cosponsor (person)
• Paul — cosponsor (person)
• Pierson — cosponsor (person)
• Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
• Shaheen — cosponsor (person)
• Slawson — cosponsor (person)
• Spiller — cosponsor (person)
• Swanson — cosponsor (person)
• Troxclair — cosponsor (person)
• Vasut — cosponsor (person)
• Virdell — cosponsor (person)
• Wharton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Received by the Secretary of the Senate filing, introduction
• 2025-01-29 Filed filing
• 2025-02-13 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-13 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
• 2025-03-03 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-03 Testimony taken in committee
• 2025-03-03 Left pending in committee
• 2025-03-13 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-03-13 Vote taken in committee
• 2025-03-17 Reported favorably w/o amendments committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-17 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
• 2025-03-17 Committee report printed and distributed
• 2025-03-24 Co-author authorized
• 2025-03-24 Placed on intent calendar
• 2025-04-01 Co-author authorized
• 2025-04-01 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-01 Record vote
• 2025-04-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Amendment(s) offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-01 Amendment fails of adoption amendment-failure
• 2025-04-01 Record vote
• 2025-04-01 Passed to engrossment
• 2025-04-01 Record vote
• 2025-04-01 Rules suspended-Regular order of business
• 2025-04-01 Record vote
• 2025-04-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-01 Passed passage
• 2025-04-01 Record vote
• 2025-04-01 Reported engrossed
• 2025-04-02 Received from the Senate introduction
• 2025-04-09 Read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to State Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-05-12 Considered in public hearing
• 2025-05-12 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
• 2025-05-12 Left pending in committee
• 2025-05-12 Considered in formal meeting
• 2025-05-12 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-14 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
• 2025-05-14 Committee report distributed
• 2025-05-15 Committee report sent to Calendars
• 2025-05-19 Considered in Calendars
• 2025-05-21 Placed on General State Calendar
• 2025-05-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-05-22 Point of order withdrawn withdrawal
• 2025-05-22 Passed to 3rd reading
• 2025-05-22 Record vote
• 2025-05-22 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-05-23 Passed passage
• 2025-05-23 Record vote
• 2025-05-23 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• 2025-05-23 House passage reported passage
• 2025-05-23 Reported enrolled enrolled
• 2025-05-26 Signed in the Senate passage
• 2025-05-26 Signed in the House passage
• 2025-05-27 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/0fa573f8-e0e0-42ff-8425-a8a0aaac6dce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).