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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program."
description: "Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "HB 120"
citation: "Texas HB 120 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION AGENCY", "TEXAS (V9941)", "EDUCATION", "COMMISSIONER OF (V9954)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Admission & Attendance (I0227)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools (I0245)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Curriculum (I0228)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Facilities (I0241)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance (I0250)", "Education--Primary & Secondary--Other School Personnel (I0246)", "Education--Rural (I0221)", "Education--School Districts (I0220)", "Electronic Information Systems (I0311)", "FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM (S0541)", "INTERNET (S0130)", "Labor--Workforce Development (I0495)", "Labor--Workforce Development--Rural (I0496)", "Military & Veterans (I0535)", "Science & Technology (I0751)", "State Finances--Management & Control (I0748)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashby", "Bell, Keith", "Buckley", "Button", "Gates", "Schwertner"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 66
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-06-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eddc2bb4-c7d6-47d1-8a46-94da072234b7"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB00100_HB00199/HB 120.xml"
source_hash: "4135f067cf02e1ca3718d5a29bd7c9b6781f9cbbbe429ab08b7e75459ae717d4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---
# Texas HB 120 (89R) — Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00120I.HTM)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00120E.HTM)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00120H.HTM)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00120S.HTM)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB00120F.HTM)
## Votes
- passage — **116–6** (pass) · lower
- passage — **144–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that CSHB 120 be placed on its third reading and final passage. — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- passage — **142–4** (pass) · lower
- passage — **116–6** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ashby — primary (person)
- Bell, Keith — primary (person)
- Buckley — primary (person)
- Button — primary (person)
- Gates — primary (person)
- Schwertner — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Davis, Aicha — cosponsor (person)
- DeAyala — cosponsor (person)
- Fairly — cosponsor (person)
- Frank — cosponsor (person)
- Guerra — cosponsor (person)
- Guillen — cosponsor (person)
- Hagenbuch — cosponsor (person)
- Hancock — cosponsor (person)
- Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" — cosponsor (person)
- Isaac — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Janie — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez, Ray — cosponsor (person)
- Morales Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Orr — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-20** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-25** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** Referred to s/c on Academic & Career-Oriented Education by Speaker `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
- **2025-03-05** Considered by s/c in public hearing
- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute considered in s/c `substitution`
- **2025-03-05** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
- **2025-03-05** Left pending in subcommittee
- **2025-03-18** Recalled from subcommittee
- **2025-03-18** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-03-18** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-03-18** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-03-27** Committee report distributed
- **2025-03-28** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-04-09** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-04-15** Placed on Emergency Calendar
- **2025-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-15** Record vote
- **2025-04-15** Passed to engrossment as amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-15** 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
- **2025-04-16** Received from the House `introduction`
- **2025-04-23** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-04-23** Referred to Education K-16 `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
- **2025-05-08** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-05-08** Testimony taken in committee
- **2025-05-08** Left pending in committee
- **2025-05-13** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-05-13** Vote taken in committee
- **2025-05-20** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Committee report printed and distributed
- **2025-05-23** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2025-05-23** Placed on intent calendar
- **2025-05-25** Co-sponsor authorized
- **2025-05-25** Rules suspended-Regular order of business
- **2025-05-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-25** Amendment(s) offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-25** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-25** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-25** Passed to 3rd reading as amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-25** Vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-25** Three day rule suspended
- **2025-05-25** Record vote
- **2025-05-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-05-25** Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-25** Record vote
- **2025-05-26** Senate passage as amended reported `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-28** Senate Amendments distributed
- **2025-05-28** Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
- **2025-05-28** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
- **2025-05-28** Record vote
- **2025-05-28** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
- **2025-05-28** Text of Senate Amendment(s)
- **2025-05-28** House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
- **2025-05-30** Reported enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-05-31** Signed in the House `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Signed in the Senate `passage`
- **2025-06-01** Sent to the Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-20** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-20** See remarks for effective date
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eddc2bb4-c7d6-47d1-8a46-94da072234b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).