SB 2: “Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program.”
This bill seeks to create a private school voucher program. Vouchers drain tax dollars from neighborhood public schools to subsidize tuition at private and religious schools that are unaccountable to taxpayers and don’t have to meet the same fiscal and educational standards as public schools do. Public funds should stay with children in public schools, which educate the vast majority of Texas students.
02/25/2025 H Referred to Public Education

HB 3: “Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program.”
The House version of this year’s private school voucher bill. While it does differ from SB 2 in some areas, it would still drain taxpayer money to subsidize tuition at unaccountable private and religious schools. Private schools can deny admission or educational services to any student, including students with disabilities, students from different religious faiths, or students or parents who are LGBTQIA+. Legislators must not allow private and religious schools to discriminate while taking our tax dollars.
03/12/2025 H Left pending in committee

SB 10: “Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.”
This bill would require public school classrooms to display, in a conspicuous place, a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments. Placing religious texts like the Ten Commandments in our schools favors one religion over all others. Lawmakers should remember that the role of public schools is to prepare students with skills for a better academic future, not to proselytize. 
03/06/2025 S Placed on intent calendar

HB 1009, 1348, 2116, 2696: “Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.”
Various House versions of the Ten Commandments bill described above.
All referred to H Public Education committee

SB 11: “Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.”
This bill would allow a school district or charter school’s board of trustees to “adopt a policy requiring every campus of the district or school to provide students and employees with an opportunity to participate in a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text on each school day.” These set-aside times would be inherently coercive, no matter how voluntary this bill pretends they would be. The bill also leaves Texas vulnerable to expensive First Amendment lawsuits.
03/13/2025 S Not again placed on intent calendar

SB 12: “Relating to parental rights in public education and to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction and diversity, equity, and inclusion duties and the loss of funding for public schools that fail to comply with those provisions.”
This bill would extend the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to K-12 public schools.
3/18/2025 S Placed on intent calendar

SB 13: “Relating to a school district’s library materials and catalog, the creation of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent’s child to library materials.”
SB 13 would make it easier for school districts to target and remove books about people of color and involving LGBTQIA+ characters. It would require that school boards, rather than librarians, have the final say over which new books or materials can be put in school libraries. It would also allow parents to challenge any book and have it removed from shelves until the school board decides whether that material is allowed. Each school district would also be required to have local advisory councils — with parents making up a majority of voting members — that would recommend which books should be added and removed from school libraries.
03/05/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed

SB 202: “Relating to allowing a member of the State Board of Education to employ a person to assist in performing the member’s duties.”
This bill would allow each SBOE member to employ a staff person to assist with performing the duties and accomplishing the purposes of the office.
02/03/2025 S Referred to Education K-16