2025 Regular Session • Texas Legislature
HB2196
Legislative Summary
Relating to the provision of virtual education in public schools and to certain waivers and modifications by the commissioner of education to the method of calculating average daily attendance in an emergency or crisis for purposes of preserving school district funding entitlements under the Foundation School Program during that emergency or crisis; authorizing a fee.
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Bill History
1/29/2025
Filed
House of Representatives
3/14/2025
Read first time
House of Representatives
3/14/2025
Referred to Public Education
House of Representatives
3/19/2025
Referred to s/c on Academic & Career-Oriented Education by chair
House of Representatives
3/27/2025
Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
House of Representatives
3/27/2025
Considered by s/c in public hearing
House of Representatives
3/27/2025
Committee substitute considered in s/c
House of Representatives
3/27/2025
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee
House of Representatives
3/27/2025
Left pending in subcommittee
House of Representatives
4/3/2025
Recalled from subcommittee
House of Representatives
4/3/2025
Considered in formal meeting
House of Representatives
4/3/2025
Committee substitute considered in committee
House of Representatives
4/3/2025
Reported favorably as substituted
House of Representatives
4/9/2025
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
House of Representatives
4/9/2025
Committee report distributed
House of Representatives
4/10/2025
Committee report sent to Calendars
House of Representatives
4/14/2025
Considered in Calendars
House of Representatives
4/16/2025
Placed on General State Calendar
House of Representatives
4/17/2025
Companion considered in lieu of SB 569
House of Representatives
4/17/2025
Laid on the table subject to call
House of Representatives
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(1/29/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Sponsors
Republican: 7
Democrat: 1
Primary Sponsor

Keith Bell
Republican