BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 100

By: Leo Wilson

Public Education

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The bill author has informed the committee of constituent concerns that schools are purchasing, adopting, and using instructional material that does not meet the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills curriculum standards. While current law provides for the State Board of Education to maintain a list of instructional materials it has rejected for use by school districts and charter schools, there is no express statutory prohibition or limitation on the adoption and use by a school district of such rejected material. H.B. 100 seeks to address these concerns by amending various sections of the Education Code to regulate how public school districts and open‑enrollment charter schools select and use instructional materials.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 100 amends the Education Code to set out the following provisions with respect to the list of rejected instructional materials maintained by the State Board of Education:

· a prohibition against a public school district using its instructional materials and technology allotment to purchase such instructional material;

· a prohibition against a district adopting or otherwise using that instructional material;

· a provision limiting the adoption or use of an open education resource instructional material by a district or open-enrollment charter school to instructional material that is not on the list; and

· a provision specifying that the authorization for a district or charter school to use local funds to purchase instructional materials does not include instructional material that is on the list.

H.B. 100 applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2025.