HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Public Education 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 

PLACE:       JHR 140 
CHAIR:       Rep. Brad Buckley 

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Public testimony may be limited to two (2) minutes per witness.

The chair may limit testimony time and the number of testifying witnesses to ensure consideration of posted and pending business, especially if testimony would cause the public hearing to extend into the next calendar day.

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HB 6           Leach | et al.                                         
Relating to discipline in public schools.

HB 27          King                                                  
Relating to courses in personal financial literacy and economics for high school students in public schools.

HB 123         Dutton                                                
Relating to measures to support kindergarten readiness and early literacy and numeracy skills for public school students, including an early childhood parental support program, and to funding under the Foundation School Program for certain school districts and to support those measures.

HB 210         Guillen                                               
Relating to contracting with a school district by a vendor with whom a member of the board of trustees of the district or a related individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal offense.

HB 213         González, Mary                                         
Relating to the inclusion of chronically absent students as students at risk of dropping out of school and the collection and reporting of data regarding those students.

HB 222         Talarico                                              
Relating to the permissible uses of the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.

HB 610         Leo Wilson | et al.                                    
Relating to a severance payment to a superintendent of a school district.

HB 1085        Curry                                                 
Relating to the offering of a lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits course to satisfy the physical education curriculum requirements for public high school students.

HB 1481        Fairly | et al.                                        
Relating to the use of personal wireless communication devices by students during instructional time.

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to

agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until

the hearing is adjourned by visiting:

https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c400

For those persons who will be testifying, information for in-person witness registration, can be found here: https://mytxlegis.capitol.texas.gov/HWRSPublic/About.aspx

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