HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Public Education 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Tuesday, April 15, 2025 

PLACE:       JHR 140 
CHAIR:       Rep. Brad Buckley 

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

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HB 1178        Cunningham | et al.                                    
Relating to the creation of a temporary educator certificate for educators certified by other states.

HB 1411        Allen                                                 
Relating to the use of personal leave during school holidays by certain school district employees.

HB 1441        Plesa                                                 
Relating to the model training curriculum for school district peace officers and school resource officers.

HB 1773        Bhojani | et al.                                       
Relating to allowing the board of trustees of certain school districts to create a nonvoting student trustee position on the board.

HB 1813        Bucy                                                  
Relating to a parental right to information concerning a public school special education program and certain requirements for persons serving as special education representatives and hearing officers at impartial due process hearings.

HB 2107        Fairly                                                
Relating to training requirements for public school educators.

HB 2598        Button                                                
Relating to a school psychologist licensed under the Occupations Code.

HB 2911        Frank                                                 
Relating to participation in the uniform group coverage program for active school employees and additional state aid for public schools that do not participate in that program.

HB 2967        Dutton                                                
Relating to vision screenings for students in public or private school, including vision screening information reporting for public school students and the creation of a vision care allotment under the Foundation School Program.

HB 3672        Ashby                                                 
Relating to the creation of an extracurricular community education grant program.

HB 5263        Geren                                                 
Relating to the accessibility of results from the state assessment.

HB 3797        Ashby                                                 
Relating to the terminology used to refer to certain assessment instruments administered to public school students.

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

A live video broadcast of this hearing will be available here: https://house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Instructions related to public access to the meeting location are available here: https://house.texas.gov/committees/public-access-house-committee-meetings/

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS

Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need assistance, such as a sign language interpreter, are requested to contact Stacey Nicchio at (512) 463-0850, 72 hours prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.