HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    Public Education 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Tuesday, April 29, 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 testimony would cause the public hearing to extent into the next calendar day.

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HB 4           Buckley                                               
Relating to the assessment of public school students, public school accountability and actions, and proceedings challenging the operations of the public school system.

HB 54          Gerdes | et al.                                        
Relating to the display of and allowance for non-human behaviors in Texas schools.

HB 775         Frank                                                 
Relating to the participation by non-enrolled students in University Interscholastic League-sponsored activities.

HB 850         Lalani | et al.                                        
Relating to the availability of automatic external defibrillators and a cardiac emergency response plan at public schools and certain private schools in this state.

HB 1122        Lopez, Janie                                          
Relating to the employment of certified school counselors by school districts.

HB 1249        Zwiener                                               
Relating to authorizing the use of a writing portfolio assessment to assess writing performance for public school students.

HB 1405        Reynolds | et al.                                      
Relating to bullying and cyberbullying in public schools.

HB 2336        Allen                                                 
Relating to a school district employee's right to present a grievance under the district's employment policy.

HB 2757        Frank                                                 
Relating to a public school policy for establishing age for purposes of admission into the school for certain children of foreign military members.

HB 3372        Metcalf                                               
Relating to prohibiting certain personal services performed by school district administrators; providing a civil penalty.

HB 3622        Landgraf                                              
Relating to certain alternative education programs designed for students at risk of dropping out of school.

HB 4442        Bhojani | et al.                                       
Relating to an elective course on mindfulness for middle school, junior high school, and high school students.

HB 4687        Gervin-Hawkins                                         
Relating to the applicability of certain immunity and liability laws to certain charter school campuses or programs.

HB 4893        Bowers | et al.                                        
Relating to the Breakthrough Program.

HB 5089        Geren                                                 
Relating to creation of a school district by detachment of territory from an existing school district.

HB 5515        Buckley                                               
Relating to restrictions on freight and shipping costs included in the price of instructional materials for public schools.

HB 5606        Wilson                                                
Relating to a sick day pool of school employees in the state.

SB 10          King | et al.                                         
Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

SB 24          Campbell | et al.                                      
Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain 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

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