SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Education K-16 

TIME & DATE:   8:00 AM, Tuesday, March 25, 2025 

PLACE:         E1.028 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Brandon Creighton 

SB 27          Creighton              
Relating to the rights of public school educators and assistance provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators.

SB 226         West                   
Relating to establishing residency for children who are the subject of parental child safety placement agreements for purposes of admission into public schools.

SB 326         King                   
Relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism.

SB 570         Bettencourt | et al.    
Relating to an attendance policy adopted by public schools to prevent truancy.

SB 605         West                   
Relating to the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter school campus by certain charter holders and to the expansion of an open-enrollment charter school.

SB 870         Birdwell               
Relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school marshal.

SB 991         Bettencourt            
Relating to the inclusion of chronically absent and truant students as students at risk of dropping out of school and the collection and reporting of data regarding those students.

SB 1871        Perry | et al.          
Relating to discipline management, including the offense of exhibiting, using, or threatening to exhibit or use a firearm or weapon in or on school property or on a school bus, and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.

SB 1872        Perry | et al.          
Relating to the expulsion of a public school student for engaging in conduct that constitutes certain offenses.

SB 1873        Perry | et al.          
Relating to students enrolled in public schools subject to in-school or out-of-school suspension.

SB 1874        Perry                  
Relating to immunity from certain disciplinary proceedings against a professional employee of a school district for certain actions concerning public school discipline and law and order.

SB 1924        Creighton              
Relating to the enforcement of certain criminal offenses on school property

SB 1925        Creighton              
Relating to truancy.

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