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HB4912 • 2025

Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Wilson
Last action
2025-05-07
Official status
05/07/2025 H Laid on the table subject to call
Effective date
Not listed

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Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  2. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Companion considered in lieu of. SB 2231

  3. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid on the table subject to call

  4. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  5. 2025-05-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  6. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  7. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  8. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  9. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  10. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  11. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  12. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  13. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  14. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  15. 2025-04-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  16. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  17. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Higher Education

  18. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4912 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R23046 AND-F

By: Wilson

H.B. No. 4912

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4912:

By: Wilson

C.S.H.B. No. 4912

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public

institutions of higher education during certain periods.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 61.0731 to read as follows:

Sec.

61.0731.

WAIVER OF CERTAIN APPLICATION FEES; FREE

COLLEGE APPLICATION WEEK. (a) The board shall designate the second

full week of October as Free College Application Week. During the

designated week, the board shall permit individuals in this state

to apply to any institution of higher education for undergraduate

admission without paying an application fee.

(b)

The board may adopt rules as necessary to implement

Subsection (a).

SECTION 2. Section 61.0731, Education Code, as added by

this Act, applies beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.