HB5261 • 2025

Relating to designating the Windham School District to provide postsecondary education to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Education

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Sponsor: Cunningham | Anchía | DeAyala
Last action: 2025-05-13
Official status: 05/13/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to designating the Windham School District to provide postsecondary education to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

What This Bill Does

Relating to designating the Windham School District to provide postsecondary education to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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Bill History

2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-11 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Corrections
2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to designating the Windham School District to provide postsecondary education to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) HB 5261 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R24295 KJE-F

By: Cunningham, Anchía, DeAyala

H.B. No. 5261

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 5261:

By: Wharton

C.S.H.B. No. 5261

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to designating the Windham School District to provide

postsecondary education to inmates of the Texas Department of

Criminal Justice.

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 19, Education Code, is amended by adding

Sections 19.012 and 19.013 to read as follows:

Sec.

19.012.

POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION. The district and the

department shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for

postsecondary education programs to be administered by the

district.

Sec.

19.013.

POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD. (a)

The district shall establish a postsecondary education advisory

board to advise the department regarding postsecondary education

programs.

(b)

The advisory board is composed of members who are

relevant stakeholders, including:

(1)

a representative of the Texas Higher Education

Coordinating Board;

(2)

a representative of the Texas Department of

Licensing and Regulation;

(3)

a representative of the Texas Workforce

Commission;

(4)

a representative of public institutions of higher

education on a rotating basis;

(5)

a representative from an organization that

represents the families of the district's students;

(6)

a representative of an organization that advocates

for the education of the district's students; and

(7) a current or former district student.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.