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HB5515 • 2025

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

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

Education
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Buckley
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

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

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  4. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-05-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage reported

  7. 2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  8. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  9. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  10. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  11. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  12. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  13. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  14. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  15. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  16. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  17. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  18. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  19. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  20. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  21. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  22. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  23. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  24. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  25. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  26. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  27. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  28. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  29. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Education K-16

  30. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  31. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  32. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2620

  33. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  34. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  35. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  36. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  37. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  38. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2503

  39. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  40. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  41. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  42. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  43. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  44. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  45. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  46. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  47. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  48. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  49. 2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  50. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  51. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  52. 2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Education

  53. 2025-03-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 5515 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 5515

AN ACT

relating to restrictions on freight and shipping costs included in

the price of instructional materials for public schools.

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

SECTION 1. Section 31.151(a), Education Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(a) A publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials:

(1) shall furnish any instructional material the

publisher or manufacturer offers in this state at a price that does

not exceed the lowest price at which the publisher offers that

instructional material for adoption or sale to any state, public

school, or school district in the United States;

(2) shall automatically reduce the price of

instructional material sold for use in a school district or

open-enrollment charter school to the extent that the price is

reduced elsewhere in the United States;

(3) shall provide any instructional material or

ancillary item free of charge in this state to the same extent that

the publisher or manufacturer provides the instructional material

or ancillary item free of charge to any state, public school, or

school district in the United States;

(4)

may not include in the price of instructional

material a freight and shipping cost that:

(A)

exceeds the actual cost of delivering the

instructional material, as determined based on the standard rate

published by the carrier for the specified delivery method of the

instructional material; or

(B)

includes a handling or similar charge that is

not directly related to the shipment of physical copies of the

instructional material;

(5)
[
(4)
] shall guarantee that each copy of

instructional material sold in this state is at least equal in

quality to copies of that instructional material sold elsewhere in

the United States and is free from factual error;

(6)
[
(5)
] may not become associated or connected with,

directly or indirectly, any combination in restraint of trade in

instructional materials or enter into any understanding or

combination to control prices or restrict competition in the sale

of instructional materials for use in this state;

(7)
[
(6)
] shall deliver instructional materials to a

school district or open-enrollment charter school;

(8)
[
(7)
] shall, at the time an order for

instructional materials is acknowledged, provide to school

districts or open-enrollment charter schools an accurate shipping

date for instructional materials that are back-ordered;

(9)
[
(8)
] shall guarantee delivery of instructional

materials at least 10 business days before the opening day of school

of the year for which the instructional materials are ordered if the

instructional materials are ordered by a date specified in the

sales contract;

(10)
[
(9)
] shall submit to the State Board of

Education an affidavit certifying any instructional material the

publisher or manufacturer offers in this state to be free of factual

errors at the time the publisher executes the contract required by

Section 31.026; and

(11)
[
(10)
] shall comply with all other standard terms

and conditions adopted by the State Board of Education for use in

contracts for the procurement of instructional materials under

Subsection (a-1).

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

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 5515 was passed by the House on May

15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 1, 3 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 5515 was passed by the Senate on May

23, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: _____________________

Date

_____________________

Governor