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SB1434 • 2025

Relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school district to transport district students or employees to or from a polling place.

Relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school district to transport district students or employees to or from a polling place.

Education Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Bettencourt
Last action
2025-05-05
Official status
05/05/2025 S Not again placed on intent calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school district to transport district students or employees to or from a polling place.

Relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school district to transport district students or employees to or from a polling place.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school district to transport district students or employees to or from a polling place.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Not again placed on intent calendar

  2. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  3. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendments

  4. 2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  5. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  6. 2025-03-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  7. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  8. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  9. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  10. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  11. 2025-03-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  12. 2025-03-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to State Affairs

  13. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  14. 2025-02-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school district to transport district students or employees to or from a polling place.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) SB 1434 - Senate Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Bettencourt

S.B. No. 1434

(In the Senate - Filed February 19, 2025; March 6, 2025,

read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

March 24, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,

Nays 0; March 24, 2025, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a prohibition on the use of public money by a school

district to transport district students or employees to or from a

polling place.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 11, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 11.1691 to read as follows:

Sec.

11.1691.

USE OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR TRANSPORTATION TO OR

FROM POLLING PLACE PROHIBITED. (a) Except as provided by

Subsection (b), the board of trustees of a school district may not

use public money to transport district students or employees to or

from a building or location selected as a polling place under the

Election Code on the day of an election or while early voting is in

progress.

(b)

Subsection (a) does not apply to the transportation of

students to or from the students' campus of regular attendance or a

school-sponsored activity.

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

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