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SB2617 • 2025

Relating to a policy adopted by a school district or open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

Relating to a policy adopted by a school district or open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

Education
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Creighton
Last action
2025-05-21
Official status
05/21/2025 H Referred to Public Education: May 21 2025 11:24AM
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to a policy adopted by a school district or open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

Relating to a policy adopted by a school district or open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to a policy adopted by a school district or open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  2. 2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Public Education

  3. 2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the Senate

  4. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  5. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  6. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  7. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  8. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  9. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  10. 2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  11. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  12. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  13. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment

  14. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  15. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  16. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  17. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  18. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  19. 2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  20. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-author authorized

  21. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  22. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  23. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  24. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  25. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  26. 2025-04-03 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Education K-16

  27. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Received by the Secretary of the Senate

  28. 2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a policy adopted by a school district or open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 2617 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

By: Creighton, et al.

S.B. No. 2617

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a policy adopted by a school district or

open-enrollment charter school regarding the expression of dates.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 29, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 29.935 to read as follows:

Sec.

29.935.

EXPRESSION OF DATES. (a)

The board of

trustees of a school district or the governing body of an

open-enrollment charter school shall adopt and implement a policy

requiring the use of the terms Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ

(BC) when expressing dates during student instruction.

(b)

A school district or open-enrollment charter school may

not purchase or select curriculum materials for the district's or

school's curriculum that express dates in a manner inconsistent

with the policy adopted under Subsection (a).

SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2026-2027

school 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.