Every post names the bill, the session, and the verified status, then explains what the bill does and what it changes where you live.
HB 653Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Same-sex sexual conduct would no longer be listed as an offense in the Texas penal code, so prosecutors could not charge it under that section. Parents and students reading school health materials would still see the statement that homosexual conduct is not an acceptable lifestyle, but it would no longer be labeled a crime. No other part of the penal code would change under this bill.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 238Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
When your school district puts a bond on the ballot, it would take three-fifths of qualified voters to pass instead of a simple majority, so a measure that wins a majority of the vote could still fall short. A bond election already ordered before the effective date would still follow the old rule. Voters would also decide the constitutional amendment that this bill depends on.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 178Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Districts would receive a larger base payment per student, and the base would grow every year as prices rise. That is the first number districts plug into their school budgets. The student count behind the allotment does not include time spent in career and technology education programs or in special education programs in a setting other than a general education setting, which get a separate additional allotment.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 591Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
A teacher who moves to a new district could still take up to 12 weeks off for a new baby, an adoption, or a foster placement, because eligibility counts teaching time in Texas schools and not just time at the new district. The leave is unpaid once your paid vacation and sick days are used, and each district writes its own policy. The change would apply starting with the 2027-2028 school year if the Legislature passes it.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 455Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Districts would have more ways to spend the safety allotment, so what reaches your child's campus could include more counseling and behavior support. Items such as locks, security film, cameras, panic alert devices, two-way radios, and school resource officers would remain approved uses. Because districts decide how to use the money, the result would vary from one campus to the next. The bill is introduced only, so none of these uses are in place yet.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1048Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
If your district or open-enrollment charter school puts a policy in place, you could get paid time off after a birth or an adoption, and your paycheck would keep coming during that leave. Districts would use the state allotment to cover what they pay out, so the cost would not fall only on local budgets. Because each district decides whether to adopt a policy, the benefit could differ from campus to campus. The Texas Education Agency would report every two years on how many employees took the leave and what it cost.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 361Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Special education funding in your district would follow new formulas for the next two school years instead of the current ones. The $250 million figure is a statewide estimate, so the bill does not say how much any one district or campus would gain. What districts can count on is that their special education allotment for 2027-2028 cannot be less than the amount they received for 2026-2027. The commissioner would also have to keep state and local financial support in line with federal special education law, so the local share of the cost would still matter.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 116Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
In a border county with a city of 500,000 or more people, your school district and local government offices could get a lower electric bill. Residential customers would not pick up the cost, because the utility could not pass the cost of serving those schools and offices on to them or to any other customer class. A utility is off the hook if the discount would take more than 1 percent of its total yearly revenue. Charges under contracts entered into before the bill takes effect would keep the old rules.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 133Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
If your child's campus goes more than 30 straight instructional days without a nurse on site, you would get written notice. You might get it as a post on the campus website, which the bill allows if it is no more than three links from the home page. Schools would have to make a good faith effort to give the notice in a language other than English when that is your primary language. The rule starts with the 2027-2028 school year, so it would not apply during the school year now underway.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 536Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
If your child practices or plays sports on campus, more defibrillators within reach and more trained adults nearby could mean faster help in a cardiac emergency. The bill's caption also names certain private schools, while the sections it rewrites are the Education Code rules for school districts. The grant priority would direct planning money toward campuses with high numbers of educationally disadvantaged students. Nothing changes unless the legislature passes the bill.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1040Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
Homeowners and renters in school districts would see relief in local school property taxes in years when state revenue runs above the threshold in the bill. Because the money can go only to property tax relief, the benefit would show up in your school tax bill rather than elsewhere in the state budget. The size of any cut would depend on how much extra revenue the state collects in each biennium. The bill would take effect September 1, 2027, but the tax changes would start with the 2029 biennium.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 921Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
Developers of affordable housing would face one more barrier to tax credits in the covered school districts, which can mean fewer new affordable units in those areas. Nothing changes for application cycles that began before the 2028 plan. Whether your community is affected depends on which school districts the referenced Education Code section covers, and the bill is still at the introduction stage.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 376Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
For families, the biggest change is that a district's state money would start from the number of students enrolled rather than the number of daily attendance counts recorded. Students with excused absences would count as attended for funding purposes, and the bill would remove the method that applied a district's attendance rate to hybrid and virtual campuses, so funding would instead be split in proportion when a student spends part of the year in a traditional campus and part in a hybrid or virtual campus. Local school boards would still set budgets and tax rates, but the state money they start with would come from a different count, and districts would follow new state rules for how programs earn full or half enrollment credit. Other local rules would use the new count too, including how single-member school trustee districts are drawn and which school district appoints one member of the board that runs a county water district.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 646Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
If your family set aside money in one of these accounts for the 2026-2027 school year, the bill keeps the old rules in place for that money. Any money still sitting in the program fund would go to the general fund instead of staying with the program. The bill would take effect right away only if it gets a two-thirds vote in each house; otherwise it would start September 1, 2027. The bill would also narrow the confidentiality of misconduct records for staff of education providers and change required misconduct reporting to cover private schools.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 360Introduced; filed Nov. 9, 2026
If you have a four-year-old, your school district would have to offer a prekindergarten class and could not charge you tuition. Three-year-olds would keep priority in the districts that offer them, and a district could ask the education commissioner for an exemption if it would have to build new classrooms. Your district would not have to bus children to prekindergarten, though buses it does provide would count as part of its regular transportation funding. Districts could still charge tuition for prekindergarten classes for children who do not qualify under the new rules.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → HB 1075Introduced; filed Nov. 10, 2026
Homeowners who live in their home would see the operations part of their school tax bill go down, while school districts would get state money to cover the gap. For tax rate limits and debt service, districts and assessors would keep using the property values that apply without the new exemption. The change applies only to taxes starting on or after January 1, 2028, so this school year is not affected. The decision point is the statewide vote on the constitutional amendment.
90th Regular Session (2027) · StatewideContact your rep → 