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Texas · 89th Legislature (2025) · Bill

HB 120: Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 120 is a bill introduced in the Texas House on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program. Primary sponsor: Keith Bell (Republican), Brad Buckley (Republican), Trent Ashby (Republican), Gary Gates (Republican), Angie Button (Republican), Charles Schwertner (Republican). It lists 20 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 20, 2025): See remarks for effective date.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 7 · Republican 17

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Keith BellPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse4
Brad BuckleyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse54
Trent AshbyPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse9
Gary GatesPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse28
Angie ButtonPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse112
Charles SchwertnerPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate5
Donna CampbellCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate25
CookCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Aicha DavisCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse109
Mano DeAyalaCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse133
Caroline DunmoyerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse87
James FrankCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse69
Bobby GuerraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse41
Ryan GuillenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse31
Brent HagenbuchCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate30
HancockCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Chuy HinojosaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate20
Carrie IsaacCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse73
Janie LopezCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse37
Ray LopezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse125
Angelia OrrCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse13
Richard RaymondCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Penny Morales ShawCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse148
David SpillerCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse68
Steve TothCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse15
Royce WestCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate23

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. See remarks for effective date
  2. Signed by the Governor
  3. Sent to the Governor
  4. Signed in the Senate
  5. Signed in the House
  6. Reported enrolled
  7. House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  8. Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  9. Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  10. Record vote
  11. House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  12. Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

Showing 12 most recent of 40 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source