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Texas · 89th Legislature (2025) · Bill

SB 400: Relating to requiring parental consent for psychological or psychiatric examination, testing, or treatment conducted by a school district employee.

Passed one chamber 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

SB 400 is a bill introduced in the Texas Senate on November 20, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to requiring parental consent for psychological or psychiatric examination, testing, or treatment conducted by a school district employee. Primary sponsor: Lois Kolkhorst (Republican). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (April 9, 2025): Referred to Public Education.

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): Republican 7

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lois KolkhorstPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate18
Donna CampbellCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate25
CreightonCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
FloresCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Brent HagenbuchCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate30
Bob HallCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate2
Adam HinojosaCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate27
Joan HuffmanCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate17
Kevin SparksCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate31

“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. Referred to Public Education
  2. Read first time
  3. Received from the Senate
  4. Reported engrossed
  5. Record vote
  6. Passed
  7. Read 3rd time
  8. Record vote
  9. Three day rule suspended
  10. Record vote
  11. Passed to engrossment as amended
  12. Vote recorded in Journal

Showing 12 most recent of 33 actions. Full history

Sources

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