← All legislation

2026 Regular Session

HB3151

Schools; length of school year; increasing minimum days of instruction; requiring parent-teacher conferences to have an in-person option; contingent effective date.

Legislative progress

i

This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.

Introduced in House February 2, 2026 House committee reassignment February 4, 2026 House committee substitute February 16, 2026 House committee substitute February 25, 2026 House floor substitute March 11, 2026 House passed March 11, 2026 Sent to Senate March 12, 2026 Introduced in Senate March 12, 2026 Senate committee passed April 7, 2026 Senate committee reassignment April 20, 2026 Senate passed April 27, 2026 Sent to House April 27, 2026 Enrolled April 27, 2026 Enrolled April 28, 2026 Sent to Governor April 28, 2026 Governor approved May 4, 2026

Partner positions

⚠️ 1 embargoed like

Recorded floor votes

5 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.

February 16, 2026 · House

House: Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

9 yea–2 nay

View roll call

February 24, 2026 · House

House: Appropriations and Budget Committee: DO PASS AS AMENDED BY CS

Passed

19 yea–7 nay

View roll call

March 11, 2026 · House

House: THIRD READING

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

62 yea–28 nay · 9 absent

View roll call

April 7, 2026 · Senate

Senate: Education Committee: DO PASS

Passed

7 yea–3 nay

View roll call

April 27, 2026 · Senate

Senate: THIRD READING

Passed ⭐ Substantive final action

30 yea–17 nay · 1 absent

View roll call

Committee referrals

February 6, 2026 · House

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee

February 3, 2026 · House

Rules

Instrument history

i

This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.

  1. House Approved by Governor 05/01/2026
  2. House Sent to Governor
  3. Senate Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
  4. House Enrolled, signed, to Senate
  5. House Referred for enrollment
  6. Senate Engrossed measure signed, returned to House
  7. Senate Measure passed: Ayes: 30 Nays: 17 View roll call
  8. Senate General Order, Considered
  9. Senate Placed on General Order
  10. Senate Withdrawn from Appropriations committee
  11. Senate Referred to Appropriations
  12. Senate Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed View roll call
  13. Senate Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee
  14. Senate Coauthored by Senator Jech
  15. Senate First Reading
  16. House Engrossed, signed, to Senate
  17. House Referred for engrossment
  18. House Third Reading, Measure passed: Ayes: 62 Nays: 28 View roll call
  19. House Amended by floor substitute
  20. House Coauthored by Representative(s) Kerbs, Hilbert
  21. House General Order
  22. House House Rule suspended
  23. House Authored by Senator Paxton (principal Senate author)
  24. House Coauthored by Representative(s) Newton, Caldwell (Chad), Moore
  25. House CR; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Committee
  26. House Recommendation to the full committee; Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee View roll call
  27. House Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee
  28. House Referred to Appropriations and Budget
  29. House Withdrawn from Rules Committee
  30. House Second Reading referred to Rules
  31. House Authored by Representative Hall
  32. House First Reading
Source provenance