SB 843 Texas Senate · 89th Legislature (2025)

Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.

SB 843 requires Texas school districts to report detailed information about bonds, taxes, and related projects to a new Texas Education Agency database. The database must include bond election results, project lists funded by bonds, tax rate projections, and maintenance tax proposals. School districts must submit this data to the agency, which will maintain the database and allow report generation by geographic area. The bill became law on June 20, 2025, and takes effect September 1, 2025, directly affecting all Texas public school districts.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Signed Jun 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

Engrossed → Enrolled · 2 edits · Jun 20, 2025

MINOR

This bill was converted from an 'Engrossed' version to an 'Enrolled' version, which is the final form ready for the Governor's signature. The substantive policy content remains the same, but the formatting was cleaned up and a new subsection was added to Section 1(e) requiring the Texas Education Agency to transmit database information to the Bond Review Board to satisfy state reporting requirements.

Scope change

No change in scope or applicability; the bill continues to establish a Texas Education Agency database for tracking school district and charter school bonds, taxes, and projects.

REQUIREMENT

New requirement added to Section 1(e) mandating that the Texas Education Agency transmit database information to the Bond Review Board to meet local government reporting requirements under Government Code Section 1231.025.

TECHNICAL

Formatting changes converted the bill from an 'Engrossed' version to an 'Enrolled' version, including cleanup of line numbers, removal of amendment markup symbols, and addition of standard enrolled bill certification signatures.

Floor votes · House May 20, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 20, 2025

Signed into law

Signed by the Governor

executive

May 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed in the House

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May 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed in the Senate

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May 27, 2025

Introduced

Senate concurs in House amendment(s)-reported

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May 26, 2025

Introduced

Senate concurs in House amendment(s)

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May 26, 2025

Introduced

House amendment(s) laid before the Senate

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May 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

House passage as amended reported

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May 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

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May 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed to 3rd reading as amended

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May 19, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amended

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May 13, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report sent to Calendars

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May 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report distributed

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May 9, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

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May 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Left pending in committee

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May 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

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Apr 28, 2025

Committee

Referred to Public Education

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Apr 28, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

lower

Apr 25, 2025

Introduced

Received from the Senate

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Apr 24, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed

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Apr 24, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed to engrossment as amended

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Apr 24, 2025

Upper · Passed

Amended

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Apr 24, 2025

Introduced

Amendment(s) offered

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Apr 16, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee report printed and distributed

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Apr 16, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported favorably as substituted

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Apr 15, 2025

Upper · Passed

Vote taken in committee

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Apr 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

Left pending in committee

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Apr 8, 2025

Upper · Passed

Testimony taken in committee

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Feb 13, 2025

Committee

Referred to Education K-16

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Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

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2 primary · 10 co-sponsors