During legislative sessions, TCTA's top-ranked lobby team is at the Texas Capitol every day, working on behalf of Texas teachers and other classroom professionals. Our lobbyists carefully monitor and testify on legislation that could affect TCTA members and provide daily reports on legislative action. These updates are provided below and compiled and emailed weekly via the TCTA eUpdate newsletter.
Mar 14, 2023
The House Public Education Committee heard a dozen bills Tuesday, including HB 1416, which is intended to address some of the most egregious problems…
May 27, 2022
TCTA provided testimony Tuesday on interim charges relating to the educator talent pipeline and monitoring the implementation of HB 3 (2019 session)…
Sep 3, 2021
The House and Senate adjourned "sine die" Thursday evening, putting an end to the second special session. The legislature passed bills addressing…
Aug 25, 2021
The House Public Education Committee met for 19+ hours beginning Tuesday, discussing revision of the so-called critical race theory bill and…
Aug 6, 2021
Jul 7, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott announced the agenda for the special session of the Texas Legislature that will begin Thursday, July 8. Lawmakers can only consider…
May 17, 2021
After being set on the schedule at the last minute, then deleted, then added back in, HB 3979 passed out of the Senate State Affairs Committee Monday…
May 14, 2021
As the House reached a critical deadline this week and the last day of the session (May 31) is just over two weeks away, our list of more than 800…
May 11, 2021
HB 4545 by Rep. Harold Dutton is one of several of the committee chairman’s bills that have struggled to stay alive in recent days. Dutton has…
Apr 22, 2021
More than 50 education-related bills have gotten halfway through the legislative process. The state budget (the only bill the Legislature is required…
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