Bill Text: TX HB190 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 190

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a grant program to provide free or reduced-tuition prekindergarten classes to certain children.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-27 - Referred to Public Education [HB190 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB190-Introduced.html

	89R1888 CXP-D

	By: Lopez of Bexar	H.B. No. 190



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a grant program to provide free or reduced-tuition
	prekindergarten classes to certain children.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 29.1535 to read as follows:
	Sec. 29.1535. FREE AND REDUCED-TUITION PREKINDERGARTEN
	GRANT PROGRAM. (a) From money appropriated or otherwise available
	for the purpose, the commissioner, in collaboration with the Pre-K
	4 SA early childhood initiative, shall establish and administer a
	grant program to support school districts, open-enrollment charter
	schools, and private schools in providing free or reduced-tuition
	prekindergarten classes to eligible children.
	(b) A school district, open-enrollment charter school, or
	private school shall use money received under the grant program to
	provide free or reduced-tuition prekindergarten classes to
	eligible children.
	(c) A child is eligible to enroll in a prekindergarten class
	described by Subsection (b) if the child is at least three years of
	age.
	(d) To the extent consistent with state and federal law, a
	prekindergarten class provided using money received under the grant
	program must be operated in accordance with any curriculum and
	teaching methods implemented by the Pre-K 4 SA early childhood
	initiative.
	(e) Not later than September 1 of each year, the
	commissioner shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report
	on the grant program under this section. The report must include:
	(1) an evaluation of the academic and developmental
	achievements of students enrolled in a prekindergarten class using
	money received under the grant program; and
	(2) any recommendations for legislative or other
	action.
	(f) The commissioner shall adopt rules as necessary to
	establish and administer the grant program under this section.
	(g) The grant program is abolished and this section expires
	January 1, 2031.
	SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2026, the
	commissioner of education shall submit the initial report required
	by Section 29.1535, Education Code, as added by this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
	school year.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
	Act takes effect September 1, 2025.