SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Finance 

TIME & DATE:   5:00 PM or upon adjournment/recess
Wednesday, August 27, 2025 

PLACE:         2E.20 (Betty King Cmte. Rm.) 
CHAIR:         Senator Joan Huffman 

24 hour posting rule suspended

Those wishing to give public testimony, please limit prepared remarks to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please submit 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Clerk during the hearing.

· Oral testimony: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the  Clerk.

· Oral and written testimony: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the Clerk. Hold on to your documents until your name is called to the table.

· Position only: fill out a paper witness card and submit to the  Clerk.

· Written testimony only: fill out a paper witness card and bring your 40 copies, with your name on each copy, to the Clerk, during the hearing.

To consider the following:

HB 8           Buckley | et al.         SP: Bettencourt
Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

HB 26          Oliverson | et al.       SP: Bettencourt
Relating to contracting with law enforcement agencies in certain counties.

HB 192         Oliverson | et al.       SP: Bettencourt
Relating to the funding of law enforcement agencies in certain counties.

NOTICE OF ASSISTANCE AT PUBLIC MEETINGS

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