---
title: HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS - Texas Legislation
subject: HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS
total_bills: 44
unique_authors: 30
critical_bills: 9
high_cost_bills: 3
canonical_url: "https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/higher-education-coordinating-board-texas"
source: JD Key Consulting - Texas Legislative Intelligence
---

# HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS

Legislative subject area in the Texas 89th Legislature

## Overview

- **Total Bills:** 44
- **Unique Authors:** 30
- **Critical Compliance:** 9 bills
- **High Cost Impact:** 3 bills
- **Bipartisan Bills:** 29

## Chamber Breakdown

- **Senate:** 27 bills
- **Senate:** 17 bills

## Compliance Urgency Distribution

- **Critical:** 9 bills
- **Moderate:** 20 bills
- **Low:** 13 bills
- **Unanalyzed:** 2 bills

## Top Authors in This Subject

- **Royce West** (D, Senate) - 5 bills
- **Charles Creighton** (R, Senate) - 4 bills
- **Terry Wilson** (R, House) - 3 bills
- **Cesar Blanco** (D, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Judith Zaffirini** (D, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Lois Kolkhorst** (R, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Jose Menendez** (D, Senate) - 2 bills
- **Kevin Sparks** (R, Senate) - 2 bills

## Related Subjects

- [Education](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education) (36 shared bills)
- [Education--Higher](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education-higher) (35 shared bills)
- [Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education-higher-institutions-programs) (17 shared bills)
- [Labor](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor) (14 shared bills)
- [Labor--Workforce Development](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor-workforce-development) (13 shared bills)
- [Education--Higher--Admission & Attendance](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education-higher-admission-attendance) (10 shared bills)
- [WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/workforce-commission-texas) (9 shared bills)
- [State Agencies, Boards & Commissions](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/state-agencies-boards-commissions) (9 shared bills)

## Enforcing Agencies

- [Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-higher-education-coordinating-board) - 32 bills
- [Texas Workforce Commission](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-workforce-commission) - 5 bills
- [Department of State Health Services](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/department-of-state-health-services) - 3 bills
- [Texas Education Agency](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-education-agency) - 2 bills
- [Office of the Attorney General](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/office-of-the-attorney-general) - 2 bills
- [Health and Human Services Commission](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/health-and-human-services-commission) - 1 bills

## High Impact Bills

| Bill | Title | Urgency | Cost |
|------|-------|---------|------|
| [HB127](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb127-89th-regular) | Relating to measures to protect institutio... | Critical | High |
| [SB25](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb25-89th-regular) | Relating to health and nutrition standards... | Critical | High |
| [HB1105](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb1105-89th-regular) | Relating to the exemption of tuition and l... | Critical | Low |
| [HB3041](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3041-89th-regular) | Relating to measures to support the enroll... | Critical | Low |
| [HB4361](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4361-89th-regular) | Relating to establishing policies regardin... | Critical | Low |
| [SB1786](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1786-89th-regular) | Relating to public higher education. | Critical | Medium |
| [SB2615](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2615-89th-regular) | Relating to restricting telework for emplo... | Critical | Low |
| [SB365](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb365-89th-regular) | Relating to the period for which an applic... | Critical | Low |
| [SB37](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb37-89th-regular) | Relating to the governance of public insti... | Critical | Medium |
| [HB4848](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4848-89th-regular) | Relating to requiring that competency-base... | Unanalyzed | High |

## All Bills

| Bill | Title | Author | Compliance |
|------|-------|--------|------------|
| [HB102](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb102-89th-regular) | Relating to early registration for st... | Terry Wilson (R) | Moderate |
| [HB1105](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb1105-89th-regular) | Relating to the exemption of tuition ... | Sheryl Cole (D) | Critical |
| [HB1211](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb1211-89th-regular) | Relating to tuition and fee exemption... | John Lujan (R) | Moderate |
| [HB127](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb127-89th-regular) | Relating to measures to protect insti... | Terry Wilson (R) | Critical |
| [HB14](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb14-89th-regular) | Relating to support for the developme... | Cody Harris (R) | Moderate |
| [HB1868](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb1868-89th-regular) | Relating to a study on changes to per... | Terri Leo-Wilson (R) | Low |
| [HB2081](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb2081-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | John Bucy (D) | Moderate |
| [HB2768](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb2768-89th-regular) | Relating to the development of a stat... | Giovanni Capriglione (R) | Low |
| [HB2856](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb2856-89th-regular) | Relating to a study by the Texas High... | Donna Howard (D) | Low |
| [HB300](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb300-89th-regular) | Relating to the Texas Armed Services ... | Terry Wilson (R) | Moderate |
| [HB3041](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3041-89th-regular) | Relating to measures to support the e... | Dennis Paul (R) | Critical |
| [HB3204](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3204-89th-regular) | Relating to the Polytechnic College a... | William Metcalf (R) | Low |
| [HB3801](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3801-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Angelia Orr (R) | Moderate |
| [HB4361](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4361-89th-regular) | Relating to establishing policies reg... | Charlene Ward Johnson (D) | Critical |
| [HB4848](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb4848-89th-regular) | Relating to requiring that competency... | Caroline Harris Davila (R) | - |
| [HB500](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb500-89th-regular) | Relating to making supplemental appro... | Greg Bonnen (R) | Low |
| [HB5092](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb5092-89th-regular) | Relating to the operation and dissolu... | Carl Tepper (R) | Moderate |
| [SB1143](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1143-89th-regular) | Relating to certain planning and eval... | Cesar Blanco (D) | Low |
| [SB1241](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1241-89th-regular) | Relating to the consideration of coll... | Mayes Middleton (R) | Moderate |
| [SB1350](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1350-89th-regular) | Relating to a commission to coordinat... | Bryan Hughes (R) | Low |
| [SB1400](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1400-89th-regular) | Relating to a study on measurable out... | Lois Kolkhorst (R) | Low |
| [SB1401](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1401-89th-regular) | Relating to the creation of the Texas... | Royce West (D) | Moderate |
| [SB1534](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1534-89th-regular) | Relating to a study and report by the... | Judith Zaffirini (D) | Low |
| [SB1535](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1535-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment by the ... | Judith Zaffirini (D) | Moderate |
| [SB1677](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1677-89th-regular) | Relating to a study on prevention and... | Jose Menendez (D) | Low |
| [SB1786](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1786-89th-regular) | Relating to public higher education. | Charles Creighton (R) | Critical |
| [SB1998](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1998-89th-regular) | Relating to a preceptorship program i... | Joan Huffman (R) | Low |
| [SB2055](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2055-89th-regular) | Relating to participation in the Texa... | Royce West (D) | Moderate |
| [SB2231](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2231-89th-regular) | Relating to requiring the Texas Highe... | Adam Hinojosa (R) | Moderate |
| [SB2314](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2314-89th-regular) | Relating to the creation of an electr... | Charles Creighton (R) | Moderate |
| [SB2405](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2405-89th-regular) | Relating to the continuation and func... | Tan Parker (R) | Low |
| [SB2431](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2431-89th-regular) | Relating to requiring foreign languag... | Donna Campbell (R) | Moderate |
| [SB2448](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2448-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Kevin Sparks (R) | Moderate |
| [SB25](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb25-89th-regular) | Relating to health and nutrition stan... | Lois Kolkhorst (R) | Critical |
| [SB2615](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2615-89th-regular) | Relating to restricting telework for ... | Charles Creighton (R) | Critical |
| [SB2925](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2925-89th-regular) | Relating to the establishment of the ... | Cesar Blanco (D) | Low |
| [SB2995](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2995-89th-regular) | Relating to the displacement of stude... | Royce West (D) | Moderate |
| [SB3039](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb3039-89th-regular) | Relating to the transfer of students ... | Royce West (D) | Moderate |
| [SB365](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb365-89th-regular) | Relating to the period for which an a... | Sarah Eckhardt (D) | Critical |
| [SB37](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb37-89th-regular) | Relating to the governance of public ... | Charles Creighton (R) | Critical |
| [SB530](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb530-89th-regular) | Relating to the accreditation of cert... | Kevin Sparks (R) | Moderate |
| [SB646](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb646-89th-regular) | Relating to repayment of certain ment... | Royce West (D) | Moderate |
| [SB769](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb769-89th-regular) | Relating to a report by the Texas Hig... | Jose Menendez (D) | Moderate |
| [SB856](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb856-89th-regular) | Relating to the use of the skills dev... | Peter Flores (R) | - |

## Source Links

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