---
title: TECHNICAL EDUCATION - Texas Legislation
subject: TECHNICAL EDUCATION
total_bills: 6
unique_authors: 6
critical_bills: 1
high_cost_bills: 0
canonical_url: "https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/technical-education"
source: JD Key Consulting - Texas Legislative Intelligence
---

# TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Legislative subject area in the Texas 89th Legislature

## Overview

- **Total Bills:** 6
- **Unique Authors:** 6
- **Critical Compliance:** 1 bills
- **Bipartisan Bills:** 5

## Chamber Breakdown

- **Senate:** 3 bills
- **Senate:** 3 bills

## Compliance Urgency Distribution

- **Critical:** 1 bills
- **Moderate:** 1 bills
- **Low:** 4 bills

## Top Authors in This Subject

- **Cesar Blanco** (D, Senate) - 1 bills
- **Charles Creighton** (R, Senate) - 1 bills
- **Gary Gates** (R, House) - 1 bills
- **Giovanni Capriglione** (R, House) - 1 bills
- **Tan Parker** (R, Senate) - 1 bills
- **William Metcalf** (R, House) - 1 bills

## Related Subjects

- [Education](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education) (5 shared bills)
- [HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/higher-education-coordinating-board-texas) (5 shared bills)
- [Education--Higher](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education-higher) (4 shared bills)
- [WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/workforce-commission-texas) (3 shared bills)
- [Labor--Workforce Development](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor-workforce-development) (3 shared bills)
- [Labor](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/labor) (3 shared bills)
- [State Agencies, Boards & Commissions](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/state-agencies-boards-commissions) (2 shared bills)
- [Education--Nonpublic Schools--Vocational/Avocational](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/education-nonpublic-schools-vocationalavocational) (2 shared bills)

## Enforcing Agencies

- [Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-higher-education-coordinating-board) - 4 bills
- [Texas Education Agency](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-education-agency) - 2 bills
- [Texas Workforce Commission](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-workforce-commission) - 2 bills
- [Department of Information Resources](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/department-of-information-resources) - 1 bills
- [Local Workforce Development Boards](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/local-workforce-development-boards) - 1 bills
- [Texas Department of Criminal Justice](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/agency/texas-department-of-criminal-justice) - 1 bills

## High Impact Bills

| Bill | Title | Urgency | Cost |
|------|-------|---------|------|
| [SB1786](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1786-89th-regular) | Relating to public higher education. | Critical | Medium |

## All Bills

| Bill | Title | Author | Compliance |
|------|-------|--------|------------|
| [HB20](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb20-89th-regular) | Relating to establishing the Applied ... | Gary Gates (R) | Moderate |
| [HB2768](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb2768-89th-regular) | Relating to the development of a stat... | Giovanni Capriglione (R) | Low |
| [HB3204](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/hb3204-89th-regular) | Relating to the Polytechnic College a... | William Metcalf (R) | Low |
| [SB1143](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1143-89th-regular) | Relating to certain planning and eval... | Cesar Blanco (D) | Low |
| [SB1786](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb1786-89th-regular) | Relating to public higher education. | Charles Creighton (R) | Critical |
| [SB2405](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/sb2405-89th-regular) | Relating to the continuation and func... | Tan Parker (R) | Low |

## Source Links

- [Full Interactive Analysis](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subject/technical-education)
- [All Texas Subjects](https://jdkey.com/texas-89th-legislature/subjects)

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