Dade Phelan, Texas State Representative of 21st district | www.texansfordade.com
Dade Phelan, Texas State Representative of 21st district | www.texansfordade.com
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to student loan repayment assistance for certain attorneys providing legal services in rural counties’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill establishes a program for student loan repayment assistance for attorneys serving in rural Texas counties, effective Sept. 1, 2025. Eligible attorneys must work as prosecutors, public defenders, or court-appointed attorneys representing indigent individuals in counties with a population of 100,000 or less. Loan repayment assistance can be applied to educational loans and is limited to four years, with amounts ranging from $30,000 in the first year to $60,000 in the fourth, and a maximum total of $180,000. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will manage the program, with advice from a committee representing legal associations. The program is funded by a dedicated trust fund, and rules will be established to allocate assistance, focusing on the most rural counties.
Dade Phelan, chair of the House Committee on Licensing & Administrative Procedures and member of the House Committee on State Affairs, proposed another nine bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
Phelan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 with a BA.
Dade Phelan is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 21st House district. He replaced previous state representative Allan Ritter in 2015.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 5601 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to conditioning the implementation of a school choice program on federal reimbursement of state expenses relating to securing the border |
| HB 5212 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to the advertising, display, and offer of prices for prepared food |
| HB 5210 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total appraised value of real property for which the owner of the property has prepaid those taxes |
| HB 4958 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to required disclosures on political advertising supporting or opposing certain officeholders; authorizing a civil penalty |
| HB 4855 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to a patient's access to health records and access to and exchange of certain health benefit plan information; authorizing a civil penalty; authorizing fees |
| HB 4770 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to educational requirements for licensing as an audiologist |
| HB 4618 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to the terms of certain agreements involving minor boundary adjustments between two contiguous school districts |
| HB 4407 | 04/02/2025 | Relating to providing property tax relief through the public school finance system and property tax appraisal and administration |
| HB 4399 | 04/01/2025 | Relating to the authority of an appraisal review board to direct changes in the appraisal roll and related appraisal records if a residence homestead is sold for less than the appraised value |
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