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 conditioning the implementation of a school choice program on federal reimbursement of state expenses relating to securing the border’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill mandates that any education savings account or similar school choice program allowing children to use state funds for nonpublic primary or secondary education in Texas cannot be implemented until the state receives federal reimbursement for expenses related to securing the border. These expenses must cover the period from Sept. 1, 2015, to the present, with the reimbursement verified by the state comptroller. The bill emphasizes a contingency on federal support for border security costs before advancing with school choice programs. The legislation is set to take effect on Sept. 1, 2025.
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 5212 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to the advertising, display, and offer of prices for prepared food |
| HB 5211 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to student loan repayment assistance for certain attorneys providing legal services in rural counties |
| 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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