Monitoring the SessionHB 3440
Died in committee
Initial review · graded Oct 20, 2026 · Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person · How we grade
relating to the repeal of the authority to exclude certain students without certain required immunizations from attending public school in times of emergency or epidemic.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Section 38.001(f) goes.
The bill repeals one subsection of the Texas Education Code, Section 38.001(f), which the caption says is the authority to keep certain students without required shots out of public school during an emergency or epidemic. It touches public school students who lack certain required immunizations, along with the schools and officials who could have excluded them. Once it takes effect, either right away with a two-thirds vote or on September 1, 2025, that exclusion authority no longer exists in the statute.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 390 by Sen. Hall (Died in committee) and this bill (Died in committee). Checked against 88R only.BACK FROM THE DEAD. Same text as a bill filed before that died: 88R SB 390 by Sen. Hall (Died in committee). Filed in 2 sessions, counting this one. Checked against 88R only.TRY NO. 2. Filed in 2 sessions: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.QUICK READ: 108 WORDS. The bill as filed runs 108 words, counting the existing law it amends and the text it strikes. The median 89R bill as filed runs 441 words (derived, 8,702 graded bills, snapshot Oct 19, 2026).NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Feb 26, 2025 and referred to the House Public Health committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-HB3440 · 2025-02-26
relating to the repeal of the authority to exclude certain students without certain required immunizations from attending public school in times of emergency or epidemic.
Section 38.001(f) goes.
The bill repeals one subsection of the Texas Education Code, Section 38.001(f), which the caption says is the authority to keep certain students without required shots out of public school during an emergency or epidemic. It touches public school students who lack certain required immunizations, along with the schools and officials who could have excluded them. Once it takes effect, either right away with a two-thirds vote or on September 1, 2025, that exclusion authority no longer exists in the statute.
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Analysis of text version I by claude-opus-5-5, Oct 20, 2026, against the published rubric.
Filed 2 times: 88R and 89R. Checked against 88R only.
by Sen. Hall, different lead author · Died in committee · same text
Introduced textLast action, Feb 15, 2023: Referred to Education
Relating to the repeal of the authority to exclude certain students without certain required immunizations from attending public school in times of emergency or epidemic.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas House · Filed Feb 26, 2025
03/21/2025 H Referred to Public Health: Mar 21 2025 9:52AM
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
House committee · Public Health · Final status: Died in committee
SB 118 by Hall (identical)
Education--Primary & Secondary--Admission & Attendance
Minors--Health & Safety
IMMUNIZATIONS
The text as introduced · 108 words
89R2521 ANG-F By: Olcott H.B. No. 3440 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the repeal of the authority to exclude certain students without certain required immunizations from attending public school in times of emergency or epidemic. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 38.001(f), Education Code, is repealed. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2025.