Covers residential and day placement facilities districts pay for.
The bill tells the Texas Education Agency what to look at when it inspects residential and day placement facilities that school districts pay to serve students with disabilities. During those inspections, the agency must consider whether the facility's educational services match medical standards of care and best practices for the student's disability, and whether staff have completed and follow crisis prevention and intervention training. It applies starting with the 2025-2026 school year and changes the checklist for existing inspections without creating new penalties or offices.
Labels
Labels: GOT HALFWAY. Passed the Senate on May 14, 2025. Died in the House: never got out of the Public Education committee.
relating to the inspection of residential and day placement
facilities for special education students.
WHAT IT DOES
Covers residential and day placement facilities districts pay for.
The bill tells the Texas Education Agency what to look at when it inspects residential and day placement facilities that school districts pay to serve students with disabilities. During those inspections, the agency must consider whether the facility's educational services match medical standards of care and best practices for the student's disability, and whether staff have completed and follow crisis prevention and intervention training. It applies starting with the 2025-2026 school year and changes the checklist for existing inspections without creating new penalties or offices.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records final passage. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Sources
CSSB 2751 (Paxton) Relating to the inspection of residential and day placement facilities for special education students. (viva voce vote) (31-0) (31-0)
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records suspension of the three-day rule. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Sources
CSSB 2751 (Paxton) Relating to the inspection of residential and day placement facilities for special education students. (viva voce vote) (31-0) (31-0)
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
The journal row lists three votes in order: passage to engrossment, suspension of the three-day rule, and final passage. This entry records passage to engrossment. Repeated tallies belong to separate votes.
Voice vote. No numeric tally or individual yeas are inferred.
Sources
CSSB 2751 (Paxton) Relating to the inspection of residential and day placement facilities for special education students. (viva voce vote) (31-0) (31-0)
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: Not printed
Nay: Not printed
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Witnesses6
For
1
Against
2
On
3
Names
For
Self1 registration
Against
Self2 registrations
On
Disability Rights Texas1 registration
Self1 registration
Texas Education Agency1 registration
Sources
6 parsed registrations across the loaded witness lists.
Derived stock of witness registrations. Repeated appearances count separately. Organizations and self-representation appear as printed.
House committee · Public Education · Final status: Died in committee
Senate committee · Education K-16 · Committee vote 11 aye, 0 nay · Out of committee
Subjects
Education--Primary & Secondary--Special
STAFF DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING
EDUCATION AGENCY, TEXAS
Text
The text as introduced · 217 words
By: Paxton
S.B. No. 2751
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inspection of residential and day placement
facilities for special education students.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 29.0101 to read as follows:
Sec. 29.0101. INSPECTION OF RESIDENTIAL AND DAY PLACEMENT
FACILITIES. In conducting an inspection in accordance with the
monitoring system adopted under Section 29.010 of a residential
placement or day placement facility with which a school district
contracts to provide services to students with disabilities, the
agency shall consider whether:
(1) educational services provided to a student placed
in a therapeutic environment in a residential or day placement at
the facility align with medical standards of care and best
practices for children with the student's disability; and
(2) employees of the facility have undergone and
adhere to crisis prevention and intervention training.
SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026
school year.
SECTION 3. 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.
Monitoring 
