Monitoring the SessionSB 367
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 implementation by public schools of certain communicable disease public health orders issued by a health authority.
Caption from analyzed text · version I.
Mask orders included, notwithstanding any other law.
The bill requires Texas school districts to follow public health orders from their local health authority aimed at reducing the spread of communicable disease, including orders that require students and staff to wear masks. It touches school districts, their students and staff, and local health authorities whose orders would now bind schools notwithstanding any other law. If two health authorities covering the same district issue conflicting orders, the school board picks which one to follow, and the rule applies only to orders issued on or after September 1, 2025.
Labels: ZOMBIE BILL. Died 2 times: 88R SB 700 (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 700 (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.NEVER GOT A HEARING. Filed Nov 14, 2024 and referred to the Senate Health & Human Services committee. No public hearing. The bill died.
89R-SB367 · 2024-11-14
relating to the implementation by public schools of certain communicable disease public health orders issued by a health authority.
Mask orders included, notwithstanding any other law.
The bill requires Texas school districts to follow public health orders from their local health authority aimed at reducing the spread of communicable disease, including orders that require students and staff to wear masks. It touches school districts, their students and staff, and local health authorities whose orders would now bind schools notwithstanding any other law. If two health authorities covering the same district issue conflicting orders, the school board picks which one to follow, and the rule applies only to orders issued on or after September 1, 2025.
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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. Eckhardt, same lead author · Died in committee · same text
Introduced textLast action, Feb 17, 2023: Referred to Health & Human Services
Relating to the implementation by public schools of certain communicable disease public health orders issued by a health authority.
Caption, 88R bill history
Texas Senate · Filed Nov 14, 2024
02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Texas Legislature Online · Introduced
Data snapshot Oct 26, 2026 at 4:20 AM CDT. Grades, charges, quotes and corrections follow the published record.
Senate committee · Health & Human Services · Final status: Died in committee
Education--Primary & Secondary--Admission & Attendance
Education--School Districts
Health--Other Diseases & Medical Conditions
Minors--Health & Safety
The text as introduced · 266 words
89R4371 CMO-D By: Eckhardt S.B. No. 367 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the implementation by public schools of certain communicable disease public health orders issued by a health authority. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is amended by adding Section 38.0022 to read as follows: Sec. 38.0022. REQUIRED IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS. (a) In this section, "communicable disease" and "health authority" have the meanings assigned by Section 81.003, Health and Safety Code. (b) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to Subsection (c), a school district shall implement or otherwise comply with health directives outlined in a public health order issued by a health authority with jurisdiction over territory in which the district is wholly or partly located regarding evidence-based practices to reduce or eliminate the transmission of or infection with a communicable disease among district students and staff, including directives requiring the students and staff to wear face masks or face coverings. (c) If two or more health authorities with jurisdiction over territory in which a school district is wholly or partly located issue public health orders with conflicting health directives, the board of trustees of the district may select which health authority's public health order the district will implement or otherwise comply with. SECTION 2. Section 38.0022, Education Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a public health order issued by a health authority on or after the effective date of this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.