HB 2851 Texas House · 89th Legislature (2025)

Relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated application service.

HB 2851 requires Texas' centralized health education application service (currently used for medical and dental schools) to include nursing school applications starting in fall 2027. It creates an advisory board of nursing program representatives to develop and implement this integration, with a final plan due by January 2026. The bill directly affects nursing schools and prospective nursing students in Texas by consolidating their application process into one online system. The advisory board and related provisions expire September 1, 2027, but the application consolidation applies to the 2027 fall admissions cycle.

Issues: ✓ Education ✓ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

Jun 2025

Introduced Mar 19, 2025 Signed Jun 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

Engrossed → Enrolled · 1 edit · Jun 20, 2025

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a draft version to the final enrolled version for official signing. The substantive policy content regarding nursing school application consolidation remains unchanged, with no modifications to requirements, timelines, or eligibility criteria.

TECHNICAL

Text was reorganized from a draft format with line numbers and annotations to a clean enrolled version with proper formatting, signatures, and certification of passage.

Floor votes · House Apr 29, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Jun 20, 2025

Signed into law

Signed by the Governor

executive

May 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed in the Senate

upper

May 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed in the House

lower

May 28, 2025

Introduced

House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

upper

May 28, 2025

Introduced

Text of Senate Amendment(s)

lower

May 28, 2025

Introduced

House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

lower

May 27, 2025

Introduced

Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

lower

May 27, 2025

Introduced

Senate Amendments distributed

lower

May 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

Senate passage as amended reported

lower

May 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed

upper

May 23, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee report printed and distributed

upper

May 23, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported favorably as substituted

upper

May 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Vote taken in committee

upper

May 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

Left pending in committee

upper

May 21, 2025

Upper · Passed

Testimony taken in committee

upper

May 19, 2025

Committee

Referred to Health & Human Services

upper

May 19, 2025

Committee

Rereferred to committee

upper

May 5, 2025

Committee

Referred to Education K-16

upper

May 5, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Introduced

Received from the House

upper

Apr 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed

lower

Apr 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed to engrossment as amended

lower

Apr 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Amended

lower

Apr 29, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (112-29-5)

house

Apr 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report sent to Calendars

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee report distributed

lower

Apr 15, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

Left pending in committee

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Lower · Passed

Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

lower

Mar 19, 2025

Committee

Referred to Higher Education

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Mar 19, 2025

Introduced

Read first time

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2 primary · 1 co-sponsor