Relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated application service, the official text

H.B. No. 2851

AN ACT

relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated

application service.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter S, Chapter 51, Education Code, is

amended by adding Section 51.765 to read as follows:

Sec. 51.765. NURSING SCHOOL APPLICATION CONSOLIDATION. (a)

A service or organization that provides consolidated application

services for applications to medical schools or dental schools,

including the Texas Health Education Service at The University of

Texas System Administration, must include applications for nursing

schools in this state.

(b) The Texas Health Education Service at The University of

Texas System Administration shall establish an advisory board to

develop:

(1) recommendations for including applications for

nursing schools in this state in the consolidated application

services for applications to medical schools or dental schools as

required under Subsection (a); and

(2) an implementation plan for the recommendations

developed under Subdivision (1).

(c) The advisory board shall consist of representatives of

professional nursing programs in this state and representatives

with expertise in professional nursing program applications

appointed by the Texas Health Education Service at The University

of Texas System Administration.

(d) The Texas Health Education Service at The University of

Texas System Administration shall publish the implementation plan

developed by the advisory board under this section on an Internet

website operated by the Texas Health Education Service not later

than January 1, 2026.

(e) The advisory board is abolished and this subsection and

Subsections (b), (c), and (d) expire September 1, 2027.

SECTION 2. Section 51.765(a), Education Code, as added by

this Act, applies beginning with applications for admission to a

nursing school for the 2027 fall semester.

SECTION 3. The Texas Health Education Service at The

University of Texas System Administration shall appoint the members

of the advisory board under Section 51.765(c), Education Code, as

added by this Act, not later than November 1, 2025.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2851 was passed by the House on April

30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 114, Nays 22, 1 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.

No. 2851 on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 88, Nays 49,

2 present, not voting.

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Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 2851 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 26, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays

0.

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Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

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Governor