2026 Regular Session
HB1311
Higher Education – Student Financial Assistance for Incarcerated Individuals – Alterations
Requiring the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to assist incarcerated individuals in accessing certain student financial assistance; and requiring incarcerated individuals who meet eligibility criteria for certain student financial assistance to have access to student financial assistance.
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Recorded floor votes
1 roll call are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
March 21, 2026 · House
Third Reading Passed
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
95 yea–33 nay · 7 not voting · 6 absent
Committee referrals
March 23, 2026 · Senate
Judicial Proceedings
February 12, 2026 · House
Appropriations
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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Senate Favorable Report by Judicial Proceedings
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Senate Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m. (Judicial Proceedings)
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Senate Referred Judicial Proceedings Education, Energy, and the Environment
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House Third Reading Passed (95-33) View roll call
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House Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed
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House Favorable Report by Appropriations
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House Hearing 3/11 at 1:35 p.m. (Appropriations)
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House Hearing canceled (Appropriations)
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House Hearing 3/11 at 1:00 p.m. (Appropriations)
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House First Reading Appropriations and Government, Labor, and Elections