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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Bill Repeals Advanced Nuclear Energy Office and Transfers Funds to Education
Last action · August 15, 2025: FiledSponsor: Brian Harrison
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to the repeal of the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office.
State funding previously dedicated to advanced nuclear energy administration is redirected to public education finance, directly impacting the calculation used to lower local school district tax rates.
- H.B. 14 of the 89th Legislature previously established Chapter 483 of the Government Code to create the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office with an effective date of September 1, 2025. context
- The Texas Education Agency administers the state's public school system and oversees school finance calculations including tax rate compression percentages. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office
The office is completely repealed and its statutory existence is terminated.
Texas Education Agency
The agency receives transferred appropriations intended to lower the state compression percentage for school funding.
Comptroller of Public Accounts
The comptroller is tasked with executing the transfer of money between agencies.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Aug 15, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Immediate Reversal of Recently Enacted Office
The bill repeals an office that was added earlier in the same 89th Legislature via H.B. 14 before its scheduled September 1, 2025 effective date.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 60)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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