The upcoming 89th Texas legislative session is slated to start on January 14th, 2025. Each regular session takes 140 days, which means the session will end on June 2nd, 2025. Some key priorities are already on the table, some of which are directly related to higher education and what occurs on college campuses. Texas Lt. Governor President of the Texas Senate, Dan Patrick, oversees the Texas Senate and has a large amount of power over the bills passed into law. He released a to-do list of over 57 items for each of the 13 committees within the Senate before the start of the session. This to-do list, named "2024 Interim Legislative Charges," was created from the hundreds of ideas submitted by Texas' 31 Senators. These tasks range from increasing border security, strengthening the power grid, examining "charitable bail organizations," continuing to cut property taxes, tackling the house affordability crisis, maintaining election security and much more. One topic that the conservative side of the Senate will focus on heavily is higher education.

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