Trent Ashby, Texas State Representative from the 9th district | Facebook
Trent Ashby, Texas State Representative from the 9th district | Facebook
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to instruction on hunter education for public high school students’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
The bill allows school districts and open-enrollment charter schools in Texas to offer hunter education as part of their high school curriculum. The State Board of Education is tasked with developing curriculum guidelines for this instruction in cooperation with the Parks and Wildlife Department. These guidelines must satisfy the requirements for obtaining a hunter education certificate under the Parks and Wildlife Code. The curriculum is intended to be available starting with the 2025-26 school year. The bill will take effect immediately if it secures a two-thirds majority vote in both legislative houses; otherwise, it will take effect on Sept. 1, 2025.
Trent Ashby, chair of the House Committee on S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education and member of the House Committee on Public Education, proposed another two bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
Ashby graduated from Texas A&M University in 1996 with a BA.
Trent Ashby is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 9th House district. He replaced previous state representative Chris Paddie in 2023.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2838 | 03/19/2025 | Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services |
| HB 2553 | 03/17/2025 | Relating to certain ad valorem tax-related studies conducted by the comptroller of public accounts |
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