House Bill 6 is a response to reports of more violent classroom disruptions after the pandemic. It lowers the bar for when schools can discipline for the state’s homeless and youngest students.

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional."

The $7.8 billion school funding bill proposed by the Texas Senate and agreed to by the governor and House speaker is the largest infusion of new dollars into public education in the state’s history, said state Sen.