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Texas / State / 89th Legislature, 2025 Regular Session

HB 5629 (Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., ch. 686) Required agencies to issue licences to military applicants holding a licence similar in scope, and widened the fee waiver

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Expands benefits Requires agencies to issue a licence to a military applicant holding a similar out-of-state licence, waives application and exam fees for every military applicant, and shortens processing to ten business days.

For applications filed from September 1, 2025: an agency "shall issue" a licence to a service member, veteran or spouse holding an out-of-state licence similar in scope of practice and in good standing, replacing the substantially-equivalent test; processing within 10 business days instead of 30; application and exam fees waived for every military applicant; practice on an out-of-state licence for the whole Texas assignment instead of three years, on an affidavit with a 10-business-day agency answer.

Progress

Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature

  1. Introduced Done, Filed in the House
  2. In committee Done, House Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs, then Senate Veteran Affairs
  3. Passed one chamber Done, House
  4. Passed both chambers Done, Senate
  5. Signed by the governor Done,
  6. In effect Done,

Sponsors

  • WilsonSponsor, House
  • SparksSponsor, Senate
  • BlancoCo-sponsor, Senate

What it touches

  • Tex. Occ. Code § 55.004
  • Tex. Occ. Code § 55.0041
  • Tex. Occ. Code § 55.005
  • Tex. Occ. Code § 55.009

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Official record

Read HB 5629 (Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., ch. 686) on the jurisdiction's own record