For Texans with disabilities, the 2023 legislative session offered mixed results.
Advocacy organizations won a long fight to increase wages for personal care attendants. But other initiatives related to education and voting accessibility didn’t become law.
For the 2025 session, disability groups say some items will return to their legislative wishlist.
Advocates will also keep an eye on how education savings account, or ESA, bills could affect opportunities for students with disabilities in the state.
Jolene Sanders is advocacy director for the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. She says private schools are not required to accept students with disabilities under many ESA proposals.
