Legislation to let Texas parents to use public dollars to help pay for private education has been sent to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Policy experts say undocumented immigrants' cost to hospitals is a small fraction of the total cost from uninsured Texans.

However, the education savings account (ESA) program Senate Bill 2 established won’t be fully implemented until the 2026-2027 school year, according to a legislative budget analysis of the bill.

The first bill to reach Abbott’s desk creates a regulation-cutting state agency under his purview, passed with bipartisan supermajorities.