TX HR1026

Congratulates Kacy Debney, an AP environmental science and chemistry teacher at Samuel Clemens High School in Schertz, for being named 2025 Environmental Educator of the Year by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Recognizes her 16-year teaching career focused on environmental education, including curriculum covering biodiversity, population dynamics, and energy and water use impacts

Highlights hands-on student projects including sustainable home design, local park cleanups, drafting mock environmental legislation, and conducting annual water and soil sampling studies

Notes her students won the 2024 Siemens Texas STEM Pathways Challenge for developing a school district sustainability plan, and she received a SCUCISD education grant for "Training Future Loraxes" initiative pairing high school and elementary students

Adopted by the Texas House of Representatives on May 23, 2025, by non-record vote