Bills on the Agenda

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Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB111

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to reporting by school districts regarding special education legal proceedings in which a certain amount of legal fees has been incurred by the district.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB205

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB261

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of Senate Committee
4/1/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to prohibiting the offering for sale and the sale of cell-cultured protein; providing penalties.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB466

Filed
11/22/24  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the definition of fetal death certificate.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB705

Filed
1/3/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the air conditioning and refrigeration contractors advisory board.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB748

Filed
1/9/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the regulation of laser hair removal.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB876

Filed
1/22/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 377 in Hood and Johnson Counties as the Bob Cornett Parkway.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1400

Filed
2/19/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/8/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to a study on measurable outcomes for certain transfer students for performance tier funding under the public junior college state finance program.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1581

Filed
2/24/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the eligibility of a trustee of certain school districts for employment by those districts.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1608

Filed
2/25/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to physical examination requirements for patients admitted to an inpatient mental health facility.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1723

Filed
2/27/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the establishment of a rapid DNA analysis pilot program in certain counties.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1730

Filed
2/27/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the recovery of damages for injuries arising out of certain uses of force or deadly force.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1858

Filed
3/4/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to eligibility for the bulletproof vest and body armor grant program.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1903

Filed
3/5/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1946

Filed
3/5/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of a family violence criminal homicide prevention task force.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1986

Filed
3/6/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/6/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to warning labels for opioid prescription drugs.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2017

Filed
3/6/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for operating a motor vehicle under certain circumstances causing a tire of the vehicle to spin, lose traction, or leave the surface of a highway.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2058

Filed
3/7/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/8/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to publication by the Texas Board of Nursing and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board of certain nursing education data.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2063

Filed
3/7/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/8/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to ad valorem tax protests and appeals on the ground of the unequal appraisal of property.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2105

Filed
3/7/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the authority of a county attorney or district attorney to enforce human trafficking awareness and prevention in commercial lodging establishments.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2137

Filed
3/10/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by Senate
5/12/25  
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2177

Filed
3/10/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist local law enforcement agencies in solving violent and sexual offenses.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2203

Filed
3/11/25  
Out of Senate Committee
4/28/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the certification of discovery issues to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in contested cases referred to the State Office of Administrative Hearings by the commission.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2260

Filed
3/11/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/8/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the disclosure and posting of certain information regarding multifamily residential developments that receive certain tax exemptions and the eligibility of those developments to receive those exemptions.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2311

Filed
3/11/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/6/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the requirements for the operational plan for certain general residential operations licensed by the Health and Human Services Commission.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2417

Filed
3/12/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/6/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to investigations conducted and actions brought by the attorney general under the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act of 1983.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2519

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to restrictions on the use of certain ad valorem taxes and on the issuance of certain bonds supported by ad valorem taxes.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2611

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the status of certain documents or instruments concerning real or personal property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations for those offenses; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions; increasing a criminal penalty.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2637

Filed
3/13/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to disclosures about certain automated posts on social media platforms; providing a civil penalty.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2764

Filed
3/14/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real property or personal property.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2794

Filed
3/14/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the criminal offense of interference with child custody.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2878

Filed
3/14/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, and youth diversion; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2995

Filed
3/14/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the displacement of student financial aid at a public institution of higher education.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB3037

Filed
4/2/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/6/25  
Voted on by Senate
5/12/25  
Out of House Committee
5/15/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of La Cima Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB3059

Filed
4/24/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HJR2

Filed
2/26/25  
Out of House Committee
3/20/25  
Voted on by House
4/29/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by Senate
5/12/25  
Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the legislature from imposing death taxes applicable to a decedent's property or the transfer of an estate, inheritance, legacy, succession, or gift.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB206

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/7/25  
Voted on by House
4/23/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/8/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to a limitation on a county's authority to require a cash bond before approving the construction of a pipeline.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB451

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/2/25  
Voted on by House
4/16/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to a screening for the risk of commercial sexual exploitation of certain children.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB517

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of House Committee
4/1/25  
Voted on by House
4/24/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of residential watering restriction.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB2756

Filed
2/12/25  
Out of House Committee
4/10/25  
Voted on by House
4/30/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to training on de-escalation, crisis intervention, and behavioral health for correctional officers and certain other employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas House Bill HB3204

Filed
2/21/25  
Out of House Committee
4/8/25  
Voted on by House
4/23/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the Polytechnic College at Sam Houston State University, including the college's eligibility to participate in certain programs.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB510

Filed
11/25/24  
Out of Senate Committee
4/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1835

Filed
3/3/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/7/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public institutions of higher education.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1950

Filed
3/5/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/5/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals for unemployment benefits and the validity of certain claims for unemployment benefits submitted to the Texas Workforce Commission.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB2943

Filed
3/14/25  
Out of Senate Committee
5/6/25  
Voted on by House
 
Governor Action
 
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the prohibition of certain actions by a state agency against an applicant for or holder of an occupational license.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SJR3

Filed
2/20/25  
Out of Senate Committee
2/28/25  
Voted on by Senate
3/5/25  
Out of House Committee
4/9/25  
Voted on by House
4/28/25  
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, establishing the Dementia Prevention and Research Fund to provide money for research on and prevention and treatment of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and related disorders in this state, and transferring to that fund $3 billion from state general revenue.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB5

Filed
2/20/25  
Out of Senate Committee
2/28/25  
Voted on by Senate
3/5/25  
Out of House Committee
4/10/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB72

Filed
11/12/24  
Out of Senate Committee
3/4/25  
Voted on by Senate
3/6/25  
Out of House Committee
4/30/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental companies.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB616

Filed
12/13/24  
Out of Senate Committee
2/25/25  
Voted on by Senate
3/12/25  
Out of House Committee
4/28/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to aquifer storage and recovery projects that transect a portion of the Edwards Aquifer.
TX

Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB985

Filed
1/29/25  
Out of Senate Committee
3/17/25  
Voted on by Senate
4/2/25  
Out of House Committee
5/5/25  
Bill Becomes Law
 
Relating to the combination of certain election precincts.