Texas State Senator

Paul Bettencourt 2021 - 87th 2nd C.S. - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Co-Sponsor of Legislation

Texas 2021 - 87th 2nd C.S.

Texas House Bill HB20

Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages.

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Texas House Bill HB9

Relating to making supplemental appropriations relating to border security and giving direction regarding those appropriations.

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Texas Senate Bill SB1

Relating to election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses.

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Texas Senate Bill SB14

Relating to the regulation by a municipality or county of certain employment benefits and policies.

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Texas Senate Bill SB2

Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.

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Texas Senate Bill SB4

Relating to abortion complication reporting and the regulation of drug-induced abortion procedures, providers, and facilities; creating a criminal offense.

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Texas Senate Bill SB5

Relating to complaint procedures and disclosure requirements for, and to the censorship of users' expressions by, social media platforms.

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Texas Senate Bill SB6

Relating to rules for setting the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a monetary bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bonds.

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Texas Senate Bill SB7

Relating to a one-time supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Texas Senate Bill SB12

Relating to the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction from the preceding tax year in the district's maximum compressed rate and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in local revenue.

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Texas Senate Bill SB8

Relating to the authority of a person who acquires a residence homestead to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the homestead in the year in which the property is acquired and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in revenue.

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Texas Senate Bill SB91

Relating to a temporary reduction in the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district and the form of the ballot proposition to be used in an election to approve a tax rate adopted by a school district that exceeds the district's voter-approval tax rate; making an appropriation.

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Texas Senate Bill SB97

Relating to processes to address election irregularities; providing a civil penalty.

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Texas Senate Bill SCR3

Urging the federal government to immediately declare violent foreign drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and encouraging the Texas Military Department and all state resources to use authority under Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution to repel this violent foreign drug cartel-facilitated invasion in the least lethal manner possible consistent with bringing this facilitated invasion to a conclusion at the earliest possible moment.

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Texas Senate Bill SJR2

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.

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