Texas Bills

Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time in which the legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas Legislature or the United States House of Representatives.

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission to establish districts for the election of the members of the United States House of Representatives elected from this state, the Texas Senate, and the Texas House of Representatives.

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict the United States House of Representatives and the Texas Legislature.

Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

Relating to incorporation as a Type C general-law municipality by certain areas located in or near a special flood hazard area.

Relating to fetal development instruction included as part of the public school health curriculum in certain grade levels.

Relating to powers of regional transportation authorities.

Relating to the criminal offense of interference with child custody.

Relating to emergency warning systems operated by municipalities and counties.

Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Division of Emergency Management for a local state of disaster; enhancing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the regulation of the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, use, and taxation of cannabis and cannabis products and the local regulation of licensed cannabis growers, cannabis establishments, cannabis testing facilities, and cannabis secure transporters; providing for expunction of records relating to certain decriminalized conduct; authorizing the imposition of fees; requiring an occupational license; creating a criminal offense; imposing a tax.

Relating to the regulation of products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and hemp beverages and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and permits; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing civil penalties; imposing taxes.

Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin.

Relating to the regulation of groundwater produced in the boundaries of a groundwater conservation district.

Relating to certain contracts for the purchase of residential real property located in a colonia.

Relating to selection of an attorney by an indigent parent as attorney ad litem for the parent in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.

Relating to the appointment of attorneys ad litem and the compensation of certain attorneys ad litem in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental entity.

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Redistricting Commission.

Relating to youth camp emergency operations plans, including camp staff and volunteer training and camper safety drills.

Relating to the Internet posting of localized health and safety alerts by a municipality or county.

Urging Governor Abbott to return federal reconciliation bill funds to taxpayers through property tax relief.

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that members of the legislature are not entitled to receive a state salary, per diem, or reimbursement for mileage for an unexcused absence when the applicable house of the legislature lacks a quorum.

Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the determination of a quorum of the senate or house of representatives.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish ad valorem taxes.

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the repeal of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and 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 from that fund $3 billion to Texas Education Agency for property tax relief.

Proposing a constitutional amendment concerning the limitation on the rate of growth in state and local appropriations with the return of over-collected taxpayer money by reducing taxes.

Directing the Texas Department of Public Safety to consider opening a Driver License Mega Center in Magnolia.

Relating to a limitation on the rate of growth in state and local appropriations with the return of over-collected taxpayer money by reducing taxes.

Relating to the postponement of the effective date of certain changes in law regarding the effects of a disaster and related costs on the calculation of certain tax rates and the procedure for the adoption of a tax rate by a taxing unit.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to propose for voter approval the issuance of general obligation bonds for a purpose rejected by voters at a bond election held during the preceding two years.

Relating to the effect of a disaster on the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for a taxing unit that is located in a large federally declared disaster area.

Relating to a prohibition on the issuance of certain bonds by a school district.

Relating to the authority of the legislature or a state court to declare certain federal actions to be unconstitutional federal actions, including the effect and enforcement of such a declaration.

Relating to prohibiting certain criteria in a local governmental agency contractor selection process.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to use public money for an environmental project.

Relating to state preemption of certain municipal and county regulation.

Relating to memorial plaques for the victims of the 2025 Hill Country flood.

Relating to the selection of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district; authorizing a fee.

Relating to a requirement that an appraisal review board rely on an appraisal of residential real property prepared by an appraiser and submitted to the board by the property owner to determine a protest regarding the value of the property.

Relating to the eligibility of a person who is not a United States citizen to be appointed to or serve in a public office or on an advisory board or task force.

Relating to the issuance of anticipation notes and certificates of obligation by certain local governments.

Relating to the review and approval of certain proposed municipal initiatives and referenda.

Relating to a requirement that the ballot for an election to amend the state constitution include an estimate of the fiscal impact to the state of the proposed amendment.

Relating to the creation of the office of state special prosecutor.

Relating to the provision of funding under the public school finance system on the basis of property values that take into account optional homestead exemptions.

Relating to the separation of federal elections from state and local elections, and to related practices and procedures.

Relating to an alert system for notification of a toxic chemical release by a manufacturing facility.

Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination; authorizing civil penalties.

Relating to the issuance of certificates of obligation by certain local governments.

Relating to liability of judges and magistrates for the improper release on personal bond of defendants accused of committing certain felony offenses.

Relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain by a political subdivision to acquire property outside the political subdivision's boundaries.

Relating to the authority of the attorney general to investigate violations of law by certain local governments and to take action against those local governments to enforce the law.

Relating to a prohibition of the application of biosolids to certain land.

Relating to powers of regional transportation authorities.

Relating to state agency terminology used in describing the landlocked territory on the western bank of the Jordan River.

Relating to insurer use of aerial images for nonrenewal of residential property insurance policies.

Relating to a members ability to establish service credit for a year in which they are eligible for office.

Relating to the use of artificial intelligence to score constructed responses on assessment instruments administered to public school students.

Relating to prohibited considerations in governmental entity contracting and elimination of the state's historically underutilized business program.