Texas House Bills

Relating to state preemption of certain municipal and county regulation.

Relating to certain requirements related to water availability, including requirements that certain plats for the subdivision of land include evidence of groundwater supply.

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

Relating to a comprehensive review of taxable goods and services.

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

Relating to the establishment of the teachers' classroom supply savings account program.

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 training requirements for certain public officials and candidates for public office.

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

Relating to the repeal of the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office.

Relating to a prohibition on the guarantee of public school bonds.

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 workplace heat illness prevention, including the creation of a heat illness prevention advisory board; imposing administrative penalties.

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

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

Relating to the repeal of the Texas Quantum Initiative.

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.

Relating to the abolition of ad valorem taxes and the creation of a joint interim committee on the abolition of those taxes.

Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates of a taxing unit and the manner in which a proposed ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate is approved; making conforming changes.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish ad valorem taxes.

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 five years.

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

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.

Relating to temporary vehicle tags and the offense of tampering with a governmental record.

Relating to the text of ballot propositions that increase taxes.

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.

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.

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 prohibition of certain discrimination; authorizing civil penalties.