Texas Bills

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

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, constitutional amendment election challenges, record retention, youth diversion, court-ordered mental health services, the powers of the Texas Supreme Court, and jurors; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.

Congratulating Wise County Judge J. D. Clark on his election as president of the National Association of Counties.

Relating to the provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the enforcement of and exceptions to laws regulating the provision of abortion-inducing drugs; providing a civil penalty.

Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion litigation, immunity defenses and limits on state-court jurisdiction and relief, the parens patriae standing of the attorney general, and the jurisdiction of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals; providing for severability.

Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.

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 disclosures required to record an instrument conveying real property.

Commending the Ball High School Choir from Galveston for performing in the rotunda of the State Capitol on December 6, 2025.

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict Texas congressional districts and revising procedures for redistricting.

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.

Designating Alvord as the official Gateway to the Grasslands for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict Texas congressional districts.

Relating to establishment of the disaster recovery fund.

Relating to adding certain substances to the Texas Controlled Substances Act and regulating kratom and kratom products; increasing civil penalties; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the volume of groundwater production authorized through the issuance of permits by a groundwater conservation district.

Relating to the Rural Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Program.

Relating to the authority of a property owner to obtain an injunction restraining the collection of ad valorem taxes by a taxing unit if the taxing unit adopts a tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate and subsequently takes an action that constitutes a material deviation from the stated purpose of the tax increase.

Relating to the authority of the governor over certain interoperable communications system procurements by a political subdivision.

Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.

Relating to state preemption of regulations adopted by a political subdivision of this state relating to assisted living facility emergency preparedness and contingency operations plans.

Relating to autologous and direct blood donations.

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

Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.

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

Relating to a limitation on the salary of superintendents and chief executive officers of school districts and open-enrollment charter schools.

Relating to recording requirements for certain documents concerning real property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations for those offenses.

Congratulating Linda Escobar on her 60th anniversary as a conjunto and Tejano star.

In memory of Oscar Rolando "Rolly" Correa of Salado.

Commending the Kliewer family for 34 years of service as the owners of Patriot Buick GMC in Killeen.

Relating to emergency preparedness and contingency operations plans, inspections, and enforcement for senior retirement communities.

Relating to disclosures required to record an instrument conveying real property.

Relating to flood control measures for Texas Department of Transportation highway projects.

Relating to establishment of the disaster identification system for a declared state of disaster.

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 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 a prohibition on the allocation of low income housing tax credits for developments located in certain school districts.

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.

Relating to the revocation of certain licenses of persons found to have engaged in price gouging during a declared disaster.

Relating to the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools.

Relating to the calculation of the penalty and interest incurred on a delinquent ad valorem tax.

Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, and ending on Monday, August 4, 2025.

Relating to powers of regional transportation authorities.

Relating to the criminal offense of interference with child custody.

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

Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for certain unprocessed materials used in the manufacture of hydrocarbons.

Relating to a vacancy in the office of senator or representative due to excessive absence.

Relating to the regulation of certain products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and registrations; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.

Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

Congratulating Ronald Paul Werner of Taylor on his 90th birthday.

Congratulating Reanna Santos of Angleton on being named Miss Rodeo Texas 2025.

In memory of Sabrina Walker-Hernandez of Edinburg.

Honoring Cory Hansen of the Austin Fire Department for his courageous actions in responding to a house fire on April 20, 2024.

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

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the property tax reduction fund and dedicating certain surplus state revenue to the fund.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish ad valorem taxes.

Urging the federal government to take immediate action to curb the spread of the New World screwworm into Texas.

Congratulating Lori Rickert on her retirement as presiding judge for Brazoria County Court at Law No. 4 and Probate Court.

Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.