All Roll Calls
Yes: 273 • No: 144
Sponsored By: Hillary Hickland, Bryan Hughes (Republican), Jeff Leach, Will Metcalf, Katrina Pierson, Ellen Troxclair
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6 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
The law bans making, mailing, delivering, prescribing, or providing abortion‑inducing drugs in Texas. It does not apply to a pregnant woman’s own actions. Care for a medical emergency, ectopic pregnancy, or removing a dead fetus after a miscarriage is allowed. Speech protected by the First Amendment and narrow federal preemption also remain allowed.
Only private people can sue to enforce this law. A winning relator gets court orders to stop violations, at least $100,000 per violation, and costs and reasonable lawyer fees. If the relator is the pregnant woman or certain close family, they get all the money; others get $10,000 and the rest goes to a designated charity. Suits must be filed within six years, cannot be class actions, and the state cannot control or join the case. Defendants can raise limited defenses, but many usual excuses do not apply.
Texas courts must block and stop clawback cases from other states over conduct protected by this chapter. If you are sued or have a judgment under such a law, you can get an injunction and money damages. Damages include your judgment amount, defense costs and fees, your recovery costs and fees, plus extra equal to the greater of twice those sums or $100,000. Texas courts generally do not enforce those out‑of‑state judgments, and a final Texas ruling bars re‑filing the same claim. Texas law governs these issues unless federal or constitutional law says otherwise.
Hospitals, state health facilities, many health providers, physicians, physician groups, internet service and search companies, and some cloud providers are generally not liable under this law. Delivery and transportation network companies and drivers are also protected in many listed situations. Some narrow exceptions allow private suits, including when a provider’s covered conduct happened while they were outside Texas. People who handle these drugs only for listed non‑abortion medical uses are not liable.
Parties in these cases cannot share or wrongly get a pregnant woman’s personal or medical information without her consent. The law also protects HIPAA‑covered and other legally protected health data from disclosure.
Texas courts can hear these suits and serve defendants outside Texas to the full limit allowed. Courts must use Texas law, and contract terms that pick another state’s law or forum are void for these actions. The Fifteenth Court of Appeals handles all intermediate appeals and related original proceedings. These rules apply only to claims that start on or after the law’s effective date.
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Hillary Hickland
House
Bryan Hughes
Republican • Senate
Jeff Leach
House
Will Metcalf
House
Katrina Pierson
House
Ellen Troxclair
House
Daniel Alders
House
Trent Ashby
House
Keith Bell
House
Keith Bell
House
Paul Bettencourt
Republican • Senate
Greg Bonnen
House
Brad Buckley
House
Benjamin Bumgarner
House
Briscoe Cain
House
Donna Campbell
Republican • Senate
Giovanni Capriglione
House
David Cook
House
Charles Cunningham
House
Pat Curry
House
Mark Dorazio
House
Paul Dyson
House
James Frank
House
Stan Gerdes
House
Ryan Guillen
House
Brent Hagenbuch
Republican • Senate
Bob Hall
Republican • Senate
Sam Harless
House
Cody Harris
House
Caroline Harris Davila
House
Richard Hayes
House
Cole Hefner
House
Adam Hinojosa
Republican • Senate
Janis Holt
House
Andy Hopper
House
Joan Huffman
Republican • Senate
Lacey Hull
House
Todd Hunter
House
Carrie Isaac
House
Helen Kerwin
House
Ken King
House
Stan Kitzman
House
Lois Kolkhorst
Republican • Senate
Brooks Landgraf
House
Terri Leo Wilson
House
Mitch Little
House
Janie Lopez
House
AJ Louderback
House
John McQueeney
House
Morgan Meyer
House
Mayes Middleton
Republican • Senate
Mike Olcott
House
Tom Oliverson
House
Tan Parker
Republican • Senate
Jared Patterson
House
Dennis Paul
House
Angela Paxton
Republican • Senate
Keresa Richardson
House
Nate Schatzline
House
Alan Schoolcraft
House
Charles Schwertner
Republican • Senate
Matt Shaheen
House
Joanne Shofner
House
Shelby Slawson
House
John T. Smithee
House
Kevin Sparks
Republican • Senate
David Spiller
House
Carl H. Tepper
House
Tony Tinderholt
House
Cody Vasut
House
Denise Villalobos
House
Trey Wharton
House
Terry M. Wilson
House
All Roll Calls
Yes: 273 • No: 144
Senate vote • 9/3/2025
Record vote
Yes: 30 • No: 0
Senate vote • 9/2/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 9/2/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 9/2/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 8/28/2025
Record vote
Yes: 81 • No: 48
House vote • 8/28/2025
Record vote
Yes: 81 • No: 48
House vote • 8/28/2025
Record vote
Yes: 81 • No: 48
Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (December 4, 2025)
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Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
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Ordered not printed
Reported favorably w/o amendments
Vote taken in committee
Considered in public hearing
Referred to State Affairs
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House Committee Report
Introduced
HB 23 — Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain nonprofit corporations, located in a populous county, and used to promote agriculture, support youth, and provide educational support in the community.
SB 8 — 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.
SB 5 — Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.
HB 16 — 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, jurors, and the special prosecution unit; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.
HB 8 — 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.
SB 16 — Relating to real property theft and real property fraud; establishing 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, restitution, and certain procedures with respect to those offenses.
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