All Roll Calls
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Sponsored By: Trent Ashby, Paul Bettencourt (Republican), Sam Harless, Lacey Hull, Tom Oliverson, Valoree Swanson
Signed by Governor
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For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, qualifying Texas nonprofits receive a full property tax exemption. It covers real and personal property in counties with at least 3.3 million people. The nonprofit corporation must be organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes. Its property must be held to promote agriculture, support youth, and provide educational support in the community. For-profit tenants’ leasehold or other possessory interests remain taxable.
Trent Ashby
House
Paul Bettencourt
Republican • Senate
Sam Harless
House
Lacey Hull
House
Tom Oliverson
House
Valoree Swanson
House
Cecil Bell Jr.
House
Donna Campbell
Republican • Senate
Phil King
Republican • Senate
Janie Lopez
House
Dennis Paul
House
All Roll Calls
Yes: 13 • No: 0
Senate vote • 8/26/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 8/26/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 8/25/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Committee vote: Local Government
Yes: 5 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
Committee vote: Ways & Means
Yes: 8 • No: 0
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
Effective on 1/1/26
Signed by the Governor
Sent to the Governor
Signed in the Senate
Signed in the House
Reported enrolled
Senate passage reported
Record vote
Passed
Read 3rd time
Record vote
Three day rule suspended
Vote recorded in Journal
Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading
Vote recorded in Journal
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
Ordered not printed
Printing rule suspended
Reported favorably w/o amendments
Vote taken in committee
Considered in public hearing
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Posting rule suspended
Referred to Local Government
Engrossed
Enrolled
House Committee Report
Introduced
HB 18, Relating to a restriction on the acceptance of political contributions and the making of certain political expenditures by a member of the legislature and certain political committees during certain periods in which a member is absent from a legislative session; authorizing a civil penalty.
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.
HB 7, Relating to prohibitions on the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the jurisdiction of and effect of certain judgments by courts within and outside this state with respect to the manufacture and provision of those drugs, and to protections from certain counteractions under the laws of other states and jurisdictions; authorizing qui tam actions.
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.
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.
HR 128, Amending the House Rules of Procedure to authorize additional constitutionally compliant, proportional penalties for members absent without leave for purpose of impeding the action of the House that do not unfairly impair members' representative functions.