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TexasHB 448889th Legislature Regular SessionHouse

Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts, the dedication and rededication of revenue and allocation of accrued interest on dedicated revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general governmental purposes.

Sponsored By: Greg Bonnen, Joan Huffman (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 3 mixed.

Texas keeps selected program revenue protected

Texas preserves listed revenue set-asides enacted by its 2025 regular-session laws. These cover oil and gas regulation and cleanup, state highways, water resource management, and clean air. They also cover Historical Commission retail operations, historic sites, crime-victim compensation, insurance department operations, and game, fish, and water safety. Interest income for the ship channel improvement revolving fund also stays protected. Each exemption begins August 31, 2025, or the law dedicating the revenue takes effect, whichever is later.

Texas protects twelve named program funds

Texas preserves twelve named funds and accounts created or renewed by 2025 regular-session laws, rather than abolishing them. Seven stay within general revenue: advanced nuclear development, gulf coast protection, nonprofit support for public safety employees, farm winery marketing, emergency infrastructure maps, quantum innovation, and the Senate Bill 2 program fund. Five remain separate funds: workforce housing, dementia research, water fund administration, the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and moving image industry incentives. Their creating laws determine whether the separate funds sit inside or outside the state treasury. These protections begin August 31, 2025, or the creating law’s effective date, whichever is later.

Protected state funds face custody rules

Texas protects funds created by 2025 regular-session laws when federal law requires separate accounting. The money must stay in general revenue accounts unless federal law requires another arrangement. Trust funds created by those laws, and revenue dedicated to them, also remain protected from abolition. Bond funds and funds pledged to repay debt are protected when those laws create or affect them. Trust, bond, and pledged funds must be held in the state treasury, with the comptroller as trustee, or outside the treasury with the comptroller’s approval.

Specialty plate money moves into trust

Beginning September 1, 2025, dedicated specialty license plate fees go into a comptroller-run trust outside the general revenue fund. The comptroller must close all dedicated specialty plate accounts by September 30, 2025. Their balances remain available for appropriation only for their assigned purposes. The comptroller must also use the trust’s money and earnings only for those purposes.

Texas ends most new dedicated funds

Texas abolishes most funds, accounts, and revenue set-asides created or renewed by its 2025 regular-session laws. This happens on August 31, 2025, or the creating law’s effective date, whichever is later. Exceptions protect constitutional and federal requirements, qualifying earlier exemptions, revenue increases, and certain trust and bond funds. Voter-approved constitutional funds and revenue set-asides are also protected. A new use stays exempt when a law enacted before January 1, 2025, exempted the fund and the use fits its original purpose.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Greg Bonnen

    House

  • Joan Huffman

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 385 • No: 71

House vote • 5/28/2025

Record vote

Yes: 108 • No: 27

Senate vote • 5/26/2025

Record vote

Yes: 0 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/26/2025

Record vote

Yes: 0 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2025

Record vote

Yes: 119 • No: 18

House vote • 5/6/2025

Record vote

Yes: 120 • No: 25

Senate vote • Unknown

Committee vote: Finance

Yes: 15 • No: 0

House vote • Unknown

Committee vote: Appropriations

Yes: 23 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. See remarks for effective date

    6/20/2025House

  2. Signed by the Governor

    6/20/2025House

  3. Sent to the Governor

    5/31/2025House

  4. Signed in the Senate

    5/31/2025Senate

  5. Signed in the House

    5/30/2025House

  6. Reported enrolled

    5/29/2025House

  7. House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

    5/28/2025Senate

  8. Text of Senate Amendment(s)

    5/28/2025House

  9. Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

    5/28/2025House

  10. Record vote (RV#4001)

    5/28/2025House

  11. House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

    5/28/2025House

  12. Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

    5/27/2025House

  13. Senate Amendments distributed

    5/27/2025House

  14. Senate passage as amended reported

    5/26/2025House

  15. Record vote

    5/26/2025Senate

  16. Passed

    5/26/2025Senate

  17. Read 3rd time

    5/26/2025Senate

  18. Record vote

    5/26/2025Senate

  19. Three day rule suspended

    5/26/2025Senate

  20. Vote recorded in Journal

    5/26/2025Senate

  21. Passed to 3rd reading as amended

    5/26/2025Senate

  22. Vote recorded in Journal

    5/26/2025Senate

  23. Amended

    5/26/2025Senate

  24. Amendment(s) offered (FA1 Huffman)

    5/26/2025Senate

  25. Read 2nd time

    5/26/2025Senate

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