Bills & Legislation

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

Terri Leo Wilson

Relating to a reduction in the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district; making an appropriation.

Carrie Isaac

Relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance of bonds.

Terri Leo Wilson

Relating to the protection of an unborn child’s rights and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct.

Brent Money

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

Carrie Isaac

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

Carrie Isaac

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

Carrie Isaac

Relating to the use of artificial intelligence to score constructed responses on assessment instruments administered to public school students.

Cassandra Garcia Hernandez

Relating to the governor's review of purchases by political subdivisions of public safety radio communication systems.

AJ Louderback

Relating to a members ability to establish service credit for a year in which they are eligible for office.

Shelby Slawson

Relating to designating certain substances as Schedule IV controlled substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.

Tom Oliverson

Relating to a study of alternative methods of taxation to replace revenue lost to political subdivisions if ad valorem taxes are abolished.

Brent Money

Relating to insurer use of aerial images for nonrenewal of residential property insurance policies.

Tom Oliverson

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

Tom Oliverson

Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total appraised value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to the development and implementation of outdoor warning siren activation protocol, including the establishment of an advisory committee.

Rhetta Andrews Bowers

Relating to powers of regional transportation authorities.

Matt Shaheen

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

Matt Shaheen

Relating to the use of interim testing and adaptive, growth-based assessment instruments for certain required assessments of public school students and prohibiting the use of the results of certain required assessments of public school students for certain purposes.

Matt Shaheen

Relating to the use of certain federal funds received by the state to provide property tax refunds to Texas homestead owners.

Jay Dean

Relating to requiring voter approval for certain local tax rate increases adopted pursuant to a disaster declaration.

Jay Dean

Relating to public school accountability, including reducing state required accountability exams to the minimum required by federal law and replacing current state required assessments with instructionally supportive assessments.

Jay Dean

Relating to a comprehensive review of taxable goods and services.

Jay Dean

Relating to the vote required in an election to approve an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds a taxing unit's voter-approval tax rate; making conforming changes.

Brian Harrison

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.

Brian Harrison

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

Brian Harrison

Relating to municipal and county ad valorem tax relief.

Brian Harrison

Relating to the authority of a county to establish drainage utilities, impose drainage fees, and regulate land use for the purpose of flood management.

Erin Zwiener

Relating to the text of ballot propositions that increase taxes.

Brian Harrison

Relating to requirements for campgrounds located in a floodway; authorizing an administrative penalty; providing a private cause of action.

Drew Darby

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

Briscoe Cain

Relating to memorial plaques for the victims of the 2025 Hill Country flood.

Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

Relating to the creation of the disaster relief and prevention matching grant and loan program and the disaster relief and prevention account.

Drew Darby

Relating to the allocation and deposit of certain surplus state revenue to the property tax relief fund for use in reducing school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to a study by the Texas Water Development Board on the costs of developing flood infrastructure in this state.

Janie Lopez

Relating to creating the Texas Flash Flood Alley Interoperability Council and a grant program administered by the council.

Don McLaughlin

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.

Jeff Leach

Relating to first responder broadband network services used by first responders during natural disasters and other emergencies.

Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

Relating to emergency preparedness requirements for youth camps, camps, and entities that provide high-risk activities for minors; authorizing a civil penalty.

Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

Relating to state preemption of certain municipal and county regulation.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to municipal and county financial requirements.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to use public money for an environmental project.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to building standards for youth camps located within or near certain floodplains.

Don McLaughlin

Relating to prohibiting certain criteria in a local governmental agency contractor selection process.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to the repeal of or limitations on certain state and local taxes, including school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes, the enactment of state and local value added taxes, and related school finance reform; imposing taxes.

Briscoe Cain

Relating to the authority of the legislature or a state court to declare certain federal actions to be unconstitutional federal actions, including the effect and enforcement of such a declaration.

Cecil Bell Jr.

Relating to reducing school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes through the use of certain surplus state revenue.

Briscoe Cain