Bills & Legislation

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the market value of real property located in a county that borders the United Mexican States that arises from the installation or construction on the property of border security infrastructure and related improvements.

Ryan Guillen

Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the requirement that a home equity loan be closed only at the office of the lender, an attorney at law, or a title company.

Valoree Swanson

Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.

Giovanni Capriglione

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the market value of a property that is the primary residence of an adult who has an intellectual or developmental disability and who must be related to the owner or trustee of the property within a certain degree by consanguinity.

Candy Noble

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that a political subdivision other than a school district, county, municipality, or junior college district may impose on the residence homesteads of certain low-income persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Terry M. Wilson

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the commissioners court of a county to exempt from ad valorem taxation by each political subdivision that taxes the property the portion of the assessed value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of a rainwater harvesting or graywater system.

Erin Zwiener

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.

Cody Vasut

Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 568.

Brad Buckley

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

Paul BettencourtRepublican

Relating to the consideration of college entrance examinations for admission to certain public institutions of higher education and a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding those examinations.

Mayes MiddletonRepublican

Relating to autologous and direct blood donations.

Bob HallRepublican

Relating to the municipal sales and use tax for street maintenance.

Tan ParkerRepublican

Relating to the creation, powers, duties, and financing of the Wise Regional Water District; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees; creating a criminal offense.

Tan ParkerRepublican

Relating to vehicle registration, license plates, and inspection reports.

Robert NicholsRepublican

Relating to prior authorization for prescription drug benefits related to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

José MenéndezDemocrat

Relating to the administration of, contributions to, and benefits under the public retirement systems for police and firefighters in certain municipalities.

Royce WestDemocrat

Relating to the electronic payment of ad valorem taxes; authorizing a fee.

Juan "Chuy" HinojosaDemocrat

Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages.

Bryan HughesRepublican

Relating to the authority of a county commissioners court to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation by each taxing unit that taxes the property of the portion of the appraised value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of certain water conservation systems.

Donna CampbellRepublican

Relating to prior approval of certain property and casualty insurance rate increases or decreases.

Charles SchwertnerRepublican

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.

Bryan HughesRepublican

Relating to the regulation of virtual currency kiosks; providing an administrative penalty.

Tan ParkerRepublican

Relating to the terminology used in statute, resolutions, rules, and other state publications to refer to the partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent.

Mayes MiddletonRepublican

Relating to a landlord's duty to repair or remedy certain conditions.

Carol AlvaradoDemocrat

Relating to providing for an election by the parent of a student who was victimized by a public school employee to transfer the student to another public school campus or receive funding for the student to attend private school.

Tan ParkerRepublican

Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties.

Tan ParkerRepublican

Relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public institutions of higher education.

Kevin SparksRepublican

Relating to the appointment of attorneys ad litem and the compensation of certain attorneys ad litem in suits affecting the parent-child relationship filed by a governmental entity.

Judith ZaffiriniDemocrat

Relating to egg grading and the selling of ungraded eggs; requiring an occupational license.

Nathan JohnsonDemocrat

Relating to the enforcement of certain criminal offenses on school property.

Brandon CreightonRepublican

Relating to municipal regulation of the removal of an Ashe juniper tree.

Adam HinojosaRepublican

Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals for unemployment benefits and the validity of certain claims for unemployment benefits submitted to the Texas Workforce Commission.

Brandon CreightonRepublican

Relating to the registration of vehicles, the issuance of disabled parking placards, and certain benefits associated with that registration or issuance for certain peace officers with disabilities; authorizing a fee.

Phil KingRepublican

Relating to legal representation of indigent persons in this state and to proceedings before a magistrate including the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant.

Judith ZaffiriniDemocrat

Relating to an exemption from certain immunization requirements for medical and veterinary students.

Kevin SparksRepublican

Relating to payroll deductions for certain state and local government employee organizations.

Tan ParkerRepublican

Relating to examination of the records of filing entities and foreign filing entities by the attorney general; creating a criminal offense.

Charles SchwertnerRepublican

Relating to the functions and duties of the Texas Ethics Commission.

Mayes MiddletonRepublican

Relating to notification of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district of the death of a resident of the county in which the district is located and the determination by the chief appraiser of the effect of the decedent's death on the continued eligibility of any property in the county previously owned by the decedent for any exemption allowed for the property.

Paul BettencourtRepublican

Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain municipalities that receive municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue and other money from a local park board of trustees.

Mayes MiddletonRepublican

Relating to information that a property owners' association must file with the Texas Real Estate Commission.

Pete FloresRepublican

Relating to a fee charged by a school district for the transportation of a student who lives within two miles of the school the student attends.

Mayes MiddletonRepublican

Relating to the status of certain documents or instruments concerning real or personal property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations for those offenses; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions; increasing a criminal penalty.

Royce WestDemocrat

Relating to an education program to enable certain students to practice medicine in certain rural counties and to physician delegation of certain medical acts to advanced practice registered nurses, including in certain rural counties.

Lois KolkhorstRepublican

Relating to the regulation of the performance of cosmetic injections; requiring an occupational certificate; authorizing fees.

Donna CampbellRepublican

Relating to the rights of public school educators and financial and other assistance provided to educators and to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators.

Brandon CreightonRepublican

Relating to fees for the issuance of certain specialty license plates and an exemption from vehicle registration for certain trailers, semitrailers, tractors, and implements of husbandry.

Brent HagenbuchRepublican