Bills & Legislation

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.

Paul BettencourtRepublican

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

Don McLaughlin

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

Drew Darby

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

Stan Gerdes

Relating to a study by the Texas Water Development Board of the state environmental review process for certain projects eligible for financial assistance from the flood infrastructure fund and the implementation of streamlining procedures based on the results of the study.

Janie Lopez

Relating to the development of a statewide real-time emergency communications platform.

Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

Relating to the use by a school district or a school district employee of public funds for lobbying activities.

Hillary Hickland

Relating to campground emergency safety certification requirements; providing a civil penalty.

Hillary Hickland

Relating to the regulation of the cultivation, processing, packaging, labeling, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, storage, dispensing, possession, use, and taxation of cannabis and cannabis products and local regulation of cannabis establishments; authorizing the imposition of fees; requiring an occupational license; creating a criminal offense; imposing a tax.

Jessica González

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

Helen Kerwin

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

Ellen Troxclair

Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.

Senfronia Thompson

Relating to the elimination of school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes and the creation of a joint interim committee on the elimination of those taxes.

Will Metcalf

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

Terri Leo Wilson

Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

Terri Leo Wilson

Relating to the regulation of certain products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and registrations; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Gary VanDeaver

Relating to the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools.

Janie Lopez

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.

Valoree Swanson

Relating to flood safety and disaster preparedness.

Keith Bell

Relating to prohibiting the sale, delivery, or purchase of a consumable hemp product to or by a person younger than 21 years of age, the entry onto the premises of a retailer of consumable hemp products by a person younger than 21 years of age, and the employment by a retailer of consumable hemp products of a person younger than 21 years of age; creating criminal offenses.

Charlie Geren

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to set lower limits on the maximum appraised value of residence homesteads and of real property other than a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes and to make permanent the limit on the maximum appraised value of real property other than a residence homestead.

Carl H. Tepper

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

Brent Money

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.

Angelia Orr

Relating to a limitation on increases in the appraised value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

David Cook

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of part of the market value of the residence homestead of a partially disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of such a veteran based on the disability rating of the veteran.

Marc LaHood

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish ad valorem taxes.

Brent Money

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.

Carrie Isaac

Relating to the definitions of certain terms for purposes of the exemption from ad valorem taxation of farm products in the hands of the producer.

Ryan Guillen

Relating to the suspension of toll collection while an evacuation order is in effect.

Charles Cunningham

Relating to expenditures for lobbying activities made by certain entities.

Paul Dyson

Relating to state and local government disaster preparedness.

Penny Morales Shaw

Relating to restrictions on the use of certain ad valorem tax revenue for the payment of public securities.

Carl H. Tepper

Relating to youth camp emergency preparedness plans.

Will Metcalf

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.

Steve Toth

Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate of certain taxing units and the manner in which a proposed ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate is approved by the voters.

Brent Money

Relating to the calculation of the penalty and interest incurred on a delinquent ad valorem tax.

Senfronia Thompson

Relating to the regulation of stormwater management by certain counties.

Erin Zwiener

Relating to eliminating certain state-required assessment instruments and certain end-of-course assessment instruments not required by federal law.

Brooks Landgraf

Relating to emergency preparedness and contingency operations plans, inspections, and enforcement for senior retirement communities.

Suleman Lalani

Relating to the limitation on increases in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem taxation.

Mitch Little

Relating to the vote required by the governing body of a taxing unit to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate or authorize the issuance of tax bonds.

Ellen Troxclair

Relating to establishment of the disaster identification system for a declared state of disaster.

Armando "Mando" Martinez

Relating to prohibition of transporting or funding the transportation of an unemancipated minor for an abortion; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

Ellen Troxclair

Relating to the provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

Ellen Troxclair

Relating to the creation of a flood recovery loan program to provide low-interest loans to persons who are victims of flood-related disasters.

Wes Virdell

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish ad valorem taxes.

Sergio Muñoz Jr.

Relating to the jurisdiction of statutory county courts and creation of an additional statutory probate court in Hidalgo County.

Sergio Muñoz Jr.

Relating to the definition of "residence homestead" for purposes of the exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of a totally disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of such a veteran.

J. M. Lozano

Relating to the determination of the value not in dispute of property that is the subject of an ad valorem tax protest or appeal.

David Cook