Monitoring the Session841 filed
More classes count as approved education for subsidized child care.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Names, phones, emails, home addresses. The utility can pass them on. Most penalties switched off.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No lying about costs, services or any tie to the VA.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption says “certain counties.” That means only the very largest. Pending cases too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Below market rate, no bidding. Mental health services only.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
About 16 acres for 99 years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pay attendance credit in full by February 15, owe 10% less.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Existing force rules must permit the use, which must substantially follow training.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Six months of local inaction, and the attorney general must prosecute.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The vehicle can go to several heirs at death, instead of just one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Relatives of current members need not apply. The open meetings law kicks in.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities risk tax money and certain attorney general suits. State agencies get an audit line.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No actual damages, no deposition. File anyway, pay their attorney’s fees. The Supreme Court can’t undo it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One credentialing board becomes several.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only sellers whose sole authority is a winery permit or brewer’s license. Everyone else keeps paying.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The bar drops from 2.5M. Smaller counties can still opt in, or team up.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: county pay. Bill: that, plus a state salary formula. Judges take home more.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Written consent required, unless sharing is “required or permitted” by another law. Records requests are out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
3, 5 or 7 percent, by number of district courts. Fixed two-year terms, no seniority picks.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties over 250,000 people may hire their own purchasing agent instead.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A losing candidate gets a first recount without showing the usual grounds.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Public comment at every regular meeting. Library catalogs go online.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Shoppers pay the same rate. The money moves to business development.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only operators with several subsidiaries get it. Recycling pit operators can self-insure, too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One prominent link to help employers help working parents.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Private or contracted facilities the state pays get new rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
10 percent of the build cost. Leftover credit rolls forward up to 25 reports!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Covers reactors, reactor factories, fuel recycling and uranium enrichment.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No audit posted on the employer’s website, no algorithm sizing up applicants.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
System engaged during a crash? Sue the manufacturer instead of the person in the seat.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: contest procedures. Bill: judgment within 180 days, or the judge faces removal.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Misdemeanor to second-degree felony. Plus two new acts: counting invalid votes, refusing to count valid ones.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two hours of medical education on Texas adoption law.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Transfer hearings at 18, instead of waiting until the year before 19.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State spending waits on certification that the school complied the previous fiscal year.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Lobbyists and people serving other campaigns need not apply.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Doors stay locked, but anyone can walk out without unlocking.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Three new exemptions, and the State Energy Conservation Office may amend codes.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One sentence added. The files stay under state retention rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Online sign-ups, same-day registration and a registration age of 17.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ask for a copy, and the payor has 14 days to send it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Written notice within 30 days, with reasons in reasonable detail.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Any fee needs 2/3rds of paying members, every year. Judges can’t take State Bar gifts.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Unpaid royalties on lithium, salt and bromine count too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Even plans issued outside Texas, if a Texas resident holds one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
November 30 after each presidential election, everyone reapplies. Late registrars face fines up to $5K.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adoption information joins the paternity awareness program in health class.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
HMOs and PPO plans post average network rates. Estimates on request.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nursing homes qualify, hospitals don’t. Loans cover up to 80 percent of the cost.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Several request forms drop Social Security numbers.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Local option, and only if voters pass a constitutional amendment first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No new deals after September 1, 2025. Signed agreements keep running under the old rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State law and government materials would call it the Texas free-tailed bat.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The secretary of state may release a notary’s home address, phone or email.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: operation, dissolution, Texas Tech. Bill: security tech on site counts as only temporarily in Texas.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Fully electric vehicles only. Each gets a label showing its radiation.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Your own blood, or donors you pick, for a scheduled procedure.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Commissioners courts lose the job.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The study moves from the state office to the local organizing committee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties of 150,000 or fewer. Exempt: recycling facilities.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Grantees must pay educators a self-sufficient wage and take subsidized kids. Ends September 1, 2029.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus a conservation facility. Report due December 1, 2026. Act expires January 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Five days before through midnight. No county approval needed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No express power, no rule. Costs exceed benefits? Blocked, and existing rules run out by 2040.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No policy against it, and no ballot measure either.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Judges and clerks get takedowns within 10 business days. Data brokers still face civil suits.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Family members too, current and former.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two years for seven listed courts.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From $250,000. Cheaper discovery rules follow.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Tocqueville excerpts too, plus how the courts work.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hurt by an employed physician? Sue the doctor, unless you prove the organization interfered.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties over 125,000 people only.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Abuse suits get 35 years to file. Groups with a “safe environment program” keep 30!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No statement in 10 days? Tenant can sue for $500 or a month’s rent.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Juvenile capital cases get first degree felony counsel rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The list of exceptions changes. Which ones, we can’t see.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Any governmental body, not just cities.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No written objection, no lawsuit later. As if a court approved it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: permits and a fee. Bill: background check info can’t be evidence, immigration cases included.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The statewide court for cases involving the state and its agencies.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: forensic costs. Timing clause: a defendant’s confinement. Which costs it reaches is unclear.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Five years out, unless “the commission has approved an exception.” The text sets no standard!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Signs go up between U.S. Highway 287 and Interstate 20.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For those with an intellectual disability at public colleges.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Except for foreign language majors.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Tail a lawmaker, risk fines up to $2M. Build a file from data-broker subscriptions? Outside the ban.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
New courts in Brazoria, Fort Bend, Rockwall and Ellis. Jury exemption at 75.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Selling your own part to anyone else? State jail felony. No theft required!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Should have anticipated no longer gets you capital murder.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Newspaper, online, and a heads-up to registered haulers.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same-sex couples, gender identity, contraception and abstinence all in the standards.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Reappraisal every year instead of periodically. Four hours of board training.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Open carry joins concealed carry and locked storage.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adds these products to restrictions on marketing, advertising and sales.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No more July 4 or December 20 to January 1 windows.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every state agency, every form.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up to $1M when the agency acted in bad faith.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The principal city’s member gets three votes. Presiding officer rotates every two years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Candidates sign a statement of duties first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Accused doctors also learn who the experts are and get their reports.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
10% of gross sale proceeds, straight to the consumer!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No uncertified main teacher for elementary reading and math or middle school math.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Rights unused for 10 years go on a list. Cancelling them waits for later action.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Agencies hand them out while the full application gets processed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: certain laws, plus an elephant. Bill: any field the code touches. Trade groups can sue.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A new Penal Code offense for anyone here unlawfully with a firearm.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Roof, hood, trunk: an offense. Bed rider 18 or older? A defense, garbage crews too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The strip by the road is not a lane.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
25% light in, 25% reflection max, no red, blue or amber.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only those covered by subsection (a-1)(2).
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No more splitting fees evenly. Providers can group by ID number.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
New district and charter bonds lose the state guarantee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Applies without a Texas license or ID number and without a Social Security number.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The program ends only after specified federal law, court or constitutional changes.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A plan for the Travis letter, Declaration and Constitution. The actual display? Optional!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Unions benefit the economy, per the new finding. The attorney general is out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Medicaid adds those facilities plus multisystemic and functional family therapy.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
10% of precincts or 10 precincts, whichever is greater.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “certain municipalities.” Bill: one that borders Lake Lewisville and is a certified Dark Sky Community.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Groups 51% publicly funded open up. The Legislature’s own records “are not subject to Chapter 552.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Failing a court order to get a child back drops off the list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Visible handguns, location-restricted knives and clubs, out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The roll needs no tobacco and no nicotine. Synthetic nicotine counts as a tobacco product too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report goes on the website, if it has one. Then a public hearing.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cancer and genetic disorder treatments are exempt.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
If inmates can’t get it, students can’t either.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The accused sees evidence 7 days ahead. Members get 14 days to read.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: contracts and payroll. Bill: also state approval of trustee training, and no advocacy in continuing education.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every taxing board gets elected. Governor appointees stay put. Locally appointed boards still switch.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Five attempts within 45 days after a claim.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “a municipality.” Bill: a national historic landmark park of 200 acres or more.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “certain retirement systems.” Bill: a 900K to 1.05M population window. No city named.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: carry rights. Bill: no security license needed, and no prohibited places either.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Greyhound tracks in good standing have until 2030 to switch, and the commission “shall approve.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The extra five percent late penalty goes away.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Fees and costs go to whichever side wins a records suit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Names require a statute and must honor deceased victims of offenses by an alien.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Receivers and broad turnover orders, aimed at justice court and child support debts.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Next to the Extension Service, which was already on it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
New committee, 90-day notice, penalties up to $50,000. The governor’s exemptions have no limits in the text.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two names from a county wholly inside, one if partly inside.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Voters elect seven directors starting May 2026. The president serves “at the pleasure of the Governor.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Voters include utility customers outside its borders.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One kilometer for residents, five miles for local governments. Hearings too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Juvenile justice and TEA team up on screening and treatment.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Wind, solar and nuclear fund teacher raises. The rate is based on the natural gas severance tax!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Projects need 60 percent produced in Texas, instead of filmed. Lights, camera, parking lot!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Presumed vacant after three months, down from 150 days. Addresses go in an online database.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ask for its records starting September 1, 2025. Same confidentiality shields as the utility commission.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Who grants tenure and the grounds for firing, both gone.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Third-degree felony for public servants. Everyone else stays Class A misdemeanor.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: carrying handguns. Bill: no suing the government, and the shot falls outside the medic’s duties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nothing changes for families, schools or platforms. Any response waits for a later legislature.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Gyms, trainers, meal plans, fitness awards. Readiness dips? The department has 10 days to fix it!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Providers may not offer, sign or keep them.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Outside and in-house attorneys alike, 10 days from starting.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The attorney general answers questions on the public information law.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties of 100,000 or more stream every voted-ballot area. Repeat violations are a third-degree felony.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State law recognizes the tribe as a Native American Indian tribe.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Refused, estimated costs or sent to the attorney general? Sit down and talk.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Debt without a voter-approved bond election gets much harder.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Added to the public logic and accuracy test before an election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Saturday or Sunday deadline? It rolls to the next business day.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Parent’s written consent required. A virtual version too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Actual damages, up to 3x more on top, and $25,000 extra for intimidating witnesses.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
55% community input, 45% the criteria the law already requires.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Juniors and seniors in the Child-Care Professional Pathway program.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only districts on an international border with matching service and taxing areas.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No automatic consent when a city fails to act. No appeals around a refusal.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hays County tract 010816. Four blocks.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Register as under 18 and you stay a known minor until 18 and verified.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Blood banks and hospitals follow a doctor’s order for autologous or direct donations.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Certain offenses no longer auto-revoke a social worker license.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At-large members and mayors skip the redo election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ban on utility transfers, unless the bond ordinance allows them. The city writes the ordinance!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Red dye 3 and titanium dioxide are off the SNAP list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Non-carbonated and “contains plant protein sources”? Exempt. Corn chips and nut candy can qualify!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The losing side pays attorney’s fees and court costs.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus at least two cities of 350,000 or more. The caption just says “certain counties.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
$20 regular plate, $10 original temp, $0 to renew!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One more way a dealer gets cut off from the database.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ballots show the debt tax rate jump, but only for elections ordered after January 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Away from your county, disabled or in jail? No mail ballot.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At least one per campus, districts and charters alike.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ballot applications ask about other citizenships. List the nations.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No insurance, no pain and suffering. Medical bills still count. Needs 3/5ths of each house.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Political texts to many people carry the same disclosures as other ads.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Also repeals the extra rollback tax on sale or change of use.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ads about an officeholder who isn’t on the ballot must say who paid.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Six months of a local prosecutor sitting on it triggers it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Takes effect September 2025. The certification rule waits until after the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up to four pulses, two seconds max, never off.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
15 seats become 17. One sheriff for oilfield steel theft, one oil and gas rep.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Markers go up in Llano, Burnet, Travis, and Williamson Counties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Reports, data, internal communications, even “mental impressions.” All of it can be withheld.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Town lots, streets, parks and railroad land included.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The bill adds one sentence. No penalty, no enforcer, no deadline!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
500,000 or more people lose the 3.5 percent no-election growth.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Firearms range and driving course included. Facilities plan due December 31, 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Homes serving up to four people with disabilities.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One band: 93,000 to 99,000. Violations are a misdemeanor, $500 to $1,000 a day.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No benefit changes. Report due December 31, 2026. A later bill would have to act.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The comptroller pays counties for rides to court.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “certain municipalities.” Bill: 900,000 people or more. Payouts capped at the property’s city taxes.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Proof it works and is safe, or no order.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: this state. Bill: up to 30% can go to another state’s disaster.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For cases resting on a 0.08 test.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Deer belong to the people of the state. Unless they’re behind your fence!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Parks to the Land Office, wildlife to Agriculture, game wardens to DPS. After the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Today most denied inmates get another look about a year later.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
How much do agencies, universities included, spend on marketing? Report due September 30, 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Contractors and incentive recipients only. Except the annual report, which covers any company.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
District attorney and county attorney get a new split.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Notice within 60 days, weapon back within 60 more.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State immunity waived. The movement limit stops 10 feet from the infected pen!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Drill through the aquifer to store water below it. Rules due March 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Texarkana College keeps its nine-to-seven rule.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Department of Criminal Justice staff: use it or keep it. Old balances too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Both, instead of choosing one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A notarized affidavit of conscience does it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Under 100,000 people, with a yearly renaissance festival. The money can fund a rodeo center!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A&M writes the plan, agencies must follow it. When? The bill never says.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No printed signature, no proof the old title was stamped.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Running away from home is off the list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Suing over care there? Ordinary negligence won’t cut it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only “domestic” firms that move jobs overseas lose tax breaks. Foreign-organized ones keep theirs!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Confidential tax info or not, lawmakers see the names and the savings.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Except listed serious violent or sexual offenses for ages 10 to 12.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Family violence, stalking and protective-order violations added.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Erosion, wetlands, FEMA elevation certificates and flood insurance premiums.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Already in its name? No second signature needed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Free records for defense investigators. Shielded home appraisals for defense staff.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The adjutant general loses command. New director, own budget, border security units, possible detect-and-apprehend authority.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No competitive bidding below the federal simplified acquisition threshold.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Second full week of October. No application fee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Penalties scale with image count, prior convictions and the child’s apparent age.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Everyone who qualifies for federal matching money gets coverage.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Public school students must create a profile or complete the permitted opt-out process.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
6% on big AI facilities, 4% on data centers. Equal shares monthly, watched by a governor-appointed committee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: repeals offenses. Bill: also ends registration refusal. Unpaid tolls get fines and boots instead.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Half to the state highway fund, half to counties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Out of general revenue, into its own account.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Still liable for gross negligence, recklessness or intentional misconduct. Everything else, covered.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Rule doesn’t fit the goals? The agency stops enforcing it immediately. Staff time doesn’t count toward caps.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Citizenship proof, as far as federal law allows. Private firms flag voters for registrars.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Minors need a parent’s consent for every download. Parents can sue, with no state damage caps.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Based anywhere, owned by citizens of a country of concern? 90 days to restructure, then funds sell.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Violations count as deceptive trade practices. Won these suits before? That can’t limit the next recovery.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
ID number and certificate go on a sealed signature sheet.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A plat counts as submitted once everything’s in and paid.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Injection-well areas no longer excluded. Water-quality reports go from monthly averages to once a year.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Electronic titles, hull-damage brands, deadlines cut from 45 days to 20. All after the next general election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Four tracts in Travis County replace the original boundary.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee’s own background says Breakthrough is a nonprofit. The program must work with one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One more court to hear cases, starting September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only new entrants pay. They also must show the area needs another facility.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not just termination or conservatorship cases.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: foster parents. Bill: Penalty Group 1-B case? The child’s parent gets drug-tested before the first visit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities and counties borrow, and may have to levy taxes to repay.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Listed fuels skip the human-control test and qualify by definition. Battery storage stays shut out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One more name on a short list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Reports go to the right agency, which must investigate.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One prior intoxication assault or manslaughter, or two other priors.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Done alongside the hearing screening before discharge.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The Texas Military Department appraises the land first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Work ends or pauses, the speed limit signs come down.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Lab tests for products over 0.3 percent.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties start monthly in 2025. Statewide reports: January 31, 2027. Election: November 3, 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Workers’ compensation claimants added, plus an administrative account.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
After construction starts, with a bond or insurance. The escrow holder owes buyers no duty to watch.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Mayor’s appointees drop from six to four. Two retiree seats added.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A team to go alongside the existing team.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For a city of 950,000 to 1,050,000 people. The shortfall gets a 28-year payoff schedule.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Usual and customary rate, not the contracted rate.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Symptoms, coping techniques and resources, in the health curriculum.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Paid to nonprofits. Covers caregivers up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
When the parent signed a caregiver or safety placement agreement.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Red lights too. No full stop required.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Drones count as aircraft. Pets and livestock count as animals.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties of 500,000-plus, cities of 200,000-plus. New rules must pass a housing-cost test first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No definition of “affiliated.” Public colleges must also expel any listed student.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Chapter 1151 appraisers join the arbitrator pool.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Six hours minimum, and trainees must pass it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Also: business courts hear more cases, and other states’ rulings can’t override the code’s plain text.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Seeking or receiving care can’t be the sole reason.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Or paying associations that do. Any taxpayer or resident can sue to stop it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Other programs get first dibs. The cap holds until they’re maxed out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: water districts. Bill: management districts too. Recreation land with no size, deadline or penalty.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Studies dollar collapse and a contingency currency. Delivers draft bills. Must consult private firms.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: board makeup. Bill: that, plus an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up to $10,000 negligent, $250,000 intentional for financial gain.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Confidential information too, any time, not only during a protest.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Dump a skimmer mid-investigation, get a third-degree felony. Civil penalty up to $5,000 a day!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Sworn reports and questioning under oath, for any registered entity.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
First attack drill due by December 31, 2026. Load-shedding drills stay.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
51% Texas now qualifies, down from all or nearly all.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Consecutive numbering starting at “1” for electronic ballots too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At least one school per system, every high-demand field.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
What goes to the state, what the district keeps.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Kids lose child-only fine waivers. The under-12 exception becomes sixth grade or lower.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Providers get 120 days’ written notice.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A border county of 400,000 to 500,000 people. Plans must fit existing appropriations.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026. Any change to disaster aid waits for a later bill.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Smaller precincts combine, and countywide sites sit at each precinct.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pre-2009 diesel owners willing to trade up.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The mayor loses the pick. Majority vote decides.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it a “free market approach.” State grants cover up to half the cost!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A report within a year of hiring. Nothing changes in services. Expires June 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Schools now pay both shares into the Teacher Retirement System.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties on the Mexico border with part of the West Nueces River. So, one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Locals lack the gear for a worst-case leak? Operators pay.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One added line. Charter schools pool electricity purchases, like cities and counties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Districts run an intervention program instead.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Federal reimbursements since fiscal year 2008 fund border-region grants. The comptroller keeps up to 5%.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same registry public and charter schools already follow.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Extended warranties, home warranty plans and car wear-and-tear coverage.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Actual or perceived gender, regardless of sex designated at birth.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Clerks notify police within 30 days of judgment.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Professional services providers can’t buy goods around the bidding rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
0.1 becomes 0.105. Dual language goes from 0.15 to 0.155.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State law overrides the local rule? Local taxpayers cover the winner’s lawyers and experts.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The caption’s “certain municipalities” are a small number of cities in the very largest counties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
It reaches local reports due September 1, 2027 or later.
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due September 1, 2026. The duty to act on it ends January 1, 2027!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Protected speech only. No discipline for students or advisors, and they can sue.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “financial flexibility.” No commission approval, and no court challenge.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adopt an unsterilized dog or cat, pay $75. Bring the vet letter, get it back.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Four years licensed, 32 to 48 extra hours, a live-fire test.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: locational marginal pricing. Bill: flat caps falling to $30 by 2037, and a $0 floor.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Also adds Texas-Mexico border interdiction to the strategic plan.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Someone else’s criminal act? No civil, administrative or criminal liability under the Water Code.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Tails, animal ears, litter box use. Banned, except Halloween and 5 dress-up days. Fines up to $25,000!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
FDA drug moves down a schedule, the state commissioner follows.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No plat required when a condominium is created or altered.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis cites $217.8M generated in 2024. The bill lets Austin’s festival seek state reimbursement.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Expiration moves from September 1, 2025 to September 1, 2029.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Appraisers factor in preservation restrictions when setting market value.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nursing facility and hospital employees, only where they work.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A system skips any new rule it deems “inconsistent with its fiduciary responsibility.” Written notice, done.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Or what was actually paid. Pain and anguish require a unanimous jury.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Child gone missing? The case stays open.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Skip the renewal under Article 65.058, lose the license automatically.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Any case, any county in the region. Local prosecutors may only assist. First officeholders appointed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The text directs multiplication by 7.5 percent in consecutive years.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hospitals get paid to keep doctors and add residency slots.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “certain electricity services.” Bill: cities that don’t answer in writing are “considered to have consented.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Population 46,000 to 50,000, no hospital district, next to the capital’s county. Fits one county.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Life safety code surveys too, before the work is done.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Displaced justices draw lots or move by January 1, 2026, or lose their seat.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Standards at least as strict as DPS’s.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The vital statistics unit sets it up for courts and parties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No more finishing it in continuing education.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee gives advice on existing active shooter training. Any change waits on the commission.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Border city, 85,000-plus people, hosts the annual Texas Citrus Fiesta. It may move to November, once.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ask in writing, show hardship, standards excused.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Certified by the U.S. Small Business Administration, based in Texas.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Within 12 months, with written consent to be listed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Private schools taking the federal money lose state funds for a year. Public universities face no penalty.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Red 40 leaves school meals in 2027-2028. The SNAP rule can wait on a federal waiver.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Property-rich districts keep revenue above the limit. The cap goes too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Existing claims keep the old 30-year limit. The change first matters decades from now.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” even in part, and it’s banned discrimination.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No new drug supply, money or mandate. Goals and recommendations, due October 1 of even years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From the Texas Commission on Fire Protection, in fire-code counties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Including placement stability.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Commissioners court steps in only if a chair can’t act.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One fixed rule for property tax protests and appeals.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Notice, a reason and 30 days to move your money. Only where every borrower is in Texas.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Sue the kennel or shelter for vet bills, mental anguish and lost companionship. Kennels can’t plead compliance.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
10 years on the list, photo on the DPS website. No donations, no list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Officers can ask courts next door, not just the local one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
With district court permission, not just upkeep.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Brewpub owners with more than one brewpub too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Household wells need over 100 acres, up from 10. Smaller tracts: 10,000 gallons a day, any use.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Born in Texas? Not a U.S. citizen unless a parent is a citizen, national or green-card holder.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Master’s grads from on or before December 31, 2007 still qualify.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
And keeps it out of public records requests.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Applies after cruelty, dogfighting or similar convictions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Subchapter B goes, along with the certificate subsections.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Person becomes individual too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Officers defined as state or local government employees.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Who, why, how long, mental health, self-harm, per prison. Nothing about solitary itself changes.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Within two business days of getting each one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The new council must promote the system’s seminar. Its officer chairs the council first.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Food benefits for eligible children during the summer months.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Covers patients with memory and thinking problems, including Alzheimer’s.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Agricultural appraisal and the farm-equipment exemption, starting with the 2026 tax year.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One operative verb: “may.” No duty, no penalty, no deadline. Adopt the policy or don’t.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The good-faith shield for commission officials now covers racetracks, horsemen’s groups and anyone regulated.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Running one becomes a deceptive trade practice. Professional journals and no-stake health education are exempt.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pop. 25,000 or fewer, heritage museum, county on Mexico and the Gulf. Tax can last to 2056.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At least one, gender-neutral, for people with disabilities and caregivers.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Owners get a document on request.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No more required affiliation with a state or national group.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The bill analysis promises “economic growth and job creation.” Quantum industry gets committee seats and grants.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Member-run 501(c)(3) co-ops open to anyone qualify.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Certain small counties can draw jurors from neighboring counties in the same judicial district.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The comptroller or any state agency can award it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Raises the notice threshold to $100,000 and lets agencies buy independently up to $100,000.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
P-TECH completion joins the distinction measures.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Boards still write them every two years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
If the unit is accredited by a Medicare-approved group.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One resolution, and the appraisal district reappraises everything.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Fractional operators still need federal transportation authority, already sufficient under the first prong.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two old validity and appraisal review conditions are cut.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Section 345.157(d) repealed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One dollar or fifty cents per loan stops going to the comptroller.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Out-of-state lawyers get an answer within 100 days of filing.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The one-third of local contributions limit is gone.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Put cash in a rural fund, take a tax credit. Funds must invest $300M or credits shrink.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For declared disasters and 30 days after, with an end user number.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Expunction and nondisclosure, for a wider group.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Official state recognition, with substantial governmental powers.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
TxDOT puts up markers with the new name.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up from 48 hours, plus a state form explaining options.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Three cards and lack of consent is presumed. Fewer than five is a state jail felony.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Paper ballots, no machines, no countywide polling places. The caption skips the precinct limit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Gone: one year of licensure, insurance and 30 training hours.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Make your own power, pay no sales tax on the gear or install. Repairs still taxed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
To hold the agency liable for a worker, harmed kids must prove a skipped safety step.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Covers assigning these scores to individuals and families who live in Texas.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Living things get protection from excessive artificial light.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Supervised hours waived, sometimes the exam. Jurisprudence exam stays.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Weekday July 4? Sales run through the next weekend’s Sunday.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Borrowed from Section 304.002, next door.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Section 22.01(b)(1), (4), (5) and (9) enhancements don’t apply.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Election, abortion, trafficking and riot-type cases, anywhere. “One or more” assistants, $22,500-plus yearly for expenses.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cross-references fixed, duplicates merged, numbers sorted.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nonsubstantive. Old session laws repealed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nonsubstantive. Family violence, inquests and more move to new chapters.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Candidates sign a written acknowledgment of board duties first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Assault, harassment or stalking as a foreign agent, now “one category higher.” Same acts, bigger penalty.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hostile acts by a foreign adversary, not just terrorism.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Market players attest they comply. ERCOT can suspend anyone it reasonably suspects is foreign-linked.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Texans’ genetic data stays out of adversary countries. $10K per violation, and patients can sue.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adversary firms bidding through a U.S. subsidiary appear to fall outside. Parent-made goods still get caught.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pull out by October 1, 2025. Never recognized by a nonprofit? Outside the ban!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Allied or adversary, hand over the passport. Gift ban starts after standards that have no deadline.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Per-campus money goes from $15,000 to $37,000.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Districts can refuse only if full, discipline history, or a desegregation order.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Armed-guard waivers must be renewed every year. Some abuse reports go to outside police too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adversary lobbyists register and take no pay. Unless the client is “publicly traded in the United States.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A war-game, a report to the governor, and the work stays confidential. Expires 2029.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Recommendations due December 1, 2026. Task force abolished September 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Death-row applicants included.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same programs, new agency. The grant match rules carry over.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No committee reports, no legislator statements, no intent.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “more attractive.” Big projects get the school tax break, jobs optional!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Patients can opt out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Bought or contracted before 2026? Keep flying it for five more years!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Firefighters and emergency medical workers join the police network.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For companies tied to China, Iran, North Korea or Russia. U.S. persons are exempt too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only utilities with over 150,000 connections. Then a plan to cut losses.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Buyers tied to China, Iran, North Korea or Russia can’t take title. A lease still works.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Covers residential and day placement facilities districts pay for.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Down from $7.50. The money goes to the Texas mobility fund.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same for a stated gender identity, sexual orientation or preferred name, legally changed or not.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Car makers must share repair data, tools and information.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Deals need a real business purpose beyond the tax benefit. If not, the comptroller revokes the permit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026. The Act expires January 1, 2027. Nothing in it shortens a wait.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Surviving spouses get a yearly three percent increase.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
CT angiography with AI plaque analysis replaces cheaper calcium scoring. Cap rises to $2,000!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Consistently refuse to prosecute? An assistant attorney general steps in.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The AG can sue in Travis County or locally.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ordinary first-degree felony appointment rules apply instead.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic and French, in counties over 2,500,000 people.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One “or” lets 58 decibels stand alone. No 30-foot limit, no police warning first!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At least two a year, at the school’s own expense.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The floor is two million people. The caption just says “certain,” and the text names no place.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The caption says “certain” zones and the text names no city. Very few qualify, possibly one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Providers screen and refer kids to schools, which serve them from birth. Penalties back it up.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Scholarships and grants count too. Break the rule, owe $100 plus 3x the fee or deposit!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Skip the five-year wait, pay a risk stabilization fee the trustee sets. Locked in until 2031.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every quarter, while it builds the statewide transportation improvement program.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Own taxable land or live there. Just voting there no longer counts.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Subsection (b) of Section 573.021 does not apply in the emergency department.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Medicaid can’t set drug rules stricter than the FDA label. Diabetes prevention gets covered too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Yearly written notice to plans, hospitals and providers.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Lethal fetal diagnosis exception, with a second doctor. The caption never names the committee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
TEA sends notice at least 60 days ahead, with teaching materials.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The floor drops from 25 to 20 on city streets.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
January 19 comes off the list of Texas state holidays.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The offense goes. The “not an acceptable lifestyle” language stays.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Leftovers split 30% city, 70% county roads. Repeat misuse caps the county’s tax rate!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Licensing starts sooner. Unique body ID numbers can wait until after the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Below market rate, no advertising, no competitive bidding.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
About 16 acres, for 99 years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: 12-month registrations. Bill: cited drivers pay back fees on top of the 20% surcharge.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
11 officials, two meetings a year, a report every two years. Public Information Act? Exempt too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Name each voter, state grounds, sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every employee completes it before the ride runs.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
This bill has not been graded yet. The headline above is the state's caption.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Covers race, religion and sex, plus free speech and assembly, whatever the bylaws say.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
$5M in insured property becomes $20M. Revenue goes from $10M to $100M.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every governmental body reports by October 1. The AG posts them all.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Government-owned and privately owned vehicles both count.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Districts may buy them with state school safety money.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
How does a court check someone’s status? The bill doesn’t say.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
TxDMV may skip the fees and bond requirements for governments.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No warrant or peace officer needed for the emergency exam trip.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
4,000 pounds or less skips registration. Some specialty plate fees drop.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A home cannot count as the workplace. Bye, couch.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Condominiums skip the city and county platting laws.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The private credential only needs to qualify you “to test.” It covers repair work too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No special higher water or sewer rate just for the tax-exempt.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026. The whole thing expires January 1, 2027!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Gasoline must meet ASTM D4814. Pumps follow NIST Handbook 44.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
FBI and any Texas agency, not just the Department of Public Safety.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Forfeited corporate privileges get revived, not just certificates reinstated.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
“Advanced” means any nonsurgical cosmetic procedure. The license fee has no cap.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Medical school faculty run the program, which offers scholarships and guaranteed admission to qualifying rural students.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For taxes, security tech property is only temporarily in Texas. Leftover assets go to Texas Tech.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
File a federal complaint or lawsuit and you’re barred while it’s open. Attorneys still get in.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Changes how many customers must sign to appeal to the PUC.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Part of health class. Symptoms, coping techniques and support resources.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
They must also say the Secretary of State has the documents directly.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Free-market, says the committee analysis. Also a new fund and a 13-member council.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Markers go up between State Highway 71 and Ranch Road 962.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
This bill has not been graded yet. The headline above is the state's caption.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pay under existing Water Code rules, plus reasonable expenses.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From 90 days to 75. City says no or stays silent? Straight to TCEQ.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
On the back, or in a separate statement sent with it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The intent statement says the U.S. government defines them. Student groups taking their money lose recognition.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Win and you may get $500-plus. Lose and they get attorney’s fees. Parody is exempt.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Changes what a challenger must swear to.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Then you may sue. Courts presume an attorney general opinion to withhold is correct.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Sheriffs and constables sign neighborhood contracts over commissioners’ objections. Shifting police money forces an election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Colleges “may” demand papers and “may” reclassify current students. Got 30 credit hours? Shielded.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The caption never says usury. Cost disclosure covers only offers over $500K!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Written notice, plus instructions on how to revalidate.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Largest city, border county, 800,000 floor, no 500,000 city. Caption: sale. Bill: any conveyance.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Health plans cover biomarker testing for organ transplant patients too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
County courts at law can clear arrest records for their own cases.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One for grades six and below, one for grades 7 through 12.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Study and recommend, nothing more. Up to five seats for the industry. Abolished in 2032.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One test: home to over 70 percent of the county. Some get venue projects too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Prescribing included. Signing the agreement alone doesn’t make the podiatrist liable.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Includes cars police dispose of. Undisclosed flood damage? Lots owe buyers 3x the repair cost!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Drug offenses, theft of school funds and certificate fraud join the list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Grants to keep doctors, recruit hard-to-find specialists and add residencies.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Or a bond vote, even another unit’s. Refunds 60-plus days late earn interest.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One more school on the chancellor’s pick list. That’s it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A short stretch in Hidalgo County. Plus a spelling fix.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Break drought rules, lose some or all service.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up from $10K. Profit past the cap and a court can exceed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The text never says what the seven did. Fee money can go to any lawful purpose.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Due January 15, with an engineer’s cost estimate.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Operators still need water rights, monitoring and reports. District production and export fees end.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Developers recycle turbine blades and solar panels, and dispose of the rest.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Medical and dental school applications now take nursing too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Over 46K people and next to the capital county. Hospitals can’t pass the charge to patients.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The public owns Texas wildlife. Behind a high fence, the deer become the landowner’s.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No added fluoride, no matter how small the amount.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: regulation of deer breeding. Bill: repeals the permit system. Violations become Class C.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Restrictions stay near the infected pen. Owners must appeal before suing when an order isn’t lifted.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Kicks in January 1, 2027. Sole proprietorships are exempt, even ones with employees.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No deadline for the plan. Once it exists, whenever that is, agencies must follow it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One electronic ID device is enough.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Five trustees are governor picks. Comply within 180 days or all state funding is withheld!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Register with a party to vote its primary. Knowingly vote unaffiliated? Second-degree felony!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
20 percent of full-time pay in the adjacent area, benefits included.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Full value, up from half. Districts look poorer and could draw more aid.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Local officials, election laws, Robert’s Rules of Order.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At least 35 percent, starting September 1, 2026. Banks can also manage local public money.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: operation and management. Bill: a fund spent without appropriation, run by a private society.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No new variance requests once a waiver is approved.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities of 950,000 or more must offer to pay objecting owners first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Say it’s a bot and you’re off the hook. Penalties: up to $4K, then $8K.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “protecting freedom of speech.” No duty to look for bots, though.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Disproportionate impact on a nearby low-income population means denial.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Now the Texas Oil, Gas, and Minerals Commission. Accurate, at least.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
EV owners could sell power back, if the commission chooses. No duty, no deadline.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “certain areas of a municipality.” Bill: 240K-plus people in two-plus counties.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Contract prices go public. Engineers and architects get a shield on staffing and work approach.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Homeowners 60 to 64 can defer too, like the over-65 crowd.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Local tax foreclosure is barred below $25,000. Higher arrears require a repayment-plan offer.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Meetings by phone or online. Condo owners vote electronically.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adults 21 and up get dental coverage. A 2029 report checks whether paying for it raised spending!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: racial discrimination. Bill: the whole job chapter, plus punitive damages from government with immunities waived.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adds nonviable implantation inside the uterus or in scarred tissue.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A physician physically in Texas, with an in-person exam.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Churches handing out meals count. Add playgrounds and colleges, and that could reach most of a city.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Within 1,500 feet of any public park, school or not. $5K a day in penalties!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Population 47,000 or more, in two counties of set sizes. The author’s statement says it’s Burleson.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
17 listed East Texas counties, not a 1935 law.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Didn’t post the state’s no-concealed-carry notice? That counts as permission, and the shield applies.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Zero advocacy, still rejected. Two straight F ratings force a full board election!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Who qualifies, how much money, from where? The bill does not say.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
BCE and CE are out. Curriculum too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The board rules on each course by December 31, 2026. Voters go to the polls November 3.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No remote work, except in a few listed cases.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Audit finds banned course spending? The unit gets 90 days to fix it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Teaching, research and administrative tasks, all spelled out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The disability rights movement joins the standards, at age-appropriate levels.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ten-year statute of limitations, restitution, and a penalty bump when the owner is 65 or older.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Needs a qualifying security program. Smallest firms: password policies and staff training. Actual losses still count.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same provider, same city, postal code or county.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
More older Section 8 complexes count.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Workforce, health and prison agencies, plus shared offices. Gifts and grants welcome from any source.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up from 25 percent where poverty hits 40 percent or unemployment runs 2.5x the national rate.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities of 600,000 or more in border counties. The authority’s executive director is the commission’s, too!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Notice in English and Spanish, bold type. Only border counties with a city over 500,000.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hiring? Check with the board and consider its participants first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No competitive bidding below the federal simplified acquisition threshold.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Landowners get paid for police-response damage too. Insurers can’t count those claims against your rates.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No more fee to bus a kid who lives close.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Chapter 252, same as cities. The old reverse auction line goes.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Over 500 feet? Notify the state 90 days ahead.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The Medal of Honor Highway runs in Brazoria County.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Personal lines policies for groups of 10 or more.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same conduct, “either section or both sections.” Holiday, theater and religious masks get a defense.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis cites “calls for reform.” County adds half again. No dissolving by petition.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Building size, height, density, setbacks and land use.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Over 250,000 people? The court can make the agent an employee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Platting costs so land can hook up to water or sewer.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No stated reason needed for an initial recount.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Changes what happens when a commissioners court closes a road.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Venue tax to economic development, only for cities with bonds out on September 1, 2025!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Exact license types spelled out so the FBI will approve.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Within seven days, posted on a public website.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Drivers 21 or older can’t pay more for sex or marital status alone.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adds lease-end wear-and-tear coverage and narrows some old exemptions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The state health department designates facilities instead.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same salary as legislators. Pensions figured as if they earned a district judge’s base salary!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Section 351.04155 goes away.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Down from 3.3M. More sheriffs run tracking gear and phone location requests without asking DPS.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus a fraud partnership with insurers. The insurance department keeps up to half of what it recovers!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No stricter than Medicare rules. Payments keep flowing after a sale.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only counties touching both. Small lots can skip platting, and there’s a new inspection fee.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Property-wealthy districts keep revenue above their entitlement.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Policyholders get up to two years to recover it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “nativist jurisprudence.” Bill: officials who enforce it get sued personally, and losing lawyers pay fees.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Standard credentialing info only, applied the same way to everyone.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Contracts included. Take the money anyway and you’re barred from any public contract for five years!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Applies to catastrophe years after December 31, 2025.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A new Penal Code defense when a less-lethal round causes injury or death.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The governor, lieutenant governor and every legislator drop off the mailing list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up to 200 acre-feet, no state water permit needed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Didn’t say an algorithm set the price? That’s a deceptive trade practice.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Confidential records included. No copy charges for legislators.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
240,000 to 270,000 people, on a man-made lake. It keeps the project’s state hotel and sales tax.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Medicaid, CHIP and SNAP info, every year and at enrollment.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
If it didn’t happen, it leaves the licensing file.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Signed disclosure first. No fee paid until the facility has it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A small number of very large districts get most of it. TEA keeps up to 10 percent.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Needs the police chief’s signed approval and officers in uniform.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Three percent of pay, unless they opt out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Changes how long clerks hold exhibits before getting rid of them.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Footage that could show it mostly leaves public records law. Unauthorized release? Class A misdemeanor!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
During fairs, festivals and carnivals, license holders included.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Participation stays confidential and can’t count against a license. Due by January 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Amnesty, an indigency program and an incentive program, in every court.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Appraisers must weigh how designation limits on repairs affect value.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
And again at enrollment, on a model form, paper or electronic.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Four equal payments, no penalty or interest, for every homestead owner.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Selling only the water? Skip four disclosure notices.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The cutoff was two million. The disaster area requirement goes too. Each project needs a council vote.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Awards tied up in lawsuits get rescored under the new rules, and the top score wins.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No new awards until the next Sunset review, unless a current company walks away.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nothing changes on the ground. Report due December 1, 2026, group gone by September 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Paid for with 10 percent of the manufactured housing sales tax. Live there three years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
90 days from the initial payment. Rules due within 30 days.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No seven-location cap and no $7 million yearly limit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Top leaders of homeland security council agencies must be U.S. citizens.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No more banking unused room under the voter-approval cap.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The agreement lists what restrictions follow the land, and who owes what.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two conditions before a city can issue them.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The plan can’t include standards the Tax Code doesn’t authorize.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From 90 percent to 85 percent of another district’s rate.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Minimum goes from $500 to $1,000. The $10,000 max stays.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Won a protest last year? The district must prove any increase.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For children in state custody. Grants to open them, and the exemption survives state money.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
An accreditor the U.S. Department of Education recognizes, for every law school.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only coastal cities with a park board. Divert hotel tax money, hit a tax-rate election sooner.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every licensing agency makes as many deals as the law allows.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The model with the lowest loss estimate wins. Coastal headquarters waits until 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
60 percent for bonds. 75 percent after voters already said no.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
New line: last year’s revenue plus 3.5 percent. Go over it, face an election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The commissioner approves a list. Every district tests kindergarten through third grade.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Children in special education join the list for free pre-K.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
December 1, 2017 becomes December 31. One more month of big-city annexations gets a disannexation election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Broken plumbing, mold, pests. Landlords get 30 days to fix, then up to $100 a day.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Residents petition for where they live, landowners for what they own.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
This bill has not been graded yet. The headline above is the state's caption.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Monthly summaries. The chief appraiser checks who still gets an exemption.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Qualify midyear? Next year’s freeze is whichever is lower.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Money from a voter-approved tax rate election can’t pay off bonds.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Their corporations too. No tax-exempt out-of-district leases to private companies, and rule-breaking deals are void.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Land leased to a local health entity for a hospital goes tax-exempt.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Sued agencies, cities and counties lose two early appeals, and trials no longer pause for them.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From Loop 323 to the western county line. Markers go up.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every contact, including routine official business, within 30 days. Miss one knowingly? State jail felony!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No answer in 60 days? Find the owner and deliver it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: a council and grants. Bill: no open meetings law, no rulemaking law, no public records requests.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Even when the league sold exclusive rights, if they carried the regular season.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Managers pay a fee and a deductible, and take a wildfire suppression course. Ends 2040.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hurt by an employed doctor? Sue the doctor alone. The organization is off the hook.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
As long as a licensed originator does the work.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Districts must spend 60 percent on direct instruction. Non-classroom spending can help them get there.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Half the cost back, for districts and landowners.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No witness needed for the waiver. Hurt in space flight? Fewer claims to bring.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Most votes wins, if the board says so 180 days out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
College students and recent grads disclose conduct code and Title IX history.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Reserve officers can work security for anyone without a license, with their chief’s approval.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
In certain custody and parental-rights cases.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Found a bad well? Tell the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Follow the environmental rules, or it counts against your return.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Their representative joins joint planning like a district one, with state technical help.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Well-fed drinking water systems can be ordered to filter.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A joint report due December 1, 2026, and the whole thing expires January 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Software contracts with companies headquartered or individuals based in listed countries would be barred.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No photo ID, no utility bill workaround.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two versions become one clean one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only providers with $100B-plus in transactions. Turned away? Demand a written explanation within 14 days.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pay only the excess over normal cost, or nothing.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Training on faces, voiceprints and fingerprints skips consent rules, unless it’s to identify a specific person.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities of 900K-plus pay cleanup costs or lost value, capped at that year’s city property taxes.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus a statewide network sharing real-time homeless data, built with existing money.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A non-physician worker sees you within 30 minutes and, with reasonable cause, can hold you.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities named only by cross-reference, like Section 351.152(58). Bring a Tax Code.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Public facility corporations, housing finance corporations and housing authorities join.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
All property and casualty insurers, not just the top 25.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From one to up to four in the baby’s first year.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The sheriff’s exempt positions grow from 25 to 32. Department breaks investigation rules? Punishment reversed.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Two 90-day extensions max past the 30-day deadline. The second requires showing hardship.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A new special account funds the physician health program. Another surcharge pays for data bank checks.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One license covers both, if the unit is accredited.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From 60 percent to 75 percent. Bonds need 75 percent too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No traffic studies, new parking or rezoning votes. Staff approve the permit, and trade groups can sue.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Property, debts and contracts, by contract.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Charges, indictments, probation and convictions, all of it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Off the bill from every local taxing unit, until a new census says otherwise. Needs voter approval.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Tell applicants first, and explain what traits it evaluates.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
2 to 8 percent starting January 2026, depending on when they retired.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
And actually awarding them when enough applicants exist.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Side effects and interaction warnings through a phone app or assistive device.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus a state registry of employee violations, Social Security numbers included, after a hearing.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Drops “two-way” as long as the method records sight and sound.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due September 1, 2026. No map standard changes until a later Legislature acts.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Free copies to cities, which hand them to builders.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A report on SPEEDE server errors and TREx problems, due September 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Fusion centers and nonprofits help staff spot student mental health issues early. Money permitting.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Lights off 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. in bird migration season. No penalty for ignoring it!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Study what schools pay, recommend ways to lower it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due September 1, 2026, on how far costs rose. The state contribution stays put.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis promises to “quickly identify suspects.” Agencies send their own profiles to the state database.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Court workers send takedown requests. For non-brokers, missing the 48-hour window becomes an offense.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Private auditors claw back overpayments in managed care too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
After four years, providers keep Medicaid money lost to waste or abuse. Even on older payments!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every eligible volunteer religious program and study.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
It meets quarterly, recommends programs and files a report every even-numbered year. That’s the job.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: foster parent rights. Bill: a court-ordered drug test for the child’s parent before the first visit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Names require a statute and must honor deceased victims of offenses by an alien.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No pay linked to higher market, appraised or taxable values.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Agencies get the money only with a prosecutor deal to review results.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
30 days’ written notice and a chance to fix problems.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One bond covers every subsidiary. Cheaper options like self-insurance count too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The nonprofits help rural colleges and school districts match training to local jobs.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Anyone handling eggs, sperm or embryos files with the commission.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every board member gets every expense, monthly.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Records come from DPS and can go on to a Texas court.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Sanitarians in training get a formal definition.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Notices, orders and legal pleadings, notwithstanding any other law.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Master’s degrees still count if earned by December 31, 2007.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pellets, flakes and powders join water quality monitoring.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Officers defined as people who work for the state or a local government.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Repeals all of Subchapter B, among other provisions.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The online course no longer needs state approval.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Three bidders show up and it counts as “commercially reasonable.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The pension plan for many city employees.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Covers trafficking and continuous trafficking of children and disabled individuals.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Same top priority as homes and hospitals. Other customers can get cut first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Encouraging becomes requiring.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Fifth year of employment, then every three years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Study abroad in non-English-speaking places, earn language credit.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Allied-country researchers get the same checks. Schools with $10M-plus research budgets add a research integrity office.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Genome testing in Texas can’t use their machines or software.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Keep repairs in-house, share no manuals. Or offer a refund. The duty bites around September 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Labor, materials, surveying, engineering and outside planners. That’s the list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Class A misdemeanor becomes a state jail felony.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Use driverless cars and the whole company is out of this section. Cities can’t add rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Any legislator or the lieutenant governor, overriding any other law.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Get a federal credit, pay Texas the same amount by April 15!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Specified words in records since 2020 trigger expungement and cancellation of associated discipline.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Filter didn’t switch on for a minor? Fines up to $50K, unless the maker tried!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Minors need parental consent for every download. Apps run by nonprofit test makers get a pass.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Applies only under a strategic partnership agreement and Section 43.1463.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
From the 11th month after care to the 90th day.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The statement of intent calls it “an even footing.” Negligent-entrustment evidence stays out of phase one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
New senates: advisory only, 60 members max. Boards can overturn provost and dean hires.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Companies mark what they share, and it’s shielded. The new DPS division also gets the border cameras.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus the patient’s share. Providers must reveal financial ties to referring attorneys.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Plus a fund for the board’s own administrative costs. Consultants and ad hoc committees too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
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Filed Mar 13, 2025
Derived stock: 841 measures filed March 13, 2025 in 89R. 810 bills and joint resolutions, 31 other resolutions. Snapshot Nov 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM CST.
Counts come from the stored Texas Legislative Council bill records. Grades, headlines and charges follow the published record.
Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person.