Monitoring the Session875 filed
Up to an estimated $15B from the rainy day fund. Needs two-thirds of each chamber!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Members of the corps of cadets at a senior military college qualify too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
County ethics commissions keep their chair longer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only investment earnings pay out, once the fund reaches a set threshold.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The caption never mentions the dementia institute. Dual U.S. citizens escape the foreign-ownership ban.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agents explain it at the first conversation and again at the offer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Money goes only to disability-access upgrades. Free school shows get priority.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: scholarships and grants. Bill: one exemption, for awards paid with private money only.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Honorably discharged, 180 days of active duty, their own cellblocks.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus a city over one million. A very small set of counties, possibly one!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Now expressly includes Family First Prevention Services Act services.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One more number: how many students earned each type.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Some suits reach board members personally. Challenged books stay shelved until any appeal ends.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Eligible cities can add projects within 1,000 feet without expanding the zone.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Run time goes 48 to 96 hours and size 2.5 to eight megawatts. The sales ban is dropped.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Who gets survivor benefits after an Employees Retirement System of Texas retiree dies.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
It names the Title IX coordinators and says where the office is.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counseling, treatment, community service, or anything the judge finds reasonable.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Similar scope of practice is enough. No more residency paperwork.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Applies in custody cases, including ones the state brings.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nothing changes in how retirement money is paid. Report due December 31, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to 90 working days a year. Public employers left out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Border county, 860,000 to 950,000 people. Only its corporation gets to spend on a venue.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Sign at the entrance, shield on. Riders can still sue over gross negligence or poor training.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Spends Texas Energy Fund money without a new appropriation. Nonprofits can apply.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: certain vaccine mandates. Bill: any vaccine, any person, any business with one employee.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: consumer protection. Bill: no notice to bank customers, consumer cases or otherwise.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plea deals, bonds and expunctions, once commissioners approve. No trials on the merits.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Requires Texas ties and over 180 active-duty days after training, including qualifying service.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Businesses get back what they spent, capped at the tax owed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Eligible plants use treated oilfield waste as primary water in regions heavy with renewables.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
State money and donations go in a new account. Plus renovations and a traveling exhibit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TEA pays for prevention programs, violence interrupters included. Expires in 2030.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any child counts once the district identifies 15 or more.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The judge picks the door. Prohibiting electioneering outside the zone becomes an offense!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Lose the suit? The withheld sales tax goes to the state, plus a five-year grant ban!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Shots, screenings and checkups from your ambulance district.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any person or business they regulate is now fair game.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Twelve hours from learning about a serious health violation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A Section 504 plan, diagnosis or military disability works too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Reports from teachers, doctors and other required reporters get their own response.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Retirees’ unused sick days go to a shared bank. Unless the school already has its own rule.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Businesses in counties under 50,000 may use other methods. Federal law still says what it says.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fair, equal access. Rates capped at what federal rules allow.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Online within 30 days of award, updated weekly.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No public money for it, directly or through an outside group.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Border costs back to September 1, 2015. The comptroller decides what’s owed and whether it was paid.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The committee analysis calls it attracting investment. The credit: up to 20 percent of capital spending.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
If the study ever says yes, the program promotes the equipment. Nobody has to install anything.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
$15 minimum wage, 60 days of parental leave. The leave waits until 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ships in Chambers County count too, plus the waterway from the Gulf of Mexico.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only for an “eligible coastal municipality” with a park board of trustees.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Courts must presume the parent acts in the child’s best interest.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: housing discrimination. Bill: file an ethics complaint over a member’s speech, and that’s discrimination.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adults whose gender identity differs from the sex recorded at birth are shut out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only that fiscal year’s legislative appropriations count. A school in violation still gets 180 days.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Basic training starting in 2026, continuing education for working officers.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every other generator still pays its overruns. Any reactor under 1,400 megawatts counts as “advanced.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
State Board of Education reviews by March 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
100,000-plus square feet on its own power. Zero property tax from 2026, if voters agree.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One more month, from August 15.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Rate-setting meetings happen in a first tier coastal county.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any interested person, news media included, can sue. Courts may award fees.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Violent or sex-registration offenses against students. DPS helps on request.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Coaching and support through pregnancy, labor, delivery and after birth.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Who decides what’s practicable? The entity itself. The 100,000-people floor goes too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Seven unpaid members, a report every other December. Action waits on whoever reads it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counties of 100,000 or more must ask, yearly if refused. Deadline lands after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Growth factor drops from 2.5 percent to 1 percent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Newspaper plus a website or social media page, 10 days ahead.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Markers go up along the highway in Panola County.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Most design practices are just shoulds. The only compliance check waits until 2028.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
More time for the yearly contamination report.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One more member, plus outdated agency names get updated.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Wasteful spending counts now, not only violations of law.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Each battery site gets a contested case. Or the commission approves it by order instead.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Audit in 2026, then every third year. Problems found? A corrective plan within 90 days.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Governor-appointed, senate-confirmed lawyers count as having met the yearly requirement.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fire rules cover only batteries approved January 1, 2027 or later. Conflicting local rules? Void.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A documented geothermal-estate interest can support an application to operate an orphaned well.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Mail, courier or electronic transmission. Fax is out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Same person, same offense, no second try without new material evidence.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New state agency, subpoena power, nine-member advisory board. Starts September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Prosecutors control the notice that unlocks the files. Effective date? September 1, 2023!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Under 75,000 people, bordering three counties over 450,000 each. Possibly one county fits.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Population 240,000 to 270,000, lake over 20,000 acres. That’s Garland, the committee statement says.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Intake officers can refer them to community services. Staff get crisis training.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Top fine goes from $10,000 to $25,000 per day per violation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Drought plans get quantified reduction targets. Ignore the plan, and the utility can cut you off.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Aimed at the Capitol’s county and next door. Nobody elected before January 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Requires border security audits in the state audit plan at least every three years.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Uncertified drivers stay approved without new variance requests after the first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ordinary board members appear free to sit on both. Tax caps: 50 cents debt, $1.25 combined.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ticket, gift shop and donation money, outside the treasury. A private society may run the museum.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Aggression against a district employee means a disciplinary alternative program.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plans due January 1, 2027, after the election. Taps over 15 parts per billion shut off.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New fee schedule, plus an appeal when pay claims sit for 60 days.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Jurors may find not guilty even if the defendant is guilty under the law.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Paid or not, anyone who “accesses” a system is covered. Owner penalty climbs $100 to $500.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Red 40, yellow 5, titanium dioxide and friends are off the lunch tray.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No more starting at second degree. Not knowing the victim’s age is no defense.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every report to the governor or a legislator: due December 1.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only for employers without workers’ compensation insurance. The stated goal: keep them out of federal taxable income.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Missing limb from birth, surgery or amputation? Medicaid pays. Adults too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Businesses with $25M-plus in assets can sue too. Senders may face a bond up to $500K.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Active peace officer license and five years’ experience.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Peace officers excluded. The standard of care still applies, and no refusing emergency life-saving care.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Article 1.051(j), gone. Affects defendants released before a lawyer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every cost tied to an adoption, on the website.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fired after reporting? A motivating factor is enough. The 60-day presumption stays.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Certificate rules due December 1, 2026, after the election. Supervisors get a liability shield.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least $10M a budget cycle, in patches one square mile or smaller. State-linked nonprofits only.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A fourth category: whatever the board says.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Commissioners courts skip the paper.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A physician hands it off in narcotic drug treatment programs.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Starting number is the amount finally approved last budget.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The definition includes licensed midwives and nurse midwives.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Serious felonies to minor federal misdemeanors, all the same.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
County over 2M next to one over 2.5M eats first, neighbors too. Other boards get leftovers.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Meets quarterly. Reports every two years. Power to change a crisis call: none.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
January 1, 2026. Taxing units appoint a fresh board.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Retired officers and veterans, unpaid, in counties under 1M. Same liability shield as school employees.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Focus on rehabilitation, schooling and reentry.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least 7 directors, no boundaries, and a bond tax with no limit on rate or amount.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The regents count as a state agency for rule-publication laws.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Trespass already covers much of it. The tax credit waits on a constitutional amendment.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Optional. Keep at least one trained worker on hand. Good faith means immunity.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cargo scanners too, right beside the college grants and the tourism campaign.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The insurance commissioner signs off, up or down.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only if it hurts neither the environment nor other permit holders.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Intent to deceive drops out. Any software edit to a recognizable person’s image counts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The commissioner and State Board of Education review it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Shipping capped at the carrier’s published standard rate.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any harmed person can sue the city or county for 3x damages! No immunity either.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A new fund outside general revenue and a governor-picked committee. Grant rules due June 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Managed care can’t use a separate vision plan to pick eye doctors.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026 on which ones aren’t needed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption says distribution. Sharing how to get the pills counts too. At least $100K per violation!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Suspected human trafficking is enough to suspend or revoke.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Workforce Commission staff, film studio partners, spring 2027 enrollment. It ends September 1, 2032, unless renewed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
For the child. Ten days missed in six months.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fighters can still sue them. For gross negligence only.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New apartment complexes need a backup generator hookup. Penalty up to $50K, then more yearly.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: supervision. Bill: only pain management physicians may run a pain clinic.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Signs go up at each end and along the route. That’s it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Want more revenue than last year? Ask voters first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Section 2175.001(1)(C), gone. What it covers isn’t described.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least two of nine board members from counties under 50,000. Grants get weighed by geography.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Miss the deadline, and fees default to the state rate in counties of one million or more.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Notice in five business days. Miss a deadline, automatic appeal.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Chapter 107A goes with it, on September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Automation that analyzes inputs and recommends counts. Four duties, and violations are deceptive trade practices.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Covered browsers in Texas must follow the signal automatically.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anyone who consents with intent to be a parent becomes one.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Whether bays can be tapped waits for rules. Until then, applicants consult and summarize.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Testimony under oath, materials 48 hours early, no related voters.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Contacted more voters than the margin? Add ballot fees and the office’s salary!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No emergency elections for them either.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption says temporary moratorium. Chapter 395 fees stop.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Therapy, medication management and peer support, all covered.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The state office takes the director, staff and report. The committee advises.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any common carrier with evidence of mailing.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Sexually explicit and profane material comes out. The attorney general sues, and district immunity is waived.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to 10 years of data, sent to every legislator. Appraisals and taxes don’t change.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
County judge plus district judges. A county court at law judge optional.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Wind, solar and batteries need approval for the ERCOT grid. No ruling in time? Approved!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Working outside the United States doesn’t cost the tax break.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ad firms over $20B can’t own both sides. Harmed customers can sue for $1M a month!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The goal becomes a mandate. Missing it? More good-cause excuses, like supply chain interruptions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Lasts until a sale or the comptroller says no. Report changes in 30 days.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Immunity claim denied? The case goes forward to trial, no automatic pause, no early appeal.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TEA, the Coordinating Board and the Workforce Commission, aligned.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The study and report are the whole job. Nothing changes until a later Legislature acts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to one year before three properties go back to the state.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Three properties get a grace year. A fourth on Calm Lake Road.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
6718 Calm Lake Road, to The Center for Health Care Services.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Smaller taxpayers file tax reports electronically.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: “certain counties.” Bill: 3.3M or more. Contract income goes straight to the sheriff or constable.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Unless the exemption list names it. A report bill against reports.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Limits on demanding and copying records of Texas businesses.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Two or more drug offenses in 12 months. Jurors need not agree which ones, when or where!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
It was $150 a meeting. Now the general water district rule applies.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Police diversion through competency restoration and release.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Time limit without the Legislature. No masks or business limits.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adds not recognizing your own symptoms or treatment risks.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Application fee up to $375. Compliant advances escape Texas lending and wage-assignment laws.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
More than one conviction, and the food assistance goes.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Bars defined sexually explicit material, with an exception for required curriculum.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A state food manufacturer license covers the rest.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026. No rule changes, and the whole Act expires May 31, 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Existing ownership ties get until January 1, 2027. License penalties start the same day.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Reported criminal activity gets posted within two business days. Follow the rules, get a liability shield.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The board and an insurer fee up to 3% of premiums start in 2025 and 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus any project the commissioners court decides needs substantial infrastructure or resources. Two public hearings minimum.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Spending split evenly between those two kinds of projects.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Parents in crisis can leave a child up to 72 hours.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: certain homesteads. Bill: the limit rises from 30 percent for every proposed zone.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
It meets monthly and reviews deaths. New jail rules wait on its advice.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Uses prior three-year averages, with a supermajority emergency vote to raise the all-funds limit.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
State employees carry over up to 90 days, up from 45.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Each entry links to a document proving the number.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Same font size. Plus the amount or maximum rate.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Equal to the full regular homestead exemptions they already get.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Closes the Subsection (e) path after a failed tax election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Sections 102.31, 102.32 and 61.73, gone.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up from property worth less than $2,500. File a rendition yearly.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Applying is free. So is getting the designation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up from 55. Minimum spend drops from $250K to $100K, and grants cap at 30 percent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: damages and drunk patrons. Bill: only serving staff need seller training to keep employers covered.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Same caption, same idea. Occupancy limits capped at state law.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The November 2, 2021 election and its bonds and taxes count.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Unregistered at least seven years. Recyclers who follow the rules are shielded if it turns out stolen.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New required terms when government rents out public property.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Within 30 business days, with a free corrected report.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Landlords, employers and lenders don’t see charges that went nowhere.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Each posting lists the agency’s name, phone, address and the date.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only district seats face re-election after new maps.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Barred from every primary, the general election and even write-in.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TRS picks which benefits qualify. Employees sign up in writing.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The chancellor or president decides what counts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pregnancy loss “includes a miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion.” Police need written consent to ask about it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Companies apply to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Workers can talk about wage violations and harassment. Punished for it? Sue for at least $10K!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Replaces the rule about not paying them like full-time staff.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Campus closures counted by grade level, sent to every legislator.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plaintiffs must prove actual knowledge and specific intent. Two years to sue instead of four.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Drops the felony bar. The council sets supervision hours.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
8 percent of the basic allotment, first year only, for transition programs.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TEA sunset moves up to 2027 and staff is capped. Much of the rest is reports.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Must be a public school parent who isn’t a district employee.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New checklist before a condemning entity’s offer counts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Covers transport for sale and purchases intended for distribution, unless federal law allows.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At its sole discretion, the department can reclaim or reassign any or all cases in a region.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Reckless driving on farm land while smuggling is a third-degree felony. Threats of justified force get immunity.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Policy boards mark lanes by majority vote. Road owners still approve projects.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Involuntary use counts too, prescription drugs included. Only credible, objective evidence overcomes it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Five business days to report it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Producers get tort immunity too. Drilling-only limit dropped, so any beneficial use counts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Groups with a pending federal complaint or lawsuit against the department get barred.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The General Land Office asks the housing department first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Occupancy limits can’t beat the ones in Property Code Sec. 92.010.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: employee misconduct. Bill: test absences, finances, academic performance, and whatever else it finds necessary!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
More mid-sized contracts skip formal bidding. More buys, $3K to $100K, trigger outreach to historically underutilized businesses.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Over 40 hours? Time and a half, as cash or as comp time the agency allows.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Section 351.04155, gone. Certain counties only.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The Legislative Budget Board prices every new coverage mandate.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any felony conviction counts if the first charge required registration.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Skip the state commission, file within two years. Emotional-harm and punitive damage caps don’t apply.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not only handguns. Plus a new offense for buying a gun for someone unlawful.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Feral hogs, coyotes and now aoudad, shot from a helicopter under permit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Festivals and farmers’ markets. Free samples, but an entrance fee is fine.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Patients there can file complaints, not just nursing home residents.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agency heads meet at least once a quarter. Gifts and grants welcome.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grandparents and family friends meet state rules. Nothing more on top.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Overlap with the Family Code? The actor “may be prosecuted only under this section.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Crash-rated barriers where traffic runs close. Rules due December 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Who decides what’s “frivolous, unreasonable, or intended to delay”? TxDOT.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No penalty, no deadline, and no way to check.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grants for counties to bury or cremate people with no money. The program is optional.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The seller or its affiliate must own an out-of-state distillery.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Watering restricted, lawn turns brown, no fine.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Second or third trimester on election day. Childbirth window grows to four weeks.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Williamson County east of Interstate 35 only. The water goes beneath the Edwards.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
For teachers who think an error cost them a designation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anatomic and forensic both, for deputies too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to two years per authorization, under open-meetings rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
An arrest record is enough, no conviction needed. It covers any school serving military-connected students.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Developers set aside park land or pay a one-time fee of equal value.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Higher drunk-driving penalties, aimed at two or more within 12 months.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
About two dozen ingredients, from artificial dyes to glyphosate.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Damages start at $10K, up from $5K. Challenging a lender still means court.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
By ordinance, inside city limits.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to 18 appointed directors set the rates. The usual state utility-sale rules don’t apply.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
More state money per student in bilingual programs.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: caste. Bill: caste and ancestry, defined as lineage, ethnic background or descent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nonpartisan authorities list every office or measure on the ballot.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any student who isn’t a citizen, national or permanent resident counts. So do permanent residents!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Water utilities need a city with over 75% of a 2M-plus county. Electric ones don’t.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Public works under $100,000 skip the Texas Engineering Practice Act.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Inflation raises every year starting 2026, never lowering it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Per election. A cap, technically!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The department can use improvement plans and financial interventions. Old contracts keep old rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No fee in place of cuts either. Other users still get cut.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Hearing within five days, ex parte allowed. Then a receiver runs it in extendable 90-day periods.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Designates cemeteries with the graves of freed slaves. Anyone can apply.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The challenger must name the voter and a specific unmet qualification.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up from 60 days for the contractor and 30 for the department.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only after a local prosecutor sits on it for six months.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A study every even-numbered year, then 5,000-mile bumps if the air quality plan can take it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A one-sided sticker where a hanging placard won’t work.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Five of the past seven years becomes four of seven.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No city ordinance can ban or limit them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Was 20%. Now up to the whole allotment, for services in the student’s plan.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every county and district attorney reports certain data.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
High school gets SAT or ACT type tests, only as federal law requires.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One agency, picked by the governor. Report due January 1, 2029, and expansion waits on it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
From January 1, 2026, one application per election. The caption never mentions it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Same notice and comment steps already required for formal rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least once every five years. First audit due December 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pay the landowner for an easement first, for any water project.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least one free lane each direction where the highway used to be free.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Keeping tolls takes voter approval, in five-year blocks.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Subsection (a)(3) becomes (a)(2). That’s the bill.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No settlement can block the finding. Flagged contractor workers are barred from schools.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Same rate either way for in-network providers.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Set by rule, adjusted over time, parked in a trust fund outside the state treasury.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Environmental flow protections, and permits near oyster reefs or seagrass beds can be denied.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: storage facilities and auction websites. Bill: storage fees drop out of the taxable price.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Public colleges get paid to research and teach regenerative farming.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: help for victimized students. Bill: any private school a parent picks escapes new state rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Database match? Then no document, and “the registrar shall approve the application.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One aide per 7 residents by day, 9.5 evening, 17 overnight.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Rent-to-own sellers must say whether the lot has water. Skip it, and the buyer can cancel.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Applies to political subdivisions with at least 250 registered voters.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Merit money for STEM doctoral students who pass an FBI background check.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
10 percent over on axles, 5 percent on gross weight.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Includes cybersecurity insurance contracts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No tobacco leaf required. Synthetic nicotine now counts as a “tobacco product.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The garbled text appears to raise the biennial design-build cap from two to six.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
DPS installs them at crossings TxDOT picks. No deadline, no funding.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ranked ahead of foster homes and group facilities.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least 12 weeks at 67% pay. Employers pay in and may deduct it from your paycheck.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
An engineer or geoscientist vouches for the water. No proof, no plat.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anyone who asks gets a slot within three business days.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: creates a committee. Bill: mostly exempts it from the Public Information Act too. Recommendations only.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
By January 2026, for eligible retirees and beneficiaries.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: leave for victims. Bill: jurors and subpoenaed witnesses too. The chapter names no penalty.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Drainage and groundwater combine. A five-member board replaces the commissioners.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Voters said no? Same bond can’t come back for five years.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Riots and highway obstruction on state property. Police send the attorney general every probable-cause report.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The board “may authorize” a pool. Agencies may join. Nothing has to happen.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A 14-member commission draws the maps, starting with a census taken in 2030 or later.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A Labor Code subchapter and a Business & Commerce Code section, gone.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ages 14 to 19, plus one House member and one senator. Schools excuse them from class.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Loans over $50 get the paperwork attached to finance reports.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Schools only for 90 days. Outside buyer wins? Schools get 14 days to match.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Texans buy coverage through Medicaid managed care, pending a federal waiver.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Subchapter H’s private civil suits end. The state health commission enforces the whole abortion chapter.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grants to help local responders answer 9-1-1 calls faster.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: procurement and construction. Bill: the “decision-making authority” on where military forces are located.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Age 21 and up, 2.5 ounces. Cities can’t ban the businesses. Leftover tax funds child care.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counselors and chaplains leave the safety allotment. Districts with 1,000 or fewer students get $100K.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Stand and recite, or silently and respectfully observe.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Per person, per election. Judicial PAC totals drop from $25,000.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A simple majority no longer gets local governments there.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “public-private partnerships.” Nonprofits control the match and hand it out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
GED prep, English classes and job training all count.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No money, no injury map. No map, no yearly safety plans for the worst roads.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Free tuition and fees at two-year schools for recent high school graduates.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Gave more than $2,500 last year? No appointment for you.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Or the federal minimum, if that is ever higher.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Other staff get 25% more. The state sends $15,000 per covered worker!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nine members, all serving at the commission’s pleasure.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grading, admissions tests, academic standards, and race or sex preferences.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Three named university units get the training contracts. The office doesn’t pick. Pilot ends 2030.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Payments go to the tax owed first, unless the owner asks otherwise.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Reports and plans every two years, first due June 1, 2026. Nothing funded, no penalty.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Six tracts, about 11.6 acres along Interstate 10, by December 31, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Providers send written notice first. Then the collectors.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No spending or moving the money without specific legislative authorization.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No matter how large the normal math gets. Tax gets paid first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The state drives them back to where they lived before prison.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A 5% bump on the bid score, and they win every tie.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
This bill has not been graded yet. The headline above is the state's caption.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Machines keep the multiple choice. Humans get the essays back.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Redact before sending. Or don’t, if a law or program needs it, or you consent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Diversity statements and employee resource groups can’t be held against a bidder.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Bonus points if the CEO makes no more than 20x median pay.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: licensing and a fee. Bill: a damages cap so weighty it needs a 3/5ths vote!
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Voluntary termination records come in. Therapeutic termination records stay out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Equal to federal border security repayments. Nothing requires the legislature to spend any of it!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every floor, two or more floors. Disability safety goes in emergency plans.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A new license with a national exam and fingerprints. The board writes rules and sets fees.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to 100 percent of the added salary, capped at the tax owed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
For businesses running a licensed center for employees’ kids.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Flagged kids get referred to schools, no formal diagnosis needed. Plus a state database tracking them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Banks get to manage public money too. Pools are barred from royalty or sponsorship deals.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The Public Utility Commission, ERCOT and utilities hand it over electronically.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Payments hit the tax first, before penalties or interest.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus population growth multiplied by inflation, not added to it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Sued cities must prove they obeyed. Lose, and it’s five years of tax limits!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
95 percent by formula, 5 percent startup grants. Only if voters approve a constitutional amendment.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anyone can apply. Landowners and neighbors get notice.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Parents see their child’s scores within one click. Just one.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Members get travel costs, no salary, and no power to change the program.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Windham runs prison college programs. The caption never mentions the new advisory board.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Half out in 180 days. But contracts made before the effective date stay under old law.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Crossings get recommended. Actual crossing work waits on later action. This bill spends no money.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus state grants to outside groups for advocacy and litigation. Only 20-year nonprofits build the commissioner pool.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Volunteers who regularly see students get the same training employees do.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counties over 1 million. No house district more than one ahead.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caseworkers can’t weigh a parent’s or caregiver’s status in removal or placement.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Clear and convincing evidence of innocence? The court must throw out the conviction.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Down from 25. No traffic study needed on residential streets.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: councils act by ordinance. Bill: cities inside transit authorities can adopt it too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adds “including mental health professionals” to the existing health care excuse.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Sold the loan? The lender claims it instead. Seller-financed sales left out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Birth dates and ID numbers go private. Business contacts stay public.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pharmacy board out, Department of State Health Services in.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Spending tops 300 percent of depreciation? Customers pay it off, often within 18 months.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Closed sessions on certain grants. Leftover spaceport fund money moves to general revenue.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Skip the landowner meetings and the court pauses the case. The company pays the landowner’s fees!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The caption skips the board. It invests public money and sits outside insurance regulation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Candy and cookies are banned. Made with milk or milk protein? Still fair game!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Mental health diagnoses, pregnancies, infant deaths, sorted by race. Not due until after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No heat or water? After 30 days’ notice, prosecutors can sue. Penalties up to $100 a day.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only when both the defendant and the prosecutor ask for it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anyone interested gets a say before plans change, orally or in writing.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Hacking a Zoom-style meeting counts the same as disrupting one in person.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Family members lose the claim against doctors, pharmacists and people who help.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Economic need, health care, roads and internet, and local schools.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One standard permit left, after public notice.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: domestic violence shelters. Bill: the worship exception grows to any matter about activities there.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pay once, retake as many times as needed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least five districts pay vendors based on student results.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: “clarity and certainty.” Bill: providers keep waste and abuse payments after four years!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The verb is “may.” Skip it and nothing changes. No state agency enforces or funds it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: enforcement against the district. Bill: penalties for its chief appraiser and an Occupations Code repeal.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Standard format, reviewed every two years, posted online with a glossary.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: protecting workers. Bill: film grant applicants also hand over union contracts and prove no union-only hiring.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: no-new-revenue rate. Bill: debt payments must fit under the same 3.5 or 8 percent cap!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No liens for a minor fine. Dues hikes must be reasonable.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: a seasonal designation. Bill: ERCOT can competitively buy demand reductions from those facilities.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Research, audits, guidelines and training for day-care centers.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Lifetime bar shrinks to violent felonies and a listed set.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
30 days instead of 15 before consent is needed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every duty, waiver slots included, turns off in any year without a specific appropriation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Region M groundwater, studied. Report due September 1, 2026, and the bill expires in 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One-way route language becomes between language.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Exemptions for surviving spouses now count toward the repayments.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Markers go up in Hidalgo County, between Farm-to-Market Road 88 and 493.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Class A misdemeanor becomes a third-degree felony.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adoption joins sex ed lessons on contraception. Nonprofits can win state grants to run campaigns.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
An engineer estimates the drawdown. The groundwater district can contest the plat.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The full price, in a clear, readable font.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Public defenders join prosecutors. Rural means up to 100,000 people now.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pay a lump sum, exempt forever, even after a sale. Fund short? Local payments can shrink.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Regulators weigh whether a utility follows the rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Well-fed public water systems can be told to filter.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
How the state tells people about contamination changes.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A complaint comes in? The commission “may” warn the system first. It never has to.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No new locations at all, not just no new counties.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fewer than 100 cattle a year now counts as low-volume.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The attorney general sues, and tax caps and grant bans start. Lose? Five years of it!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: governance. Bill: no required courses promoting certain race-based ideas, and no state money for them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Bond and insurance rules kick in over $1M. The license rule has no dollar threshold.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Utilities may use what ERCOT finds. Permit filings must address a list ERCOT may never publish.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counties get a new fee on developers. Today, impact fees can’t pay for repair or maintenance.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026. No rate changes until a future legislature acts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Now 10% of a single customer class also counts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Telework gets a definition and rules for agency heads.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Assessments and plans due September 1, 2026. The actual fixes have no deadline!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: efficiency. Bill: new grants for private and nonprofit trainers in counties under 200,000 people.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: efficiency. Bill: pain and suffering capped at 3x the health care award, anguish at $1M or $250,000!
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Some partial terms stop counting. Plus tax-free natural gas for other exempt vehicles in emergencies.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One extra month’s annuity in January 2026, plus 2% for some retirees.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A parent must agree before a student is questioned about an employee.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Health, work-life balance and accommodations, written by the commission.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Show at least 3,000 milligrams per liter, skip the permit. Test below, the district can cancel.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No traffic study, no new parking, no council vote. Cities that don’t comply can be sued.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Latest rainfall data at least every five years.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No set term, no scheduled rebid. Plans leave by choice or by failing the performance test.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Incumbents keep their contracts with no bidding until 2027, or 2030 for two programs.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Whoever held a contract on January 1, 2025 gets one. Pending re-bids get canceled.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pay in full first. Late report penalty goes from $500 to $1,001.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No franchise tax at or below $3M, up from $2.47M.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
College changes its name, students choose which one they get.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Name and location on the home page, or a link to ask.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One phrase added to the coverage law.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counties of 4M or more. Leftover tolls split 30 percent to one city, 70 to the county.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
20 years or a service disability. Plus a possible one-rank bump.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Starting 2026-2027. Districts of innovation cannot opt out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The investor’s law wins over the broker’s or bank’s.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agents by May 15, companies by July 16, report by September 1.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: “the creation of a district.” Bill: objectors post a bond, and pay costs if it’s approved.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus a one-time extra check. No money from the Legislature, no raise.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Five-year minimum, no deferred adjudication, stacked sentences on supervision.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The deal needs a real business purpose. Otherwise the comptroller revokes that location’s sales tax permit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Headquarters must sit in a coastal county. Nothing changes until January 1, 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
State active duty of 60 days or more qualifies.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
$50K civil penalty per home over the cap. Plus $10K down payment grants.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Over 10,000 people and “a state park featuring sandhills” in the county. Reads as one town.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No insurer offers a matching policy by October 1? No leave. None before 2027 either.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
$15 an hour, or the federal minimum if that is ever higher!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No more new districts carved out of existing ones.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Early numbers get redone once the certified appraisal roll arrives.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Approved once, eligible for 12 months.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
State ID on release or discharge.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No dues and no conference trips on public money for cities and counties.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The state writes the banned list. Single-ingredient foods stay off it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
6% starting January 2026, then yearly raises tied to inflation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No appropriation, no duty. Runs to December 1, 2028, if the money is there.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The biennial report grows by two items.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
County health departments get their own provider category.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pregnant women, new mothers and kids 24 months or younger.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A cavern landmark dedicated in 1971. A youth camp founded in 1975. A fish hatchery lake.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The campus would be renamed Texas A&M University-Victoria.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The department needs written consent from the caregiver or a court order first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up to six stories, if a long list of fire-safety conditions is met.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adult stem cells only, and some doctors’ outpatient offices can give them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Income shares, rent caps, real savings and Section 8 acceptance.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Rent discounts must reach 60% of the taxes skipped. School districts can no longer create these.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New deals stay exempt only on home turf. Ones already held keep their status.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report by December 20, 2026, gone December 21. Actual ethics changes wait for a later bill.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Then every clinic pays a new fee, unless the board decides to exempt it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New dates for when lawmakers decide to keep, change or abolish them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Mostly 2025 to 2027. Lottery Commission and prisons included.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Carries out the Sunset Commission’s changes, parole board and Windham included.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Filings, late notices and sworn complaints all get reworked.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Selling a ticket to someone under 18 no longer has to be intentional. Plus a bingo director.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New board makeup, advisory committees, training and security checks.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cost disclosure only on offers over $500K! Smaller deals get no breakdown at all.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Homeland security grant to the Reese Redevelopment Authority. Capitol facility spending also skips competitive bidding.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Or the average cost of college, whichever’s greater. Still capped by funding.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Penalties up to $200K, after a 60-day cure. Spot it in your own testing and you’re clear.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Missing a court-ordered service plan after nine months in custody.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anything made before September 1, 2025 stays closed. Some Sunset Commission working papers leave the law entirely.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due August 31, 2026. No appropriation, and the task force doesn’t have to do anything.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not just the Waco Center for Youth anymore.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Applies to violent and other offenses against a person.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Hospitals and treating facilities send case data.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Railroad Commission writes the rules and enforces them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The committee analysis promises “high returns.” Company details stay confidential unless on a short public list.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The comptroller builds it with the Bond Review Board.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Maritime academy students too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due August 31, 2026. Task force gone September 1!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ears and collars too. Plus anything not “typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: oil and gas waste. Bill: producers “not liable in tort.” Rule-breaking claims get no punitive damages.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Command structure, possible regional offices, a statewide database. Headquarters: the border region with El Paso.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Follow-up medical care for 30 days after a forensic exam.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
THC cap becomes 20 milligrams per dose. Vaping when medically necessary.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Kicks in when a local prosecutor has not acted on a probable-cause report.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: medical judgment. Bill: also Rh records, plus a one-hour course or no license renewal.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The $100,000 grant cap waits too. Larger awards only if the legislature sets money aside.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adds trade secret and arbitration cases. Six regional divisions run to 2030, if funded.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Solitary only for immediate physical danger, after other options fail.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Voter-approval limit applies the year after a disaster too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Manufacturing and retail sites pay new fees. Hemp offenses can overlap other offenses.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cities, counties and school districts borrow under tighter rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Parents get syllabus access. Schools must report misconduct within 48 hours or face penalties.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Zone tax revenue can flow to every designated project. Caption: local government corporations. Bill: never mentions them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: consumer protection cases. Bill: bank records too. Counties get 3/4ths of some penalties!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any rate above last year’s money plus debt payments triggers an election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Deadline for those rules: December 31, 2019. Which has already passed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: the ability to recite. Bill: recite or silently observe, or “wait outside of the room.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least half of each school day. Charter schools too, from 2026-2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A history of city or county enforcement actions can sink a renewal.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agencies must share suicide death data quickly, and the shared data is not confidential.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Company pays the taxes, takes over the lien.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One credit can replace world geography or world history.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Reserve and mud pits get the same standards as produced water recycling pits.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Sales tax payments and most state grants stop mid-suit. Lose, and it’s five years of tax-rate limits!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Developers can use outside engineers. Cities can’t charge for water district consent or cap those districts’ bonds.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Instead of up to $10K. The filing offense kicks in only after three willful failures!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Blind-trust values leave reports. Failure to file brings a written notice instead of referral.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Inherit the home, live in it, keep the cap. If voters approve the amendment.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New terms by next renewal or two years, whichever comes first.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only where no identifiable person had a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The court appoints one unless the debtor objects. Turnover orders needn’t name specific property.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Judges join peace officers and servicemembers. The school board must grant it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Providers that partner with employers get preference. Educators must get at least a self-sufficient wage.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Student tuition can be pledged to repay them. First, a feasibility study.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
MDMA, psilocybin and ketamine for PTSD and depression.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Must be substantially similar to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection directive.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No age check at checkout? Class A misdemeanor, plus up to $5K per violation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Covers salary groups A12 through A17 on Schedule A.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Joins the existing mental health and substance use option.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any fee counts, including so-called voluntary tips.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Supervisors are shielded from most liability for supervisees’ acts. Certificate rules aren’t due until December 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The comptroller collects, audits and refunds it instead of the authority.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
FDA-approved drug descheduled or moved down federally? No hearing, no 30-day objection window.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Procedures must prohibit retaliation and prevent conflicts of interest.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Win a private scholarship, and your grant aid can get cut. Now you’re warned.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Utility goals rise from 2027. The commission’s rules are due March 1 that year.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
State money for three presidential libraries. Renovations, tourism marketing and a traveling exhibit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Water, showers, medical care, free hygiene products. Violators face up to $50K a day!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Employers must tell applicants, explain the tool and get written consent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Task Force 1 and fire mutual aid teams leave the state employee program.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counts as workers’ compensation-style pay, but only for federal taxes.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Five years of experience and a Texas insurance license required.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No key, no police report within 24 hours, no cooperation, no waiver.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Worship services allowed, as long as teaching goes on and groups cover damage.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Young farmer programs, no age limit. And the $2M per-business loan cap is lifted!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every utility files a pole plan with the Public Utility Commission.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Height limits go, and the extra property tax can fund a new state housing board.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Manure, algae and food waste count. So do plastics made from them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Earn less than $10M in interest? Recycling grants get all of it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Railroad Commission inspectors find a bad line, they tell the Public Utility Commission.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
This bill has not been graded yet. The headline above is the state's caption.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Your notice demand is your final number. Insurer pays it in time, claim settled.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pediatric and adolescent hospital, or special hospital. They must say which.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
City ones stay inside city limits, county ones outside. Exemptions stop at the line.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
To fire an administrator takes 3/5ths, down from 4/5ths.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Licensed peace officers who can impound ballots and election equipment. Injunction hearings on a one-to-three-hour clock.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A full property tax exemption, claimed once. The caption sets no county limit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Committee analysis: “guarantee the rights.” Text: no campus expression from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m.!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: housing discrimination. Bill: an ethics complaint over a member’s speech counts as discrimination.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Touches the council and landowners applying for easement grants.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Entering without consent can already be criminal trespass. Here it’s a state jail felony.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No concealed costs, fake ties or unaccredited claim advice.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The governor’s office administers the account. Lawmakers can designate funds alongside gifts, grants and donations.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Companies using AI for consequential decisions must create a consumer-protection framework.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cities send a service plan. The district board decides.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Notice and a correction form, now mandatory.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The city must prove it followed the law. Lose, and five years with no state grants.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Water district partnerships and three special-district laws keep the old removal process alive.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Current law shields the mother and licensed providers. This covers anyone who might be sued.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Applies when arbitrators renew with the comptroller.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No one gets a duty. Activities are voluntary.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
If their record otherwise earned a better discharge.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Also void: handoffs without consent and liens on the house.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The exemption lasts until the property sells or stops qualifying.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A town of 16,000 to 18,000 people. The statement of intent names it: Addison.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plaintiffs say whether another party paid their lawyer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only when those materials cost more or last less.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Licenses up to $10,000 a year, no hard cap on fees. Hot crop? Need an in-state buyer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
3.3 million floor, one very large county. Paid patrol contracts the commissioners court can’t block.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus the harvester’s pay and legal fees, and the anti-SLAPP law doesn’t apply.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Facilities used only lawfully don’t count, licensed or not. Plus tracking device orders the caption skips.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
County attorneys’ wins go to the county, city attorneys’ to the city.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New category: any city in a county that includes part of that grassland.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Scope: “including but not limited to.” First violation, a year unpaid. Second, fired.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Extra tank weight, capped at 82,000 pounds. No federal change, no effect.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
DPS rules must allow electronic renewal.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agencies can still take “any action” framed as enforcing the standard of care.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One class of operator and its nonprofit partners can use a Coordinating Board test.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Judicial training would add special needs to the subjects it covers.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anyone 18 or older with “regular or frequent contact” with the ward counts, wherever they live.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Soon after appointment, then every two years.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Prison mails veterans’ federal benefit paperwork at no charge.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A fixed multiplier replaces the highest low-income weight.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Farm-to-table promotion, regional food planning, recommendations every even-numbered year. Set up by December 31, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TxDOT grants cover money lost to state highway work.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Districts of 5,000 or more can’t give a kid two straight years of uncertified rookies.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New judges pick any two of three topics. Elder abuse is optional!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grants go to protocols that “replenish deficient or insufficient brain chemistry to an optimal level.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Small means under 3,000 students. They help those districts sign up for state and federal programs.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only with every affected landowner’s written consent and the rights-of-way already bought.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No verbal warning first at school sports.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Earliest start: third Wednesday in August. Plans adopted before the law keep the old rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New contract rules when an outside entity runs a district campus.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Same programs, new agency. Grants need local matching money.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nothing changes for manufacturers now. A report by October 1, 2026. Gone September 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grants for fortified-home upgrades, from a new account the state need not fund.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nonresident sellers can have a Texas distillery produce and sell their spirits.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Redeem it and you get cash by default. Oil only if rules permit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not when the second ends in deferred adjudication.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Steroids to transition a minor no longer count as a medical purpose.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up from 24 hours of generator fuel. Batteries count too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Four offices, an ancestry database, freedmen ID cards and legal help with reparations claims.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
First offense: Class C misdemeanor, fine up to $2,000.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Providers would obtain consent and explain the right to decline the additional screening.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pregnant teens and young parents, 11 to 20. Up by January 1, 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Arabic and Chinese translations of forms and portals. Outside translators allowed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Places of worship too. Applies to new and major kilns.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Three seats go to the program’s own business community. Plus 32 hours of owner training.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fallback effective date: September 1, 2015! Utilities, pipelines and cable skip the assessments.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Put pre-K on site, score points. The region needs a county of one million or more.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
First-call resolution joins a “may include” list. No new duty, deadline or consequence.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Melt, shred, crush or cut them. Or sell them after a background check!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Full property tax exemption. Vitamins count as perishable, no spoilage test needed!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Notice, a reason and 30 days to move money, but only at all-Texas lenders.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No limit for new claims. Existing ones get two years. The old rule gave 30!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Voters approve, then pension debt can become bonds of up to 30 years.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Statements, receipts, debit card proof and bills of sale.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A court order or signed Federal Trade Commission report stops collection.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Salary matches similar courts, paid from the county general fund.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026, on which are no longer needed.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Local alternative designs and harm from earlier road projects.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nurses can do a full assessment even when screening wouldn’t call for one.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agricultural operations are exempt, and city ordinances win any conflict.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Quarterly meetings, a five-year plan, a spending proposal and an annual inventory with waitlist estimates.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No tolls on trips to school or activities.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Per eight-hour shift, broken out by campus type.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due December 1, 2026. Any actual standard or funding waits on a later Legislature.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A plan for the governor, lieutenant governor and speaker by December 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Its job: a 10-year workforce plan, every two years! Any action waits on the plan.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Employees can appeal discipline, pay and firings, including at-will ones.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Committees get $10,000. Judicial candidate cap drops from $25,000 to $10,000.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Energy Star servers too, or no sales tax exemption. Starts September 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The state must weigh water conservation when deciding on approval.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Doctors, nurses, chaplains and volunteers get no exception. The license costs $120.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only if it meets the treatment standards the agency sets.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The state pays the whole gap, starting September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Unfunded divisions live to 2028. One judge gets paid $1 above the normal maximum!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: matching the Constitutions. Bill: rewrites diversity rules, repeals all of Subchapter J.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No stranger messages, no likes, no algorithm suggestions. A verified parent can change them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Damages start at $100,000. The bill exempts pregnant women and medical emergencies.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pre-1939 procedure statutes repealed, but in force until a rule replaces them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Also new district attorney offices, and parents pay up to $50 for youth diversion.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Class A misdemeanor becomes a second-degree felony. Two repealed sections go unexplained.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Class A misdemeanor if the face covering conceals identity.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Low-interest loans for small farms in financial hardship.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Protecting living things from excessive artificial light becomes an allowed purpose.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Down from $50,000 paid in the prior fiscal year.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus a 30-day warning before your reserved connection runs out.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The bill raises the number of school days a Texas high school senior can be excused to visit a college from two to four.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Inspector general agents for two federal housing offices.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Prosecutors investigating an officer join hiring agencies with access.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Skip the state commission, sue within two years, and juries can award more.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any purpose the official decides serves a public purpose.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The comptroller can add more benefits without the Legislature.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Category four: “benefits approved by the board.” The Legislature doesn’t have to name them.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
As long as they don’t wire it in. Cities can’t ban it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Six tracts, 11.6 acres, at no charge, by December 31, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grant money follows accreditation from listed private groups, two of them Texas associations.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The commissioner goes from encouraging it to requiring it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
An increase every odd-numbered year, up to half of inflation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Give to the pro-bond committee, and you can’t be paid from that bond.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption says “certain” local rules. Lose to the attorney general, lose the sales tax!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The comptroller negotiates discounts. Employers, schools and insurers can join.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Flat caps for homes with the residence homestead exemption.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Applies when the state child-welfare agency files the case too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Judges issue whatever orders serve the child’s best interest.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One written report, one year after the hire. No service changes. Expires June 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TEA designs it and gives districts grants to run it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Parents also get suicide prevention materials, including on firearms and medication.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One product, a report that “may include recommendations for legislation.” Nothing changes for bees!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Each trimester, six weeks after birth, then 6 and 12 months.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Starts with the 2026-27 budget cycle.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only when the board decides it speeds students toward workforce credentials.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The department lists diseases and can quarantine animals anywhere in the state.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pick one tag to remove on release. Not both.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Qualifying existing pens keep up to 100 acres. New pens and expansions face the 20-acre limit.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A hearing and a report due December 1, 2026. Expires May 31, 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: deferred maintenance. Bill: also any item with less than a 10-year useful life.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Permit routes for oversize and overweight trucks, to and from the port.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Each university system offers them at one or more schools.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Covers alternatives to restraints, limiting force and suicide prevention.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Signed-over title or other proof, at the moment of purchase.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
More authority under Texas law. Still not Texas peace officers.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Deals signed by August 31, 2019 keep the old rules. Everyone else gets the changes.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cities can allow it even under the International Building Code.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Hearing within ten days of filing. A late justice faces mandamus.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No bid at 67 percent? Second sale a week later, any price!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Upheld, it lives two years past final judgment. Struck down, it ends that day.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Students can profit from name, image or likeness and hire an agent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Named only by number. Businesses within 1,000 feet count, and the money can repay project debt.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
They can fund nonprofits too. And one rule’s small-town cutoff jumps from 15,000 to 30,000.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Elected directors can include stockholders, employees or tenants of property owners. Bonds and assessments too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Seven seats, a paid director, staff and a new fund for business grants.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Full program due September 1, 2027, after the November 2026 election. Other training duties carry no date.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Kindergarten through grade eight learn to type and stay safe online.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A 90-day exclusive window, then 14 days to match any better outside offer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Coverage extends to maintenance and traffic devices when contractors materially comply with contracts.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Four at-large, five single-member seats. Any board, by two-thirds vote, can make trustees resign to run.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any company majority-owned by citizens of a listed country counts. So do student exchanges.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counties over 1 million people. No district gets more than one extra.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Take another appointed post, lose the job. New appointees only, from September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
At least two hours on interacting with people with autism spectrum disorder.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TxDOT puts up markers showing the new name in Montgomery County.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
County officials hand-count a sample of electronic results.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
College merges or renames? Students enrolled then pick either name.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Won federal credits in 2021 or 2022, land owned since 2022? Front of the line!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
This bill has not been graded yet. The headline above is the state's caption.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Engineering contracts go online within 30 days, updated at least weekly.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Show Texas or Texans in a negative light, and the office can deny your rebate.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plants must also sit in areas heavy with wind and solar. Rules due in 180 days.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Your license lasts about ten years instead of about eight.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Insurers and HMOs need the commissioner’s okay for higher rates.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Carriers can require devices, software and training without nudging a driver toward employee status.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Actual financial losses still count. If the other driver was drunk or reckless, pain counts too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No more splitting out-of-network arbitration fees. The losing side pays.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any business hosting a sexually oriented performance, alcohol or not, gets the label and the fee.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A required unit on the Marxist roots of Critical Race Theory.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: Constitution courses. Bill: economics stops being its own required half credit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Participants skip the hunting license. Squirrels not consulted.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The payer can pass it back to the producer, no matter what a contract says!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Serious injury means third-degree felony. Prosecutors may use this law, another, or both.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Up from the default three. Forgery keeps ten.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Defendants hand over witness lists, evidence, expert reports and alibis.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Left to the oversight committee. The new chief investment officer, though, is mandatory!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
AI drafts the transcript. A person reviews it into the record.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Custodial parents are covered now, not just noncustodial ones.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TxDOT writes the rules and runs the program.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Blood, saliva, urine or feces, on hospital property.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Electronic signatures. The comptroller passes approved documents electronically too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Markers go up between U.S. Highway 287 and Interstate 20.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The offense widens and the penalties go up.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The PSAT joins the SAT and ACT.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Media literacy for grades 6 through 12. Cyberbullying consequences included.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Local EMTs too. College readiness testing skipped.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Once someone is arrested for one of 15 listed offenses. Confidential records included.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Staggered four-year terms.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
One flag per candidate, official or party. Associations can still ban offensive ones.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Staff and the accused agree first. Discovery gets a cap and deadline.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Two existing limits on lobbyists now carry penalties.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Compounded at the utility’s own cost of capital. Customers pay later, unless the Commission disallows it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The money skips the city and goes only to beach cleanup.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No board approval needed up to $50,000!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A signed statement, kept on file. Homework, basically.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Adult, discharged, and consenting.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No-new-revenue rate plus debt, or voters get an election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The statement of intent calls it “fair tax treatment.” Starts January 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Seven becomes nine. Portland and Port Aransas each get one, appointed by January 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Public and private universities join police on the list. No use limits, no security terms, no sanctions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
“Substantial bodily injury” becomes a third-degree felony.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Also a race and gender tracking policy. Effective date: September 1, 2021, before this session!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Needing injections is no reason to refuse or discharge.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The caption never says abortion. Private plan coverage goes from “may” to “shall.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
That’s after the November 2026 election. No notice sent? A failing complex still counts as compliant.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every local taxing unit must sign off. An unfixed failed audit can cost the exemption.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Owners who live there as a primary residence now qualify.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Buyers learn the choice exists and that it goes either direction.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Nonrenewal mid-semester becomes month-to-month until the semester ends.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Tenants match the offer, and the landlord can still reject it by “providing reasons.” Any reasons!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Heart attack or stroke deaths on duty, or within 24 hours, count.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only for people on parole or supervision with a treatment provider’s sign-off.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Hospitals and community health centers keep them out without one.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Or a county whose court formally accepts jurisdiction.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Working days. Subsequent orders drop from 15 to seven in some counties.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: medical supervision. Bill: sex-offender and serious-offense exclusions drop from deportation release too!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Even when someone else caused it. Drunk, reckless or fleeing drivers can still be sued.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, grade six and up.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
In-person voting would include weekends and holidays. Voting by mail remains available.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Licensed, taxed at 10%, and the regulator can’t limit contest types or call one gambling.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Landlords win without a trial when facts are not disputed. Sheriff late? Off-duty officers can serve papers.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fire departments can search available equipment and update their entries.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The attorney general can sue. The woman seeking an abortion is exempt.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Per location. Plus a franchise tax credit of 20 percent of inventory taxes.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: exceptions. Bill: also blood-type testing and Rh treatment duties. Obstetric physicians take a 1-hour course.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Not graded. The reader grades bills, not resolutions.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Derived stock: 875 measures filed March 14, 2025 in 89R. 849 bills and joint resolutions, 26 other resolutions. Snapshot Nov 2, 2026 at 7:17 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.