https://session.currentrevolt.ai/89R/ The 89th session, graded for patterns after it ended, in October 2026. A Current Revolt project. en-us Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:26:20 +0000 https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3075/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3075/ Thu, 22 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Angela Paxton. The bill lets a city or other member of one type of regional transit authority take up to 25 percent of the transit sales tax collected there and spend it on its own roads, sidewalks, trails, streetlights and drainage, with unused money going to pay down transit debt. It also limits transit authorities statewide to pledging no more than 75 percent of their tax revenue for bonds, except an authority that pledged its sales tax for bonds before the bill takes effect. It lets members of that same authority type hold elections to leave the authority every three years instead of every six. Once a withdrawal election notice is received, the authority cannot issue new debt that would raise what the departing member owes, which makes it cheaper and easier for members to pull out or redirect transit money. Initial review. Tags: Bracket bill. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3074/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3074/ Tue, 20 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brian Birdwell. The bill lets the governor, the lieutenant governor, and any state legislator contact TCEQ officials or staff about any matter pending before the agency, 'notwithstanding any other law,' and says the official who gets the contact does not have to step aside from the case. TCEQ staff must accept these contacts, must put written ones into the case record, and must give the parties in the case a chance to respond. A lawmaker may not use this channel on a matter affecting a business in which the lawmaker or a close relative has a substantial interest, and the rule starts September 1, 2025. Needs review. Tags: The hole. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3073/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3073/ Tue, 13 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Joan Huffman. The bill requires a magistrate who finds no probable cause to support a person's arrest to put written findings explaining that decision into the record within 24 hours. It touches magistrates handling arrestees and the people arrested, along with prosecutors and police whose arrests are rejected. On the ground, a no-probable-cause call now leaves a written explanation in the file, for offenses committed on or after September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3072/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3072/ Mon, 12 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Bryan Hughes. The bill says any easement the Parks and Wildlife Commission grants to an electric cooperative on state land run by the parks department must last forever. It touches electric cooperatives and the state parks and wildlife land they cross with lines or equipment. New easements granted on or after September 1, 2025 become permanent instead of carrying a set term, while older easements stay under the old rules. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3071/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3071/ Mon, 12 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Paul Bettencourt. The bill lets a property owner go to court and stop a local taxing unit from collecting taxes when that unit raised taxes above the voter-approval rate through an election and then strays significantly from the purpose it gave voters. It touches every taxing unit that asks voters for a tax increase, and every property owner in those units, by defining a 'material deviation' to include changes in purpose, financing, scope, or cost overruns of more than 33 percent. While such a suit is pending the owner does not have to pay the tax, and an owner who paid and wins gets a refund plus attorney's fees and court costs, but the suit must be filed within 15 days after the taxing unit adopts a tax rate. Needs review. Tags: The hole. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3070/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3070/ Mon, 12 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Bob Hall. The bill abolishes the Texas Lottery Commission and moves the state lottery and charitable bingo regulation to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and its commission. It touches lottery retailers, bingo operators, lottery vendors, ticket buyers and online lottery courier businesses, with new offenses for selling more than 100 tickets in one transaction, skipping age checks, and buying or selling tickets by phone or app. It also adds audits, record-keeping and meeting-disclosure rules, creates a lottery advisory committee, and sets the whole state lottery to expire September 1, 2027 unless lawmakers continue it after a sunset review. Reviewed. Tags: Caption mismatch, New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5702/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5702/ Fri, 09 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Wes Virdell. The bill creates a new special district, the Llano Historic Railroad Authority, to restore and run the historic rail line between the City of Llano and Fairland as a tourist and education attraction. It touches Llano County and the City of Llano, which each appoint two of seven voting directors who then pick the other three, plus local taxing bodies that may grant hotel tax money to it. On the ground, a new public body can own and lease property, run train tours and concessions, allow alcohol sales at stations, and charge fees, but it cannot levy a property tax. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees, Caption mismatch. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5701/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5701/ Fri, 09 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Cecil Bell Jr.. This bill lets a landowner in Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 140 ask that district to become the only water provider for land the owner holds outside the district, when that land sits in another district that has no property tax and does not supply water there. If the district approves by resolution, it gets exclusive power to supply water to that land and to charge fees, taxes or assessments for it, unless doing so would hurt the other district's debt repayment, and a regional water authority keeps its own rights. The district must record the resolution in county property records and send copies to the affected districts within 30 days. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3069/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3069/ Fri, 09 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brandon Creighton. This bill creates the Montgomery County Management District No. 3, a special district covering about 144 acres in Montgomery County, and gives it the power to levy assessments, property taxes and a sales tax and to issue bonds. It touches property owners, shoppers and taxpayers inside the tract, with a five-member board named in the bill and later appointed by the state environmental commission from the board's own picks rather than elected. On the ground, a new taxing body can borrow without the usual state cap on bond principal, give loans and grants of public money for economic development, and set up its own nonprofit corporation, with property taxes and bonds paid from them needing voter approval first, while bonds backed by other revenue need no election. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3068/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3068/ Fri, 09 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brandon Creighton. The bill renames the Harris-Montgomery Counties Management District as the Southeast Regional Management District. It also changes how new board members are picked: the current board can either recommend successors to the Harris County Commissioners Court or skip the court and ask the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to appoint them. If the board goes to the state commission, the commission must appoint the new board from names the current board submits, so the board largely picks its own successors. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3067/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3067/ Fri, 09 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Paul Bettencourt. This bill bars cities, counties, and local government corporations from using property tax money approved at a tax election under Chapter 26 of the Tax Code to pay off bonds and other public debt. It also blocks a local government from shifting extra operations tax money won at such an election to a local government corporation to repay debt. Local governments that raise operations taxes through an election could no longer route that money into debt payments on securities issued after the bill takes effect, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5700/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5700/ Mon, 05 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Mike Olcott. This local bill turns the Palo Pinto County Municipal Water District No. 1 board from five directors appointed by the City of Mineral Wells into five directors elected at large, and it orders a May 2026 election on adding most of the rest of Palo Pinto County to the district. It touches district voters and property owners, the City of Mineral Wells, and the district's operations. On the ground, city employees and council members can no longer serve on the board, the district must sell wholesale water to the city only at a per-gallon rate, and by January 1, 2026 the district must hand the Hilltop Water Treatment Plant and the Brazos Pump Station over to the city. Initial review. Tags: Carve-out. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3066/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3066/ Fri, 02 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Donna Campbell. The bill rewrites the legal boundary map of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County, adding a long list of surveyed tracts. Among the parcels listed are land deeded to Driftwood DLC Investor I, LP and Driftwood Golf Club Development, Inc., along with several Driftwood subdivisions. The bill also retroactively confirms every past act, election and proceeding of the district, except matters already struck down or later struck down in pending court cases. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5699/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5699/ Thu, 01 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Mike Schofield. The bill lets Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 405 sign a contract with an owner of undeveloped land to take that land out of the district, and it confirms all of the district's past acts. It touches the district, its board, landowners of undeveloped tracts, and the holders of the district's bonds. Excluded land loses district services but keeps paying debt service taxes until its share of the district's debt is paid off, and the district can still issue bonds voters already approved without holding a new election. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5698/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5698/ Thu, 01 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Cecil Bell Jr.. The bill renames the Harris-Montgomery Counties Management District as the Southeast Regional Management District. It also lets the district's sitting board ask the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to appoint the next board, instead of only recommending names to the Harris County Commissioners Court. Either way, the new directors still come from the sitting board's own recommendations, but the board can now bypass the Harris County Commissioners Court. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5697/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5697/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Drew Darby. The bill gives the county courts at law in Tom Green County the power to hear family law cases and proceedings alongside the district court. It touches families, lawyers and judges in Tom Green County who handle divorces, custody and similar matters. Starting September 1, 2025, new family law cases there can be filed in either a county court at law or the district court, while older cases stay under the old rules. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5696/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5696/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. David Cook. This bill creates The Reserve Municipal Management District, a new special district covering about 174 acres in the City of Mansfield, run by a five-member board whose first members are named in the bill. Property owners in the district can be charged assessments if owners of a majority of the property value petition for them, and residents can be taxed and bonded if voters approve. The district can borrow money, issue some bonds without an election, make loans and grants of public money for economic development, run parking facilities and create a nonprofit corporation, but it cannot take land by eminent domain. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5695/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5695/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Gerdes. This bill creates the Sayers Ranch Municipal Utility District on about 253 acres in Bastrop County. It names five temporary directors and lets the district build water, drainage and road projects, issue bonds, and levy taxes and fees after local voter approval and city consent. Landowners inside the district can end up paying a bond tax with no cap on rate or amount while the bonds are outstanding, and the district loses eminent domain power if the bill does not pass with a two-thirds vote. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3065/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3065/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Angela Paxton. This bill creates the Wolf Creek Municipal Management District No. 1, a new local taxing district covering about 1,830 acres in Hunt County near Greenville. It gives a five-member board power to impose assessments, fees and taxes, issue bonds, make economic development loans and grants, and use limited eminent domain. The landowners who hold a majority of the property value choose the first temporary directors, who are then appointed by the state environmental agency, so the district can borrow and build roads, water, sewer and drainage before residents move in. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3064/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3064/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Angela Paxton. This bill creates the Colmena Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1, a new special district covering about 2,450 acres in Collin County, with a five-member board whose initial directors are named in the bill. The district can pay for a service or improvement with assessments in all or any part of the district once owners of a majority of the assessed value petition for it, levy an operation and maintenance tax after a voter election, issue bonds backed by assessments, revenue or contract payments once it has a contract for adequate supplemental police, fire and emergency services, make economic development loans and grants, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. On the ground, a new local taxing and borrowing body takes control of financing roads, water, drainage, parking and other improvements on this land, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5694/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5694/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Shelley Luther. The bill creates the Fannin County Improvement District No. 1 on about 337 acres of mostly family-trust land in Fannin County. It lets majority landowners petition the state to name five temporary directors, and it gives the district power to impose assessments, levy voter-approved taxes, borrow money, issue bonds and run economic development loan and grant programs. Property owners inside the district can face assessments and taxes that become liens on their land, and the district can pay for roads, water, drainage, parking and other projects with that money. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5693/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5693/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Christian Manuel. This bill moves the board elections for Jefferson County Drainage District No. 7 from May to the November uniform election date in odd-numbered years. It touches the five district commissioners and the voters inside the district, and it extends the terms of sitting commissioners by about six months so they line up with the new schedule. Two seats go on the ballot in November 2025 and three in November 2027, with four-year staggered terms after that. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3063/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3063/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Robert Nichols. The bill creates the Bayou Belle Municipal Management District No. 1, a new special district covering about 605 acres in Liberty County, with a five-member board whose initial directors are named in the bill. The district can charge assessments on property owners, levy taxes and issue tax-backed bonds after a voter election, issue revenue bonds without an election, make loans and grants of public money, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. On the ground, a new local taxing and borrowing body forms over this tract, and its assessment liens rank ahead of most other claims on the land. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3062/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3062/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Bryan Hughes. The bill names a stretch of State Highway 315 in Panola County, from the western county line to the western edge of Carthage, as the Hamby-Webb Memorial Highway. It tells the Texas Department of Transportation to design and put up markers at each end and along the route, subject to an existing section of the Transportation Code. Nothing else changes on the ground beyond new road signs, starting September 1, 2025. Initial review. Tags: Renaming and ceremonial. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5692/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5692/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Ryan Guillen. The bill creates the Palangana Energy District on about 4,700 acres of private land in Duval County. The district gets a board, eminent domain power inside its borders if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote, and authority to issue bonds, levy assessments, and, with voter approval, impose property and sales taxes. It can build and finance water, road, gas, hydrogen, salt-cavern storage and power facilities, give loans and grants of public money for economic development, and pick the single retail electric provider for its territory. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3061/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3061/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brandon Creighton. The bill bars the children of Texas state representatives, state senators and statewide elected officials from joining the new state education savings account program created by S.B. 2 of this session. It touches only those officials' families, and only while the parent or guardian holds office. Starting with the 2026-2027 school year, those children cannot use the program, while every other family's eligibility stays the same. Initial review. Tags: Delayed start. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5691/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5691/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Brent Money. This bill creates the Wolf Creek Municipal Management District No. 1 on about 1,820 acres of land in Hunt County, near the City of Greenville. The district is run by a five-member board, with temporary directors first named by the owners of most of the land's value. The board can levy assessments with an owner petition, levy taxes and issue tax-backed bonds after a voter election, issue revenue bonds without an election, make loans and grants of public money for economic development, and use eminent domain if the bill passes with a two-thirds vote. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3060/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3060/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brent Hagenbuch. The bill raises the property tax exemption for disabled veterans from the old schedule of $5,000 to $12,000 up to a new schedule of $30,000 to $100,000 of assessed value, depending on disability rating. It touches disabled veterans who own property in Texas and the local taxing units that collect taxes on that property. If voters approve a matching constitutional amendment, the bigger exemptions start for tax years beginning January 1, 2026 or later. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5690/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5690/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Richard Hayes. The bill changes the debt limits for the Hunter Ranch Improvement District No. 1 in Denton County and validates the district's past acts. It sets a cap on tax-backed bonds at 10 percent of the district's real property value, and adds a second, separate 10 percent cap on bonds backed by contract payments, measured against all districts paying under the contract. On the ground, the district gets a clear second debt channel tied to contract payments, and its past actions are confirmed unless a court has struck them down or does so in pending litigation. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5689/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5689/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Richard Hayes. The bill changes the borrowing limits for the Cole Ranch Improvement District No. 1 in Denton County and blesses everything the district did before the law takes effect. It touches the district, its landowners and taxpayers, and any other districts that make contract payments the district uses to back bonds. On the ground, the district gets a separate cap for contract-backed bonds, each cap set at 10 percent of assessed real property value, and its past acts are shielded from challenge unless a court has already struck them down or does so in pending litigation. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3059/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3059/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Donna Campbell. The bill creates a new five-member Alamo Commission, made up of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker, and one senator and one House member, and moves control of the Alamo complex from the General Land Office to it. It touches the Land Office, the State Preservation Board, the Department of Public Safety, the City of San Antonio, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and any nonprofit partner that raises money for the Alamo. Starting September 1, 2027, the commission can hire an executive director, staff and consultants, and contract with nonprofits for any activity, with the full handover from the Land Office due by January 1, 2028. Reviewed. Tags: Delayed start, New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5688/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5688/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Janie Lopez. This bill creates the San Benito Municipal Utility District No. 1 on about 229 acres of land in Cameron County, with three named temporary directors. The district can provide water, sewer, drainage and road services, issue bonds, and impose taxes and fees once voters in the district approve them at an election. Landowners and future residents of that tract could end up paying district taxes, including an unlimited-rate tax to repay voter-approved bonds, and no election to confirm the district can happen until the local city consents. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5687/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5687/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Gerdes. The bill lets the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District spend the fees it charges on groundwater exported out of the district on two new things: fixing county roads it needs to reach wells it inspects, and building groundwater-related environmental programs and infrastructure. To do either, the district must sign a deal with a county that a majority of the district board approves and renews every year. The change touches only this one district, the counties it works with, and the people who pay its export fees, and it takes effect September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5686/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5686/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Will Metcalf. The bill creates the Montgomery County Management District No. 3 over a 144-acre tract near Seven Coves Road, run by a five-member appointed board. Property owners inside the tract, and future residents and shoppers there, become subject to a new local government that can levy assessments, ad valorem taxes, a sales and use tax, and impact fees, and can borrow and issue bonds. On the ground, the district can finance roads, water, drainage, parking and economic development grants, with some revenue bonds issued without an election and the usual Water Code cap on outstanding debt waived. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5685/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5685/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Kitzman. This bill creates the Waller County Improvement District No. 3, a new local government covering about 227 acres of described land in Waller County. Owners of a majority of the land's value can petition the state environmental agency to appoint the first five directors, and the district can levy assessments, property taxes, sales taxes and hotel taxes, borrow money and issue bonds. Some taxes and tax-backed bonds need voter approval, but revenue bonds can issue without an election, the usual Water Code cap on outstanding debt is waived, and the district can make loans and grants of public money for economic development. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5684/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5684/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Shelley Luther. This bill creates a new special taxing district, the Alluvium Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1, on about 606 acres in Grayson County near Sherman. It names five initial directors and gives the district power to borrow, issue bonds, levy assessments and taxes after required votes or petitions, make loans and grants of public money for economic development, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Landowners in the area can be billed through assessments that become a first lien on their property, and the district can build roads, water, drainage, parking and other projects and pay for them with debt. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5683/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5683/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Rafael Anchía. This bill creates the Cedar Springs Improvement District, a new local government covering the part of Dallas bounded by Lemmon Avenue, Oak Lawn Avenue, Maple Avenue and Inwood Road. It touches property owners, businesses and residents inside those lines, and it sets up a seven-member board whose first members are named in the bill rather than elected. The district can charge property assessments if owners of a majority of assessed value petition for them, levy property taxes and issue tax-backed bonds after a voter election, issue some revenue bonds without an election, make loans and grants, and run parking and other projects. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3058/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3058/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Lois Kolkhorst. This bill lets the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District spend the groundwater export fees it already collects on county roads and on local groundwater environmental programs and infrastructure. It touches the district, the counties it partners with, and whoever pays its export fees. To spend the money this way, the district must sign an agreement with a county that a majority of its board approves and renews every year, starting September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3057/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3057/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 reworked By Sen. Pete Flores. This bill creates the River Ranch Municipal Utility District No. 1 on roughly 3,000-plus acres of land in Williamson County. The district gets a five-member board, with temporary directors picked by petition from the owners of most of the land's value and appointed by the state environmental agency, and it needs consent from any nearby city before a confirmation election. Once voters approve, the district can levy property taxes, including a bond tax with no rate cap, issue bonds for water, drainage and road projects, and charge fees, but it loses eminent domain power if the bill does not pass by a two-thirds vote. Initial review. Filed before: 88R HB 5383 (did not pass). https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3056/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3056/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brent Hagenbuch. This bill creates the Alluvium Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1 on about 606 acres of ranch land in Grayson County, near the City of Sherman. The district gets a five-member board and can charge assessments on landowners, levy taxes after a voter election, issue bonds, run economic development grant and loan programs, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. On the ground, a new local government will be able to finance roads, water, drainage and other development on this land and charge the cost to the property inside it. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3055/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3055/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Mayes Middleton. The bill lets experienced nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and clinical nurse specialists apply to the Texas Board of Nursing to practice and prescribe without a physician agreement, but only in counties with fewer than 68,750 people. It also raises the number of nurses and physician assistants one physician may oversee under a prescribing agreement from seven to nine, bans nondisclosure agreements in those deals, and makes both the independent nurses and the overseeing physicians file yearly reports that the boards publish. On the ground, qualifying nurses in smaller counties could diagnose, treat, and prescribe drugs below Schedule II on their own starting under rules due by February 1, 2026, and the nursing board must study the effects by September 1, 2028. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3054/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3054/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Judith Zaffirini. The bill merges two Starr County water districts into one by renaming the Starr County Drainage District as the Starr County Drainage and Groundwater Conservation District and dissolving the separate groundwater district into it. It touches Starr County landowners, water users, utilities, and the employees, contracts, and records of the old groundwater district, and it replaces a board made up of the county commissioners with five directors the commissioners court appoints to represent farm, rural water, city, industrial, and at-large interests. On the ground, one countywide district now handles both drainage and groundwater, keeps its power to levy a property tax, and its groundwater rules override conflicting rules of the regional water authority and local utilities. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3053/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3053/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Tan Parker. This local bill sets borrowing limits for the Hunter Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County. It caps the district's property-tax-backed bonds at 10 percent of the district's real property value, and caps bonds backed by contract payments at 10 percent of the property value in all districts paying under that contract. It also confirms the district's past official acts as valid, except for matters a final court judgment has struck down or strikes down in pending litigation, and it takes effect immediately or on September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3052/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3052/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Tan Parker. This bill sets a cap on how much debt the Cole Ranch Improvement District No. 1 in Denton County can take on through bonds. Bonds backed by property taxes stay capped at 10 percent of the district's assessed real property value, and a new cap limits bonds backed by contract payments to 10 percent of the assessed value of all districts paying under the contract. The bill also ratifies everything the district did before the law takes effect, except matters struck down or later struck down in court. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5682/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5682/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Keresa Richardson. The bill creates the Colmena Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1, a special district covering about 2,450 acres in Collin County, run by a five-member board whose first members are named in the bill. It touches landowners inside the district, who can be charged assessments that become a first lien on their property once owners of a majority of assessed value petition for them. On the ground, the district can borrow, issue bonds (some without an election), make loans and grants of public money, run economic development programs, create a nonprofit corporation, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote, but it may not levy a property tax. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5681/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5681/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Cecil Bell Jr.. The bill gives the Westwood Magnolia Parkway Improvement District in Montgomery County the power to make utilities move their lines and pipes out of the way of district road and drainage projects at the utility's own cost. If a utility does not move after 30 days' notice, the district can do the work and bill the utility, with interest if it is not paid within 60 days. The bill also lets the district run a county assistance district for the county through an interlocal agreement, treating the district like a city for that purpose. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3051/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3051/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Angela Paxton. The bill creates a new municipal utility district, the Grassland Municipal Utility District No. 1, covering about 72 acres of land near Princeton in Collin County. It names five temporary directors and lets the owners of most of the land's assessed value pick replacement temporary directors if no election happens in time. Once voters in the district approve, the district can build water, sewer, drainage and road projects, borrow through bonds, and tax property in the district to pay that debt back. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3050/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3050/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Bryan Hughes. The bill creates the Fannin County Improvement District No. 1 on a 337.65-acre tract of land in Fannin County. Owners of a majority of the land's assessed value can petition the state environmental commission to appoint the first five directors, and the commission must appoint the people they name. The district can then levy assessments, hold elections to impose property taxes, issue bonds, some without an election, make economic development loans and grants, and run parking and navigation facilities, but it cannot take land by eminent domain. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3049/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3049/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa. The bill cancels the state's conservation easement and related promises on the Nueces County historic courthouse property, which the Texas Historical Commission required when it gave the county money for a courthouse project. It touches Nueces County and the Texas Historical Commission. Within 60 days of the law taking effect, the commission must sign a release and file it in the county deed records, so the state's preservation restrictions on that property end. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3048/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3048/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brian Birdwell. The bill creates the Bluebonnet Hills Municipal Management District No. 1 on about 448 acres of private land in Midlothian, run by a five-member board, and names the first five directors. The district can levy assessments with a majority-value owner petition, levy taxes and sell bonds after a voter election, issue some bonds without an election, make loans and grants of public money, and take land by eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Property owners inside the district can face new assessments, liens and taxes to pay for roads, utilities, parking and development, and the bill takes effect right away or on September 1, 2025. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5680/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5680/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Janis Holt. The bill creates the Bayou Belle Municipal Management District No. 1, a special district covering about 605 acres in Liberty County, run by five named initial directors who later face election. The district can charge property owners assessments, impose taxes and borrow through bonds after voter and city approval, take land by eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote, and make loans and grants of public money for economic development. Landowners inside the boundary get a new layer of local government that can tax, assess, borrow and build roads, water, drainage and parking, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5679/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5679/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Charlie Geren. This bill creates the Hills of Walnut Creek Municipal Utility District on about 653 acres of undeveloped land in Parker County. It lets the majority landowners pick five temporary directors, who are appointed by the state environmental agency, and it gives the district the usual utility district powers plus authority to build roads. Once voters inside the district approve, the district can levy property taxes, including taxes with no rate limit to repay bonds, and it can issue bonds for water, drainage and road projects. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5678/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5678/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Gerdes. This bill creates the Rivers Market Place Municipal Management District on about 60 acres in Elgin, in Bastrop County. The district can levy assessments and voter-approved taxes, issue bonds, make loans and grants of public money, run parking, and form a nonprofit corporation, and it can use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Owners of a majority of the land's value pick the five temporary directors through a petition the state environmental agency must accept, and those directors serve until elected directors take over. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB23/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB23/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Paul Bettencourt. The bill raises the extra school property tax exemption for homeowners who are 65 or older or disabled from $10,000 to $60,000 of their home's appraised value, if voters approve the matching constitutional amendment. It touches elderly and disabled homeowners, school districts, appraisers, tax assessors and the state education agency, which must send extra state aid so districts do not lose money from the bigger exemption. On the ground, 2025 tax bills go out as provisional bills showing the lower amount and the savings, and if voters reject the amendment, homeowners get a supplemental bill for the difference. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5677/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5677/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Sheryl Cole. This bill creates the Pura Vida Municipal Management District No. 1 on about 211 acres in Travis County, tied to the City of Mustang Ridge. The district gets a five-member board, and its first directors are chosen by whoever owns most of the land's value and then appointed by the state environmental agency. The district can levy assessments, impose property and sales taxes after voter approval, issue bonds, and run economic development loans and grants; it can also use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5676/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5676/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Terry M. Wilson. The bill deletes the section of state law that bars the Williamson County Municipal Utility District No. 40 from using eminent domain. That touches the district and landowners inside or near it, whose property the district could now take for its projects through condemnation. Once it passes with a two-thirds vote, the district gets the same eminent domain power most utility districts already have. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5675/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5675/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Eddie Morales. The bill grows the Presidio County Underground Water Conservation District board from five to seven directors and lets the City of Marfa and the City of Presidio each appoint one seat. It also updates the district's powers section to match current general groundwater law and says Section 36.121 of the Water Code does not apply to the district. On the ground, the two cities gain a voice on the water board, each appointing body fills its own vacancies, and the district escapes a Water Code section that the bill names but does not describe. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5674/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5674/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 reworked By Rep. Terry M. Wilson. This bill creates the River Ranch Municipal Utility District No. 1 on about 3,500 acres of mostly undeveloped land in Williamson County. Its first five directors are picked by the owners of most of the land's value and appointed by the state environmental agency, and they serve until voters elect permanent directors. Once local cities consent and voters approve, the district can borrow by issuing bonds for water, drainage and road projects, and repay them with property taxes that have no limit on rate or amount, plus fees and contract payments. Initial review. Filed before: 88R HB 5383 (did not pass). https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5673/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5673/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Erin Zwiener. The bill creates La Cima Municipal Management District No. 1, a special district covering several tracts in Hays County tied to the City of San Marcos, run by a five-member board whose first members are named in the bill. The district can impose assessments if a majority of property value petitions for them, impose taxes and issue tax-backed bonds after a voter election, borrow money, issue some revenue bonds without an election, make economic development loans and grants, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Property owners inside the district may face new assessments, liens and taxes to pay for roads, water, drainage, parking and other improvements, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5672/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5672/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Erin Zwiener. The bill redraws the legal map of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County so that state law matches land the district has already annexed. It also approves, after the fact, the district's past official acts, elections and proceedings, except for matters that a court has struck down or that are in litigation and end up struck down. Landowners inside the redrawn lines become part of the district under state law, and the district's earlier decisions are shielded from challenges based on how they were carried out. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3047/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3047/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Judith Zaffirini. This bill creates the Pura Vida Municipal Management District No. 1, a new special district covering about 211 acres in Travis County near Mustang Ridge, with a five-member board that can tax, assess, borrow and issue bonds. It touches the landowner, Mustang Ridge, LLC, whose majority-value petition picks the first board, plus future residents, shoppers and hotel guests who would pay district property, sales and hotel taxes. On the ground, the district can build water, wastewater, road and drainage projects, run loan and grant programs with public money, pledge hotel tax revenue to convention and hotel projects, and use eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5671/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5671/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Helen Kerwin. The bill sets who can run for the board of the Johnson County Special Utility District and lets the board split director elections into single-member districts. It gives the district broader bond-issuing powers under Chapter 1371 of the Government Code, exempts it from Water Code Sections 49.181 and 49.182, and repeals the section that had limited its powers. Voters and ratepayers in the district get new rules for board candidates, and the district can issue bonds without going through those two Water Code sections. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5670/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5670/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Janis Holt. This bill creates a new municipal utility district on about 343 acres of undeveloped land in Montgomery County, run by five named temporary directors until voters elect a permanent board. It touches the landowners and future residents inside that land, who can be taxed and charged fees by the district once voters approve. On the ground, the district can build water, drainage and road projects and pay for them with bonds backed by property taxes, starting September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3046/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3046/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Borris Miles. The bill bars concrete batch plants from starting construction under a permit amendment within 880 yards of a home, and bars concrete crushers and concrete batch or mixing plants from operating within 2,000 yards of a hospital. It touches concrete plant and crushing operators, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and people who live near or rely on hospitals close to these sites. The TCEQ must write rules enforcing the new hospital buffer and the existing 440-yard crusher buffer, and the new rules apply to new filings and to permits tied up in pending litigation as soon as the bill takes effect. Initial review. Tags: Bracket bill. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3045/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3045/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brent Hagenbuch. The bill creates the Hills of Walnut Creek Municipal Utility District on about 653 acres of privately held land in Parker County. The district gets water, drainage and road powers, can issue bonds and levy taxes, fees and assessments after voter approval, and can use eminent domain unless the bill passes without a two-thirds vote. The temporary board is five people picked by whoever owns most of the land's value, and the state environmental commission must appoint them, so the landowner runs the district until permanent directors are elected. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5669/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5669/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Dade Phelan. The bill renames the Sabine Pass Port Authority in Jefferson County as the Port of Sabine Pass and moves its five elected commissioners to staggered four-year terms, starting with a new election in May 2026. It also raises commissioner pay from up to $50 a day to a flat $600 a month, replaces the port's own $25,000 competitive-bid rule with the Water Code's purchasing rules, and lets the port use and lease its land for economic development, industry, housing and recreation. On the ground, the port gets wider power to develop and lease property and can back its bonds with payments companies make in place of taxes under tax abatement deals, while its tax rate cap stays at 20 cents and the new property projects cannot be financed with property-tax bonds. Reviewed. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5668/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5668/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. David Spiller. The bill lets the Far North Fort Worth Municipal Utility District No. 1 carve out special areas or specific properties and tax them and sell bonds against them, even when those areas are small or not connected to each other. It touches landowners and future buyers inside the district in Tarrant and Wise Counties, whose land can be put into a separately taxed area. On the ground, the district can take on new bond debt paid by taxes on chosen pieces of land, skipping the normal state minimum-acreage rule and the usual need for the land to be connected. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3044/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3044/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. César Blanco. The bill grows the board of the Presidio County Underground Water Conservation District from five to seven directors and gives the City of Marfa and the City of Presidio one appointed seat each. It also updates the district's powers language and says that Section 36.121 of the Water Code no longer applies to the district. On the ground, each appointing body fills its own vacancies, the two cities get a voice on groundwater decisions, and the district loses a general-law limit on what it can regulate. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5667/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5667/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Mike Olcott. The bill changes who leads the Parker County juvenile board. Right now the judge of the 43rd Judicial District is automatically the chairman; under this bill the board members elect one of their own as chairman. It affects only the Parker County juvenile board and takes effect September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3043/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3043/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brent Hagenbuch. The bill creates the Craver Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1 over about 2,801 acres in Denton County, with a five-member board, initial directors named in the bill, and powers to levy assessments, charge fees, borrow, issue bonds and, with a two-thirds vote, use eminent domain. It touches the landowners inside the tract, future residents and businesses who will pay assessments, and the city named in the bill, which must sign a development agreement before the district can act and must consent before the first bond sale. On the ground, a new local government can finance roads, water, drainage, parking and economic-development loans and grants through liens on property, with no property tax allowed and some bonds issued without an election. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3042/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3042/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Bryan Hughes. The bill lets a Texas Municipal Retirement System retiree who goes back to work for the same city within 120 days of retiring choose to restore full membership and prior service credit. When that person retires again, the system recomputes the pension using service from before and after the first retirement, actuarially reduced to account for payments already received. It applies to all current and past TMRS retirees starting September 1, 2025, while retirees who return after the 120-day window keep the existing rule of resuming the same suspended annuity. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3041/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3041/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 same-text By Sen. Paul Bettencourt. The bill raises the penalties for the existing Texas offense of misusing official information, which covers public servants who use inside government information for gain. If the offense brings the person a net financial gain, the penalty climbs from a third-degree felony up to a first-degree felony as the gain passes $150,000 and $300,000. It replaces the old penalty-boost subsection, applies only to conduct on or after September 1, 2025, and touches public servants who trade on nonpublic government information. Initial review. Filed before: 88R HB 1899 (died in committee). https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3040/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3040/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Sarah Eckhardt. The bill orders an emergency services district board to remove land from the district when a city asks, as long as that land sits inside the city's limits. It only reaches cities with between 10,000 and 19,000 people in counties with between 1 million and 1.5 million people. A qualifying city can pull its territory out of the district on request, and the board has no choice but to comply. Initial review. Tags: Bracket bill. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5666/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5666/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Tom Oliverson. This bill creates the Fenske Road Municipal Utility District on about 33.76 acres of undeveloped land in Harris County, run by five named temporary directors until voters elect permanent ones. It touches the landowners and future residents inside the district, and the city that must consent before the confirmation election. Once voters approve, the district can build water, drainage and road projects, charge fees, levy taxes and issue bonds backed by a property tax with no limit on rate or amount. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3039/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3039/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Royce West. The bill expands the yearly reports that Texas public universities and community colleges must send to the state higher education coordinating board and the Legislature about transfer students and credits that do not carry over. It also requires every public college to post on its admissions webpage the five majors with the most denied transfer credits and the top five denied courses in each, and to name at least one staff member as a transfer liaison. Transfer students get a contact person who must give them course lists, tell them which credits will be accepted or denied, and help them get a degree audit, starting with the 2025-2026 school year. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3038/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3038/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Joan Huffman. The bill creates Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 286 on about 73 acres near Rosenberg, with power to borrow through bonds and levy taxes, assessments and fees. Temporary directors are the five people named in a petition by the owners of a majority of the land value, and the state environmental commission must appoint them. Once the City of Rosenberg consents and a development agreement is signed, the district can hold elections, issue bonds backed by an unlimited property tax, and build water, drainage and road projects. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5665/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5665/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Kitzman. This bill creates Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 70, a new local taxing district covering about 209 acres of unincorporated Waller County. It names five temporary directors and gives the district the usual utility-district powers to build water, sewer, drainage and road projects, issue bonds, and levy taxes once voters approve. Landowners in the district could face an ad valorem tax with no rate cap to repay voter-approved bonds, and if permanent directors are never elected, the majority landowners can pick successor temporary directors. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3037/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3037/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Judith Zaffirini. The bill creates La Cima Municipal Management District No. 1, a new special district covering several tracts in Hays County tied to the City of San Marcos, governed by five named initial directors who are later elected. The district can levy assessments on property owners, ask voters to approve property taxes, borrow money, issue bonds, run economic development loan and grant programs, contract for police services, and use eminent domain only if the Act passes by a two-thirds vote. Landowners and future residents inside the district become subject to a new layer of local assessments, taxes and debt, and the law takes effect immediately or on September 1, 2025. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5664/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5664/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Cole Hefner. This bill changes how the Wood County Central Hospital District runs. It adds a seventh director to the hospital board, lets the board pick the district's banks from inside or outside the county, and limits district investments to those allowed under state public-funds investment law. It also drops the yearly audit and the duty to file the audit with the comptroller, so the board can now go up to three years between independent audits. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5663/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5663/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Cole Hefner. The bill lets the Wood County Central Hospital District create a separate brain and memory health care services district covering the same territory. The new district gets a seven-member unpaid board appointed by the hospital district board, a paid administrator and staff, and a contract with the hospital district that sets its funding. It can run facilities, hire staff and work with nonprofits, but it cannot levy taxes or issue bonds, and the hospital district can dissolve it at any time. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5662/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5662/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Gary Gates. This bill gives Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 12 the power to build, finance and maintain roads and road drainage, and to issue bonds to pay for them. It touches property owners inside the district, who would repay road bonds through property taxes, and the local governments that may take over the finished roads. Road debt backed by property taxes is capped at one-fourth of the assessed value of real property in the district, and the roads must meet local city or county standards. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5661/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5661/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Gary Gates. This bill creates Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 286 on about 177 acres of land in Fort Bend County, with five named temporary directors. The district can build water, drainage and road projects and pay for them with bonds backed by property taxes that have no limit on rate or amount. It cannot hold its confirmation election or issue bonds until the City of Rosenberg consents and a development agreement is signed, and it loses eminent domain power if the bill fails to get a two-thirds vote. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1535/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1535/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Kitzman. This bill applies Sunset Advisory Commission recommendations to the Trinity River Authority of Texas and sets its next sunset review for 2037. It touches the authority's board by adding one at-large director, shortening terms from six to four years, letting the Governor pick the board president, and listing grounds for removing a director. It also requires board training before directors can vote, a complaint-handling system, public comment policies, a mandatory general manager, and a clear split between board policy and staff management. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1530/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1530/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Kitzman. The bill renews Sunset review for the Sabine River Authority of Texas, moving its next review to 2037, and has the Governor pick the board president. It sets grounds for removing a director, requires new directors to finish training before they can vote, and makes the board hire a manager. It also requires the authority to keep a complaint system, let the public speak at board meetings, and separate board policy work from staff management, starting September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1525/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1525/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Kitzman. The bill applies Sunset Advisory Commission recommendations to the Lower Neches Valley Authority and pushes its next sunset review out to 2037. It touches the authority's board of directors and general manager by letting the governor pick the board president, setting grounds for removing a director, and requiring training before a director can vote. On the ground, directors must finish training by December 1, 2025, and the authority must keep a complaint system and give the public a chance to speak at board meetings. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1520/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB1520/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Stan Kitzman. The bill renews the Angelina and Neches River Authority under the state's sunset review, pushes its next review to 2037, and adds Sunset Advisory Commission governance rules. It touches the authority's board of directors, its general manager, the governor, and members of the public who deal with the authority. On the ground, directors must finish training before they can vote after December 1, 2025, the governor picks the board president, directors can be removed for set reasons like missing too many meetings, and the authority must run a public testimony policy and a complaint system. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2409/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2409/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. César Blanco. This bill continues the Angelina and Neches River Authority under Sunset review until 2037 and adds standard governance rules for its board. It touches the authority's appointed directors, its general manager, and members of the public who deal with the authority. Directors must complete training before voting after December 1, 2025, the governor picks the board president, removal grounds are spelled out, and the authority must run a public testimony policy and a complaint system. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2408/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2408/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Tan Parker. The bill renews the state's periodic sunset review of the Trinity River Authority, now set for 2037 and every 12 years after, and adds one more governor-appointed director at large, bringing the board to 25. It sets grounds for removing a director, requires new directors to finish training before they can vote, and makes the governor pick the board president while the board must hire a general manager. The authority must also run a complaint system, let the public speak at board meetings, and separate board policy work from staff management, starting September 1, 2025, with sitting directors given until December 1, 2025 to finish training. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5660/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5660/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Sergio Muñoz Jr.. The bill orders the board of the El Milagro Management District to dissolve the district within 60 days after the law takes effect. It touches the district's board, its property owners, and anyone holding the district's bonds. If the district owes bond debt, it stays alive only to wind down and must use its money to pay off that debt as soon as practical, and the bill's own text expires September 1, 2027. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB74/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB74/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Eddie Morales. The bill creates the Puerto Verde Port Authority District, a new special district in Maverick County with five named initial directors, to run a port of entry, toll bridges, rail, parking and economic development projects. It covers roughly 3,300 acres of tracts that the bill describes as conveyed to two named private companies, plus property owners and voters inside those lines. The district can levy assessments with an owner petition, levy taxes and back bonds with taxes after a voter election, issue revenue bonds without an election, make loans and grants of public money, and take land by eminent domain if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Reviewed. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees, Carve-out. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5659/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5659/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Jay Dean. The bill requires the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District to hold a public hearing, with notice and a chance for anyone to speak, before it signs certain water contracts or acquires a water appropriation permit. It also requires that each member city entitled to appoint a director approve the deal by majority vote of its governing body before the district can go ahead. Starting September 1, 2025, the district's water deals face public input and a veto from each member city. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5658/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5658/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Jared Patterson. This bill creates the Craver Ranch Municipal Management District No. 1 on about 2,801 acres in Denton County, with a five-member board named in the bill. It affects property owners inside the district, who can be charged assessments that become a first lien on their land once owners of a majority of assessed value petition for a project. The district can borrow, issue bonds without an election, make loans and grants of public money for economic development, and use limited eminent domain if the bill passes by two-thirds, but it cannot levy a property tax and cannot act until a development agreement with the city is signed. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3036/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3036/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brandon Creighton. This bill creates Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 258 on about 416 acres of land described in the bill, and lets it issue bonds and impose taxes, fees and assessments. The owners of a majority of the land's assessed value pick the five temporary directors by petition, and the state environmental commission must appoint them, until residents elect a permanent board. Once local voters approve, the district can build water, drainage and road projects and repay bonds with property taxes that have no rate limit, though it loses eminent domain power if the bill does not pass by a two-thirds vote. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3035/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3035/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brandon Creighton. The bill creates a new water control and improvement district covering about 480 acres in Montgomery County, with power to build water, sewer, drainage, roads and recreational facilities. Majority landowners petition the state environmental agency to appoint five temporary directors, who then hold an election to confirm the district and elect permanent directors, after any affected city consents. Once confirmed and voter-approved, the district can levy property taxes, impose fees and issue bonds, including ad valorem bonds with no rate limit, and has limited eminent domain power. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3034/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3034/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Paul Bettencourt. The bill names a stretch of State Highway 249 between FM 1774 in Montgomery County and State Highway 105 in Grimes County the Doug Pitcock Aggie Expressway. It touches the Texas Department of Transportation, which must design and put up signs at each end and along the route, subject to existing sign-funding rules. Nothing else changes on the ground beyond the new name and markers, starting September 1, 2025. Initial review. Tags: Renaming and ceremonial. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5657/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5657/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Carrie Isaac. The bill rewrites the legal boundary of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County, replacing the old map with a long list of surveyed tracts. It also confirms every past act, election and proceeding of the district, unless a court has struck it down or a pending lawsuit ends up striking it down. Landowners inside the listed tracts are inside the district, and the district's past actions are protected from challenge over defects in how they were taken. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5656/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5656/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Suleman Lalani. This bill creates Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 263, a new special taxing district covering four tracts of land in Fort Bend County. It touches the landowners and future residents inside those tracts, who will be governed by a five-member board that starts as directors picked by the majority landowners and appointed by the state environmental commission. Once voters confirm it, the district can build water, sewer, drainage and road projects, issue bonds, and impose taxes and fees to pay for them, including a bond tax with no cap on rate or amount. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3033/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3033/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Judith Zaffirini. The bill redraws the boundaries of the Creedmoor Municipal Utility District in Travis County by replacing its original territory description with four new tracts totaling roughly 358 acres. It touches the landowners named in the field notes, the district, and anyone who pays the district's taxes or holds its bonds. On the ground, the district's map changes and every past act, election and proceeding of the district is ratified unless a court has struck it down or strikes it down in pending litigation. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3032/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3032/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Brandon Creighton. The bill renames the Sabine Pass Port Authority in Jefferson County as the Port of Sabine Pass and moves its five commissioners from two-year to staggered four-year terms, with a fresh election in May 2026. It changes commissioner pay from up to $50 a day of service to a flat $600 a month, and it swaps the port's own $25,000 competitive-bid rule for the general Water Code purchasing rules. It also lets the port use, develop and lease its land for economic development, housing, recreation and industry, and lets it back bonds with contract payments such as payments made in place of taxes under tax abatement deals. Initial review. Tags: Caption mismatch. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5655/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5655/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Gary Gates. This bill creates a new water control and improvement district covering about 911 acres of unincorporated Fort Bend County land, run by a five-member board. It touches the landowners and future residents inside the district, who can be taxed once voters approve, and nearby cities whose consent is needed before the district's confirmation election. On the ground, the district can build and finance drainage, roads and recreational facilities, issue bonds, and levy taxes with no cap on rate or amount to repay voter-approved bonds. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2407/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2407/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Kevin Sparks. The bill applies Sunset Advisory Commission recommendations to the Lower Neches Valley Authority and pushes its next sunset review from 2025 to 2037. It lets the governor pick the board president, sets grounds for removing a director, requires new directors to finish training before they can vote, and requires policies on public testimony and complaints. Board members who have not finished the training lose their vote starting December 1, 2025, and the public gets a set way to speak and to file complaints with the authority. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5654/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5654/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Will Metcalf. This bill creates a new municipal utility district, Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 263, over about 87 acres in Montgomery County. It touches landowners and future residents inside that tract, because the owners of most of the land's value pick the five temporary directors, and voters inside the district must approve the district and any property tax. Once confirmed, the district can build water, sewer, drainage and road projects, issue bonds, and levy taxes to pay for them, starting January 1, 2026. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2406/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB2406/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Angela Paxton. This bill carries out the Sunset Advisory Commission's review of the Sabine River Authority of Texas and sets its next review for 2037. It touches the authority's board of directors and its manager: the Governor now picks the board president, directors can be removed for set reasons like missing more than half the meetings, and new directors cannot vote until they finish training. On the ground, the authority must hire a manager, keep a complaint-handling system, let the public speak at board meetings, and separate board policy work from staff management, starting September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5653/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5653/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Shelley Luther. The bill rewrites who sits on the Grayson County juvenile board, making it the county judge and the district judges in the county. It also lets the county judge add a judge of a county court at law to the board. It touches only Grayson County's juvenile board and takes effect September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3031/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3031/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 reworked By Sen. Joan Huffman. The bill raises more aggravated assault cases from a second-degree felony to a first-degree felony, mainly in drive-by shootings. The first-degree level would now reach a shooter who is inside a vehicle or directly on the way to or from one, and who fires at a home, building or vehicle and causes any bodily injury, causes property damage, or puts someone in fear of imminent serious bodily injury. People charged with aggravated assault in those situations would face the higher punishment for offenses committed on or after September 1, 2025. Initial review. Filed before: 88R HB 3062 (died in committee). https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5652/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5652/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Will Metcalf. This bill creates a new municipal utility district, Montgomery County MUD No. 258, covering about 416 acres of mostly undeveloped land in Montgomery County. It lets landowners holding a majority of the land's value name five temporary directors, whom the state environmental agency must appoint, and it gives the district power to build water, drainage and road projects. Once voters inside the district approve, it can levy property taxes, charge fees and issue bonds backed by a tax with no cap on rate or amount, and it gets limited eminent domain power if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5651/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5651/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Will Metcalf. The bill creates a new water control and improvement district covering about 480 acres of private land in Montgomery County, run by a five-member board. The landowners holding most of the land's value pick the first temporary directors, and the state environmental commission must appoint them; local voters must then confirm the district and elect permanent directors, and any city with the land inside its limits or reach must consent first. Once in place, the district can build water, sewer, drainage, road and recreation projects. It can issue bonds, and with voter approval it can levy property taxes, including a bond tax with no cap on rate or amount. Its use of eminent domain is limited outside its borders. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5650/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5650/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Lulu Flores. This bill creates a new municipal utility district, Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 40, covering about 56 acres of land described tract by tract in the bill. It touches the landowners in that area, who get to name the five temporary directors through a petition to the state environmental commission, and the future residents who will vote on and pay the district's taxes and debt. Once local voters confirm the district, it can build water, drainage and road projects, issue bonds, and levy property taxes with no cap on rate or amount to repay voter-approved bonds. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3030/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3030/ Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Judith Zaffirini. This bill creates Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 40, a new local water and road district covering about 56 acres of land described in the bill. Landowners holding a majority of the land's assessed value get to pick five temporary directors, and the state environmental agency must appoint them. Once voters confirm it, the district can borrow by issuing bonds, impose taxes, fees and assessments to build utilities and roads, and it keeps eminent domain power only if the bill passes by a two-thirds vote. Needs review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5649/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5649/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Sergio Muñoz Jr.. The bill changes the jurisdiction of county courts at law in Hidalgo County, removing the $750,000 cap on civil cases and dropping the word "concurrent" so these courts get the jurisdiction the constitution and general law give district courts in family and civil cases regardless of amount. It touches litigants, lawyers and judges in Hidalgo County. Starting with cases filed on or after September 1, 2025, Hidalgo County courts at law can hear civil cases of any dollar amount. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5648/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5648/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Gary Gates. This bill creates a new water control and improvement district on about 911 acres of land in Fort Bend County. It names five temporary directors, lets the district build water, sewer, drainage, roads and recreation facilities, and lets it impose taxes and issue tax-backed bonds once voters approve them, while bonds backed by other revenue or contract payments need no election. Residents and future homebuyers inside the district would pay district taxes, including an uncapped tax to repay bonds, once the voter-approval elections are held. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3029/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/SB3029/ Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Sen. Tan Parker. The bill lets the Far North Fort Worth Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Tarrant and Wise Counties set up special defined areas inside the district, even if they fall below the state's usual minimum acreage and even if the land is not connected. It touches property owners and future residents in those areas, who can be taxed and saddled with bond debt for improvements that mainly serve their area. On the ground, the district gets new ways to borrow and tax piece by piece across scattered tracts, starting immediately or on September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5647/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5647/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 reworked By Rep. Mihaela Plesa. The bill orders the state comptroller to send a one-time $500 payment to every eligible Texas resident who applies. To qualify, a person must be 18 or older, live in Texas and be lawfully present, and not be incarcerated when applying. Up to an estimated $15 billion would come out of the state's rainy day fund, and the payments only happen if two-thirds of each chamber votes for it. Initial review. Filed before: 88R HB 5301 (died in committee). https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5646/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5646/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Terry M. Wilson. This bill requires every public college and university in Texas to charge in-state tuition to any student enrolled in and in good standing with a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, and to members of the corps of cadets at a senior military college. It touches ROTC students and cadets, including those who would otherwise pay out-of-state rates, and the schools that lose that higher tuition. Starting with the spring 2026 semester, these students pay in-state rates no matter where they come from. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5645/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5645/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Janis Holt. The bill lengthens the term of the chair of a county ethics commission from six months to one year. It touches county ethics commissions and the members they pick as chair. Starting September 1, 2025, a newly selected chair serves a full year instead of half a year, while chairs picked before that date finish their old six-month terms. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5644/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5644/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Mihaela Plesa. The bill sets up a Mass Violence Care Fund, run by the Attorney General, inside the state's existing victims' compensation fund to repay people hurt in an intentional attack that injures three or more people in a public place. It reaches people physically present who suffered physical, emotional or psychological injury, plus the spouse, child, parent, sibling, guardian or household member of anyone injured or killed, and it adds a Governor-appointed advisory board and an annual report. Only investment earnings may be paid out, earnings are reinvested until the fund reaches a threshold amount that the Attorney General sets in consultation with the Comptroller, and a victim's eligibility does not begin until the second year mark after the event. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees, Delayed start. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5643/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5643/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 reworked By Rep. Briscoe Cain. The bill rewrites Texas hemp rules by adding a 5 percent retail tax on consumable hemp products, new testing and labeling requirements, child-resistant packaging, and limits on kid-friendly shapes and cartoon packaging. It makes selling intoxicating hemp products to anyone under 21 a Class C misdemeanor offense, requires age checks for online sales, and bars hemp-growing licenses on land owned by governments, companies or citizens of China, Iran, North Korea or Russia. Sellers and distributors must register, tax money goes into a new state account for enforcement, youth mental health, drug prevention and dementia research, and retailers get a good-faith defense and can keep selling existing inventory until new rules take effect. Initial review. Tags: New fee, fund, board or appointees, The hole. Filed before: 88R HB 4439 (died in committee). https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5642/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5642/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Josey Garcia. The bill requires real estate license holders to give home buyers a written notice explaining transfer on death deeds at their first substantive conversation about a specific home, and to tell buyers in writing at the offer signing that they may execute one. It touches real estate agents and brokers, home buyers of houses, small multiplexes and condos, and the Texas Real Estate Commission, which must write the notice text by rule and post it online. Starting January 1, 2026, agents must hand out or email this notice and keep a link to it on their advertising websites, with exceptions for buyers already represented and open-house conversations. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5641/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5641/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Josey Garcia. The bill orders the Texas Commission on the Arts to set up a grant program that pays for disability-access upgrades at children's theatres. Only nonprofit corporations in good standing that show a real need can apply, and theatres that give free shows with schools or involve children with disabilities in productions get priority. Grant money can be spent only on making theatre buildings more accessible to people with disabilities, and the program takes effect September 1, 2025. Initial review. https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5640/ https://session.currentrevolt.ai/bills/89R/HB5640/ Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 By Rep. Aicha Davis. The bill adds one exemption to Section 51.3525 of the Education Code, the existing rule that governs how public colleges and universities award scholarships and grants. Scholarships and grants paid for only with private money or private endowments would no longer be covered by that section. Public colleges could award privately funded aid outside that section's limits, while aid paid with any public money would still fall under it. Initial review. Tags: Caption mismatch.