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344 bills
One industry, one license class or one named entity gets the benefit or the exemption.
Receipt: The clause that names or defines the beneficiary.
Checked at the filing stage.
Plus the Brazos Pump Station and contracts, by January 1, 2026. Price? The text states none.
Filed May 5, 2025
About 3,300 acres in Maverick County. Toll bridges, rail, and revenue bonds with no election.
Filed Mar 31, 2025
Run time goes 48 to 96 hours and size 2.5 to eight megawatts. The sales ban is dropped.
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
Every other generator still pays its overruns. Any reactor under 1,400 megawatts counts as “advanced.”
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
At least $10M a budget cycle, in patches one square mile or smaller. State-linked nonprofits only.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption says distribution. Sharing how to get the pills counts too. At least $100K per violation!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: supervision. Bill: only pain management physicians may run a pain clinic.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
6718 Calm Lake Road, to The Center for Health Care Services.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Application fee up to $375. Compliant advances escape Texas lending and wage-assignment laws.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Producers get tort immunity too. Drilling-only limit dropped, so any beneficial use counts.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Damages start at $10K, up from $5K. Challenging a lender still means court.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Schools only for 90 days. Outside buyer wins? Schools get 14 days to match.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Three named university units get the training contracts. The office doesn’t pick. Pilot ends 2030.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Banks get to manage public money too. Pools are barred from royalty or sponsorship deals.
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
Sold the loan? The lender claims it instead. Seller-financed sales left out.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption: “clarity and certainty.” Bill: providers keep waste and abuse payments after four years!
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.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Some partial terms stop counting. Plus tax-free natural gas for other exempt vehicles in emergencies.
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
Homeland security grant to the Reese Redevelopment Authority. Capitol facility spending also skips competitive bidding.
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
Zone tax revenue can flow to every designated project. Caption: local government corporations. Bill: never mentions them.
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
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
Grants go to protocols that “replenish deficient or insufficient brain chemistry to an optimal level.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fallback effective date: September 1, 2015! Utilities, pipelines and cable skip the assessments.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Full property tax exemption. Vitamins count as perishable, no spoilage test needed!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
As long as they don’t wire it in. Cities can’t ban it.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Grant money follows accreditation from listed private groups, two of them Texas associations.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pick one tag to remove on release. Not both.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Deals signed by August 31, 2019 keep the old rules. Everyone else gets the changes.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A 90-day exclusive window, then 14 days to match any better outside offer.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Won federal credits in 2021 or 2022, land owned since 2022? Front of the line!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
TxDOT writes the rules and runs the program.
Noted, not charged
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
Licensed, taxed at 10%, and the regulator can’t limit contest types or call one gambling.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only sellers whose sole authority is a winery permit or brewer’s license. Everyone else keeps paying.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only operators with several subsidiaries get it. Recycling pit operators can self-insure, too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Abuse suits get 35 years to file. Groups with a “safe environment program” keep 30!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Roof, hood, trunk: an offense. Bed rider 18 or older? A defense, garbage crews too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: “certain municipalities.” Bill: one that borders Lake Lewisville and is a certified Dark Sky Community.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Groups 51% publicly funded open up. The Legislature’s own records “are not subject to Chapter 552.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: contracts and payroll. Bill: also state approval of trustee training, and no advocacy in continuing education.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: carry rights. Bill: no security license needed, and no prohibited places either.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Greyhound tracks in good standing have until 2030 to switch, and the commission “shall approve.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Wind, solar and nuclear fund teacher raises. The rate is based on the natural gas severance tax!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
15 seats become 17. One sheriff for oilfield steel theft, one oil and gas rep.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Deer belong to the people of the state. Unless they’re behind your fence!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State immunity waived. The movement limit stops 10 feet from the infected pen!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Suing over care there? Ordinary negligence won’t cut it.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee’s own background says Breakthrough is a nonprofit. The program must work with one.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only new entrants pay. They also must show the area needs another facility.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Listed fuels skip the human-control test and qualify by definition. Battery storage stays shut out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Studies dollar collapse and a contingency currency. Delivers draft bills. Must consult private firms.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Someone else’s criminal act? No civil, administrative or criminal liability under the Water Code.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis cites $217.8M generated in 2024. The bill lets Austin’s festival seek state reimbursement.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The new council must promote the system’s seminar. Its officer chairs the council first.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The good-faith shield for commission officials now covers racetracks, horsemen’s groups and anyone regulated.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
To hold the agency liable for a worker, harmed kids must prove a skipped safety step.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “more attractive.” Big projects get the school tax break, jobs optional!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
CT angiography with AI plaque analysis replaces cheaper calcium scoring. Cap rises to $2,000!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For taxes, security tech property is only temporarily in Texas. Leftover assets go to Texas Tech.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The public owns Texas wildlife. Behind a high fence, the deer become the landowner’s.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Restrictions stay near the infected pen. Owners must appeal before suing when an order isn’t lifted.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
At least 35 percent, starting September 1, 2026. Banks can also manage local public money.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Contract prices go public. Engineers and architects get a shield on staffing and work approach.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Population 47,000 or more, in two counties of set sizes. The author’s statement says it’s Burleson.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Personal lines policies for groups of 10 or more.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Awards tied up in lawsuits get rescored under the new rules, and the top score wins.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No new awards until the next Sunset review, unless a current company walks away.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Paid for with 10 percent of the manufactured housing sales tax. Live there three years.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For children in state custody. Grants to open them, and the exemption survives state money.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Hurt by an employed doctor? Sue the doctor alone. The organization is off the hook.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Training on faces, voiceprints and fingerprints skips consent rules, unless it’s to identify a specific person.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
After four years, providers keep Medicaid money lost to waste or abuse. Even on older payments!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One bond covers every subsidiary. Cheaper options like self-insurance count too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Use driverless cars and the whole company is out of this section. Cities can’t add rules.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Minors need parental consent for every download. Apps run by nonprofit test makers get a pass.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One sitting at state cost. A 71 out of 120 counts toward top 10 percent admission.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
25-plus years, back in a governor-appointed post. Checks pause while they serve, then the annuity grows.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
A spaceport city under 150,000 handles weekday beach closures. The county keeps weekends.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The state must consult the Texas Humane Legislation Network on design. Plus unnamed animal-welfare plates.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Emerging thermal dispatchable plants qualify at 10 megawatts. Every other plant still needs 100.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The statement of intent calls it “attainable housing.” A population bracket aims it at one large county.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
At least 25 years old, highway-legal with basics like headlamps and wipers. Built elsewhere? No relief.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Board members serve longer too, since partial terms stop counting toward term limits.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
One private group, the American Art Therapy Association, gets named as a continuing education provider.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Caption: provisional licensing. Bill: no “provisional” anywhere. Base child care skips the Texas license!
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Teachers and county clerks pay dues some other way. Charity deductions survive.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The bill’s findings promise “needed capital” for borrowers. The administrator needs at least 15 years’ experience.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Hospitals face up to $250K a violation. Nursing facilities and home health agencies are exempt.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Retailers with city rebate deals can keep the old rule, so those cities keep the money.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Caption says “certain laws.” That means the manufactured home lot-rental rules, lifted for tiny home parks.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Natural gas, propane, diesel or hydrogen gets the break. Solar is shut out, and voters must approve.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Only groups made up entirely of police, firefighters and emergency medical workers keep it.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The board “may contract.” No funding, no deadline. Incarnate Word’s osteopathic school makes the list.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Providers treating pregnant and postpartum patients must take it, by rule.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Settlement money buys alternative fuel vehicles and upgrades to their own buildings. TCEQ counts the full price!
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Rental tax hits shared cars only if registered as rentals. Other rented cars still owe it.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Geothermal water systems join the list. So do improvements for utility businesses the PUC regulates.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Under-17 accounts can go to outside safety companies. Platforms that follow the rules get a damages shield.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Local governments can’t disqualify a vendor for working in, or with, fossil fuel energy.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
The committee analysis calls it grid and freshwater relief. The text sets no grid or water condition.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
The committee analysis calls it grid strength. No need to show they’d have built elsewhere.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Interconnection costs over the allowance skip the reactor owner. Who pays instead? The bill doesn’t say.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
12 straight months in a listed elite job, then carry free of the general rules.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Cities and counties can’t screen out bidders over oil or gas ties. No other industry gets it.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Damages for a fake filing start at $10,000, and any injured person can sue.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Only a group around before 2024 qualifies. Local governments lose up to 15% of their 2023 take.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
The statement of intent promises grid relief. The text requires no grid or freshwater benefit.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Sound wall blocking the billboard? It moves, with a special exception to city rules.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
May becomes must. The state comptroller gets skipped, and a late company pays 10% a day!
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Before, the phone utility paid. Now it’s city right-of-way fees, for cable lines too.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Over 70,000 people, two counties, 90% in one over 800,000, the rest in one over 4M.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Over 90,000 people, a Gulf bay, the Guadalupe River. Up to 7%, some for the airport.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Companies pay annually for permits and get protection for unauthorized disclosure of data held by public entities.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Three named videos, shown if publicly available. Lessons include that life begins at fertilization.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
The city or county posts it. Enforcement? The attorney general sues the city or county.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 10, 2025
The Washington-on-the-Brazos Historical Foundation gets state-money deals and fees. Donor names stay confidential.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Charities may divert county and city prize-fee money to it. Plus a tax exemption.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
They can do the same post-fire demolition and skip every contract, filing and deceptive-practice rule.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Unlisted project types, like (i)(b), never have to show they wouldn’t have come to Texas anyway.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Also: staff purchase limit goes from $100K to $500K, and closed security meetings need no record.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
City must be under 150,000 with a spaceport. And no local government may regulate space flight.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
About 40 specialty titles too. Fines run up to $1K a day per violation.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Caption: “a portion of the Edwards Aquifer.” Bill: Medina County, and only Medina County.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Caption: “certain firearm owners.” Bill: nearly all. Repeat violators can be barred from possessing one!
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Filled from the Texas Food and Fuel Association’s own list. Nonvoting, so conflict-of-interest bars don’t apply!
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Who fits? A city with over 70 percent of a 1.5M-plus county, or 2M-plus people.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Delivered, accepted, under warranty? The reserved funds can’t be held.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Caption: perishable. Bill: also over-the-counter drugs and vitamins, never tied to spoilage. Starts 2026, if voters agree.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Cities of 900K to 2M. City and state each match the district’s assessment revenue, county adds half.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Buried cable inside existing road right-of-way skips the state notice.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Other projects must hit 110% of the industry average. Applications post only after an agreement arrives.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Only “air impermeable insulation” qualifies. Hit R-20 or R-26, and cities can’t ask for more.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Navigation districts and port authorities join the exemption. Other government bodies remain covered.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
A “good faith effort” also earns a shorter deadline and a higher proof bar. No audit.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
The rest of the stadium’s cap rises from 666 to 670 feet. Four view corridors, deleted!
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Large light water reactors count as “advanced.” Up to $200M a project, applications confidential.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
The Washington-on-the-Brazos Historical Foundation, by name, can charge fees. Donor names for the Friends group are shielded.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Comments answered within 120 days. Challengers are held to the exact reasons they list.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Caption: Medicaid and CHIP. Bill: financial and food aid too, plus household members.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Exempt for any purpose. Operators pay a 10 percent monthly tax on Texas net receipts.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Caption: fetal development. Bill: life begins at fertilization, plus three named videos yearly.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Permit holders too. And stacking up many injuries no longer counts as a public nuisance.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
State reimbursement, no out-of-state site to beat. Penske Entertainment makes the approved list too.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Labels holding an artist’s “exclusive personal services” contract can sue. $5,000 to $25,000 per work!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Cities and counties lose most of their say, airports aside. TxDOT runs a benefits campaign too!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
No IQ test to qualify for Medicaid 1915(c) waiver benefits.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Peace officers and servicemembers already had it. Judges join the list.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 6, 2025
The city pays, out of the right-of-way fees it collects. The caption never says who pays.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Louder events need a paid permit. Electric and gas utilities are exempt from the rules.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
State event money, no need to beat out other states for the race. Other events must.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
New links face new steps. One project, named by docket number, still gets approved within 185 days.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Haul the animal waste out of the impairment zone, credit the cost. Capped at half the tax.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
The Texas Humane Legislation Network helps. Report due September 1, 2026. Grant changes wait.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Caption: a council and a lab. Bill: chosen testers may skip restitution and get “reduced civil penalties.”
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Every other plant needs 100 megawatts for a completion bonus grant. Geothermal needs 10!
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Owners face the sterilization rule on the second pickup. Licensed breeders get more than two!
Filed Mar 5, 2025
FDA order or qualifying application filed before September 8, 2020. Then $2,500 per product, every year.
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Your voice, your face, your right. Labels holding exclusive artist contracts can sue too!
Filed Mar 5, 2025
The only change: “gas” includes hydrogen. Hydrogen sales can go untaxed starting September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
City of 130,000 to 150,000 across three counties. Winery permit issued by May 1, 2010!
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Face scans and voiceprints for AI are fair game, unless used to identify someone.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Caption: “certain gas.” Bill: hydrogen. One sentence, and hydrogen buyers get the exemption.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Once delivered, accepted and under warranty, the money can’t be held back.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 4, 2025
One list entry plus a 130K floor. That one city gets the larger cities’ hotel project powers.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Only leaf, powder and clear capsules stay on shelves. Drinks banned, Texas labs only, fines 10x!
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Private schools sit next to colleges, banks and small businesses on the exempt list.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Auction costs go on power bills yearly. Objections get 15 days, rules and math only.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
The state helps pay its application fees. No certification, no state money for the course.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Cities retain rules for similarly situated lots. A population bracket protects a law-enforcement training area.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Only groups with 3% dues-paying membership by September 1, 2025 qualify. Latecomers need not apply.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Units at 2% of population or less owe just property value. Failed vote? Retry in two years.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
No reason given. Everyone else wears photo badges and faces fines up to $10,000.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Grades 6 to 12. The task force must include experts from a national rifle association.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
One beneficiary: the Bishop Arts District in Dallas. Signs up by September 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
$50 becomes $150 per student! Rural partnerships’ program-of-study rule waits until 2027.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Japanese minis 25 or older get plates and highway access. Other small vehicles don’t.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Build or launch rockets from Texas, pay no franchise tax. Every other business still pays.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Pregnant and alone in the car still counts.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Every plan that passes the checks gets a contract. Incumbents keep theirs in the meantime.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
There first? Not liable for the shaking. Grayson County kiln permits freeze within 10 miles.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Occupancy limits still apply. No other city rule on running pre-K does.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
The caption never names the industry. Chapter 1304 providers are out, plus written cancel-anytime services.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Run a licensed spaceport with a defense launch contract, owe no franchise tax at all!
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Passing along a design file is a Class A misdemeanor. Licensed manufacturers keep printing.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Fund a political committee, still claim the exemption. Only groups that are or formed one stay barred.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
PPO insurers treat the direct fee as a covered service.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Caption: any on-site generator. Bill: fuel burners in a factory “sound attenuating enclosure” only.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
The regulation: cities and counties “may not” regulate. User data needs a subpoena or court order.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Steel also joins the overweight-axle defense that used to cover only farm and timber loads.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Only air-impermeable insulation qualifies, at R-20 or R-26. Cities can’t demand more for those homes.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Caption: a civic education consortium. Bill: only historically black colleges can join, and get the grants.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Caption: public purpose designation. Bill: the tenant’s leasehold or possessory interest goes untaxed.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Damages only with intent. Skipping the 10 percent holdback on houses up to four units isn’t misuse.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Caption: “certain electric generators.” Bill: every source but gas and coal. The money funds teacher raises.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Charities need three years of school and online fatherhood programs, and no abortion information.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
After the 2026 election. Religious materials are fully exempt. Penalties up to $10,000 per violation.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
Plus 10 years and a Texas office. Later appeals can cost 33 percent of past-due benefits.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
Steel joins timber and farm loads in the 12 percent overweight defense!
Filed Feb 24, 2025
When water or wetlands get in the way. Plus tax revenue the state would otherwise keep.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
The new police status applies to investigators of the Dallas inspector general.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
No tort liability for treatment, later use or byproduct exposure. Gross negligence suits survive.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Caption: any municipal office of inspector general. Bill: “for the City of Dallas.”
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Hands-on practice becomes required for all CPR instruction.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Left on September 1, 2022, with 500 or fewer employees? Come back, pay what the trustee says.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Population 7,000 or more, plus one named lake. The caption just says “certain municipalities.”
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Height cap: 666 to 670 feet. North end: no cap at all! Four views dropped.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Resale stock comes from vendors of its choosing. The caption skips the bidding waiver.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
One grant for one nonprofit with over 75 years of research. Report due after the election.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
One more goal on a list. No duty, no deadline, no money.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “economic development.” One city keeps state tax money an extra decade.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Each child’s account gets about 85 percent of average per-student funding. Providers aren’t state actors.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Vendors register every three years. Denials they flag don’t count as adverse determinations under that law.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Caption: the right to hire a public adjuster. Bill: fewer policyholders have it.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Insurers pay for them unless you sign a form. The repair money goes to vehicle makers.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
The usual is 10. The repayment check moves from year 20 to year 40!
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Visits for anything but their own care need approval. The damages shield covers unapproved ones too.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
You sign a notice saying it isn’t regulated insurance. Old conditions wait up to six months.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
No tort liability for later treatment, use or byproduct exposure. Gross negligence and intentional acts excepted.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
They join the list exempt from Section 102.001. Contracts may provide per-referral fees.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Money taken “before a game commences” no longer counts as a benefit.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Spay or neuter at least 40 dogs a day, below market. No rural county needed.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
County seats of 5,000 to 25,000 only. One fiber technology gets priority.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Other open-space land still needs 5 of 7 years. Tax bills change in 2027, after the election.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Also needs a city of 130,000 to 150,000 in three counties. No newer winery ever qualifies!
Filed Feb 18, 2025
No money comes with the badge. Earning it takes a Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium contract.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
The State Highway 130 operator pays whatever it and the department agree on. No floor!
Filed Feb 14, 2025
One is the Texas Police Chiefs Association. Accreditation due by 2031, with grants up to $30,000.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Those utilities can move aquifer water outside the boundaries. Cutoff date: June 28, 1996.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Up to 40 years of debt. Once the attorney general approves, no court challenge.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Foster care’s main contractors skip the child-placing agency license. Their own subcontractors still need one.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
The committee analysis says claims “travel with that security.” Buying to sue is no defense.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Write a check to another exempt senior-housing group, call it charity. Local taxing units collect less.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
The purpose section calls it “in the public interest.” A pilot’s own negligence costs $1,000, tops!
Filed Feb 11, 2025
No reason given for picking that school. Plus a fund for grants to nuclear businesses.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
The regulation? Permission to get paid. No license, no disclosure duty, no penalty.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
15 agencies and ERCOT, every even year. The Houston Advanced Research Center consults on each.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
The board waives its fee and pays the vendor’s too.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Narrow pool. Contractors can take up to 33% of past-due benefits on later appeals.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
No more than one person’s prints per location. One set covers every site within 100 miles.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Liability insurance drops from $300K to $100K per occurrence! The tuberculosis test for kids goes too.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Every other seat needs a Texas resident. Funding: gifts and grants from any source.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Video over the internet, “including streaming content,” falls outside the cable and video rules.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Booking sites start collecting June 1, 2026. Hotels are off the hook for those rooms.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Dozens of property tax rules rewritten at once. Every appraisal district also gets a new ombudsman.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Eligibility opens to airports run jointly “with a public agency of another state.” Likely very few.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Fewer than 10,000 students, a county under 35,000 and a Minority Serving Institution designation, all at once!
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Caption: an authority and a permitting officer. Bill: also grants to nuclear businesses.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Caption: “certain persons.” Bill: big chains. One fingerprinted worker covers every location within 100 miles!
Filed Feb 5, 2025
This one city gets an open window. Its name? Section 351.152(14).
Filed Feb 4, 2025
Membership discount program prices stay out of the benchmark.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 4, 2025
The board runs the law school’s general management.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 4, 2025
Caption: nontolled projects. Bill: a toll concession extension, priced at whatever TxDOT and the company agree on.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
A shareholder needs $1,000,000 or three percent of voting shares.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Caption: good faith. Bill: plus a personal liability shield and a stricter pleading rule.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Only the few districts on federal military installations.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 31, 2025
Colleges offering coverage aren’t health insurers. Enrollees sign a notice saying it isn’t regulated insurance.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
If county voters approve, a new seven-member zoning commission. Every other landowner stays covered.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
Fee-for-service, capitation or a mix. And it’s not the business of insurance.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 30, 2025
The Museum of the Big Bend skips the distance and attendance limits every other attraction meets.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
Also, mobile home park rules for a Gulf of Mexico county over 370,000, beside one over 3.3M.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
The industry that pays the fees gets at least half the seats, up from 40%.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Also out: any service the seller says, in writing, you can cancel anytime.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Caption: public schools. Bill: private bus companies can get grants, and contracts stretch to 15 years.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Hand someone a hemp cosmetic? That’s a misdemeanor. The hemp licensing system is repealed.
Filed Jan 28, 2025
The manager-at-risk “may not be audited” on its winning bid. Risk-management charges count toward its fee.
Filed Jan 28, 2025
6.25 percent drops to 5.25. Capped at $400K a year, through 2027.
Filed Jan 28, 2025
Disclose fees, offer a free option, and Texas lending law doesn’t apply. Fees aren’t capped.
Filed Jan 27, 2025
Public improvement district projects. Up to two-thirds can be public money, still no bids!
Filed Jan 27, 2025
Flood control parts count. Drainage districts can apply.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Used even “partly” for a permitted purpose? No drought cuts without a study showing serious harm.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Wireline cable stays covered. Video “offered over the Internet, including streaming content” does not.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Every new system must be free to the board. Existing vendor deals keep getting paid.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
A deposit on most drinks, held in a producer consortium’s trust fund. Milk is exempt.
Filed Jan 23, 2025
Follow the rules and providers aren’t treated as lenders, money transmitters or debt collectors.
Filed Jan 23, 2025
Other owners who knowingly lie can be barred up to two years. Syndicators get a pass too.
Filed Jan 22, 2025
Vibrations 15 miles out count if they damage the plant. Max corporate fine: $1B, up from $500,000!
Filed Jan 17, 2025
One industry gets a 10-mile buffer from one other. Homes and schools get none.
Filed Jan 17, 2025
Even unaffected trade groups can sue and collect attorney’s fees. Cities can’t cap height below 40 feet.
Filed Jan 17, 2025
Caption: “authority.” Bill: “shall adopt and enforce.” Asking takes a paper permit and a 24-hour wait.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
Homes, schools, worship, parks covered, zoning or not.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 16, 2025
At least one residential zone. Silence for 45 days means approved.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 15, 2025
Tracking systems must cost boards nothing. Boards already paying a vendor can keep paying!
Filed Jan 14, 2025
Tuition and lab fees, for emergency medical services courses.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 9, 2025
The corporate recall ban now covers petition work. Cities must check petitions within 30 days.
Filed Jan 8, 2025
The “certain entities” are industrial uniform and linen rental companies. Lower rate starts January 1, 2027.
Filed Jan 8, 2025
Deposits start October 1, 2028. Milk and other dairy drinks skip the deposit.
Filed Jan 7, 2025
College students buy textbooks free of state sales tax in those windows.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 6, 2025
What was a low-level misdemeanor becomes a felony. EV chargers get ATM-level protection.
Filed Dec 30, 2024
Duties cover only AI “weighed more heavily than any other factor.” Biometric training gets a pass.
Filed Dec 23, 2024
Up from two years after a final forfeiture judgment.
Noted, not charged
Filed Dec 18, 2024
The agency can’t punish a skipped scan until September 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Dec 18, 2024
Every other seat is a general category. No service changes until lawmakers act.
Filed Dec 6, 2024
Up to $25M a year in state money through fiscal 2027. Sand and gravel, no permit.
Filed Dec 5, 2024
Check both boxes or no grant. How many groups qualify? The bill doesn’t say.
Filed Dec 2, 2024
Top salaries and budgets go online. Electric cooperatives, the grid organization and water supply corporations are exempt.
Filed Nov 25, 2024
The catch: one more year working in Texas child care.
Noted, not charged
Filed Nov 22, 2024
The insurance carrier has to rebut it.
Noted, not charged
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Caption: term limits for senators. Bill: senators get none. House and public members stay capped.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Of all dispatchable sources, only nuclear gets the extra premium. The caption never mentions it.
Filed Nov 19, 2024
Caption: regulation. Bill: an exemption. Prepaid funeral rules stop covering these agreements.
Filed Nov 18, 2024
Test an unproven app, and the consent form releases the provider “from all liability.”
Filed Nov 13, 2024
A new way to count assets to liabilities for recapture districts.
Noted, not charged
Filed Nov 12, 2024
These contracts leave both insurance and prepaid funeral rules.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: presumption of validity. Bill: also protection from lawsuits, prosecution and licensing discipline.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Every other seat is described by category. This one gets a name. Report due January 1, 2027.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: “certain cultural attractions”. Bill: the Museum of the Big Bend, distance and attendance limits waived.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: state savings. Bill: tuition grants up to 80% of average per-student spending. Savings test: low-tax filers only!
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Noted, not charged
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: “applicability.” Bill: regional and local programs move to the exempt list.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The device must use “Bluetooth technology, global positioning system technology” and more. Reads like a spec sheet.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Appointers consult groups like the Coalition for Aging LGBT. The only output is a report due 2026.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Faith-based nonprofits get a named role in building state-funded learning centers.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Also repeals a whole Local Government Code subchapter, with no word on what it does.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Grants only for home treatment to “replenish deficient or insufficient brain chemistry to an optimal level.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Buyer signs and carries the penalty risk. Title companies, lenders, agents and attorneys aren’t liable.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: an institute. Bill: breeders get paid, and other deer-transfer laws get overridden.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: “certain children.” Bill: kids in Region 20, taught the Pre-K 4 SA way.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Their stations can stay non-public. Only a handful of agencies fit the bracket.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Foster kids, 24 hours a day. Federal or state funding, minus the compliance.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption reads statewide. The commissioner runs it in collaboration with that one local initiative.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Proof comes from transaction data, deleted after. Gaming sites don’t count as social media!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Zero-interest home loans. The administrator must be a certified owner-builder provider with 15 years.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Every other lab is shut out, whatever other law says. Each result needs a second reader.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Permit holders used to pay. Now the department’s budget covers assessment, destruction and disposal.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Derived stock: 344 tagged measures in the 89R published record. Each measure counts once for this pattern. Snapshot Nov 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM CST.
A pattern tag is not a Certified scam grade. Grades, headlines and charges follow the published record.
Headline, summary and grade are analysis of the bill text, not a finding about any person.
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