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262 bills
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Statewide officials’ kids too, only while the parent holds office. Starts 2026-2027.
Noted, not charged
Filed Apr 28, 2025
Nothing starts until September 1, 2027. Full handover by January 1, 2028.
Filed Apr 24, 2025
Only investment earnings pay out, once the fund reaches a set threshold.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
$15 minimum wage, 60 days of parental leave. The leave waits until 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Counties of 100,000 or more must ask, yearly if refused. Deadline lands after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Most design practices are just shoulds. The only compliance check waits until 2028.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fire rules cover only batteries approved January 1, 2027 or later. Conflicting local rules? Void.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Aimed at the Capitol’s county and next door. Nobody elected before January 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plans due January 1, 2027, after the election. Taps over 15 parts per billion shut off.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Certificate rules due December 1, 2026, after the election. Supervisors get a liability shield.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Whether bays can be tapped waits for rules. Until then, applicants consult and summarize.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Existing ownership ties get until January 1, 2027. License penalties start the same day.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The board and an insurer fee up to 3% of premiums start in 2025 and 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
A 14-member commission draws the maps, starting with a census taken in 2030 or later.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Equal to federal border security repayments. Nothing requires the legislature to spend any of it!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Crossings get recommended. Actual crossing work waits on later action. This bill spends no money.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Mental health diagnoses, pregnancies, infant deaths, sorted by race. Not due until after the 2026 election.
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
Headquarters must sit in a coastal county. Nothing changes until January 1, 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No insurer offers a matching policy by October 1? No leave. None before 2027 either.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Rent discounts must reach 60% of the taxes skipped. School districts can no longer create these.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Then every clinic pays a new fee, unless the board decides to exempt it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The $100,000 grant cap waits too. Larger awards only if the legislature sets money aside.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Supervisors are shielded from most liability for supervisees’ acts. Certificate rules aren’t due until December 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Utility goals rise from 2027. The commission’s rules are due March 1 that year.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Extra tank weight, capped at 82,000 pounds. No federal change, no effect.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pregnant teens and young parents, 11 to 20. Up by January 1, 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Fallback effective date: September 1, 2015! Utilities, pipelines and cable skip the assessments.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Full program due September 1, 2027, after the November 2026 election. Other training duties carry no date.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
The statement of intent calls it “fair tax treatment.” Starts January 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
That’s after the November 2026 election. No notice sent? A failing complex still counts as compliant.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Private or contracted facilities the state pays get new rules.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 13, 2025
November 30 after each presidential election, everyone reapplies. Late registrars face fines up to $5K.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A plan for the Travis letter, Declaration and Constitution. The actual display? Optional!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ballots show the debt tax rate jump, but only for elections ordered after January 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Takes effect September 2025. The certification rule waits until after the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Parks to the Land Office, wildlife to Agriculture, game wardens to DPS. After the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Electronic titles, hull-damage brands, deadlines cut from 45 days to 20. All after the next general election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties start monthly in 2025. Statewide reports: January 31, 2027. Election: November 3, 2026.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Counties of 500,000-plus, cities of 200,000-plus. New rules must pass a housing-cost test first.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
It reaches local reports due September 1, 2027 or later.
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Report due September 1, 2026. The duty to act on it ends January 1, 2027!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: locational marginal pricing. Bill: flat caps falling to $30 by 2037, and a $0 floor.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Red 40 leaves school meals in 2027-2028. The SNAP rule can wait on a federal waiver.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Who, why, how long, mental health, self-harm, per prison. Nothing about solitary itself changes.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Nonsubstantive. Old session laws repealed.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Allied or adversary, hand over the passport. Gift ban starts after standards that have no deadline.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Bought or contracted before 2026? Keep flying it for five more years!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Licensing starts sooner. Unique body ID numbers can wait until after the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Kicks in January 1, 2027. Sole proprietorships are exempt, even ones with employees.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Five trustees are governor picks. Comply within 180 days or all state funding is withheld!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The board rules on each course by December 31, 2026. Voters go to the polls November 3.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The model with the lowest loss estimate wins. Coastal headquarters waits until 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Keep repairs in-house, share no manuals. Or offer a refund. The duty bites around September 2027.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Up from 6-1/4 percent. A private citizens board in every school district. School debt taxes until 2033.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Wind and solar must prove availability for the 100 highest-demand hours. ERCOT penalizes plants that fall short.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Last place drops until someone has a majority. The 2026 primaries keep the old system.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Loans begin by March 1, 2027. The program offers below-market interest rates.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Faculty senates go advisory and end October 1, 2025, unless the board ratifies them!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Due by the 2027-2028 school year, after the November 2026 election. Subcategories include Mexican and Irish.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Every plan that meets the standards gets a contract. No limit on plans per region.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Report due September 1, 2026. The whole Act expires January 1, 2027. Plenty of time!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Utilities “unable to meet the goal in a cost-effective manner” can be excused.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Study first. Guidelines by January 1, 2027. The whole law expires September 1, 2027!
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Cuts go as far as lawmakers fund them. Rainy day and highway money gets shared.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Defined as helping people who transitioned reconcile with biological sex. The renewal penalty waits until 2027.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Verified ages, parent approval for minors’ downloads. Nobody can sue before March 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
The committee analysis promises to “dismantle cartels.” Being at gang-linked “online locations” now counts.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
72 hours of backup power by 2026. Three one-year extensions later, it’s 2029.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Exception: a “site-to-site virtual private network.” Over the Internet? The text doesn’t say.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Article 1 “takes effect January 1, 2027.” That’s after the November 3, 2026 election.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Sale ban and printer offenses start in 2025. Builders wait until 2027. Fee: no amount stated.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
The 508th District starts September 30, 2027, after the next general election.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
End-of-course exams give way to tests like the Iowa Assessments. Starts with the 2027-2028 school year.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Approved course plus a commission exam. The law starts in 2025, the requirement in 2027.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Struck: “The summary is available to the public on request.” The caption never mentions it.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Pastured poultry and rotational grazing count. The comptroller writes guidelines for tracts under 10 acres.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Most of it starts in 2025. Registration waits until after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
A second probate court in 2026, an eleventh county court at law in 2027.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Welding and plumbing count. The $5M yearly cap stays, and the outcomes bonuses are repealed.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Nothing changes for patients. Report due December 1, 2026, task force gone September 1, 2027.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Plan due 2026. Poles get 20 years. A tree trim you request gets 30 days!
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Newcomers need a 40-hour course, an exam and fingerprints starting September 2025.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
An outside auditor rates every program. The bill itself cuts, merges or funds nothing.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Repeal waits until 2027, after the November 2026 election. The program keeps running meanwhile.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Program stays on the books through the next budget cycle, past the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Licenses move from DPS to Motor Vehicles January 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Housing and child care for one-year residents. Program due January 1, 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Leftovers can pay private college tuition. Rules due after the November 3, 2026 election.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
No right to challenge or reinstate. The first mass cancellation lands January 1, 2029!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Every pole gets an inspection deadline. Monthly updates follow, which can go yearly after 24 months.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
One within three minutes of anyone on campus.
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Designers registered without the exam had until 2027. Now 2037. Ten more years to pass it!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Effective in 2025, due in 2027. Covers trauma symptoms, attachment and psychotropic medication.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Safety duties apply only to battery sites that begin operating on or after January 1, 2027.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Its rules would bind Texas. Nothing starts until the 33rd state enacts it, then the 35th.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Employers with 1 to 50 workers qualify. Pay in from 2026, collect from 2027.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Rules in 2025, the goal by 2032. Utilities that can’t do it cheaply may get excused.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Sheriffs in counties of 100,000-plus must seek and sign ICE deals, by December 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Test, report, repeat. First report due December 31, 2026, after the election.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
New plans comply now. Existing ones keep their exemptions until September 2027, after the November 2026 election.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Foam users get until January 1, 2027, after the November 3, 2026 election.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Facilities must plan for outages. Penalties wait until January 1, 2027.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Its own formula sets the fee. Binding only once 35 states enact it. No date given.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
$50 becomes $150 per student! Rural partnerships’ program-of-study rule waits until 2027.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
The duties apply only to batteries approved for grid connection from January 1, 2027.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Needs EPA approval. Full elimination waits on Congress repealing or changing the Clean Air Act.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Mexican, Vietnamese, Nigerian, Irish. Starts in 2025. Deadline lands after the November 2026 election.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Every plan that passes the checks gets a contract. Incumbents keep theirs in the meantime.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Rent discount worth under 60 percent of the skipped taxes? No break that year.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Penalties up to $50,000 a day per product. Labels from before 2027 are grandfathered for good.
Corrected Nov 3, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Until 2030, nothing changes in pay. After that, one extension of up to 12 months.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Every spot on campus within three minutes of a defibrillator. By the 2027-2028 school year.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Credit, debit, e-check, ACH. Plus a confirmation.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Older plants get forced off, then new ones can go back over. Finding due by 2029.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Sabine County voters get their own district attorney, effective January 1, 2029. First on the 2028 ballot.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Nobody has to do anything. The $4.72B and $6.54B minimums expire August 31, 2026.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Named breaks expire two years after a final report. Earliest: late 2028.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Cities and counties of 400,000 or fewer swap event funding for a 4 percent hotel tax check.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Lighting deadlines exclude turbines operating by December 31, 2008. Other existing turbines wait for repowering or new contracts.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
After the 2026 election. Religious materials are fully exempt. Penalties up to $10,000 per violation.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
That’s after the 2026 election. Even then, private employers face no fine.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Effective in 2026, usable in 2027. Up to $3,600 per child, $25M a year statewide.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Down from 75 percent at UT Austin. Starts with 2029-2030 admissions, four years after the session.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Yearly cancer, heart and lung screening. That date lands after the November 3, 2026 election.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Bank transfers and ACH too. Counties under 120,000 get until the 2027 tax year.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
One grant for one nonprofit with over 75 years of research. Report due after the election.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
From 2030-2031, districts lose funding when a tutored student still fails the third grade reading test.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Career programs expand now. The school accountability changes wait until 2027-2028.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Settled “in a timely manner” per the committee analysis. A board of managers can follow.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
The commissioner can delay the ban until 2029-2030. Math academy training is due by 2030-2031.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Banned in Canada, the European Union or the United Kingdom? Label it. Middle schoolers get more exercise.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Employers can deduct up to 50%. The 0.15% wage charge starts 2026, paid leave 2027!
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Operating rules for a map-drawing commission, and only if voters approve a constitutional amendment.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Tank weight allowance up to 82,000 pounds total, if federal action ever comes. Otherwise nothing.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Voters say no, the district dissolves. Bonds get paid off first.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Take it once, send it to many agencies. Skipping it costs nothing.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Due December 1, 2026, after the November 3 election. No eligibility rule changes.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Parole housing in any county. The standards wait on a task force report due December 1, 2026.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
No land, no park. The department “may” acquire it, by purchase, gift, lease or condemnation.
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
Extra money for schools outside the state plan, after the November 2026 election.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
$100K per home over the cap! The ban on new purchase contracts starts in 2025.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Residents get a safe area kept between 68 and 82 degrees. Penalties sit out the first year.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Texas Supreme Court does the picking. Election cases anywhere in Texas. Sitting prosecutor keeps the old rules.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Sue any state agency, over anything, and the district qualifies for a conservator.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
The state asks for a waiver within 180 days. Until it’s granted, the commission “may delay.”
Filed Feb 14, 2025
The task force reports by September 1, 2026, on programs that don’t exist yet!
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
Adult age goes from 17 to 18 in September 2027. The unpaid rollout committee comes first.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
The committee analysis says it seeks to “create jobs.” First, a year with neither benefit!
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Hull-damaged boats get branded titles and deadlines shrink from 45 days to 20. Eventually.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Starts with the 2027 biennium. No tax bill drops unless a later legislature appropriates it.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Even if the winner lost Texas. Waits on states with a majority of electoral votes.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Due December 31, 2026, after the November 3 election. Big users pay study fees from $100,000.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
At least 80 percent of their time on student mental health. Proof due August 1, 2027.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
Caption: an annual report. Bill: ask each patient. First report due after the 2026 election.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
No photo on file? No photo required. Full compliance waits until August 31, 2028.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Goal: end routine flaring by 2029. The exception covers the routine case!
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Drugs start at least 30 days before release. Refusing them is a new third-degree felony.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Ends the $28 fee. The monthly DPS scan covers only people discharged from 2028 on.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
TEA lists every mandate that costs districts money, and no mandate changes.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
The campus could offer courses below the junior and senior level, starting January 1, 2028.
Filed Feb 4, 2025
No certification, no dementia care. New nursing homes and assisted living need it from 2027.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
New facilities from 2027, existing ones nearly ten years out. The plan may repay costs.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
The comptroller sets it by 2026. Appraisal districts and taxing units convert starting 2027.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Caption: elect the board. Bill: elect 16 members by region, if voters approve an amendment.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Appeals and high court pay rides along. Prices fall? Pay never goes down!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Effective 2025. Screening deadline: September 1, 2027, after the November 2026 election.
Filed Jan 31, 2025
Even then, a “site-to-site virtual private network” is allowed. The bill never defines it!
Filed Jan 31, 2025
Big agencies stream live, the rest post recordings within seven days. The Act takes effect in 2025.
Filed Jan 31, 2025
Duchenne muscular dystrophy joins the newborn tests. Effective 2025, but screening can wait until September 2027.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
Caption: required agreements. Bill: apply and try “in good faith.” Small counties get until July 2028.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
Individual-bond filers pay into a plugging fund. Dry holes are exempt.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
Private suits for at least $10,000 per weapon. If Chapter 171’s private suits fall, so does the ban.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Every matching age cutoff moves up a year. Only for conduct on or after September 1, 2027.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Until then, a comptroller report and planning help for school districts. Property tax repeal needs an amendment.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Sales tax repeal, school property tax ban: all in 2030. The ban also needs a constitutional amendment.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Caption: transition. Bill: a plan and reports by December 1, 2026. The whole Act expires weeks later!
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Some oil and gas tax money skips the rainy day and highway funds. Voters have to approve first.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
One office covers Sabine and San Augustine today. Nothing changes until January 1, 2029.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Feasibility study first. Before state appropriations become available, gifts, grants or other funding could support the school.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Caption: voter access. Bill: the Legislature gives up every district map in 2029.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
The ban can wait for a federal waiver. No waiver, maybe no ban.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Even if someone else wins Texas. Idle until states with a majority of electoral votes join.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
A deposit on most drinks, held in a producer consortium’s trust fund. Milk is exempt.
Filed Jan 23, 2025
The Act takes effect in 2025. Departments needn’t comply until after the November 3, 2026 election.
Filed Jan 22, 2025
Free and opt-in, due after the 2026 election. If DPS waits on a federal waiver, later still.
Filed Jan 22, 2025
Author’s statement: rent cuts worth 60 percent of tax savings. Bill: only half must be rent cuts.
Filed Jan 22, 2025
Even if Texas votes the other way. Waits for a majority of electoral votes, maybe forever.
Filed Jan 17, 2025
Other designs are out in 2025. Big cities’ five Texas murals wait until 2027, after the election.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
One hour per 30 worked, up to 64 a year, from January 1, 2027.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
No fee, monthly DPS scans. All of it waits until January 1, 2028.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
Open records, audits, voucher acceptance. Developments they already own get up to 10 tax years to comply.
Filed Jan 13, 2025
The “certain entities” are industrial uniform and linen rental companies. Lower rate starts January 1, 2027.
Filed Jan 8, 2025
Sole-access elevators run, one indoor area stays 68 to 82 degrees. Due December 31, 2026.
Filed Jan 7, 2025
55 and older, four stories or more, with housing tax credits.
Noted, not charged
Filed Jan 7, 2025
Deposits start October 1, 2028. Milk and other dairy drinks skip the deposit.
Filed Jan 7, 2025
Lawful residents with an ordinary home included. Skip the report, face a state jail felony.
Filed Jan 6, 2025
Sheriffs in counties of 250,000 or more must seek 287(g) deals by December 1, 2026.
Filed Dec 19, 2024
The agency can’t punish a skipped scan until September 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Dec 18, 2024
90% of revenue over the spending growth limit buys down school taxes. At zero, the state pays.
Filed Dec 9, 2024
Every school in 500-plus districts gets one now. New state aid helps pay.
Filed Dec 9, 2024
The repeal needs a constitutional amendment this bill doesn’t propose. Near term? A comptroller report.
Filed Dec 2, 2024
Daylight saving time all year. If a court says federal law doesn’t allow it, wait for Congress.
Filed Dec 2, 2024
The Act takes effect in 2025. Streaming and recording wait until September 1, 2027.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
$100K penalty per extra home. The cap waits until 2027. The buying ban starts right away.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Matches the federal border reimbursement in a new account. Starts 2027. Spending it is never required.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Effective 2025, first audit 2028. Programs get ratings. Nothing changes unless someone acts on the report.
Filed Nov 20, 2024
Raise clause expires September 1, 2025, the day the Act takes effect! The salary floor stays.
Filed Nov 19, 2024
Of all dispatchable sources, only nuclear gets the extra premium. The caption never mentions it.
Filed Nov 19, 2024
Year-round daylight saving time, once Congress says so. No date, so it may never start.
Filed Nov 18, 2024
Only years after January 1, 2026 count, and voters must approve an amendment first.
Filed Nov 15, 2024
Lawyers and new judges train sooner. Sitting judges and staff wait until after the 2026 election.
Filed Nov 15, 2024
Cookies made with milk can escape too. And the ban may wait on a federal waiver.
Filed Nov 15, 2024
First report isn’t due until January 1, 2027, after the election. Care itself doesn’t change.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
The hiring ban waits until January 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Plus a new work group. Exemption rules aren’t due until after the November 3, 2026 election.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Leaving after January 12, 2027? Sit out a full cycle or face a Class B misdemeanor.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Sitting lawmakers cannot register as lobbyists from January 12, 2027. The office-eligibility rules apply to later terms.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Lobbyists can’t pay officials’ transportation or lodging. All of it waits until after the 2026 election!
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Urgent care, freestanding ERs and surgical centers must post prices. Deadline: August 31, 2029!
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Report due December 1, 2026. No restriction, and the whole thing expires at the end of 2026.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Every school goes to 500-to-1 right away. The first tightening waits until 2027-2028.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: a commission. Bill: sanctions freeze and state testing shrinks to the federal minimum!
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Noted, not charged
Filed Nov 12, 2024
90% of revenue growth over 4% cuts school tax rates. Hit zero? Gone for good!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Freshman and sophomore courses for Del Rio, Eagle Pass and Uvalde. Takes effect 2025, applies 2028!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Quarries and concrete plants get best practices, no fine. The bidding rule starts September 1, 2028.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
6.72% state value added tax, no local sales tax. Property tax ban needs voters first.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
To vote from a place, sleep, eat and keep belongings there. Starts December 1, 2026.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Off-the-shelf tests start 2027-2028. Or 2025-2026 for ninth graders? The text can’t decide.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only in counties of 1 million-plus. The backyard apartment rules apply statewide.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Noise limits, blasting rules, a cleanup bond. Plants already running wait past the election!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Schools get until the 2027-2028 school year.
Corrected Nov 2, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
One hour per 30 worked, up to 64 hours a year. Starts after the 2026 election!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The commission picks ERCOT lines to hook up by September 1, 2027. After the election!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Children’s shot records go in by default from January 1, 2027. Getting out takes an exclusion request.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
General rules start in 2026-2027. Annual certification and enforcement come five years after the session.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Until Congress acts, nothing changes. The Sept. 1, 2025 date is a placeholder.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
That’s after the November 3, 2026 election. A federal waiver can push it back further.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Had bus cameras before September 1, 2025? The reporting duty never applies.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only with a voter-approved amendment. Replacement money: none. The study committee expires in 2027.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
They owe nothing until a repower or new long-term contract. Total penalties cap at $1M.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Starts September 1, 2027, after the 2026 election, and only if voters approve an amendment.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Alerts within 30 minutes! The system itself can wait until January 1, 2027.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Refund equals last year’s property tax on equipment and inventory, up to the sales tax paid.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
New homes must be solar-ready and inspected, or it’s a Class C misdemeanor.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Nothing applies until September 2027. If compression hits zero, the tier one tax is gone.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Then grants for roads and schools in oil and gas areas, if voters approve the amendment.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
First deposit: the 90th day after the 2027 biennium ends. No money moves for years.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Any homeowner there gets installments, if over 70 percent live in one city. Starts 2027.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Half of any surplus over the estimate cuts school taxes. Well after the November 2026 election.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Surplus above the 104 percent line cuts school taxes, after the November 2026 election.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Money goes to a governor-run grant program, road grants and new state police hires.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No change to tax bills before 2035. The study committee is abolished January 1, 2027.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Starts January 1, 2027, after the November 3, 2026 election. Sole proprietorships are defined out.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Those eight pick six more. Nothing starts until 2029, and only if voters approve an amendment.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Attack drills every two years. Recommended standards land December 1, 2026. The election is November 3!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Nothing happens until 2030, and only if voters approve an amendment. Party caucuses pick 8 of 9.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Opt out or you’re in, starting January 1, 2027. That’s after the 2026 election.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Derived stock: 262 tagged measures in the 89R published record. Each measure counts once for this pattern. Snapshot Nov 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM 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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