Monitoring the SessionThe ban reaches further than the pitch.
187 bills
The ban reaches further than the pitch. A definition sweeps people or conduct into a ban beyond the target the caption names.
Receipt: The definitions section quoted next to the caption.
Checked at the filing stage.
Caption: certain vaccine mandates. Bill: any vaccine, any person, any business with one employee.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Paid or not, anyone who “accesses” a system is covered. Owner penalty climbs $100 to $500.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Intent to deceive drops out. Any software edit to a recognizable person’s image counts.
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
Automation that analyzes inputs and recommends counts. Four duties, and violations are deceptive trade practices.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Plus any project the commissioners court decides needs substantial infrastructure or resources. Two public hearings minimum.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Pregnancy loss “includes a miscarriage, stillbirth, and abortion.” Police need written consent to ask about it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Involuntary use counts too, prescription drugs included. Only credible, objective evidence overcomes it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any student who isn’t a citizen, national or permanent resident counts. So do permanent residents!
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
Ears and collars too. Plus anything not “typically displayed by a member of the homo sapiens species.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Scope: “including but not limited to.” First violation, a year unpaid. Second, fired.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anyone 18 or older with “regular or frequent contact” with the ward counts, wherever they live.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Doctors, nurses, chaplains and volunteers get no exception. The license costs $120.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Caption says “certain” local rules. Lose to the attorney general, lose the sales tax!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any company majority-owned by citizens of a listed country counts. So do student exchanges.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cities risk tax money and certain attorney general suits. State agencies get an audit line.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Selling your own part to anyone else? State jail felony. No theft required!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: certain laws, plus an elephant. Bill: any field the code touches. Trade groups can sue.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The roll needs no tobacco and no nicotine. Synthetic nicotine counts as a tobacco product too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Reports, data, internal communications, even “mental impressions.” All of it can be withheld.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Based anywhere, owned by citizens of a country of concern? 90 days to restructure, then funds sell.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Violations count as deceptive trade practices. Won these suits before? That can’t limit the next recovery.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Drones count as aircraft. Pets and livestock count as animals.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
No definition of “affiliated.” Public colleges must also expel any listed student.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Tails, animal ears, litter box use. Banned, except Halloween and 5 dress-up days. Fines up to $25,000!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Allied or adversary, hand over the passport. Gift ban starts after standards that have no deadline.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
One “or” lets 58 decibels stand alone. No 30-foot limit, no police warning first!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
“Advanced” means any nonsurgical cosmetic procedure. The license fee has no cap.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The intent statement says the U.S. government defines them. Student groups taking their money lose recognition.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Churches handing out meals count. Add playgrounds and colleges, and that could reach most of a city.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Within 1,500 feet of any public park, school or not. $5K a day in penalties!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Zero advocacy, still rejected. Two straight F ratings force a full board election!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every contact, including routine official business, within 30 days. Miss one knowingly? State jail felony!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Allied-country researchers get the same checks. Schools with $10M-plus research budgets add a research integrity office.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Get a federal credit, pay Texas the same amount by April 15!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Districts lose 5 to 10 percent of state funding. Alleged violations go on a public website.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
No lawyer sign-off needed. Meanwhile an official opinion on “allyship” counts as discrimination.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
No tie to the Chinese government needed. Ordinary clinic equipment can count.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
“Publish” means telling another person, even “orally.” Without consent, that’s a third degree felony!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Class A misdemeanor, down to a sole proprietorship. Listed cards stop counting March 1, 2026.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Caption: certain health care entities. Bill: individual providers too. Penalties up to $500,000 per violation.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Skips the eviction lawsuit. The state jail felony covers any “property of another.”
Filed Mar 11, 2025
No penalty, no enforcing agency, no lawsuit. Just the ban!
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Caption: “near the state capitol.” Bill: any traffic flow change from I-35 to Lamar.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Knowingly lend the space, “regardless of whether compensation is expected or received.” Same second-degree felony!
Filed Mar 11, 2025
The statement of intent aims to “prevent public endorsement.” Violators: suspended a year minimum, reported to immigration.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Any intentional hindering counts, no threat needed. Effective date? September 1, 2024, already past!
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Local money can’t fund child care, food or lodging for anything Texas law bans. No trip needed.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Majority owned by citizens of a listed country? Off limits. The list grows without the Legislature acting.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Neutral answers to a student’s question appear covered. Penalty: firing, a Class A misdemeanor, parent lawsuits.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
The word public is gone, so privately owned portraits or plaques can count.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Caption: “certain firearm owners.” Bill: nearly all. Repeat violators can be barred from possessing one!
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Any policy mentioning race or gender counts, unless legally required. Penalty up to $1M!
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Ordinary novels can qualify. No literary-value exception, and penalties up to $10,000 per violation.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Lawful permanent residents included. Minimum fine: $10K or 3x the money!
Filed Mar 7, 2025
School resources spent backing a zoning variance count as electioneering. Class A misdemeanor!
Filed Mar 7, 2025
U.S., Texas, city or county flags only, even from volunteers. No penalty in the text.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
The scope list runs on “or,” so counseling alone can count as practice.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Two years to cancel over an “omission, or other error.” Insurers needn’t prove intent.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Letting a federal gun-rule enforcer use social media counts as aid. Hiring that ex-fed risks $50K!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Class A misdemeanor for no-knock entries or 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. home searches. Texas helpers too!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
A spoken remark to your employer or a government office can draw a state jail felony.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
No theft intent needed. Petroleum theft starts at third-degree felony, and troopers can sample cargo tanks.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Miss the five-day DPS deadline? That’s a Class A misdemeanor, for managers too.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Political advertising: any communication about candidates or measures to even one person. District sues the state? Conservator!
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Only leaf, powder and clear capsules stay on shelves. Drinks banned, Texas labs only, fines 10x!
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Giving “any information about” social transitioning counts as help. Health facility staff can’t advise parents either.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Caption: custody suits. Contract rule covers “any therapy, treatment, program, camp, or service”, suit or not.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Caption: instruction. Bill: any “guidance, activities, or programming” by staff or outside groups.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Caption: prosecution. Bill: anyone who says, writes or posts how a voter voted, without consent.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Any reunification “therapy, treatment, program, camp, or service” needs the contract. Court case optional.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Caption targets banned treatments. The definition also reaches “a psychological or social intervention” with no harm required.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Referral groups need the ad disclaimer too. Intentional violations: up to $10K per violation per day!
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Strikes the exclusion for “an uncaptured wild living creature.” Livestock stay out. Plus mandatory counseling.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Caption says “certain” policies. A violating city loses state grant funds for two years!
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Applies to anyone the Medical Board didn’t license. That could reach doctorate holders outside medicine.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Caption says gender transition. Teachers also can’t discuss transgender topics. Parents can sue, immunity waived.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
A hospital touching one covered case could lose public money for unrelated work.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Possession is an offense, finished weapon or not. Private sales go through a dealer background check.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
A listed parent can’t “be present at a sponsored event.” Investigation files go confidential too.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Provide “physical or digital services” to a user? You owe an app. No penalty, though.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Renaming a decades-old city street or park takes a local election.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
The author’s statement says 250 feet. The text says 500, streets and parks included.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
Licensed individuals file annually unless a parent files for them. Penalties reach $500,000.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
The definition includes policies, procedures and training that mention listed traits, unless required by law.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 24, 2025
The caption skips it, and no consequence is attached. The DEI ban reaches programs that “reference race.”
Filed Feb 24, 2025
No group required, any business counts. Top tier: 15 to 99 years at $300K or more!
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Any parent can call the child’s safety in jeopardy. The receiving district can still say no.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
So much for “certain.” Any artificial flavoring counts too. Up to $500 per item sold!
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Redistribution advocacy counts too. Flagged groups get no state payments until the finding’s fifth anniversary.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Private labs just file a report. Missing the deadline costs up to $100,000 a day!
Filed Feb 20, 2025
“Mass” means using any “mechanical device.” No spraying without a majority yes vote.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Relatives of foreign officials count as clients, ties or not. Up to $50K per violation.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Read literally, “product of Texas” now means Texas honey. Everything else loses the label.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Any conduct a commission rule calls a violation counts, fraud or not. Applicants are in too.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Applies “regardless of whether the contractor is a party.” Willful noncompliance can mean dismissal with prejudice.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Sue any state agency, over anything, and the district qualifies for a conservator.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
One person, two thefts in 180 days, no group needed. Every penalty tier rises one level!
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Anything “directed to an individual person” counts, from anyone in Texas, school staff or not.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Reports, data, manuals and communications at the Texas Workforce Commission. Now off-limits to records requests.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Covers U.S. companies controlled by noncitizens without green cards, even lawful Texas residents. Penalty: none stated.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
Any student without citizenship or a green card pays full-cost tuition, status reported.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
Covers “every stage of development” from fertilization. Only the mother keeps an exception.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
Menthol, mint, fruit, candy: all out. Only tobacco flavor survives.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Any device that lets a person disable a vehicle counts. Ignition interlocks get a pass.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Ship any alcohol into Texas without a brewery license? Up to a state jail felony!
Filed Feb 5, 2025
On Halloween, though, every registrant’s exterior lights stay off from 5 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.!
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Caption: abuse against a child. Definition: sexual assault, no child-victim limit. Old contracts count too.
Filed Feb 4, 2025
Caption: “certain” technology. Bill: nearly any electronic product. Any violation is a state jail felony!
Filed Feb 4, 2025
U.S. citizens are exempt, but only as individuals. Land bought anyway? The text sets no penalty.
Filed Feb 4, 2025
No border crossing or payment needed. A hiking guide in a closed area could qualify.
Filed Feb 4, 2025
New five-member board. Even an “insignia indicating the practice of art therapy” needs the license.
Filed Feb 4, 2025
Caught in the Gulf beyond Texas state waters? Imported. Schools and agencies can’t serve it!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Concealing, harboring or shielding? Deleted. Encouraging someone to stay is enough.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Prekindergarten through 12th grade, activities and programming too. That can reach clubs and one-on-one staff conversations.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Caption: “unsubstantiated.” Bill: anything not “finally adjudicated as sustained,” pending investigations included.
Filed Jan 28, 2025
Hand someone a hemp cosmetic? That’s a misdemeanor. The hemp licensing system is repealed.
Filed Jan 28, 2025
Bars limiting credit “for any reason not based on the” numbers. Ordinary lending judgment included.
Filed Jan 27, 2025
A proposal to “ask an insurer to reduce or track” emissions can’t reach a vote.
Filed Jan 27, 2025
Author’s statement: altered images of a candidate. Definition: any individual. Election intent still required.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Paid a smuggler, and police find the child without a parent? That’s enough.
Filed Jan 22, 2025
Covers “any employee of a federal agency.” The license ban reaches clerks 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
Caption: “authority.” Bill: “shall adopt and enforce.” Asking takes a paper permit and a 24-hour wait.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
No de minimis limit. False pledge? A felony, plus a penalty of at least 2x the contract!
Filed Jan 16, 2025
Unlicensed means public. Read literally, that can reach your home after hours.
Filed Jan 15, 2025
Reports, data, manuals, communications, all confidential without a case-by-case ruling. Audits can get swept in.
Filed Jan 13, 2025
Old law: abortion facilities. New: anyone who performs or induces one. Any Texas resident can sue.
Filed Jan 9, 2025
Government immunity waived, anti-SLAPP switched off. “Abortion provider” now covers any person who performs one.
Filed Jan 7, 2025
Anyone with the “capacity to receive” your device data must build its own app.
Filed Jan 7, 2025
Lawful residents with an ordinary home included. Skip the report, face a state jail felony.
Filed Jan 6, 2025
Any directive that “limits the ability of this state” qualifies. Legislators and their staffs are exempt.
Filed Jan 6, 2025
Words expressing gender dysphoria trigger the parent notice. Staff who stay silent can be fired.
Filed Dec 20, 2024
Caption: “assisting.” Bill: “any information.” No exception for parental consent, and the attorney general can sue.
Filed Dec 18, 2024
The offense reaches people who did not know the material showed a minor.
Filed Dec 18, 2024
Second-degree felony, no unlawful purpose needed. Technicians’ defense covers only possessing a device.
Filed Dec 12, 2024
Family, roommates and office staff included. Only carrier and delivery workers are exempt.
Filed Dec 11, 2024
Caption: sales to minors. Bill: everyone asks an employee, even for green tea extract.
Filed Nov 26, 2024
Any planned method to affect a group’s “attitudinal characteristics” needs a signed parent form first.
Filed Nov 20, 2024
No limit to the sky, so shade measures can count. Each day is a Class A misdemeanor.
Filed Nov 18, 2024
Caption: obscenity. Bill: also harmful material to minors. Each occurrence is its own claim, common defenses barred.
Filed Nov 18, 2024
Caption: remote disabling. Definition: any device that lets a person disable a vehicle.
Filed Nov 15, 2024
Food, cosmetics and vaccines “derived from research using” fetal cell lines all need a label.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Up to $5,000 and six months in jail, under a “Subsection (a)” that does not exist!
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Describe what a religion believes? That could count. Up to six months in county jail!
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Up from a Class A misdemeanor. Negligently getting in a utility worker’s way becomes an offense too.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
AI and software makers that skip reasonable precautions share the lawsuit with whoever shared the image.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The definition covers harm or property damage, with no violence required. Districts keep the attendance funding.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The label says “remote.” The definition never requires it. Plus a right to own gas-powered vehicles.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Drops the dominant-theme test and the word utterly. Works with some value for minors can now qualify.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption says Internet providers. Suits for at least $10,000 a violation also reach libraries and schools!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Gender identity never comes up. Hormone care for other reasons could get swept in.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Three people showing guns, any fee, a parking lot. Congrats, it’s a gun show!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Three people displaying firearms plus any fee makes a gun show. Even in a parking lot!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The test includes “promote the prosperity of the people,” so ordinary federal rules count. Two-thirds votes required.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption says “unlawful transfer.” Bill covers every sale, rental or offer, by anyone, no exceptions.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The bill’s findings promise “money follows each child.” The fee rule reaches any law that “empowers parents.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
AI or “other computer software.” And the media no longer has to show a real person.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Even handing a child informational materials on family planning or mental health needs a signed form.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only weapons acquired later face the possession offense. Own just loose parts? The definition can reach you.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Admission counts too. Employers can’t require a shot to let any person in.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Mask your number for privacy? Misdemeanor, unless the narrow affirmative defense fits.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Entering from “any neighboring jurisdiction” counts, neighboring states included. Up to a $10K civil penalty too.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No risk or behavior required. Refuse to leave when staff ask? Class A misdemeanor.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No unlawful purpose required. A station owner or technician who “modifies” a pump is swept in.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Even temporarily, even unpaid. A renter or home host could face a second-degree felony.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Citizen of another country? Alien, even if also a U.S. citizen. Any broken law triggers it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Proof comes from transaction data, deleted after. Gaming sites don’t count as social media!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Dismissed for any reason? Presumed justified and immune. Whoever sued can owe fees and lost income.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Renaming an old city street named for a person needs a citywide election.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Spirits and beer to your door, dry areas too. Wrong permit? Up to a state jail felony.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Food, cosmetics, vaccines. The label can reach products with no fetal tissue in them!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Drops the whole-work test. Libraries and stores could be prosecuted over part of a work.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The caption never says 21. A semiautomatic pistol with a threaded barrel counts!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Derived stock: 187 tagged measures in the 89R published record. Each measure counts once for this pattern. Snapshot Nov 1, 2026 at 6:27 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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