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An exception lets the realistic main case through the ban. It need not be written as wide as the ban to defeat the promise.
Receipt: The ban and the exception, quoted together.
Checked at the filing stage.
Only written contacts go in the case record. The official need not step aside.
Filed May 20, 2025
The deviation comes “subsequently.” The clock starts when the rate is adopted.
Filed May 12, 2025
The caption never mentions the dementia institute. Dual U.S. citizens escape the foreign-ownership ban.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Retirees’ unused sick days go to a shared bank. Unless the school already has its own rule.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
$15 minimum wage, 60 days of parental leave. The leave waits until 2027, after the election.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Only that fiscal year’s legislative appropriations count. A school in violation still gets 180 days.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Who decides what’s practicable? The entity itself. The 100,000-people floor goes too.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Each battery site gets a contested case. Or the commission approves it by order instead.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Prosecutors control the notice that unlocks the files. Effective date? September 1, 2023!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Ordinary board members appear free to sit on both. Tax caps: 50 cents debt, $1.25 combined.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Wind, solar and batteries need approval for the ERCOT grid. No ruling in time? Approved!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Who decides what’s “frivolous, unreasonable, or intended to delay”? TxDOT.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Any student who isn’t a citizen, national or permanent resident counts. So do permanent residents!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Database match? Then no document, and “the registrar shall approve the application.”
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No money, no injury map. No map, no yearly safety plans for the worst roads.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Redact before sending. Or don’t, if a law or program needs it, or you consent.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Half out in 180 days. But contracts made before the effective date stay under old law.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Candy and cookies are banned. Made with milk or milk protein? Still fair game!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Every duty, waiver slots included, turns off in any year without a specific appropriation.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No insurer offers a matching policy by October 1? No leave. None before 2027 either.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No appropriation, no duty. Runs to December 1, 2028, if the money is there.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New deals stay exempt only on home turf. Ones already held keep their status.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Then every clinic pays a new fee, unless the board decides to exempt it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Cost disclosure only on offers over $500K! Smaller deals get no breakdown at all.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Penalties up to $200K, after a 60-day cure. Spot it in your own testing and you’re clear.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Anything made before September 1, 2025 stays closed. Some Sunset Commission working papers leave the law entirely.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Report due August 31, 2026. No appropriation, and the task force doesn’t have to do anything.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Committee analysis: “guarantee the rights.” Text: no campus expression from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m.!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Water district partnerships and three special-district laws keep the old removal process alive.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Facilities used only lawfully don’t count, licensed or not. Plus tracking device orders the caption skips.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Agencies can still take “any action” framed as enforcing the standard of care.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Districts of 5,000 or more can’t give a kid two straight years of uncertified rookies.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
New judges pick any two of three topics. Elder abuse is optional!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Earliest start: third Wednesday in August. Plans adopted before the law keep the old rules.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Redeem it and you get cash by default. Oil only if rules permit.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Melt, shred, crush or cut them. Or sell them after a background check!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Notice, a reason and 30 days to move money, but only at all-Texas lenders.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No limit for new claims. Existing ones get two years. The old rule gave 30!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Qualifying existing pens keep up to 100 acres. New pens and expansions face the 20-acre limit.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
No bid at 67 percent? Second sale a week later, any price!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Take another appointed post, lose the job. New appointees only, from September 1, 2025.
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Left to the oversight committee. The new chief investment officer, though, is mandatory!
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
Tenants match the offer, and the landlord can still reject it by “providing reasons.” Any reasons!
Filed Mar 14, 2025
Names, phones, emails, home addresses. The utility can pass them on. Most penalties switched off.
Filed Mar 13, 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
Written consent required, unless sharing is “required or permitted” by another law. Records requests are out.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Judges and clerks get takedowns within 10 business days. Data brokers still face civil suits.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Five years out, unless “the commission has approved an exception.” The text sets no standard!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Tail a lawmaker, risk fines up to $2M. Build a file from data-broker subscriptions? Outside the ban.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Roof, hood, trunk: an offense. Bed rider 18 or older? A defense, garbage crews too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Every taxing board gets elected. Governor appointees stay put. Locally appointed boards still switch.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
New committee, 90-day notice, penalties up to $50,000. The governor’s exemptions have no limits in the text.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Voters elect seven directors starting May 2026. The president serves “at the pleasure of the Governor.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Ban on utility transfers, unless the bond ordinance allows them. The city writes the ordinance!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Non-carbonated and “contains plant protein sources”? Exempt. Corn chips and nut candy can qualify!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
State immunity waived. The movement limit stops 10 feet from the infected pen!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Only “domestic” firms that move jobs overseas lose tax breaks. Foreign-organized ones keep theirs!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Citizenship proof, as far as federal law allows. Private firms flag voters for registrars.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: foster parents. Bill: Penalty Group 1-B case? The child’s parent gets drug-tested before the first visit.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “financial flexibility.” No commission approval, and no court challenge.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
A system skips any new rule it deems “inconsistent with its fiduciary responsibility.” Written notice, done.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Private schools taking the federal money lose state funds for a year. Public universities face no penalty.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Existing claims keep the old 30-year limit. The change first matters decades from now.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Notice, a reason and 30 days to move your money. Only where every borrower is in Texas.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
10 years on the list, photo on the DPS website. No donations, no list.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Texans’ genetic data stays out of adversary countries. $10K per violation, and patients can sue.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adversary firms bidding through a U.S. subsidiary appear to fall outside. Parent-made goods still get caught.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Pull out by October 1, 2025. Never recognized by a nonprofit? Outside the ban!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Allied or adversary, hand over the passport. Gift ban starts after standards that have no deadline.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adversary lobbyists register and take no pay. Unless the client is “publicly traded in the United States.”
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “more attractive.” Big projects get the school tax break, jobs optional!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Bought or contracted before 2026? Keep flying it for five more years!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
For companies tied to China, Iran, North Korea or Russia. U.S. persons are exempt too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Buyers tied to China, Iran, North Korea or Russia can’t take title. A lease still works.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The private credential only needs to qualify you “to test.” It covers repair work too.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Colleges “may” demand papers and “may” reclassify current students. Got 30 credit hours? Shielded.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The caption never says usury. Cost disclosure covers only offers over $500K!
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
Kicks in January 1, 2027. Sole proprietorships are exempt, even ones with employees.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it “protecting freedom of speech.” No duty to look for bots, though.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Adults 21 and up get dental coverage. A 2029 report checks whether paying for it raised spending!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Cities of 600,000 or more in border counties. The authority’s executive director is the commission’s, too!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Footage that could show it mostly leaves public records law. Unauthorized release? Class A misdemeanor!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Districts must spend 60 percent on direct instruction. Non-classroom spending can help them get there.
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Lights off 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. in bird migration season. No penalty for ignoring it!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Caption: foster parent rights. Bill: a court-ordered drug test for the child’s parent before the first visit.
Noted, not charged
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
Filter didn’t switch on for a minor? Fines up to $50K, unless the maker tried!
Filed Mar 13, 2025
Students without lawful status lose state money. Proof can be little or nothing, district’s call.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The caption’s “certain counties” is one county of 44,000 to 44,500 people. Existing water districts are exempt.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Homes that miss 80% stay in Medicaid. The clawback is optional!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Stores take cash for $100 or less, or a free machine turns it into plastic!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea can’t buy. Anything bought before September 1, 2025 stays put.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The caption says “held or acquired.” Anything bought before September 1, 2025 stays.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Just add a clause letting the commission alter the lease. Emergency no-bid leases get justified later.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Out-of-state firms that collect numbers directly can still sell them. No private lawsuits.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
No lawyer sign-off needed. Meanwhile an official opinion on “allyship” counts as discrimination.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
The deadline is off once “the insurer suspects.” Clawback time grows from 180 days to a year!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Mostly federal money? Skip the check. The penalty: losing state money it may not get!
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Stand-in shows “apparently valid” ID? That’s a defense, “regardless of the identity of the person.”
Filed Mar 12, 2025
No Medicare, no new Medicaid or CHIP. Third exemption: anyone a state agency rule names.
Filed Mar 12, 2025
Businesses need a warrant to share your gait or face scan with police. Government bodies don’t.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Utilities “unable to meet the goal in a cost-effective manner” can be excused.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Repair tools and manuals on dealer terms. Already signed a restrictive agreement? It still wins.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Defined as race, color or ethnicity only. Groups built on sex or gender identity fall outside.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Airports and military sites that skip the grant skip the map, too.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Gun and fossil-fuel ties stay fair game if the standard is “publicly disclosed” in advance.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Up to $30,000 per filter violation, unless the maker shows it tried.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
New rules could let deadlines slide. Ballot inspection moves from the 61st day to the 300th.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
It starts 2026-2027. With a commissioner-approved plan, a district can wait until 2029-2030.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Capped if paid from “tax revenue.” Paid from fees or other public money? No cap.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Covers only what counties adopt next. The secretary of state can still approve “any other type.”
Filed Mar 11, 2025
Can’t be verified? You get an F. Only U.S. Senate and House votes count without proof.
Filed Mar 11, 2025
The grant covers master certificates earned after the effective date. Existing certificate holders are left out.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
A new relicensing exception limits the board’s duty to revoke licenses after another state’s revocation.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Green card holders are exempt, “including an individual who is a citizen of a foreign country.”
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Exception: a “site-to-site virtual private network.” Over the Internet? The text doesn’t say.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Matches the Social Security raise. Fund not sound or money short? Smaller raise, or none.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
It covers what an authority “may only adopt” and never plainly orders existing systems replaced.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Caption: first-generation students. Bill: offices must act “deliberately or intentionally” to be caught.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Colleges can pay their own athletes. Association rules and court orders win any conflict.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
The exception: anything “reasonably related to the duties and functions of the agency.” Little actually stops.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
Skip the 45-day notice, go unreviewed, no penalty. Attorney general misses the deadline? Deemed approved.
Filed Mar 10, 2025
The pay rule skips “value-based or capitation” deals, and the insurer controls its own affiliate.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Caption: electronic mail messages. Bill: the only email line removes email from the definition.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
A doctor’s good-faith call that it matters lets the denial stand. No penalty, no enforcement.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Notices calling them void go out by January 1, 2026. Pre-September 2025 noncompetes keep the old law.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Fee-fixing fines go up to $30M. Signed before the effective date? Then “the contract provision prevails.”
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Software deciding medical necessity gets rules.
Noted, not charged
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Skippable mandates include “standard provisions or rights.” Rights off the short keep list can go.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
The ban says “military veteran,” skipping the bill’s defined term “military status.”
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Screening, transplant and financial help info in English and Spanish. Required only if lawmakers pay.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Employers pay 0.15 percent of wages. Self-funded ones are exempt, and the bill never defines self-funded.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Navigators, waiver slots, a higher income limit. Section 6: none of it is required unless funded.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Fee fixing fines go up to $30M. Old card deals keep cash-discount penalties too.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Lawful permanent residents included. Minimum fine: $10K or 3x the money!
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Revenue doesn’t count, and revenue includes “a gift.” Public servants can’t name nonprofit donors.
Filed Mar 7, 2025
Only homes claiming a homestead exemption count. And the bill names no penalty, no enforcer!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
General retailers can keep selling next to a school. Only tobacco-focused shops get zoned out.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Kids’ records matched across agencies by January 1, 2027, if the legislature sets aside money.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Paying their own providers more is banned, unless it is “value-based or capitation.” Restructure and carry on!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Caption: prohibiting use. Bill: bars assigning. A lender can still use one assigned elsewhere.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
ESG-based, pro-environment, likely harmful, plus three more tests. Miss one and it escapes that section.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
All-day ban on parked trucks, but only where signs are posted. No signs, no ban!
Filed Mar 6, 2025
No hard deadline. The penalty hits only providers that don’t carry out an approved plan.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
No risk area, no plan to file. An approved plan shields them unless a court finds negligence.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Gold and silver coins, as far as the comptroller “determines practicable.” So, maybe.
Filed Mar 6, 2025
Overruns past 33 percent count as deviation. Spot one after day 15? The window may be shut.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Commercial containers register, pay a fee and get inspected yearly. Also exempt: septic tanks.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Every two years, if the board finds the fund sound. The board defines sound!
Filed Mar 5, 2025
The commission must create it, but it “may only be initially implemented” with a specific appropriation.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
“The term does not include a license.” The bill’s own scale ranks licensing most restrictive.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
District refuses the leave? Teachers can’t sue, so nothing in the text enforces it.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Caption: training. Bill: immunity from civil lawsuits. The training only applies if a course is free.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Says it covers manufacturers. The only labeling duty binds the pharmacist.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Nepotism ban, unless the board approves the hire. Small-district cutoff rises to 50,000 from 35,000.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Every proxy vote posted online. Old contracts wait for renewal, and managers under $50M skip it.
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
Caption: waste or pollutants. Bill: domestic wastewater plants, minus cities and river authorities.
Filed Mar 5, 2025
Cite any other reason alongside the gang label and the ban stops applying.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Knew the signer was absent? Defense holds “regardless of the identity of the person.”
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Weapons “adapted” to incapacitate aren’t firearms. An ordinary gun so adapted? Nothing plainly stops it.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
Miss 14 days, refund the fee. Miss 21, refund plus 50%. Zoning’s out too.
Filed Mar 4, 2025
No notice, no discovery. The prosecutor picks who gets notice.
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
Caption: the Gulf. Bill: any federal rename, on the governor’s order. Agencies can skip costly rule changes.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Resellers can’t list tickets they don’t hold, but can sell a service to get one.
Filed Mar 3, 2025
Every campus gets a breaching tool and a ballistic shield. The public can’t see the evaluations.
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
The rent and rehab rules ride on whether the department sends its notice on time.
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
Today one campus failing five straight years forces action. Under the bill, action is optional.
Filed Feb 28, 2025
Caption: informed consent. Bill: employers too. Say it was voluntary and the practitioner can escape the $5,000.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Directors get a good-faith presumption. Companies can require up to 3% ownership to file derivative suits.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
40 paid days for a birth, 20 for an adoption. Denied? Tough.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Short of aggravated circumstances, a referral replaces the report. Hotline callers must give their name.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Older plants get forced off, then new ones can go back over. Finding due by 2029.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
Penalty: discipline by “the state agency that regulates the center.” There isn’t one.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
The committee analysis promises “strong protections for entity owners.” Owners also lose access to emails and texts.
Filed Feb 27, 2025
The utility can define its own risk area. Follow an approved plan, get a lawsuit defense.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
See the evidence “if the state provides notice.” No notice, no discovery.
Filed Feb 26, 2025
Their only rule: don’t use the title “licensed reroofing contractor.” Contract duties bind only the licensed.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
Private sewage plants can’t get new permits. Cities and river authorities can, into the same waters.
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
New mission line, new exception. Label the office mission work and it keeps running.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
The feed where posts get ranked sits outside the law. Covered platforms now need 65M users.
Filed Feb 25, 2025
The 10% retainage becomes trust money. No damages for skipping it unless the owner meant to cheat.
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
Exempt: anything that “contains plant protein sources.” Chips and cookies are made from plant ingredients!
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Fees hit 80 percent, and the board settles or votes to spend past the cap.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
U.S. and Texas pledges in every classroom. Public money optional, donations welcome.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Sign, prepay, and the cap is gone. Suppliers could make that a condition of sale!
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
Specialist coverage for 75% of insureds, down from all. Request a waiver, skip the 90-day fix!
Filed Feb 21, 2025
Roads and sidewalks, but only where one subregion has a subregional board. Maybe just one authority.
Filed Feb 21, 2025
The facilities operate under a federal contract. Below 10% state money, no background check mandate.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Melt, shred, crush or cut each one. Any can be sold after a background check.
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
New out-of-area deals lose the tax exemption. Existing ones keep it and get a yearly audit.
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Private labs just file a report. Missing the deadline costs up to $100,000 a day!
Filed Feb 20, 2025
No public money for registered lobbyists or their associations’ dues. Testifying stays allowed.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Proved case by case. Violation found? A receiver sells the property, and the buyer gets the money!
Filed Feb 20, 2025
Prison units that can’t stay between 65 and 85 degrees. $100M cap per phase.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Clerks who suspend mail-ballot checks face a Class A misdemeanor. Ballot board members? No offense.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
The bill never defines “school-sponsored activity.” Call a student poll trip one, and the district can pay.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Any felony puts a person on the do-not-hire registry. Some current staff stay by showing rehabilitation.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
The exception covers the same clinical algorithms the ban targets. The bill never defines “appropriately.”
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Emergency and primary care skip prior approval. It also “may be construed to” allow off-license care.
Filed Feb 19, 2025
Money taken “before a game commences” no longer counts as a benefit.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Caption: ballot-measure committees. Bill: also a two-year lobbying ban and 501(c)(3) donor protection.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Eminent domain is out for high-speed rail. Buyback after 10 years unused, unless the seller signed.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
No gifts, grants or donations? No database, no duty to register, no offense.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Over 30 instructional days without one means a notice. Smaller districts send none.
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Contracts on existing federal ammunition rules stay exempt. Other state help is barred.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Labels apply only when the platform “can discern the file’s provenance data.”
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Cancel the way you signed up. No consumer lawsuits, a free 30-day fix, fines up to $2,000.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Earn a 2.0 GPA, get a refund the university “may but is not required to provide.”
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Sign and prepay, and the cap is gone. Suppliers can make that a condition of sale.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
No specific appropriation, no duties. A college that doesn’t comply loses all state funding.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Tobacco under half your sales? You’re exempt, even within 300 feet of a school.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Other agencies can’t demand or release donor lists. Sue for $2,500+ per violation.
Filed Feb 14, 2025
Caption: “imposing a civil penalty.” Bill: injunctions and damages suits, no civil penalty.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
The committee analysis calls it a “framework” for operators. Paid a royalty? Nothing for lost water access.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
Idle over 15 years? A plan to plug or restart by 2040 avoids the limit.
Filed Feb 13, 2025
A sign labeled a hate symbol loses the trespass defense. Plus a new eight-member board.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Governor’s orders can’t limit them, except “during a natural disaster.” Only the other kind counts.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Required in every classroom. Buying the poster “is not required.” No donation, bare classrooms!
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Cities can’t regulate home backup systems up to 50 kilowatts. Own the electric utility? Regulate away.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
Police need a subpoena, or just a “governmental purpose.” Any government body qualifies.
Filed Feb 12, 2025
No notice within 90 days? A corporation flunking its own audit still keeps its exemption!
Filed Feb 11, 2025
As written, it “may be construed to” authorize care outside a license. Reads like a missing word.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
Agencies can’t fingerprint license applicants. Except where another law already lets them.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
Flaring past 10 days needs a good faith effort, met largely by the operator’s own finding.
Filed Feb 11, 2025
Post the sign, get the shield. Parks stay liable for negligence, known hazards and poor training.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
Caption: acquisition, purchase, transfer. Bill: possession too, unless you held one lawfully on August 31, 2025.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
An examination counts, no autopsy needed. Nothing requires the physician to be independent of the jail.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
At least 16 by 20 inches in every classroom. Schools must accept donated ones.
Filed Feb 10, 2025
Contracts signed before September 1, 2025 stay under the old law.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Discipline comes from “the state agency that regulates the center.” Covered centers aren’t state-licensed.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
No photo on file? No photo required. Full compliance waits until August 31, 2028.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Default hours “unless the executive director provides otherwise” for a plant. No standard given.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Agencies can buy private water utilities. Appeal a rate? It still has to cover the debt.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Goal: end routine flaring by 2029. The exception covers the routine case!
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Insurers can’t steer patients to their own providers, unless they pay them through capitation or risk-sharing.
Filed Feb 7, 2025
Withholding evidence from a guilty defendant, or one never convicted, falls outside the offense.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Students already classified? Each college “may” reclassify them. No deadline, no duty.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
The exception is undefined. A plan could cite it for almost any prior authorization.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Part of the 4% can go to other exempt senior-housing groups instead of needy residents.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Contracts signed before September 1, 2025 stay under the old law. No end date!
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Sign a compliance plan, push plugging to September 1, 2040. About 15 more years!
Filed Feb 6, 2025
Unlicensed referrals are a Class B misdemeanor, unless the family can’t afford the consultant’s licensed pick.
Filed Feb 6, 2025
The military base buffer triples to 15 miles. Land under “any other” city agreement stays put.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Disclosure “or” ad statement. Read literally, a business could do just the ad statement.
Filed Feb 5, 2025
Almost all optional. The one limit, on age or employment rules, doesn’t reach “other law.”
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
Board members become fiduciaries. County attorneys can sue.
Noted, not charged
Filed Feb 4, 2025
Markdowns “in accordance with the patient’s dental benefits” don’t count. Write them into the plan!
Filed Feb 4, 2025
The claim and its payout are off limits, but “the circumstances” behind it stay fair game.
Filed Feb 4, 2025
Makers must “equip the device or allow” the tech. Pick “allow,” build nothing!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Knowingly hire one, third-degree felony. But only if their presence follows a Chapter 51 offense.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Sign anyway and the seller may cancel. Or not, and nothing happens.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
No marked license? Register with the last four Social Security digits anyway.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Caption: statewide. Bill: large cities, and each can approve listing a dog with no details!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Fines run to $10,500, but the penalty cites 2251.911(b). The clause is in 2252.911(b)!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Only land of “no more than five (5) acres” counts. Bigger parcels are out. No penalty!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Applicants supply their own site review, maybe by mapping software. Nobody has to visit!
Filed Feb 3, 2025
Caption: public funds for bail bonds. Bill: only nonprofits that take public donations.
Filed Feb 3, 2025
The raise tracks Social Security each October. No board finding, no raise.
Filed Jan 31, 2025
The officer decides how much cutting is practical. Could mean few changes.
Filed Jan 31, 2025
Even then, a “site-to-site virtual private network” is allowed. The bill never defines it!
Filed Jan 31, 2025
No reissued certificate with a changed sex. The amending certificate route stays in the text.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
Voters said no? Under $5M in debt service, the project can still be financed this way.
Filed Jan 30, 2025
The verification list ends in “or.” Verify one item, sell the state a China-made EV!
Filed Jan 29, 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
Life without parole becomes the top sentence. Pending and appealed cases are covered, final convictions aren’t.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Nonacademic fees need two-thirds of the student senate. Tie a fee to instruction? No vote, no cap!
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Sketches with pools, walls and dimensions can go online too. Aerials no longer need five buildings.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Monthly checks of lottery winnings, death records and out-of-state food benefit card use.
Filed Jan 29, 2025
Covers $100B-plus firms. The standard just has to be “publicly disclosed” in advance.
Filed Jan 28, 2025
Paid only if the board finds the system “actuarially sound” with money available. No finding, no raise.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
No cuffs unless the officer believes there’s an “imminent risk of harm”. Nearly every detained child qualifies.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Portal posts results right away? Nobody faces liability or discipline. The hold is voluntary.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
The ban can wait for a federal waiver. No waiver, maybe no ban.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Only if lawmakers top the 2024-2025 budget. Otherwise the commission “may, but is not required to”.
Filed Jan 24, 2025
Only if the permit “would create a risk.” An ordinary water permit still goes through.
Filed Jan 23, 2025
The board can still act if it finds a prescription falls below that standard.
Filed Jan 23, 2025
Petition or vote, it stays. No limit on what counts as spending.
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
The agency must build the database only if lawmakers specifically fund it.
Corrected Nov 1, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Jan 17, 2025
The same board they served can waive it. No standards, and no penalty for breaking it.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
Petition or vote to leave? Not if the plan names it. Land near city limits stays too.
Filed Jan 16, 2025
Colleges must use an approved accreditor. No fix in 180 days? All state funding withheld!
Filed Jan 15, 2025
No portal, no disclosure. And the bill states no penalty for skipping it.
Filed Jan 15, 2025
Counties paying most of their own indigent defense costs can break the limit with no required remedy.
Filed Jan 15, 2025
Counties under 75,000 need a printer at every polling place. A paperless system already running may stay.
Filed Jan 14, 2025
Caption: “making an appropriation.” Bill: a future legislature “may appropriate money.” This one appropriates nothing.
Filed Jan 14, 2025
Big counties go from a 100 percent match to 50. No funding bump? Optional.
Filed Jan 13, 2025
Vape shops within 1,000 feet of a school can be banned. Sell enough other goods? Exempt.
Filed Jan 10, 2025
Guardians get word within five business days, if they’re “listed as a point of contact.”
Filed Jan 10, 2025
Practitioners face at least $5,000 per violation. Their defense: the patient said consent was voluntary.
Filed Jan 10, 2025
Only teach one or two? No license required. Covered operators must follow the rules for every lesson.
Corrected Oct 31, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Jan 9, 2025
Up $1,340 from $6,160. The yearly inflation bump? Any budget can trim it to the $7,500 floor.
Filed Jan 8, 2025
Banned: cash “without regard to the individual’s circumstances.” A need-based program could argue its way out.
Filed Jan 8, 2025
Lawful residents with an ordinary home included. Skip the report, face a state jail felony.
Filed Jan 6, 2025
Two full terms and you’re out, but terms before September 1, 2025 don’t count!
Filed Jan 3, 2025
Duties cover only AI “weighed more heavily than any other factor.” Biometric training gets a pass.
Filed Dec 23, 2024
Likely cancer findings wait until day three. Posted early anyway? No liability, no discipline.
Filed Dec 20, 2024
Cities and counties must permit backyard cottages in 60 days, no hearings. Deed restrictions still win.
Filed Dec 19, 2024
Sell within 360 days, unless the fund decides that’s “inconsistent with its fiduciary” duty. No lawsuits.
Filed Dec 19, 2024
Gold and silver coins, plus digital currency, as far as “the comptroller determines practicable.” Could be never.
Filed Dec 19, 2024
Federal form users may not be covered, so ask the feds. No action in 180 days? Sue.
Filed Dec 18, 2024
The ban skips anyone whose term ends next January. That’s every House member and some senators!
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Everyday fire call? Better hope a mayor or governor declared an emergency.
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Penalty climbs from $1K to $5K a day. Percentage-of-revenue fees pass if the pay is commensurate.
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Individual e-mails naming the authorizing bill. Skip one and the rule still stands.
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Cities over 25K and counties over 50K list suitable land yearly. Suitable is their call.
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Only non-rural projects funded on or after September 1, 2025 get cameras.
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Interest-bearing accounts required. The child gets the principal, in chunks of up to $5K.
Filed Dec 13, 2024
Covers patients under 26. Insurers can request the premium study starting March 1, 2027.
Filed Dec 12, 2024
Schools can’t force kids online, except charters. Banned vendors stay usable if the commissioner approves.
Filed Dec 12, 2024
Innovation districts may start the third Wednesday in August. Others generally wait for the fourth Monday.
Filed Dec 11, 2024
School boards, city councils, county officers can skip ongoing training. Private vendors lose their role.
Filed Dec 11, 2024
One firm designs and builds. The usual rules apply “to the extent practicable.”
Filed Dec 9, 2024
The commissioner can pull any name on a “serious competitive disadvantage” finding. Even the highest-paid ones.
Filed Dec 6, 2024
Caption: “certain definitions.” Bill: no certificate of occupancy, no dwelling, no housing discrimination rules.
Filed Dec 5, 2024
Skip E-Verify, get caught, sign up: no penalty. Caption: license suspensions. Bill: agencies may choose.
Filed Dec 2, 2024
They skip the bill’s education and experience tests. That’s the main group of current out-of-state practitioners.
Filed Dec 2, 2024
No money in the bill. A model and a report are due January 1, 2027.
Filed Nov 26, 2024
Officials can’t hand out unrequested voter forms. Candidates can. Elected officials are often candidates.
Filed Nov 25, 2024
Social and governance scoring falls outside it. The national standards limit still reaches those.
Filed Nov 22, 2024
No consent needed at either step. Mishandle the data? The usual penalties don’t apply.
Filed Nov 22, 2024
Counties and cities can bar vape shops within 300 feet of schools. Many convenience stores are exempt.
Filed Nov 22, 2024
Miss the 80 percent direct care mark? The main penalty left is a clawback.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Only government bodies may train officials. Then local officials are “not required to attend” anyway.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Only a new certificate that “incorporates” the change is barred. An attached amending certificate isn’t clearly covered.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Schools must let home-schoolers join. Boards “may decline” by majority vote. No district is actually bound.
Filed Nov 21, 2024
Appeal to the Public Utility Commission all you want. Rates must still cover the agency’s debts.
Filed Nov 19, 2024
Local no-strings cash is banned. Add a “seek employment” condition and the ban no longer applies.
Filed Nov 19, 2024
Permission, probable cause, a warrant, an emergency, or “another state or federal law exception”.
Filed Nov 18, 2024
Larger systems can post it three clicks deep. Smaller ones owe parents nothing.
Filed Nov 18, 2024
Cookies made with milk can escape too. And the ban may wait on a federal waiver.
Filed Nov 15, 2024
The state asks the feds to add it. No action in 180 days? Off to court!
Filed Nov 13, 2024
The hiring ban waits until January 1, 2027, after the 2026 election.
Filed Nov 13, 2024
Skip the request, Class A misdemeanor. Buyer fails the check? The bill doesn’t say!
Filed Nov 13, 2024
No site visit needed. Try “mapping software” or “other appropriate information sources.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
175 days, unless the district has fewer than 8,000 students. Then only 75,600 minutes.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Bans reach 300 feet, or 1,000 if the school asks. Mostly sell other goods, stay next door!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Within 1,500 feet, sites post financial assurance. Skip it for years? Fines top out at $80K!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The ban covers only the “sole criterion.” Add one other factor and scores count.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Judged after the fact. Bidders show up, so the notice was “commercially reasonable.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Held in trust, beyond the Legislature’s power to spend. Only if the comptroller finds it practicable.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Gold and silver money, if “the comptroller determines practicable.” If not, nothing happens.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Exempt unless the home gives “effective notice”. Everyone else risks a Class A misdemeanor.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Unofficial trip? Pay back travel and security, plus interest. “The term does not include the governor.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Bidders’ bathroom policies can’t count. The $100,000 penalty sits in Subsection (c). Collection points to (a)!
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
Permit wait drops from 45 days to 30. Miss it? The refund may not clearly apply.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Medicaid pays hospital-owned clinics the independent rate, unless evidence supports another. The bill never defines that.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Disabled or 65-plus, up to 200% of poverty. District doesn’t opt in? You get nothing.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Capped at the governor’s salary, bonuses included. Allowances and stipends? No limit at all.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Owners who contest still get the conviction rule. Leftover money goes to the county general fund.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Public salaries top out at the governor’s. The bill never defines “taxpayer funded.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
That agency’s IDs can go to non-citizens. And it all waits on a constitutional amendment.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
State monuments 25 years or older need a two-thirds vote of the Legislature.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The exemption turns on the attorney-client relationship, so a lawyer paid to lobby could skip registering.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only offenses committed on or after September 1, 2025 count. The bill adds no new penalty.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Paid from fees or utility income? It can exceed the cap. Misconduct firings still get nothing.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Removals under two existing sections skip the limit. Otherwise one warning could satisfy it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Sellers must check before rent-to-own deals. The bill never calls those documents proof of status.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Had bus cameras before September 1, 2025? The reporting duty never applies.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No full-time nurse for over 30 straight school days? Parents get notice. In smaller systems, nothing.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No criteria, no review. The lab even writes its own suitability guidelines.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Covers pending cases and appeals. Convictions final on the effective date stay untouched.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Earliest start: first Monday in September. Older innovation plans keep the old rules until renewed.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Up from 3 days. Oral agreements and silent leases get the 14.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
They owe nothing until a repower or new long-term contract. Total penalties cap at $1M.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No donation or dedicated money, no duty. Districts and staff face no new liability either.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Plus a job posting or new school, and a good-faith effort to pay.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Had one lawfully on August 31, 2025? That’s a defense. Transfers are banned outright.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Drones that deliver irritants can also meet the one-per-200 armed staff rule!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Life without parole for adults, in pending, appealed and future cases.
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
Request the check before delivery. Buyer fails? Nothing in the text stops the sale!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Label the output fake, and a generator can argue the chapter doesn’t apply.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Meet within 10 miles, or dial in. Only tax rate meetings need a room.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Caption: real property. Bill: farmland, mines, minerals, timber. Lease it instead and the ban never applies!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
A phone call satisfies the quarterly local meeting. Only tax rate meetings stay in person.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only uncertified first-year teachers count. One year in the classroom and the rule never applies.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
$6,160 becomes $7,160. The inflation bump, capped at 3 percent, can be budgeted down to zero.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Corrected Oct 26, 2026 We checked this summary against the bill text and fixed it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
It starts March 1, 2026. Older cards work at the polls unchecked until renewed.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only offenses on or after September 1, 2025 count. Covered group at the start: zero!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
DPS can’t run it unless federal money covers the costs. No request, no swabs.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Just under half? Outside the ban. Same for leases of five years or less.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Proof comes from transaction data, deleted after. Gaming sites don’t count as social media!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Rejected books can’t be checked out or used “outside the school library.” Inside, read away!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
At least $50 per occupant per day, but those visa workers can’t sue for it.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Starts January 1, 2027, after the November 3, 2026 election. Sole proprietorships are defined out.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Written consent required. The civil penalty tops out at the violator’s profits. Older samples are out.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Financial factors only. Unless the system calls that “inconsistent with its fiduciary responsibility.”
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Texas asks the feds to change their form. No action in 180 days? The attorney general sues.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
A flagged government’s buy passes unless the attorney general shows a risk. Leases under 100 years? Exempt!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
No nurse for 30 straight instructional days? Parents get notice, if the district is big enough.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
DPS “may” build the notice system. No notice? Bring your certificate to the registrar.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Only association rules created on or after September 1, 2025 are covered. Already banned? No relief.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Fees hit 80 percent? Board settles or votes past the cap. Over-cap districts post monthly reports.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
One-on-one and two-kid lessons are exempt. So are city-run ones. Penalties reach $500 a day.
Filed Nov 12, 2024
The caption never says 21. A semiautomatic pistol with a threaded barrel counts!
Filed Nov 12, 2024
Derived stock: 431 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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