📜 Texas Legislation

Browse all bills filed in the 2025-2026 89th Legislature.

HJR52: Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting private schools from state and local regulation.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Cody Vasut

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SJR52: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas to conduct gaming on certain lands under state law; limiting certain taxes and fees.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
February 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Jose Menendez

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HJR53: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee

Last status update: Read first time
March 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Cecil Bell

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SJR53: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to designate subjects for legislation during a special session.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
February 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brian Birdwell

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HJR54: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing legislative action at any time during a regular session of the legislature.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Cody Vasut

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SJR54: Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing one or more amendments to the constitution to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and to limit the terms of office of federal officials and members of Congress.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 24, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brian Birdwell

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HJR55: Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Christina Morales

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SJR55: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to own, hold, and use a mutually agreed upon medium of exchange.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce

Last status update: Read first time
February 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Tan Parker

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HJR56: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to set lower limits on the maximum appraised value of residence homesteads and of real property other than a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes and to make permanent the limit on the maximum appraised value of real property other than a residence homestead.

Current disposition: Pending: House Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee

Last status update: Read first time
March 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Carl Tepper

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SJR56: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the child care protection and enhancement fund.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance

Last status update: Co-author authorized
April 2, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Royce West

Co-sponsors: Borris Miles

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HJR57: Proposing a constitutional amendment dedicating certain general revenue that would otherwise be transferred to the economic stabilization fund to reducing school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Briscoe Cain

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SJR57: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement system.

🗳 4 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Pending: House

Last status update: Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
May 12, 2025

Author: Joan Huffman

Co-sponsors: Brian BirdwellBob HallStan Lambert

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HJR58: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the use of money in the state highway fund for transit-oriented projects.

Current disposition: Pending: House Transportation Funding Subcommittee

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
March 31, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Transportation Funding Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: John Bucy

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SJR58: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas to conduct gaming by executing a gaming compact with this state; providing for occupational licensing under the compact; limiting certain taxes and fees.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 6, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Roland Gutierrez

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HJR59: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a political subdivision other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the political subdivision may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: John Bucy

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SJR59: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of funds to support the capital needs of educational programs offered by the Texas State Technical College System.

🗳 6 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Enrolled

Last status update: Filed with the Secretary of State
June 2, 2025

Enrolled

Author: Brian Birdwell

Co-sponsors: Adam HinojosaJuan HinojosaStan LambertTerry WilsonPat CurryCaroline Harris DavilaDavid SpillerBen BumgarnerAicha DavisJay DeanRyan GuillenSuleman LalaniRay LopezJ.M. LozanoJohn LujanArmando MartinezEddie MoralesJared PattersonMihaela PlesaShelby Slawson

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HJR60: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Joseph Moody

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SJR60: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the commissioners court of a county to exempt from ad valorem taxation by each political subdivision that taxes the property the portion of the assessed value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of a rainwater harvesting or graywater system.

🗳 4 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
May 23, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Donna Campbell

Co-sponsors: Sarah EckhardtRoyce West

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HJR61: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ron Reynolds

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SJR61: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for legislative review or approval of state agency rules.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce

Last status update: Read first time
March 6, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Bob Hall

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HJR62: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring this state to observe daylight saving time year-round.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mike Schofield

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SJR62: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Health Care Workforce Education Fund to provide funding to eligible institutions of higher education to address Texas' health care workforce needs and drive the state economy.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Tan Parker

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HJR63: Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit additional uses of certain dedicated general revenue transferred each fiscal year to the state highway fund.

Current disposition: Pending: House Transportation Funding Subcommittee

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
March 31, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Transportation Funding Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Armando Walle

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SJR63: Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the terminology used in the Texas Constitution to refer to the partially landlocked body of water on the southeastern periphery of the North American continent.

Current disposition: Introduced in Senate

Last status update: Co-author authorized
April 16, 2025

Author: Mayes Middleton

Co-sponsors: Bob Hall

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HJR64: Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish ad valorem taxes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brian Harrison

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SJR64: Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the disciplinary powers of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 13, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Judith Zaffirini

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HJR65: Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing recovery of exemplary damages by parents or a person's estate for a homicide.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Senfronia Thompson

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SJR65: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to legalize wagering in this state on certain sporting events.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Juan Hinojosa

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HJR66: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation income-producing tangible personal property for a certain period of time.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Diego Bernal

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SJR66: Proposing a constitutional amendment dedicating a portion of the revenue derived from state sales and use taxes and insurance premium taxes to the Texas water fund.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Charles Perry

Co-sponsors: Carol AlvaradoCesar BlancoDonna CampbellMolly CookCharles CreightonSarah EckhardtPeter FloresRoland GutierrezBrent HagenbuchBob HallKelly HancockAdam HinojosaJuan HinojosaBryan HughesNathan JohnsonPhil KingLois KolkhorstJose MenendezMayes MiddletonTan ParkerAngela PaxtonCharles SchwertnerKevin SparksRoyce WestJudith Zaffirini

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HJR67: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total assessed value of the residence homestead of an unpaid caregiver of an individual who is eligible to receive long-term services and supports under the Medicaid program while the individual is on a waiting list for the services and supports.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
March 31, 2025

House committee substitute

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Diego Bernal

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SJR67: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a statewide referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for observing year-round standard time or daylight saving time and authorizing the legislature to enact legislation that gives effect to the preferred option.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Paul Bettencourt

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HJR68: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to limit the total amount of ad valorem taxes that a school district may impose on certain residence homesteads following a substantial school tax increase.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Diego Bernal

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SJR68: Proposing a constitutional amendment to clarify and implement certain provisions governing the impeachment, trial, removal from office, and disqualification of public officers.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
April 24, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brian Birdwell

Co-sponsors: Sarah EckhardtPeter FloresBob HallJuan HinojosaJoan HuffmanPhil KingJose MenendezRoyce West

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HJR69: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Diego Bernal

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SJR69: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Veterans' Land Board to issue general obligation bonds in an aggregate principal amount that is greater than amounts previously authorized.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Veteran Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 13, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Veteran Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Tan Parker

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HJR70: Proposing a constitutional amendment to direct the legislature to authorize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and sale of cannabis for medical use.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 4, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ron Reynolds

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SJR70: Proposing a constitutional amendment to make gender neutral the constitutional provisions governing the qualifications of a person to be a senator or member of the house of representatives.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 13, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Judith Zaffirini

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HJR71: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that a residence homestead is not subject to seizure or sale for delinquent ad valorem taxes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 6, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mike Schofield

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SJR71: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a carbon tax.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance

Last status update: Read first time
March 13, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Bryan Hughes

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HJR72: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the market value of a property that is the primary residence of an adult who has an intellectual or developmental disability and who must be related to the owner or trustee of the property within a certain degree by consanguinity.

🗳 2 votes

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
April 29, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Candy Noble

Co-sponsors: Diego BernalMorgan MeyerLacey HullChristian ManuelAicha DavisSuleman LalaniMihaela PlesaEllen Troxclair

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SJR72: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total appraised value of real property used as a data center and the tangible personal property used by the data center to meet the data center's demand for energy.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Tan Parker

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HJR73: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that a political subdivision other than a school district, county, municipality, or junior college district may impose on the residence homesteads of certain low-income persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

🗳 1 vote

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Received from the House
May 15, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Terry Wilson

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SJR73: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation the amount of the appraised value of real property that arises from the installation or construction on the property of a generator that is primarily for the production and distribution of energy for on-site use.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Charles Creighton

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HJR74: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide that the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes for the first tax year that the owner of the property qualifies the property for a residence homestead exemption is the market value of the property and that, if the owner purchased the property, the purchase price of the property is considered to be the market value of the property for that tax year and to limit increases in the appraised value of the homestead for subsequent tax years based on the inflation rate.

Current disposition: Pending: House Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee

Last status update: Read first time
March 6, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Steve Toth

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SJR74: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for a credit against the ad valorem taxes imposed on real property used for a grocery store or healthy corner store located in a food desert.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Jose Menendez

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HJR75: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for exceptions to the requirement that a home equity loan be closed only at the office of the lender, an attorney at law, or a title company.

Current disposition: Pending: House Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Last status update: Read first time
March 6, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Pensions, Investments & Financial Services 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Steve Toth

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SJR75: Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the workforce housing fund to facilitate the development of affordable workforce housing and transferring to that fund $2 billion from state general revenue.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Nathan Johnson

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HJR76: Proposing a constitutional amendment appropriating certain surplus revenue for school district bond debt.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mark Dorazio

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SJR76: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation real property leased to certain local public entities for use as a hospital and related health care services.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Roland Gutierrez

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HJR77: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing honesty in state taxation.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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SJR77: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of part of the market value of the residence homestead of a partially disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of such a veteran based on the disability rating of the veteran.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mayes Middleton

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HJR78: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the taxation of the sale or use of certain food, drinks, medicine, and child-care services.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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SJR78: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation certain perishable inventory held for sale at retail.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
May 5, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Royce West

Co-sponsors: Paul BettencourtCesar BlancoMolly CookPeter FloresRoland Gutierrez

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HJR79: Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the rate and application of state sales and use taxes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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SJR79: Proposing a constitutional amendment increasing the amount of debt that may be secured by a homestead for purposes of refinancing a loan including those with an extension of credit guaranteed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce

Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Jose Menendez

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HJR80: Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the rights to an abortion and to assisted reproductive technology treatments and procedures, including in vitro fertilization.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos

Co-sponsors: John Bryant

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SJR80: Proposing a constitutional amendment dedicating some of the interest in the permanent school fund to universal pre-kindergarten and the school safety allotment.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance

Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Roland Gutierrez

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HJR81: Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the dedication by general law of money received by this state and money held in or deposited to an account or fund inside or outside the state treasury and the authorized expenditure or appropriation of money dedicated by general law.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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SJR81: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
April 17, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Paul Bettencourt

Co-sponsors: Charles Creighton

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HJR82: Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation by certain political subdivisions of a portion of the market value of the residence homestead of the parent or guardian of a person who is disabled and who resides with the parent or guardian.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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SJR82: Proposing a constitutional amendment, to be submitted to the voters of Texas for approval, authorizing the legislature to strictly regulate and authorize casino gaming and sports wagering by general law and establishing certain requirements for such law, including establishment of a state agency with powers to regulate all lotteries and gift enterprises, imposition of a tax on casino gaming and sports wagering revenue, requiring licensing of casino gaming and sports wagering operators, and requiring license application fees.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Co-author authorized
April 23, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Nathan Johnson

Co-sponsors: Cesar BlancoSarah EckhardtJuan HinojosaBorris Miles

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HJR83: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exclude from the market value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes the value of any improvement, or any feature incorporated in an improvement, made to the property if the primary purpose of the improvement or feature is compliance with the requirements of standards that address accessible design of buildings or other facilities.

Current disposition: Introduced in House

Last status update: Considered by s/c in formal meeting
April 8, 2025

Author: Richard Raymond

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SJR83: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for the continuation of a limitation on the maximum appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes if the property is acquired by and qualifies as the homestead of an heir of the owner or the owner's spouse or surviving spouse.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Read first time
April 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Borris Miles

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HJR84: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to set a minimum amount of monetary bond for persons charged with certain felony offenses involving violence and requiring the denial of bail to a person accused of committing a felony while released on bail for a prior felony under most circumstances.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Charles Cunningham

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SJR84: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for a temporary exemption from ad valorem taxation of the appraised value of an improvement to a residence homestead that is completely destroyed by a fire.

🗳 1 vote

Current disposition: Enrolled

Last status update: Signed in the House
May 27, 2025

Enrolled

Author: Paul Bettencourt

Co-sponsors: Adam HinojosaCole Hefner

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HJR85: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of funds to support the capital needs of educational programs offered by the Texas State Technical College System and certain component institutions of the Texas State University System and repealing the limitation on the allocation to the Texas State Technical College System and its campuses of the annual appropriation of certain constitutionally dedicated funding for public institutions of higher education.

Current disposition: Pending: House Higher Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Higher Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Stan Lambert

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SJR85: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the market value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled.

🗳 1 vote

Current disposition: Enrolled

Last status update: Signed in the Senate
May 22, 2025

Enrolled

Author: Paul Bettencourt

Co-sponsors: Carol AlvaradoBrian BirdwellCesar BlancoDonna CampbellMolly CookCharles CreightonPeter FloresRoland GutierrezBrent HagenbuchBob HallKelly HancockAdam HinojosaJuan HinojosaJoan HuffmanBryan HughesPhil KingLois KolkhorstJose MenendezMayes MiddletonBorris MilesRobert NicholsTan ParkerAngela PaxtonCharles PerryCharles SchwertnerKevin SparksRoyce WestJudith ZaffiriniMorgan MeyerTrey Martinez FischerGreg BonnenTodd HunterDiego BernalDaniel AldersAlma AllenRafael AnchiaTrent AshbyJeff BarryCecil BellKeith BellSalman BhojaniRhetta BowersBrad BuckleyJohn BucyBen BumgarnerAngie ButtonBriscoe CainElizabeth CamposGiovanni CapriglioneDavid CookPhilip CortezCharles CunninghamPat CurryDrew DarbyAicha DavisJay DeanMano DeAyalaMark DorazioHarold DuttonPaul DysonCaroline FairlyMaria FloresJames FrankErin GamezCassandra Garcia HernandezJosey GarciaLinda GarciaGary GatesStan GerdesCharlie GerenBarbara Gervin-HawkinsVikki GoodwinRyan GuillenSam HarlessCody HarrisCaroline Harris DavilaCole HefnerHillary HicklandDonna HowardLacey HullCarrie IsaacAnn JohnsonHelen KerwinKen KingStan KitzmanSuleman LalaniStan LambertBrooks LandgrafJeff LeachTerri Leo-WilsonJanie LopezRay LopezAJ LouderbackJ.M. LozanoJohn LujanChristian ManuelArmando MartinezDon McLaughlinJohn McQueeneyWilliam MetcalfTerry MezaEddie MoralesMatt MorganSergio MunozCandy NobleTom OliversonClaudia Ordaz PerezAngelia OrrJared PattersonDennis PaulMary PerezVincent PerezDade PhelanKatrina PiersonMihaela PlesaRichard RaymondRon ReynoldsAlan SchoolcraftMatthew ShaheenJoanne ShofnerShelby SlawsonJohn SmitheeValoree SwansonTony TinderholtSteve TothEllen TroxclairGary VandeaverCody VasutDenise VillalobosHubert VoCharlene Ward JohnsonTrey WhartonTerry WilsonErin Zwiener

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HJR86: Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to establish a special district to be the seat of state government.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 7, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Briscoe Cain

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SJR86: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain disabled veterans.

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Permission to introduce
April 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brent Hagenbuch

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HJR87: Proposing a constitutional amendment to reserve to the people the powers of initiative and referendum.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Erin Zwiener

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SJR87: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony who have previously been convicted of or who were released on bail for certain offenses punishable as a felony at the time of the new offense.

🗳 7 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Pending: House

Last status update: 1 hr. notice-for reconsideration
May 28, 2025

Author: Joan Huffman

Co-sponsors: Brian BirdwellDonna CampbellCharles CreightonPhil KingMayes MiddletonMitch LittleJohn Smithee

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HJR88: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the commissioners court of a county to exempt from ad valorem taxation by each political subdivision that taxes the property the portion of the assessed value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of a rainwater harvesting or graywater system.

🗳 1 vote

Current disposition: Pending: Senate

Last status update: Received from the House
May 12, 2025

Author: Erin Zwiener

Co-sponsors: Carrie IsaacEllen Troxclair

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HJR89: Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a legislative session.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mihaela Plesa

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HJR90: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Alzheimer's Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, establishing the Alzheimer's Prevention and Research Fund to provide money for research on and prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders in this state, and transferring to that fund $3 billion from state general revenue.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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HJR91: Proposing a constitutional amendment recognizing the right of an individual to refuse a vaccination.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Andy Hopper

Co-sponsors: Wesley VirdellKatrina PiersonMatt MorganRichard RaymondDaniel AldersBen BumgarnerDavid CookRichard HayesHillary HicklandJanis HoltCarrie IsaacHelen KerwinMarc LaHoodTerri Leo-WilsonDavid LoweWilliam MetcalfMike OlcottJoanne ShofnerShelby SlawsonValoree SwansonSteve TothDenise Villalobos

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HJR92: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a parent's right to direct the education of the parent's child.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Andy Hopper

Co-sponsors: David CookJanis HoltHelen KerwinMarc LaHoodMitch LittleDavid LoweJ.M. LozanoShelley LutherWilliam MetcalfBrent MoneyMatt MorganKatrina PiersonJoanne ShofnerShelby SlawsonValoree SwansonTony TinderholtSteve TothWesley Virdell

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HJR93: Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right of every person to keep and bear arms.

Current disposition: Pending: House Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Andy Hopper

Co-sponsors: Wesley VirdellJanis HoltCarrie IsaacHelen KerwinMarc LaHoodMitch LittleDavid LoweJ.M. LozanoWilliam MetcalfBrent MoneyMatt MorganKatrina PiersonShelby SlawsonTony Tinderholt

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HJR94: Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right to produce meat and meat food products naturally derived from livestock.

Current disposition: Pending: House Agriculture & Livestock

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Agriculture & Livestock 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Valoree Swanson

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HJR95: Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time that a person may serve as a member of the Texas Legislature, a statewide elected officer in the executive branch, or a state employee in the legislative or executive branch of state government.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Carl Tepper

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HJR96: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the commissioners court of a county to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation by the county of a portion, expressed as a dollar amount, of the appraised value of an individual's residence homestead.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
May 5, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Venton Jones

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HJR97: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the market value of real property that arises from the use of xeriscape on the property.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
May 5, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Richard Raymond

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HJR98: Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing one or more amendments to the constitution to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and to limit the terms of office of federal officials and members of Congress.

🗳 3 votes

Current disposition: Enrolled

Last status update: Filed with the Secretary of State
May 13, 2025

Enrolled

Author: Cody Vasut

Co-sponsors: Cole HefnerWilliam MetcalfDaniel AldersTrent AshbyJeff BarryCecil BellKeith BellGreg BonnenBrad BuckleyBen BumgarnerBriscoe CainGiovanni CapriglioneDavid CookCharles CunninghamMano DeAyalaPaul DysonJames FrankStan GerdesRyan GuillenCody HarrisCaroline Harris DavilaBrian HarrisonRichard HayesJanis HoltAndy HopperCarrie IsaacHelen KerwinKen KingStan KitzmanStan LambertBrooks LandgrafJeff LeachTerri Leo-WilsonAJ LouderbackJ.M. LozanoJohn LujanShelley LutherDon McLaughlinJohn McQueeneyBrent MoneyMatt MorganTom OliversonAngelia OrrDennis PaulKatrina PiersonKeresa RichardsonNate SchatzlineMatthew ShaheenShelby SlawsonJohn SmitheeDavid SpillerValoree SwansonTony TinderholtSteve TothEllen TroxclairGary VandeaverWesley VirdellTrey WhartonTerry WilsonBrian BirdwellKevin Sparks

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HJR99: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

🗳 5 votes · 2 final

Current disposition: Enrolled

Last status update: Filed with the Secretary of State
May 13, 2025

Enrolled

Author: Cody Harris

Co-sponsors: Trent AshbyBrad BuckleyBriscoe CainJoanne ShofnerDavid SpillerSteve TothRobert NicholsRoyce West

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HJR100: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 10, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Vikki Goodwin

Co-sponsors: John BryantTerry MezaAna-Maria Rodriguez RamosEugene Wu

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HJR101: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of certain commercial real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: William Metcalf

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HJR102: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the market value of residential real property that arises from the installation in the property of certain energy efficiency-related improvements.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 28, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

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HJR103: Proposing a constitutional amendment specifying the authority of the attorney general to prosecute a criminal offense prescribed by the election laws of this state.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Terri Leo-Wilson

Co-sponsors: Richard HayesHillary HicklandAndy HopperLacey HullHelen KerwinMarc LaHoodAJ LouderbackWilliam MetcalfBrent MoneyMatt MorganKatrina PiersonJoanne ShofnerShelby SlawsonWesley Virdell

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HJR104: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to make permanent the limit on the maximum appraised value of real property other than a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Jeff Barry

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HJR105: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that a county may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Angie Button

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HJR106: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a local option exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the appraised value of the residence homesteads of certain peace officers.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: AJ Louderback

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HJR107: Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right to engage in the exploration for and production and export of oil, gas, and other minerals.

Current disposition: Pending: House Energy Resources

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
March 17, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Energy Resources 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brooks Landgraf

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HJR108: Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the workforce housing fund to facilitate the development of affordable workforce housing.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Vikki Goodwin

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HJR109: Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding certain organizational and procedural matters related to the legislature.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Terri Leo-Wilson

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HJR110: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the filing of required political funding reports and personal financial statements to be eligible to hold certain public elective offices.

Current disposition: Introduced in House

Last status update: Laid out as postponed business
May 6, 2025

House committee substitute

Author: Carl Tepper

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HJR111: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that certain political subdivisions may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Read first time
March 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Matthew Shaheen

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HJR112: Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting the right of parents to raise their children.

Current disposition: Introduced in House

Last status update: Companion considered in lieu of CSSJR 34
May 14, 2025

Author: James Frank

Co-sponsors: Jeff LeachGiovanni CapriglioneJames TalaricoLacey HullMano DeAyalaHillary HicklandCarrie IsaacHelen KerwinTerri Leo-WilsonJared PattersonJoanne ShofnerDavid Spiller

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HJR113: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to enact laws providing for a district court to reduce or modify a sentence imposing a term of imprisonment for a person who has served not less than 10 years of the term.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Nicole Collier

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HJR114: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Current disposition: Pending: House Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Property Tax Appraisals Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: David Cook

Co-sponsors: AJ Louderback

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HJR115: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons and requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary to ensure the person's appearance in court as required and the safety of the community, law enforcement, and the victim of the alleged offense.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: David Cook

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