📜 Texas Legislation

HB1959: Relating to certain practices of health benefit plan issuers to encourage the use of certain physicians and health care providers and rank physicians.

Current disposition: Pending: House Insurance

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
March 26, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Insurance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: James Frank

HB1961: Relating to abolishing certain county boards of education, boards of county school trustees, and offices of county school superintendent.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Briscoe Cain

HB1962: Relating to the disposition of rental payments received by public housing authorities from tenants.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Diego Bernal

HB1963: Relating to policies and procedures for addressing dating violence in public schools.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Josey Garcia

Co-sponsors: Charlene Ward JohnsonTerri Leo-Wilson

HB1966: Relating to a study on the housing needs of youth transitioning out of foster care or the juvenile justice system.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Josey Garcia

Co-sponsors: Charlene Ward Johnson

HB1967: Relating to a plan by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department to modernize post-adjudication secure correctional facilities.

Current disposition: Pending: House Juvenile Justice Subcommittee

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
April 23, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Juvenile Justice Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Josey Garcia

HB1968: Relating to a duty to contract for election services furnished for an election held on the first Saturday in May in an even-numbered year.

🗳 2 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
May 12, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: David Cook

Co-sponsors: Matthew ShaheenJohn BucyRichard RaymondCody Vasut

HB1974: Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse committed against a child.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: David Cook

HB1975: Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: David Cook

HB1976: Relating to the establishment of a program for the issuance of digital identification.

Current disposition: Pending: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Delivery of Government Efficiency 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Terry Canales

HB1977: Relating to the admissibility of evidence of certain extraneous offenses or acts in the prosecution of sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault or an attempt or conspiracy to commit sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: David Cook

Co-sponsors: John SmitheeAJ Louderback

HB1978: Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.

Current disposition: Pending: House Transportation

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Transportation 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Janie Lopez

Co-sponsors: Ryan GuillenDon McLaughlinSergio MunozOscar Longoria

HB1979: Relating to the payment of certain ad valorem tax refunds.

Current disposition: Pending: House Ways & Means

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 21, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mitch Little

Co-sponsors: Andy HopperJ.M. LozanoWilliam MetcalfBrent MoneyTony TinderholtWesley Virdell

HB1980: Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

Current disposition: Pending: House Family & Fiduciary Relationships Subcommittee

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

Pending: 🏛 Family & Fiduciary Relationships Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Hillary Hickland

HB1981: Relating to the use of public resources by a public school officer or employee to engage in certain political activities.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Hillary Hickland

HB1982: Relating to limitations on federal authority and federal agents in this state, including the licensure of federal agents and special procedures for executing federal warrants; creating a criminal offense.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Andy Hopper

Co-sponsors: Terri Leo-WilsonBriscoe CainHillary HicklandLacey HullCarrie IsaacHelen KerwinMitch LittleDavid LoweWilliam MetcalfBrent MoneyTom OliversonNate SchatzlineJoanne ShofnerShelby SlawsonTony TinderholtSteve TothWesley Virdell

HB1984: Relating to creating the criminal offense of misrepresenting medical history to obtain unnecessary medical treatment for a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: John McQueeney

HB1985: Relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a fire department under municipal civil service.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
March 25, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Hillary Hickland

Co-sponsors: Richard Hayes

HB1986: Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Rhetta Bowers

Co-sponsors: Donna HowardAlma AllenRafael AnchiaPenny Morales Shaw

HB1987: Relating to the regulation of abortion, including abortion complication reporting and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Rhetta Bowers

HB1989: Relating to the confidentiality and reporting of certain maternal mortality information to the Department of State Health Services, to an exception to certain reporting requirements for health care providers reviewing certain information on maternal mortality and morbidity, to the reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee members, and to a work group establishing a maternal mortality and morbidity data registry.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Lauren Ashley Simmons

HB1990: Relating to limitation of certain liability of owners, lessees, and occupants of nonagricultural land.

🗳 2 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
May 5, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ryan Guillen

HB1992: Relating to the establishment of the behaviorally at-risk student grant program to provide social and cognitive skills training to certain public school students.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Rhetta Bowers

Co-sponsors: Vikki GoodwinRafael AnchiaPenny Morales Shaw

HB1993: Relating to restrictions on certain contributions by persons appointed to public office by the governor; creating a criminal offense.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Trey Martinez Fischer

HB1994: Relating to efficiency audits of Operation Lone Star and other border security programs.

Current disposition: Pending: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Delivery of Government Efficiency 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Trey Martinez Fischer

HB1995: Relating to the notification of a peace officer through an indication associated with vehicle registration that the vehicle owner may be transporting a person with a disability.

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

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

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

Author: Ana Hernandez

HB1996: Relating to the eligibility of children enrolled in a special education program for free prekindergarten programs in public schools.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ana Hernandez

HB1997: Relating to the issuance by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs of certain federal forms for purposes of allocating low income housing tax credits; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 22, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Elizabeth Campos

HB1999: Relating to the eligibility of certain persons for the supplemental nutrition assistance program and financial assistance benefits.

Current disposition: Pending: House Human Services

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: John Bucy

HB2002: Relating to the eligibility of an organization to receive surplus agricultural products under certain grants awarded by the Department of Agriculture.

🗳 3 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Economic Development

Last status update: Read first time
April 29, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Economic Development 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Drew Darby

HB2004: Relating to a school district professional employee's liability for certain criminal conduct against a student.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Steve Toth

Co-sponsors: Ben BumgarnerCody HarrisRichard HayesHillary HicklandAndy HopperHelen KerwinMitch LittleJoanne ShofnerDavid Spiller

HB2005: Relating to a limitation on the salary paid to officers and employees of this state and political subdivisions of this state.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Steve Toth

HB2006: Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files by a statutory county court.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mihaela Plesa

HB2007: Relating to commercial signs along certain roads.

Current disposition: Pending: House Transportation

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 22, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Transportation 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Erin Zwiener

HB2008: Relating to courses in personal financial literacy and economics for high school students in public schools.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Steve Toth

Co-sponsors: David Spiller

HB2009: Relating to an annual occupational medical examination for fire fighters.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ana Hernandez

Co-sponsors: Cassandra Garcia Hernandez

HB2010: Relating to the dissolution of certain special districts.

Current disposition: Pending: House Natural Resources

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
March 26, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Natural Resources 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Cody Vasut

HB2013: Relating to the authority of certain property owners' associations to prohibit or restrict the keeping of chickens.

🗳 2 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
May 19, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Cecil Bell

Co-sponsors: Penny Morales ShawBob Hall

HB2016: Relating to the establishment of the housing Texas fund to be administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.

Current disposition: Pending: House Intergovernmental Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Intergovernmental Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: John Bucy

HB2019: Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals who are younger than 26 years of age.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Erin Zwiener

HB2020: Relating to the electronic filing with the Texas Ethics Commission of certain reports of political contributions and expenditures.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Erin Zwiener

HB2021: Relating to certain construction liability claims.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Jeff Barry

HB2022: Relating to elimination of limitations periods for suits for personal injury arising from certain offenses against a child or disabled individual.

Current disposition: Pending: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Morgan Meyer

HB2023: Relating to the coverage of emergency contraceptive drugs by health benefit plans.

Current disposition: Pending: House Insurance

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Insurance 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Donna Howard

Co-sponsors: Claudia Ordaz Perez

HB2024: Relating to the release of certain areas from a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction by petition or election.

Current disposition: Pending: House Land & Resource Management

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Land & Resource Management 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Chris Turner

HB2028: Relating to the Internet and other electronic posting of notices and agendas for meetings under the open meetings law.

🗳 2 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce

Last status update: Read first time
May 15, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Hillary Hickland

Co-sponsors: Richard Hayes

HB2030: Relating to affirmative defenses to prosecution for certain criminal offenses involving material or conduct that may be obscene or is otherwise harmful to children.

Current disposition: Pending: House State Affairs

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Keresa Richardson

Co-sponsors: Mitch LittleDaniel AldersBriscoe CainMark DorazioRichard HayesHillary HicklandJanis HoltAndy HopperCarrie IsaacHelen KerwinDavid LoweShelley LutherDon McLaughlinBrent MoneyKatrina PiersonAlan SchoolcraftValoree SwansonTony TinderholtSteve TothEllen TroxclairCody VasutWesley Virdell

HB2032: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of part of the appraised 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: House Ways & Means

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

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Elizabeth Campos

Co-sponsors: Marc LaHood

HB2033: Relating to the establishment of the community development grocery store grant program and to the use of money from the Texas Enterprise Fund for the program.

Current disposition: Pending: House Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Trade, Workforce & Economic Development 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Terry Meza

HB2034: Relating to the issuance of groundwater permits to certain aliens or foreign entities.

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

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 9, 2025

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

Author: Stan Gerdes

Co-sponsors: Ben Bumgarner

HB2036: Relating to the provision of behavioral health services under the Medicaid managed care program.

Current disposition: Pending: House Dis Prev & Women's & Children's Health Subcommittee

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing in s/c on . . .
April 17, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Dis Prev & Women's & Children's Health Subcommittee 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Tom Oliverson

HB2039: Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the appraised 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: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Ways & Means 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Barbara Gervin-Hawkins

HB2040: Relating to the required number of minutes of instructional time to be provided by a juvenile justice alternative education program.

🗳 2 votes · 1 final

Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16

Last status update: Read first time
May 16, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ken King

HB2042: Relating to automatic expunction of arrest records and files for certain persons who are tried for an offense and subsequently acquitted and to the provision of certain records relating to that expunction.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mihaela Plesa

HB2044: Relating to certain offenses and conduct subject to expulsion that are associated with possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Vikki Goodwin

Co-sponsors: John BryantTerry MezaPenny Morales ShawAna-Maria Rodriguez RamosEugene Wu

HB2045: Relating to automatic expunction of arrest records and files for certain persons who are tried for an offense and subsequently acquitted.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Aicha Davis

HB2047: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.

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

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

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

Author: Vikki Goodwin

HB2049: Relating to the dissemination of Type 1 diabetes information by public schools.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Janie Lopez

HB2050: Relating to the duties of a public school counselor.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Janie Lopez

HB2051: Relating to a limitation on the amount of school property tax revenue that is subject to recapture under the public school finance system.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Morgan Meyer

Co-sponsors: Mihaela Plesa

HB2052: Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment for the offense of trafficking of persons.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Nate Schatzline

HB2053: Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Brad Buckley

HB2054: Relating to the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program and authorizing an increase in the assessment on certain insurers that fund the program.

Current disposition: Pending: House Appropriations

Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 15, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Appropriations 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Ken King

Co-sponsors: Stan KitzmanPenny Morales ShawDavid Spiller

HB2055: Relating to the punishment for a capital felony committed by an individual younger than 21 years of age.

Current disposition: Pending: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Criminal Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Joseph Moody

HB2056: Relating to the designation of a public school health officer and the school health and safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Education

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Education 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Donna Howard

HB2057: Relating to designating October 15 as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mihaela Plesa

Co-sponsors: Donna Howard

HB2058: Relating to perinatal palliative care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal palliative care grant program, and a perinatal palliative care hospital recognition program.

Current disposition: Pending: House Public Health

Last status update: Read first time
March 14, 2025

Pending: 🏛 Public Health 📅 Not Scheduled

Author: Mihaela Plesa

Co-sponsors: Tom OliversonJeff LeachElizabeth CamposRhetta BowersJohn BucyNicole CollierAicha DavisJosey GarciaDonna HowardJolanda JonesChristian ManuelJoseph MoodyKatrina PiersonLauren Ashley SimmonsChris TurnerCharlene Ward Johnson