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SB2449: Relating to financial assurance requirements for operators under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Natural Resources
Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Natural Resources 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kevin Sparks
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2450: Relating to the participation and reimbursement of and requirements affecting certain providers, including providers of eye health care and vision care services, under Medicaid.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 30, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Bryan Hughes
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2451: Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist local law enforcement agencies in testing certain substances suspected of containing delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hancock
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2452: Relating to the compensation of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 27, 2025
Author: Kelly Hancock
Co-sponsors: Phil KingGiovanni Capriglione
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2453: Relating to the memorial designation of certain portions of an international border wall and the use of grants related to homeland security for those purposes.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Border Security
Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Border Security 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hancock
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2454: Relating to the rights and responsibilities of a foster parent.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hancock
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2455: Relating to the creation of the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 24, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hancock
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2456: Relating to religious programs and activities available to inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Criminal Justice
Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Criminal Justice 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Bryan Hughes
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2457: Relating to clarity and certainty in the administration and operation of Medicaid.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
March 25, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Bryan Hughes
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2458: Relating to the review of claims and recovery of overpayments by Medicaid recovery audit contractors.
Current disposition: Introduced in Senate
Last status update: Reported favorably as substituted
April 14, 2025
Author: Bryan Hughes
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2459: Relating to the protection of personal identifying information of certain persons in the judicial system; authorizing a civil right of action; creating criminal offenses.
Current disposition: Introduced in Senate
Last status update: Committee report printed and distributed
May 8, 2025
Author: Charles Creighton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2460: Relating to rapid DNA analysis performed by certain law enforcement agencies and the content of certain DNA databases.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Read 2nd time
May 27, 2025
Author: Charles Creighton
Co-sponsors: Mihaela Plesa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2461: Relating to a study regarding state assistance for the uniform group coverage program for active school employees.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2462: Relating to an interim study by the State Office of Risk Management regarding property and casualty insurance costs incurred by public schools.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2463: Relating to a lighting reduction policy for nonessential outdoor lighting owned or operated by a political subdivision.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2464: Relating to the establishment of a school safety and mental health grant program.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2465: Relating to a study by the Texas Education Agency and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding standardizing transcripts for public schools.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2466: Relating to a publication by the Parks and Wildlife Department on the dangers of reflective windows for birds and the distribution of the publication to municipalities and the construction industry.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Natural Resources
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Natural Resources 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2467: Relating to a study by the Texas School Safety Center on public school emergency response maps.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2468: Relating to the conduct by electronic means of certain uncontested hearings.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Jurisprudence
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2469: Relating to the regulation of certain day-care centers.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2470: Relating to the requirements for the labeling and dispensing of a prescription drug or biological product.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2471: Relating to a set-aside of low income housing tax credits for at-risk housing developments and to the allocation of housing tax credits to those developments and certain other developments.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2472: Relating to providing a one-time supplemental payment and a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2473: Relating to the use of an automated employment decision tool by a state agency to assess a job applicant's fitness for a position.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2474: Relating to 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
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2475: Relating to the disclosure and consideration of criminal conduct for purposes of certification as a peer specialist or peer specialist supervisor to provide Medicaid mental health and substance use services.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Jose Menendez
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2476: Relating to transfer of the ownership rights of the Woodlawn Water Supply Corporation to the Angelina and Neches River Authority.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
May 24, 2025
Author: Robert Nichols
Co-sponsors: Trent Ashby
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2477: Relating to certain municipal regulation of conversion of certain office buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
June 20, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Adam HinojosaJared PattersonPat CurryJames FrankGary GatesHillary HicklandDon McLaughlinPenny Morales ShawDavid SpillerChris TurnerCody Vasut
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2478: Relating to the vote required by the governing body of a political subdivision to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the no-new-revenue tax rate or to authorize the issuance of tax bonds.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2479: Relating to the issuance of a single license for a hospital and a mobile stroke unit of the hospital.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Donna Campbell
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2480: Relating to the Texas Physician Health Program and the regulation of certain occupations by the Texas Medical Board; expanding the applicability of surcharges.
Current disposition: Enrolled
Last status update: Filed without the Governor's signature
June 20, 2025
Author: Donna Campbell
Co-sponsors: Tom Oliverson
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2481: Relating to extensions of a deadline to comply with a municipal order for a substandard building in certain municipalities.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Carol Alvarado
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2482: Relating to sheriff's department civil service systems in certain counties.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Carol Alvarado
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2483: Relating to coverage for maternal depression screenings under Medicaid and the child health plan program.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Carol Alvarado
Co-sponsors: Borris Miles
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2484: Relating to availability of claims contact information for personal and commercial property and casualty insurers.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Carol Alvarado
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2485: Relating to the entities covered by the open meetings law and the live broadcast and archived recording of an open meeting of a governmental body.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2486: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive and pledge for the payment of obligations certain additional tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Economic Development
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Economic Development 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Charles Schwertner
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2487: Relating to procedures for and certain facilities providing crisis and mental health services.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 27, 2025
Author: Tan Parker
Co-sponsors: Sarah EckhardtJose MenendezRoyce WestKen King
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2488: Relating to the implementation of a statewide homeless data sharing network to share real-time data on homelessness.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Tan Parker
Co-sponsors: Molly CookAdam HinojosaAngela PaxtonJudith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2489: Relating to property owner claims for compensation from certain municipalities that fail to enforce certain laws.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Tan Parker
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2490: Relating to biometric identifiers used in the performance of artificial intelligence.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Tan Parker
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2491: Relating to employer contributions for retirees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas who resume certain employment with a public school.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Tan Parker
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2492: Relating to prohibiting certain discrimination in the provision of financial services.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Phil King
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2493: Relating to the text of ballot propositions for bond elections.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2494: Relating to the acceptance of a voter.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Charles Creighton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2495: Relating to the manufacture of voting machines by certain foreign persons.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Charles Creighton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2496: Relating to a study by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Department of State Health Services regarding the human health risks associated with exposure to hydrogen sulfide.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Natural Resources
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Natural Resources 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Judith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2497: Relating to the installation of a treatment system by certain public drinking water supply systems.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 27, 2025
Author: Judith Zaffirini
Co-sponsors: Sarah EckhardtRyan Guillen
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2498: Relating to the participation of certain counties in joint planning in groundwater management areas.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Judith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2499: Relating to the consideration of compliance with rules of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in approving rates for water or sewer utility services.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Judith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2500: Relating to a requirement to report to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation an abandoned or deteriorated water well identified during an inspection of an on-site sewage disposal system.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Judith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2501: Relating to selection of an attorney by an indigent parent as attorney ad litem for the parent in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Current disposition: Vetoed by Governor
Last status update: Vetoed by the Governor
June 22, 2025
Author: Judith Zaffirini
Co-sponsors: Brooks Landgraf
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2502: Relating to the exemption of certain reserve peace officers from regulation as private security personnel.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Criminal Justice
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Criminal Justice 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Judith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2503: Relating to requiring certain disclosures as part of certain applications for employment or an internship at a state agency or the legislature.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Royce West
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2504: Relating to the election of junior college district trustees by plurality vote.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2505: Relating to liability protections for commercial space flight and exploration.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2506: Relating to the establishment of a grant program by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to plug abandoned and deteriorating water wells.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2507: Relating to requiring that public schools spend a certain percentage of funding for direct instructional activities, including an indicator for that requirement under the public school financial accountability system.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2508: Relating to an exemption for certain property owners from regulatory requirements for residential mortgage loan originators.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2509: Relating to vicarious liability for certain medical care.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Adam Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2510: Relating to establishment of the temporary prescribed burn manager self-insurance pool; authorizing a fee.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Natural Resources
Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 16, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Natural Resources 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Lois Kolkhorst
Co-sponsors: Sarah Eckhardt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2511: Relating to broadcast coverage agreements for postseason activity of students representing a University Interscholastic League member school.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Bryan Hughes
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2512: Relating to creating the Texas Interoperability Council and a grant program administered by the council.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Charles Schwertner
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2513: Relating to notice requirements on state highway projects.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Transportation
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Transportation 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Royce West
Co-sponsors: Peter Flores
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2514: Relating to establishing the hostile foreign adversaries unit at the Department of Public Safety and training, prohibitions, and reporting requirements designed to combat foreign influence and foreign adversary operations; creating a criminal offense.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
June 20, 2025
Author: Bryan Hughes
Co-sponsors: Paul BettencourtTan ParkerCole Hefner
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2515: Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 64 in Smith County as the Fire Marshal Jimmy W. Seaton Memorial Highway.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
June 20, 2025
Author: Bryan Hughes
Co-sponsors: Daniel Alders
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2516: Relating to the court orders eligible for an interlocutory appeal.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Jurisprudence
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Jurisprudence 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2517: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of 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
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2518: Relating to the authority of certain special districts and corporations created by certain special districts to exercise certain rights and powers outside district boundaries.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2519: Relating to restrictions on the use of certain ad valorem tax revenue for the payment of public securities.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
May 23, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Adam HinojosaCarl Tepper
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2520: Relating to the calculation of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
June 20, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Candy Noble
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2521: Relating to notification of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district of the death of a resident of the county in which the district is located and the determination by the chief appraiser of the effect of the decedent's death on the continued eligibility of any property in the county previously owned by the decedent for any exemption allowed for the property.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 27, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Angie Button
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2522: Relating to certain powers, limitations, and duties of a municipality and county in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality and the unincorporated area of the county.
Current disposition: Introduced in Senate
Last status update: Not again placed on intent calendar
May 14, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2523: Relating to the release of an area from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality by petition.
Current disposition: Pending: House Land & Resource Management
Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
May 15, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Land & Resource Management 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2524: Relating to an action to remedy certain conditions affecting safety or habitability of certain residential rental property; providing a civil penalty.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Borris Miles
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2525: Relating to the municipal disannexation of certain areas annexed during a certain period of time.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Donna Campbell
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2526: Relating to the eligibility of children enrolled in a special education program for free prekindergarten programs in public schools.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Judith Zaffirini
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2527: Relating to early assessment and interventions for school district students.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Angela Paxton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2528: Relating to the calculation of the petition election tax rate for certain taxing units and the ability of the voters to petition for an election to determine whether to reduce the ad valorem tax rate adopted by those taxing units to the petition election tax rate.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2529: Relating to the vote required by the governing body of a taxing unit to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate or authorize the issuance of tax bonds.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
May 22, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Kelly HancockAdam HinojosaLois KolkhorstMayes MiddletonEllen Troxclair
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2530: Relating to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; providing an administrative penalty.
Current disposition: Pending: House Insurance
Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
May 20, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Insurance 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Mayes Middleton
Co-sponsors: Charles CreightonAdam HinojosaJuan HinojosaJoan HuffmanLois Kolkhorst
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2531: Relating to occupational licensing reciprocity agreements.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Mayes Middleton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2532: Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain municipalities that receive municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue and other money from a local park board of trustees.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
May 23, 2025
Author: Mayes Middleton
Co-sponsors: Lois KolkhorstTerri Leo-Wilson
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2533: Relating to the accreditation of law schools in this state.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
May 21, 2025
Author: Mayes Middleton
Co-sponsors: Paul BettencourtMano DeAyala
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2534: Relating to the establishment of faith-based child-care facilities.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Mayes Middleton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2535: Relating to the appraisal of property for ad valorem tax purposes, including protests, arbitrations, and appeals regarding appraisals.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Local Government
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Local Government 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Mayes Middleton
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2536: Relating to the requirement for certain administrators of certain educational entities to report certain educator misconduct; increasing an administrative penalty.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Education K-16
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Education K-16 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Borris Miles
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2537: Relating to the limitation on the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Finance
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Finance 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Paul Bettencourt
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2538: Relating to the plan required to be adopted by the board of directors of an appraisal district for periodically conducting certain reappraisal activities.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 26, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Chris Turner
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2539: Relating to the adoption of an ordinance issuing a tax increment bond by certain municipalities that have designated a tax increment reinvestment zone.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 26, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Cody Vasut
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2540: Relating to the terms of certain agreements involving minor boundary adjustments between two contiguous school districts.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 26, 2025
Author: Robert Nichols
Co-sponsors: Dade Phelan
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2541: Relating to the calculation of the unused increment rate of a taxing unit.
Current disposition: Pending: House
Last status update: Placed on General State Calendar
May 26, 2025
Author: Paul Bettencourt
Co-sponsors: Cody Vasut
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2542: Relating to the citizenship status of certain employees of this state.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate State Affairs
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 State Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Lois Kolkhorst
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2543: Relating to the amount of certain revenue that may be used for and the location of state veterans cemeteries.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
June 20, 2025
Author: Kelly Hancock
Co-sponsors: Adam HinojosaJuan HinojosaCole Hefner
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2544: Relating to eligibility for mediation of certain out-of-network health benefit claims.
Current disposition: Signed by Governor
Last status update: Signed by the Governor
June 20, 2025
Author: Kelly Hancock
Co-sponsors: Royce WestMatt Morgan
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2545: Relating to the establishment of a down payment assistance grant program for veterans purchasing manufactured homes and the dedication of certain sales and use tax revenue to finance that program.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Veteran Affairs
Last status update: Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
April 15, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Veteran Affairs 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hancock
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2546: Relating to establishing an advisory group to study potential means to finance costs of development and maintenance of electric transmission infrastructure.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Business & Commerce
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Business & Commerce 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Kelly Hancock
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2547: Relating to imposing a moratorium on the awarding of certain contracts by the Health and Human Services Commission under Medicaid and the child health plan program.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Juan Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature WebsiteSB2548: Relating to awarding contracts to managed care organizations under Medicaid and the child health plan program.
Current disposition: Pending: Senate Health & Human Services
Last status update: Read first time
April 3, 2025
Pending: 🏛 Health & Human Services 📅 Not Scheduled
Author: Juan Hinojosa
📄 Details 🔍 View Bill on Legislature Website