Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Sen. Charles Perry
89th Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 6/2/2025

Number of Bills: 53

SB 9 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | Flores | et al.
Sponsor: Smithee
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the confinement or release of defendants before trial or sentencing, including regulating charitable bail organizations, and the conditions of and procedures for setting bail and reviewing bail decisions.

SB 23 Author: Bettencourt
Coauthor: Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | Cook | et al.
Sponsor: Meyer | Martinez Fischer | Bonnen | Hunter | Bernal
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the appraised value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.

SB 25 Author: Kolkhorst
Coauthor: Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | Cook | et al.
Sponsor: Hull | Frank | VanDeaver | Bucy | Pierson
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.

SB 26 Author: Creighton
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 04/09/2025 H Referred to Public Education: Apr 9 2025 11:27AM
Caption: Relating to public education, including the rights and compensation of public school educators and funding for teacher compensation under the Foundation School Program.

SB 27 Author: Creighton
Coauthor: Birdwell | Campbell | Hagenbuch | Hinojosa, Adam | Hughes | et al.
Sponsor: Buckley
Last Action: 05/20/2025 S House passage as amended reported
Caption: Relating to the rights of public school educators and financial and other assistance provided to educators and to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators.

SB 31 Author: Hughes
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Geren | Johnson | Howard | Hull | Orr
Last Action: 05/27/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.

SB 34 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Blanco | Campbell | Eckhardt | Hagenbuch | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | et al.
Sponsor: King
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to funding for certain volunteer fire departments, to the preparation for and the prevention, management, and potential effects of wildfires, and to emergency communications in this state.

SB 40 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | Flores | et al.
Sponsor: Smithee
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.

SB 229 Author: West
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Cook | Eckhardt | Hinojosa, Adam | et al.
Last Action: 05/01/2025 S Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to prohibiting a retail seller of motor vehicles from imposing certain restrictions on the purchase of a motor vehicle.

SB 260 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Bonnen
Last Action: 06/02/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.

SB 287 Author: Miles
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 04/01/2025 S Withdrawn by the Author
Caption: Relating to prohibiting the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises of certain sexually oriented businesses; creating a criminal offense; providing a criminal penalty.

SB 293 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Perry | Schwertner | West
Sponsor: Leach
Last Action: 06/02/2025 S Conference committee report filed
Caption: Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty.

SB 365 Author: Eckhardt | Cook | Flores | Menéndez | Parker
Coauthor: Blanco | Hagenbuch | Hinojosa, Adam | Middleton | Perry | et al.
Sponsor: Howard | Lalani | Ward Johnson | Shofner | Wilson
Last Action: 05/06/2025 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education is entitled to an academic fresh start.

SB 391 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to a reliability plan for electric transmission service in the Permian Basin.

SB 464 Author: Campbell
Coauthor: Cook | Perry
Sponsor: Lujan | Cunningham
Last Action: 05/24/2025 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the operation near a public or private primary or secondary school of a retail establishment selling cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vaping apparatuses, or tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.

SB 469 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Blanco | Cook | Flores | Middleton | Perry
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the provision of counseling services by certain providers under Medicaid and reimbursement for those services.

SB 501 Author: Kolkhorst
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to underground facility safety.

SB 513 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Blanco | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Perry
Sponsor: Craddick
Last Action: 05/13/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Caption: Relating to a rural community-based care pilot program.

SB 568 Author: Bettencourt | Creighton | Flores | Menéndez | Middleton | et al.
Coauthor: Alvarado | Blanco | Campbell | Cook | Hagenbuch | et al.
Sponsor: Buckley
Last Action: 06/02/2025 S Reported enrolled
Caption: Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program.

SB 650 Author: West
Coauthor: Blanco | Flores | Menéndez | Perry
Sponsor: Bowers | Thompson | Morales Shaw | Plesa | Jones, Jolanda
Last Action: 06/01/2025 S Reported enrolled
Caption: Relating to requiring the use of electronically readable information to verify a purchaser's age in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.

SB 814 Author: Zaffirini
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption: Relating to automatic orders of nondisclosure of criminal history record information for certain misdemeanor defendants following successful completion of a period of deferred adjudication community supervision.

SB 835 Author: Paxton
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | Cook | et al.
Sponsor: Leach | Johnson | Little | Cook | Meyer
Last Action: 05/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse.

SB 843 Author: Kolkhorst
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | Hagenbuch | et al.
Sponsor: Buckley
Last Action: 05/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.

SB 855 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Perry | West
Sponsor: Frank
Last Action: 05/21/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Caption: Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.

SB 881 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Alvarado | Blanco | Flores | Hagenbuch | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | et al.
Last Action: 02/13/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the issuance by the Texas Medical Board of certain licenses to practice medicine and the authority of an insured to select certain license holders under the insured's health policy; requiring an occupational license; authorizing fees.

SB 912 Author: Blanco
Coauthor: Perry
Sponsor: Guillen
Last Action: 05/23/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the verification of health care practitioner continuing education compliance through the establishment of continuing education tracking systems.

SB 942 Author: Hughes
Coauthor: Parker | Paxton | Perry
Sponsor: Hickland
Last Action: 05/20/2025 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

SB 990 Author: Bettencourt
Coauthor: Creighton | Hagenbuch | Hinojosa, Adam | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Huffman | et al.
Sponsor: Smithee
Last Action: 05/21/2025 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to increasing the punishment for certain conduct constituting the offense of murder.

SB 1124 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 04/17/2025 H Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence: Apr 17 2025 2:29PM
Caption: Relating to discovery in a criminal case.

SB 1169 Author: Hinojosa, Adam
Coauthor: Perry
Sponsor: Guillen
Last Action: 05/20/2025 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the provision of water or sewer service by public entities operating jointly or concurrently.

SB 1300 Author: Flores | Hagenbuch | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Huffman | King | et al.
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Sponsor: Cook | Smithee | Louderback | Tepper | Curry
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.

SB 1313 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Hinojosa, Adam | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | et al.
Sponsor: Cunningham
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.

SB 1314 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Blanco | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Parker | Paxton | et al.
Last Action: 04/22/2025 H Referred to Public Health: Apr 22 2025 3:20PM
Caption: Relating to a prohibition on certain e-cigarette products.

SB 1315 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Hinojosa, Adam | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Parker | Paxton | et al.
Last Action: 02/28/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to county and municipal authority to prohibit the sale of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products near certain locations.

SB 1316 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Hinojosa, Adam | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | et al.
Sponsor: Cunningham | Johnson | Frank | Simmons | Olcott
Last Action: 05/21/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Caption: Relating to a prohibition on e-cigarette advertising in certain locations.

SB 1317 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Hinojosa, Adam | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Parker | Paxton | et al.
Last Action: 02/28/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to limitations on the age of individuals allowed to enter the premises of a smoke shop; creating a criminal offense.

SB 1354 Author: Hughes
Coauthor: Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Perry
Last Action: 03/06/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the minimum reimbursement amount for prescription drugs and devices to health benefit plan network pharmacists and pharmacies.

SB 1388 Author: Kolkhorst
Coauthor: Hall | Hughes | King | Middleton | Perry | et al.
Sponsor: Frank | Spiller | Leo Wilson
Last Action: 05/23/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to family support services provided under a Health and Human Services Commission program.

SB 1737 Author: Huffman | Flores
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Menéndez | Perry | West | et al.
Sponsor: Geren | Lujan | Darby | Lambert
Last Action: 05/27/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to service retirement benefits payable by the Employees Retirement System of Texas to certain law enforcement officers and custodial officers.

SB 1967 Author: Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Hinojosa, Adam
Coauthor: Blanco | Perry
Sponsor: Martinez | Harris | Canales | Longoria | Guerra
Last Action: 05/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Caption: Relating to the provision of financial assistance by the Texas Water Development Board for certain projects.

SB 1991 Author: Hall
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 03/17/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the conduct of the state lottery; creating a criminal offense.

SB 2060 Author: Parker
Coauthor: Hagenbuch | Perry
Last Action: 03/17/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to funding mechanisms within the Office of the Governor and Texas Public Utility Commission to support the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors in this state.

SB 2406 Author: Paxton | Blanco | Middleton | Parker | Sparks
Coauthor: Perry
Sponsor: Kitzman
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the Sabine River Authority of Texas, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying term lengths and grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.

SB 2407 Author: Sparks | Blanco | Middleton | Parker | Paxton
Coauthor: Perry
Sponsor: Kitzman
Last Action: 06/01/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the Lower Neches Valley Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying term length grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.

SB 2408 Author: Parker | Blanco | Middleton | Paxton | Sparks
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 04/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to the Trinity River Authority of Texas, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.

SB 2409 Author: Blanco | Middleton | Parker | Sparks
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 04/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to the Angelina and Neches River Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.

SB 2728 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 04/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the provision of certain information about Medicaid benefits in relation to newborn children.

SB 2891 Author: Cook
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Perry
Sponsor: Orr | Frank | Pierson | Bucy
Last Action: 05/26/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the establishment of the Health Professions Workforce Coordinating Council and the abolition of the statewide health coordinating council and the nursing advisory committee of that council.

SB 2930 Author: Sparks
Coauthor: Perry
Last Action: 04/07/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct an electric transmission line.

SCR 13 Author: Hinojosa, Adam
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | Creighton | Flores | et al.
Sponsor: Longoria | Gámez | Canales | Tepper | Harris
Last Action: 05/15/2025 E Signed by the Governor
Caption: Urging the U.S. Department of State and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take appropriate action to ensure that Mexico complies with the 1944 Treaty regarding shared water resources.

SJR 1 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | Flores | et al.
Sponsor: Smithee | DeAyala | Little | Cook | Louderback
Last Action: 05/28/2025 H Failed of adoption
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.

SJR 5 Author: Huffman
Coauthor: Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Sponsor: Smithee | DeAyala | Louderback | Cook | Moody
Last Action: 06/02/2025 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony.

SJR 85 Author: Bettencourt
Coauthor: Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | Cook | et al.
Sponsor: Meyer | Martinez Fischer | Bonnen | Hunter | Bernal
Last Action: 05/22/2025 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption: 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.

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