Texas Legislature
Bills Authored / Joint Authored
Sen. Kevin Sparks
89th Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 2/10/2025

Number of Bills: 64

Report Sections: Authored Bills | Additional Primary Authored Bills

Author (57):
SB 391 Author: Sparks
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 392 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to prohibited facility fees for telehealth and telemedicine medical services; providing an administrative penalty.

SB 393 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to issue debt to purchase or lease tangible personal property.

SB 394 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption: Relating to the expunction of arrest records and files for certain defendants placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for the unlawful carrying of a handgun.

SB 397 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to rules regarding the provision by a health professional of a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.

SB 398 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the delegation to a pharmacy technician of a pharmacist's authority to administer an immunization or vaccine.

SB 399 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Finance
Caption: Relating to a biennial audit of the effectiveness and efficiencies of state services provided to homeless individuals.

SB 468 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption: Relating to the period within which the Texas Juvenile Justice Department must accept custody of a person committed to the department and to the consequences for the failure of the department to accept custody of the person within that period.

SB 469 Author: Sparks
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 470 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to the issuance of certificates of obligation by local governments.

SB 471 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the provision of telehealth and telemedicine medical services by certain health professionals located outside of this state; requiring registration to engage in an occupation; authorizing fees.

SB 472 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to the right of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district, the appraisal district, or the appraisal review board of the appraisal district to bring certain claims in an appeal of an order of the appraisal review board.

SB 494 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Natural Resources
Caption: Relating to the establishment of a theft of petroleum products task force.

SB 495 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Insurance to adopt rules that implement or are based on certain environmental, social, and governance models, ratings, or standards.

SB 496 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of a county court at law in Potter County.

SB 497 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Transportation
Caption: Relating to the operation of certain vehicles preceding, during, and following disasters.

SB 498 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the Licensed Professional Counselors Compact; authorizing fees.

SB 499 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to the selection by the board of directors of the West Coke County Hospital District of a depository bank for the district.

SB 500 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process.

SB 513 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to a rural community-based care pilot program.

SB 529 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Economic Development
Caption: Relating to the entitlement of certain municipalities to receive tax revenue from certain establishments located near a hotel and convention center project.

SB 530 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Education K-16
Caption: Relating to the accreditation of certain postsecondary educational institutions in this state or of certain programs offered by those institutions.

SB 531 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the licensing of a psychologist as a licensed specialist in school psychology; authorizing a fee.

SB 532 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Caption: Relating to grant amounts under the young farmer grant program.

SB 533 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance of bonds or a tax increase.

SB 618 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the unlawful altering of election procedures; providing a civil penalty.

SB 619 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to protection of persons from participation in a health care service for reasons of conscience; providing a civil remedy; authorizing disciplinary action.

SB 620 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to applying an active efforts standard for the removal of certain children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

SB 621 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/03/2025 S Referred to Local Government
Caption: Relating to a prohibition on the establishment, operation, or ownership of a public bank by a political subdivision.

SB 713 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Natural Resources
Caption: Relating to the surcharge for the disposal, and the remittance for the storage, of certain waste at the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact waste disposal facility; decreasing the amount of the surcharge and changing how the surcharge and remittance are distributed.

SB 714 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to electricity pricing rules and operating procedures that eliminate or compensate for market distortion caused by certain federal tax credits.

SB 715 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the applicability of certain generation reliability requirements.

SB 716 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the issuance of an occupational license to certain out-of-state applicants.

SB 717 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Finance
Caption: Relating to the additional compensation certain counties pay to judges and justices for extrajudicial services.

SB 767 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
Caption: Relating to creating a database of the firefighting equipment in the state available for use in responding to wildfires.

SB 855 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/22/2025 S Filed
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 868 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/22/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program and authorizing an increase in the assessment on certain insurers that fund the program.

SB 881 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/23/2025 S Filed
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 886 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/23/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the production, sale, and use of certain agricultural products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); creating a criminal offense.

SB 902 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/24/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to an alternate board certification to signify accreditation within a given specialty in this state and medical care provided at certain health care facilities by physicians with an alternate board certification.

SB 903 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/24/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to continuing education requirements for certain physicians regarding adoption.

SB 920 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/24/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the administration of medication by open-enrollment charter schools, private schools, and school employees.

SB 921 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/24/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to a prohibition on conducting an ex parte renewal of a recipient's Medicaid eligibility.

SB 970 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/29/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the prioritization of awarding grants and loans from the Texas Energy Fund for certain electric generating facilities.

SB 971 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/29/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the definition of a rural political subdivision for purposes of the Texas Water Assistance Program.

SB 1014 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/30/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to certain health care services contract arrangements entered into by insurers and health care providers.

SB 1034 Author: Sparks | Perry
Last Action: 01/31/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to cybersecurity for retail public utilities that provide water or sewer service.

SB 1035 Author: Sparks | Perry
Last Action: 01/31/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to equitable relief from the enforcement of certain governmental requirements that affect agricultural operations.

SB 1037 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/31/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the issuance of certain anticipation notes and certificates of obligation.

SB 1038 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/31/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to administrative remedies for certain fraud and abuse violations under Medicaid; providing administrative penalties.

SB 1043 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 01/31/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the composition of the advisory committee for metal recycling entities.

SB 1093 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/04/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to procedures and required findings in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.

SB 1148 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/06/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to required training for caregivers to children, including foster parents.

SB 1149 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/06/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the regulation of child welfare, including licensure, community-based care contractors, family homes, and child-care facilities.

SR 35 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/05/2025 S Reported enrolled
Caption: Recognizing February 3-5, 2025, as Midland-Odessa Days at the State Capitol.

SR 36 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/05/2025 S Reported enrolled
Caption: Recognizing February 4, 2025, as Andrews County Day at the State Capitol.

SR 37 Author: Sparks
Last Action: 02/05/2025 S Reported enrolled
Caption: Recognizing February 6, 2025, as Howard County Day at the State Capitol.

Additional Primary Authors (7):
SB 4 Author: Bettencourt | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 02/11/2025 S Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Caption: Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.

SB 819 Author: Kolkhorst | Bettencourt | Campbell | Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" | Huffman | et al.
Last Action: 02/07/2025 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to renewable energy generation facilities; authorizing fees.

SB 1123 Author: Blanco | Perry | Sparks | Zaffirini
Last Action: 02/06/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of theft of petroleum product.

SB 1145 Author: Birdwell | Sparks
Last Action: 02/06/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to issue permits for the land application of water produced from certain mining and oil and gas extraction operations.

SJR 2 Author: Bettencourt | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 02/11/2025 S Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district.

SR 14 Author: Middleton | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Last Action: 01/28/2025 S Printed in full
Caption: In memory of Jesus "Jesse" Vargas.

SR 17 Author: Parker | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 01/28/2025 S Reported enrolled
Caption: Recognizing January 28, 2025, as Sexual Assault Survivors Day.

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