Texas Legislature

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Meza

02/27/2025 H Referred to State Affairs: Feb 27 2025 11:13AM

Relating to rest breaks for employees of certain governmental entity contractors; providing an administrative penalty.

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Meza

02/27/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Feb 27 2025 11:13AM

Relating to creating the criminal offense of the manufacture of a firearm without a federal license.

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Meza

02/27/2025 H Referred to Higher Education: Feb 27 2025 11:13AM

Relating to a study by the Legislative Budget Board concerning the long-term effects of regulating tuition rates and amounts charged by public institutions of higher education.

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Meza

05/15/2025 H Placed on General State Calendar

Relating to reporting and investigating certain cases of child abuse or neglect involving a pregnant person's use of a controlled substance.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Public Education: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to compensation of school district trustees.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Public Education: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to establishing a minimum wage for school bus drivers.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unlawful possession or transfer of an assault weapon.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to the regulation of certain firearm transfers; creating criminal offenses.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unlawful possession or transfer of a large-capacity magazine.

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Meza

02/28/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Feb 28 2025 11:02AM

Relating to requiring a person convicted of an offense involving family violence or a person who is the subject of a family violence protective order to surrender firearms owned by the person.

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Meza

03/03/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 3 2025 2:24PM

Relating to the ability of voters with certain disabilities to cast a secret ballot.

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Meza

03/03/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 3 2025 2:24PM

Relating to the appointment of volunteer deputy voter registrars.

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Meza

03/03/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 3 2025 2:24PM

Relating to the registration of voters at a polling place and related procedures.

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Meza

03/03/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 3 2025 2:24PM

Relating to electronic voter registration.

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Meza

03/04/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 4 2025 3:37PM

Relating to electronic voter registration.

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Meza

03/04/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 4 2025 3:37PM

Relating to early voting by mail by any qualified voter and to the repeal of certain criminal offenses concerning the solicitation and distribution of an application to vote by mail.

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Meza

03/10/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Mar 10 2025 2:24PM

Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by persons convicted of certain misdemeanor offenses in this state.

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Meza

03/10/2025 H Referred to s/c on Workforce by Speaker: Mar 10 2025 2:24PM

Relating to a cost-of-living increase applicable to death benefits paid under the workers' compensation system.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to s/c on Workforce by Speaker: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to employment leave for certain family or medical obligations.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to a law enforcement agency policy regarding the discharge of a firearm by a peace officer at or in the direction of a moving vehicle.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to Elections: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to preferential voting in a primary election.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to Corrections: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to limitations on the use of administrative segregation by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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Meza

04/02/2025 H Left pending in committee

Relating to prohibiting the confinement of inmates by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in facilities operated by private vendors.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to Delivery of Government Efficiency: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to the designation of Diwali and Dashain as optional holidays.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to the provision in the Nepali language of application forms and an alternate examination for a driver's license.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to Human Services: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Relating to monetary assistance provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services to certain relative or designated caregivers.

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Meza

03/14/2025 H Referred to s/c on Dis Prev & Women's & Children's Health by Speaker: Mar 14 2025 2:36PM

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals diagnosed with certain mental health disorders.

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Meza

03/14/2025 H Referred to Trade, Workforce & Economic Development: Mar 14 2025 2:36PM

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.

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Meza

03/14/2025 H Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence: Mar 14 2025 2:36PM

Relating to criminal penalties for possession offenses under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.

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Meza

03/14/2025 H Referred to Trade, Workforce & Economic Development: Mar 14 2025 2:36PM

Relating to a tenant's right to terminate a residential lease following certain outages of essential utilities.

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Meza

03/17/2025 H Referred to Human Services: Mar 17 2025 2:32PM

Relating to the reimbursement rate for meals provided under the home-delivered meals program.

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Meza

03/19/2025 H Referred to Insurance: Mar 19 2025 12:35PM

Relating to health benefit plan coverage for conversion therapy.

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Meza

03/19/2025 H Referred to State Affairs: Mar 19 2025 12:35PM

Relating to restrictions on certain contributions and lobbyist compensation by persons appointed to public office by the governor; creating a criminal offense.

Author:

Meza | Lalani

West

06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25

Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.

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Meza

03/25/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Mar 25 2025 3:26PM

Relating to the carrying of a handgun by certain persons between 18 and 21 years of age.

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Meza

03/26/2025 H Referred to Corrections: Mar 26 2025 11:31AM

Relating to a study by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice concerning the transparency, oversight, and accountability of the use of the restrictive housing, security threat groups, and certain disciplinary measures.

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Meza

03/26/2025 H Referred to Corrections: Mar 26 2025 11:31AM

Relating to the access of certain individuals in correctional facilities to certain rehabilitative treatments.

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Meza

03/26/2025 H Referred to Corrections: Mar 26 2025 11:31AM

Relating to the reform of solitary confinement practices and the treatment of prisoners affiliated with security threat groups in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ).

Author:

Meza

03/27/2025 H Referred to Corrections: Mar 27 2025 11:57AM

Relating to the treatment of certain inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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Meza

04/01/2025 H Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs: Apr 1 2025 12:28PM

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of unlawful transfer of certain weapons.

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Meza

04/07/2025 H Referred to Corrections: Apr 7 2025 5:28PM

Relating to a quality assurance audit of the provision of health care to inmates by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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Meza

03/11/2025 H Referred to s/c on State-Federal Relations by Speaker: Mar 11 2025 3:26PM

Recognizing the D.C. Statehood Compact and petitioning the Congress of the United States to admit Washington, D.C., into the Union.

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Meza

04/01/2025 H Reported enrolled: Apr 1 2025 12:52PM

Recognizing March 13, 2025, as Nepalese Day at the Texas State Capitol.

Author:

Meza

05/23/2025 H Reported enrolled: May 23 2025 10:47PM

Recognizing the work of legislative intern Arfeen Khan during the 89th Legislature.

Author:

Meza

05/23/2025 H Reported enrolled: May 23 2025 10:46PM

Recognizing the work of legislative intern Shaheer Khan during the 89th Legislature.

Author:

Flores | Meza | Talarico | Walle | Luther

04/15/2025 H Left pending in subcommittee

Relating to workplace heat illness prevention, including the creation of a heat illness prevention advisory board; imposing administrative penalties; providing a private cause of action.

Author:

Isaac | Longoria | Harris Davila | Lopez, Janie | Meza

03/07/2025 H Referred to Trade, Workforce & Economic Development: Mar 7 2025 2:33PM

Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to prohibit or regulate certain swim instruction provided in a pool on an owner's or resident's property.

Author:

Isaac | Harris Davila | Troxclair | Richardson | Meza

04/23/2025 H No action taken in committee

Relating to a property owners' association's authority to require installation or maintenance of grass or turf landscaping.

Author:

Button | Lujan | Meza | Hull | Smithee

King

06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25

Relating to programs to promote economic development in the Office of the Governor and to the repeal of the governor's broadband development council.

Author:

Bhojani | Noble | Plesa | Villalobos | Meza

03/14/2025 H Reported enrolled: Mar 14 2025 1:46PM

Commemorating DiscoverSTEM Innovation Day at the State Capitol on March 18, 2025.