SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Thursday

July 8, 2021

Committee referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary and authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons.

Jurisprudence

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.

Local Government

Relating to election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses; providing civil penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to requiring public school and public institution of higher education students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.

Health & Human Services

Relating to abortion complication reporting and the regulation of drug-induced abortion procedures, providers, and facilities; creating a criminal offense.

Health & Human Services

Relating to complaint procedures and disclosure requirements for, and to the censorship of users' expressions by, social media platforms.

State Affairs

Relating to rules for setting the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a monetary bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bonds.

Jurisprudence

Relating to a one-time supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Finance

Relating to the authority of a person who acquires a residence homestead to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the homestead in the year in which the property is acquired.

Local Government

Relating to making appropriations for the legislature and legislative agencies.

Finance

Relating to the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction from the preceding tax year in the district's maximum compressed rate.

Local Government

Relating to state investments in social media companies that censor political speech.

State Affairs

Relating to the use of certain information regarding voter qualification.

State Affairs

Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.

Health & Human Services

Relating to abortion reporting and exemptions to abortion facility licensing; creating a criminal offense.

Health & Human Services