SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Tuesday

August 10, 2021

The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:

Relating to requiring public schools to provide instruction and materials and adopt policies relating to the prevention of child abuse, family violence, and dating violence.

The Senate reconsidered final passage and again finally passed:

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.

1 Floor Amendment

The Senate suspended the regular order, read second time and passed to engrossment:

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

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