SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Wednesday

February 15, 2023

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Congratulating Bobby Ott of Temple ISD on being named the 2022 Superintendent of the Year.

Recognizing February 14 through February 16, 2023, as El Paso Days.

Recognizing February 15, 2023, as Houston East End Chamber of Commerce East End Day.

Recognizing the City of Baytown on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.

Recognizing Stephen F. Austin State University on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

In memory of Jose Angel Martinez.

Recognizing February 15, 2023 as Orange and Maroon Legislative Day.

Committee referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Health & Human Services

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing certain persons under the age of 18 to vote in a primary election.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict the United States House of Representatives and the Texas Legislature.

Redistricting, Special

Proposing a constitutional amendment abolishing daylight saving time in Texas.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to expand eligibility for Medicaid to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Health & Human Services

Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the governor's line-item veto authority.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission to establish districts for the election of the members of the United States House of Representatives elected from this state, the Texas Senate, and the Texas House of Representatives.

Redistricting, Special

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house of representatives to call the legislature into special session on petition of at least two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature in response to a fiscal crisis, war, natural disaster, or emergency.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the periodic review of state and local tax preferences and providing an expiration date for certain tax preferences.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to redistrict the Texas Legislature and Texas congressional districts and revising procedures for redistricting.

Redistricting, Special

Proposing a constitutional amendment to foster economic development and job growth and to provide tax relief and funding for education and public safety by creating the Texas Gaming Commission, authorizing and regulating casino gaming at a limited number of destination resorts and facilities licensed by the commission, authorizing sports wagering, requiring occupational licenses to conduct casino gaming, and requiring the imposition of a tax.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to set a lower limit on the maximum appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem taxation.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to establish a limit on the maximum appraised value of real property other than a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governing body of a political subdivision to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion, expressed as a dollar amount, of the market value of an individual's residence homestead.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an individual's right to personal reproductive autonomy.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment to direct the legislature to authorize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and sale of cannabis.

Criminal Justice

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the right to be free from governmental intrusion or interference into an individual's private life.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the enactment of a law imposing an occupation tax on certain entities that enter into transactions conveying securities or imposing a tax on certain securities transactions.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment to reserve to the people the powers of initiative and referendum.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment to entitle all component institutions of The Texas A&M University System and The University of Texas System to participate in the income and other benefits of the permanent university fund.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the Texas Connectivity Fund for the development of broadband and other telecommunications services in all areas of the state and authorizing the appropriation to that fund of a portion of revenue received from the existing state sales and use taxes on telecommunications services while not increasing the rate of the sales and use taxes.

Business & Commerce

Proposing a constitutional amendment to abolish the office of county treasurer of Galveston County.

Local Government

Declaring gun violence a public health crisis.

State Affairs

Extending the duty of the comptroller of public accounts under Section 7-c, Article VIII, Texas Constitution, to deposit certain tax revenue to the state highway fund.

Transportation

Expressing support for ending "gender-affirming care."

State Affairs

Directing the Texas Facilities Commission to name the Capitol Complex Child Development Center "Emma's Garden" in honor of Emma Barrientos.

Business & Commerce

Authorizing the burial of Patrick John Nugent in the State Cemetery.

Administration

Designating June 2 as Italian Heritage Day for a 10-year period beginning in 2023.

Administration

Designating the first full week in April as Gifted and Talented Students Week for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Relating to the interconnection of the ERCOT power grid to grids outside the ERCOT power region.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibiting certain transfers, purchases, and possession of assault weapons; creating criminal offenses.

State Affairs

Relating to adjustments to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Finance

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Promise Grant Program for certain students at public institutions of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Promise Grant Program for certain students at two-year public institutions of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the establishment and operation of the Texas B-On-time student loan program; authorizing a fee.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the criminal offense of hazing.

Criminal Justice

Relating to providing free full-day prekindergarten for certain children.

Education

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the establishment of a boil water notice alert system.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle.

State Affairs

Relating to remote and other meetings held under the open meetings law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to business days for purposes of the public information law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a governmental body's response to a request for public information.

Business & Commerce

Relating to maintenance and production of electronic public information under the public information law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the availability of dates of birth under the public information law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the licensing of marriage and family therapists, marriage and family therapist associates, professional counselors, professional counselor associates, and social workers, including certain out-of-state applicants.

Health & Human Services

Relating to standardized forms and materials for the issuance of protective orders, magistrate's orders for emergency protection, and temporary ex parte orders.

Jurisprudence

Relating to crime victims' compensation.

Criminal Justice

Relating to foster care placement in and the licensing of certain residential child-care facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to health benefit coverage for hearing aids for children and adults.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the right of state hospital patients to designate an essential caregiver for in-person visitation.

Health & Human Services

Relating to financial assistance by the Texas Water Development Board for backup power generators in economically distressed areas for public water supply and sanitary sewer systems.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to consent to services under certain programs designed to serve pregnant women and families.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding best practices for assisting students with autism spectrum disorder.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general election for state and county officers to vote in the preceding primary elections.

State Affairs

Relating to authorizing the comptroller to release a reported owner's unclaimed property to the owner's crime victim in certain circumstances and payment by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice of certain amounts owed by an inmate.

Criminal Justice

Relating to prohibitions in connection with the online sale of goods.

Business & Commerce

Relating to notice of water and wastewater requirements for the foreclosure sale of residential properties by certain political subdivisions.

Local Government

Relating to operating agreements between holders of a distiller's and rectifier's permit and certain alcoholic beverage permit holders.

State Affairs

Relating to the methods by which the comptroller may provide notice of a hearing on the revocation or suspension, or of the revocation or suspension, of a permit or license.

Finance

Relating to posting certain documents and information related to certain real property sales on a county's Internet website.

Local Government

Relating to an instruction guide for family members and caregivers of veterans who have mental health disorders.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to certain notice and filing requirements in court proceedings involving persons with mental illness.

Health & Human Services

Relating to excluding the furnishing of an academic transcript from the definition of "information service" for purposes of sales and use taxes.

Finance

Relating to applicability of civil service status to emergency medical services personnel in certain municipalities.

Local Government

Relating to a database of and the barring from state contracts of certain employers for wage theft.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to visit a professional's workplace for a career investigation day.

Education

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Redistricting Commission.

Redistricting, Special

Relating to the creation and duties of the unfunded mandates interagency work group.

Finance

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the Medicaid eligibility of certain women following a pregnancy.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the use of community health workers in Medicaid managed care.

Health & Human Services

Relating to eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the health literacy advisory committee and health literacy in the state health plan.

Health & Human Services

Relating to notice of the health of children attending a child-care facility.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the provision of an abortion-inducing drug.

State Affairs

Relating to the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion and the construction of abortion laws imposing penalties or liability on pregnant individuals.

State Affairs

Relating to a suit for dissolution of marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.

Jurisprudence

Relating to certain statutory changes to reflect and address same-sex marriages and parenting relationships and to the removal of provisions regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct.

State Affairs

Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.

State Affairs

Relating to status offenses committed by a child, including the repeal of the status offense of a child voluntarily running away from home.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the expunction of all records and files related to arrests for certain decriminalized misdemeanor offenses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the award of diligent participation credit to defendants confined in a state jail felony facility.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of testing equipment that identifies the presence of fentanyl, alpha-methylfentanyl, or any other derivative or controlled substance analogue of fentanyl.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the criminal penalties for possession or delivery of marihuana concentrate.

Criminal Justice

Relating to an annual adjustment to the basic allotment under the Foundation School Program to reflect inflation.

Education

Relating to the eligibility of certain children of classroom teachers for enrollment in a free prekindergarten program.

Education

Relating to an application for the establishment of a new open-enrollment charter school campus or site.

Education

Relating to the creation and elimination of certain state holidays.

State Affairs

Relating to electronic voter registration.

State Affairs

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

State Affairs

Relating to the eligibility of certain persons younger than 18 years of age to preregister to vote.

State Affairs

Relating to the adoption of the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.

State Affairs

Relating to a requirement that a public hearing be held on a proposal by the governor or the Legislative Budget Board to affect appropriations.

Finance

Relating to the scope and publication of certain actions by the governor during a state of disaster.

State Affairs

Relating to the renewal of a declared state of disaster.

State Affairs

Relating to the authority of the governor and the legislature regarding renewal of certain declared states of disaster.

State Affairs

Relating to the governor's authority during the recovery period following a state of disaster declaration.

State Affairs

Relating to the creation of a limited term driver's license; authorizing fees.

Transportation

Relating to the determination of an ad valorem tax protest or appeal on the ground of the unequal appraisal of property on the basis of the appraised value of the property relative to the median appraised value of a reasonable number of comparable properties.

Local Government

Relating to a periodic review and expiration dates of state and local tax preferences.

Finance

Relating to the creation of a small non-road engine purchase incentive program under the Texas emissions reduction plan.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the cremation of human remains by alkaline hydrolysis.

Business & Commerce

Relating to state, local, and court involvement in determining whether victims and witnesses to an offense and certain detained, arrested, or incarcerated persons are lawfully present in the United States.

State Affairs

Relating to the eligibility of a relative or other designated caregiver of a foster child for monetary assistance.

Health & Human Services

Relating to unlawful employment practices with respect to compensation and wage history.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Finance

Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination; authorizing civil penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to the repeal of statutes regarding the criminality or unacceptability of homosexual conduct and to the recognition of certain same-sex relationship statuses.

State Affairs

Relating to the inclusion of a mental health course in the required curriculum for public high school students.

Education

Relating to the provision of on-campus mental health services by a school district and reimbursement under Medicaid for certain services provided to eligible students.

Education

Relating to the provision of electricity service in the ERCOT power region.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the Texas Redistricting Commission.

Redistricting, Special

Relating to requiring a voter to present proof of identification.

State Affairs

Relating to participation in the countywide polling place program.

State Affairs

Relating to the designation of polling place locations on the campuses of certain institutions of higher education.

State Affairs

Relating to the voter registration of naturalized United States citizens.

State Affairs

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.

State Affairs

Relating to authorizing the possession, use, cultivation, distribution, delivery, sale, and research of medical cannabis for medical use by patients with certain medical conditions and the licensing of medical cannabis organizations; authorizing fees.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the repeal of and exceptions to certain laws prohibiting abortion.

State Affairs

Relating to exceptions to certain laws prohibiting abortion.

State Affairs

Relating to the Medicaid eligibility of certain women during and following a pregnancy.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Health & Human Services

Relating to electronic voter registration.

State Affairs

Relating to the possession, use, cultivation, distribution, transportation, and delivery of medical cannabis for use by patients as the best available medical treatment, the licensing of medical cannabis dispensing organizations, and the registration of certain individuals; authorizing fees.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for certain feminine hygiene products.

Finance

Relating to the prosecution and punishment for possession of child pornography; increasing criminal penalties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to wages and employment benefits.

Business & Commerce

Relating to who may request a public hearing from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality related to the construction of a concrete plant.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the deadline for hiring or rejecting applicants for state job vacancies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibiting the physical restraint of or use of chemical irritants on certain public school students by peace officers and school security personnel under certain circumstances.

Education

Relating to the Medicaid eligibility of certain women after a pregnancy.

Health & Human Services

Relating to recording the results of certain home studies performed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation of the Texas Indian Affairs Commission.

State Affairs

Relating to a counseling and crisis management program for relative or other designated caregivers and children in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the effect of the category of the motor vehicle dealer general distinguishing number issued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and held by a person on the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of the person's motor vehicle inventory.

Local Government

Relating to allowing therapy or facility dogs to accompany a child or a person with a disability during testimony in certain criminal cases.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the issuance of a warrant authorizing the use of a no-knock entry by a peace officer.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the consideration of a subsequent writ of habeas corpus in certain felony cases.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a school security volunteer program in certain counties.

Education

Relating to the use of a public school as a polling place.

State Affairs

Relating to extreme risk protective orders; creating criminal offenses.

State Affairs

Relating to raising the age limit to purchase certain weapons.

State Affairs

Relating to the creation of the Uvalde Victims' Compensation Fund.

State Affairs

Relating to the purchase of or acquisition of title to real property by certain aliens or foreign entities.

State Affairs

Relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain counties.

Finance

Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate statewide commerce.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual during a benefit year under the state unemployment insurance program.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the possession of certain photographs and images by inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the limitation on increases in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem taxation.

Local Government

Relating to proof of insurance and database requirements for operator's and certain exclusionary automobile insurance policies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to location requirements for the construction of certain wind-powered energy devices.

Business & Commerce

Relating to benefits for certain members of the Texas military forces and survivors of members of the Texas military forces.

Finance

Relating to the regulation of groundwater conservation districts.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the amount of the reimbursement fee paid by a defendant for a peace officer's services in executing or processing an arrest warrant, capias, or capias pro fine.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the location of a bank eligible to be selected as a depository or subdepository of county public money, including money held by a county or district clerk.

Local Government

Relating to education requirements for an applicant to take the uniform CPA examination.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the furnishing by pharmacists and dispensing by physicians of certain medications.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the procedure for certain complaints against health care practitioners.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the required inclusion of a person's sex on a birth certificate and prohibited change of sex on the birth certificate of certain minors.

State Affairs

Relating to parental approval for a student's participation in human sexuality instruction in public schools.

Education

Relating to the display of the national motto and the founding documents of the United States in public schools and the inclusion of an elective course on the founding principles of the United States in the curriculum for public high school students.

Education

Relating to parental rights in public education and to audits of school district curricula by the Texas Education Agency.

Education

Relating to the punishment for illegal voting; increasing criminal penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to a pool for certain individuals with claims against persons excluded from coverage by certain automobile insurance policies; authorizing an assessment.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the acquisition or attempted acquisition of a firearm by a person prohibited from possessing a firearm; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to notice for certain defendants regarding the unlawful possession or acquisition of a firearm or ammunition.

State Affairs

Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with certain firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to the timely reporting of criminal case dispositions to the Department of Public Safety and to the allocation of certain grant money.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the reporting of lost or stolen firearms and to proof of loss for personal property insurance coverage for those firearms; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to the permitting of medical waste facilities by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the establishment of a public law school in El Paso County.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.

State Affairs

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Parental Empowerment Program and an insurance premium tax credit for contributions made for purposes of that program.

Education

Relating to informed consent before the provision of certain medical treatments involving COVID-19 vaccination.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a limitation on increases in the appraised value of real property other than a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes.

Local Government

Relating to the consideration of the cumulative effects of air contaminant emissions in the emissions permitting process.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the Center for Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities renamed as the office for health equity and the duties of that office.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of the Health and Human Services Commission's office of the ombudsman to resolve complaints against the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the required report of criminal offenses committed against individuals receiving certain state agency services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty prescribed for certain acts of official oppression.

State Affairs

Relating to municipal civilian complaint review boards in certain municipalities.

State Affairs

Relating to the retention and required disclosure under the public information law of certain complaints alleging official oppression.

State Affairs

Relating to the prohibited discharge of a patient to certain unlicensed or unpermitted group-centered facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to failure to report assault, neglect, or omission of care in certain group homes; creating a criminal offense.

Health & Human Services

Relating to criminal history record information checks for applicants for employment and employees of group homes; creating a criminal offense.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation of a criminal offense concerning the failure of certain persons to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation in boarding home facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the civil penalty for certain signs placed on the right-of-way of a public road.

Transportation

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.

Criminal Justice

Relating to standing to protest certain alcoholic beverage permit and license applications.

State Affairs

Relating to a notification requirement if a public school, including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse assigned to the school during all instructional hours.

Education

Relating to the creation of the Texas African American Heritage Commission.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the development and implementation of the Live Well Texas program and the expansion of Medicaid eligibility to provide health benefit coverage to certain individuals; imposing penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of the governing body of a taxing unit to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion, expressed as a dollar amount, of the appraised value of an individual's residence homestead.

Local Government

Relating to the award of library construction grants by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Business & Commerce

Relating to criminal history screening of applicants for residential tenancies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to requirements for beneficial tax treatment related to a leasehold or other possessory interest in a public facility used to provide multifamily housing.

Local Government

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.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the assessment of damages resulting from the condemnation of property that is subject to a conservation easement.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to prohibiting an increase in the rent before the end of a lease term of a tenant residing in a development supported with a low income housing tax credit allocation.

Local Government

Relating to prioritization of a pregnant individual's health when providing health care treatments; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of reproductive decisions and certain employment agreements limiting reproductive decisions.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the carrying of handguns on the campuses of and certain other locations associated with institutions of higher education.

State Affairs

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of criminal trespass.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of testing equipment that identifies the presence of fentanyl, alpha-methylfentanyl, or any other derivative of fentanyl.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the criminal penalties for delivery and possession of marihuana and citations given for those offenses.

State Affairs

Relating to regulating the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, and use of cannabis and cannabis products; authorizing the imposition of fees; requiring occupational licenses; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to qualifications and registration of certain voters convicted of a felony.

State Affairs

Relating to the vote required to release certain inmates on parole.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the content of detailed reports filed by lobbyists and to monetary limits on expenditures by lobbyists.

State Affairs

Relating to the prohibition on lobbying by certain elected officers.

State Affairs

Relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists.

State Affairs

Relating to lobbying by former members of the legislature; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to the grounds for disciplinary action against peace officers and the use of body worn cameras by peace officers.

State Affairs

Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and law enforcement agencies regarding law enforcement officers and the use of body worn cameras; authorizing fees.

State Affairs

Relating to the enforcement of laws relating to elections.

State Affairs

Relating to requirements for certain petitions requesting an election and ballot propositions and to related procedures and provisions.

State Affairs

Relating to paid leave by certain state employees for the birth or adoption of a child.

Business & Commerce

Relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on the permitting of wastewater treatment facilities.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for theft of a catalytic converter; increasing a criminal penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the determination of the sufficient balance of the economic stabilization fund for the purpose of allocating certain constitutional transfers of money to that fund and the state highway fund.

Finance

Relating to the use of green stormwater infrastructure in new state buildings.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the repeal of laws prohibiting abortion.

State Affairs

Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of indecency with a child.

Criminal Justice

Relating to employment verification of certain health facility applicants.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the recusal from a vote of a member of the board of directors or a subcommittee of the board of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association based on the member's financial interest.

Business & Commerce

Relating to state recognition of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas.

State Affairs

Relating to the removal from office of an officer of a political subdivision for commission of certain criminal offenses.

State Affairs

Relating to the offense of manslaughter; increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenders.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of testing equipment that identifies the presence of fentanyl, alpha-methylfentanyl, or any other derivative or controlled substance analogue of fentanyl.

Criminal Justice

Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.

State Affairs

Relating to participation of the members of the Texas Workforce Commission in certain functions of the Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to an interstate compact on border security and immigration enforcement.

Border Security

Relating to the installment of electric school buses and solar panels in Texas public schools.

Business & Commerce

Relating to employment restrictions for former employees of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; providing an administrative penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to workplace violence prevention in certain health facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to written notification provided by drug manufacturers regarding the cause of generic insulin prescription drug unavailability.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the identification of and prohibited cooperation by state and local entities with certain federal acts that violate the United States Constitution.

State Affairs

Relating to the remote participation of certain persons in a proceeding for the issuance or modification of a protective order.

State Affairs

Relating to support for nursing-related postsecondary education including the provision of loan repayment assistance to nursing faculty and the provision of grants to nursing education programs.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.

Education

Relating to the regulation of motor fuel metering devices and motor fuel quality.

Business & Commerce

Relating to specialty license plates issued for honorary consuls.

Transportation

Relating to ethnic studies instruction in public schools.

Education

Relating to the offense of genital mutilation.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision of and professional liability insurance coverage for gender transitioning or gender reassignment medical procedures and treatments for certain children.

State Affairs

Relating to a pilot project to provide emergency telemedicine medical services and telehealth services in rural areas.

Health & Human Services

Relating to hiring and licensing certain veterans as peace officers.

State Affairs

Relating to the notice given by a property owner prohibiting certain persons from carrying certain firearms on the property.

State Affairs

Relating to increasing the rates of the state gasoline and diesel fuel taxes.

Finance

Relating to the repeal of the temporary tax reduction for certain high-cost gas.

Finance

Relating to the applicability of the gas production tax to flared or vented gas at an increased rate.

Finance

Relating to the reduction of methane gas flaring on land dedicated to the permanent university fund.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to energy efficiency goals for electric utilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to procedures applicable to municipal consideration of building permits, plats, and certain land development plans.

Local Government

Relating to confirmation of a voter's residence by a voter registrar.

State Affairs

Relating to the definition of assembled vehicle.

Transportation

Relating to the eligibility of land for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land.

Local Government

Relating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system.

Education

Relating to the production, sale, distribution, delivery, and regulation of consumable hemp products.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to required reports of certain vaccine-related or drug-related injuries and adverse events.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a prohibition on the enactment of a law imposing an occupation tax on certain entities that enter into transactions conveying securities or imposing a tax on certain securities transactions.

Finance

Relating to a law enforcement agency accreditation grant program.

Finance

Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 40 in Lubbock County as The Maines Brothers Band Highway.

Transportation

Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of residential picketing.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the renewal, expiration, and suspension of driver's licenses; increasing a fee.

Transportation

Relating to state agency and local government security incident procedures.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the composition of the governor's broadband development council.

Business & Commerce

Relating to annually adjusting for inflation the maximum amount of a motor vehicle excluded in determining eligibility for the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the prohibition of certain discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity or expression; providing an administrative penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to the sale of fireworks before and during the Diwali holiday.

Local Government

Relating to certificates of title for certain outboard motors.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the service credit used in calculating longevity pay for certain judges and prosecutors.

Finance

Relating to exempting textbooks purchased, used, or consumed by university and college students from sales and use taxes for limited periods.

Finance

Relating to the repeal of the additional ad valorem taxes imposed as a result of a sale or change of use of certain land.

Local Government

Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates for members of the military who served in Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

Transportation

Relating to the designation of state musicians for classical and nonclassical genres.

Administration

Relating to authorizing an optional county fee on vehicle registration in certain counties to be used for transportation projects.

Transportation

Relating to required provision of workers' compensation insurance coverage for employees of building and construction contractors and subcontractors.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the requirement that a public employer provide a place for employees to express breast milk.

Business & Commerce

Relating to certain proceedings or procedures involving the disposition of certain contraband or abandoned or unclaimed property.

Criminal Justice

Relating to conditions on the continued receipt of tuition and fee benefits at public institutions of higher education for senior citizens.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of terroristic threat.

Criminal Justice

Relating to eligibility for the exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of certain first responders.

Local Government

Relating to the procedure for delivery by a chief appraiser of a form for reapplying for the appraisal of land for ad valorem tax purposes as agricultural or open-space land.

Local Government

Relating to collection and analysis of certain health information by the Texas Health Services Authority.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the applicability of certain laws to assistance provided to an individual in obtaining an abortion outside of this state.

State Affairs

Relating to the disclosure of a voted ballot under the public information law.

State Affairs

Relating to penalties for intimidation and harassment of election officials and election interference; creating criminal offenses.

State Affairs

Relating to the use of medication designated for treatment of respiratory distress on public and private school campuses.

Education

Relating to the payment by the state or a county of costs for certain mental health hearings or proceedings.

State Affairs

Relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability models for certain river basins.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to hospital patients' rights and hospital policies and procedures; providing an administrative penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to informed consent to immunizations for children and civil liability for failure to obtain the consent.

Health & Human Services

Relating to health care services provided at a hospital by a physician who is not a member of the hospital's medical staff and the hospital's liability for health care services provided by such a physician.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a pharmacist's authority to refuse to dispense a drug.

State Affairs

Relating to prescribing, dispensing, administering, or otherwise providing ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine sulfate.

Health & Human Services

Relating to employer civil liability for a vaccine requirement imposed on the employer's employees.

State Affairs

Relating to discrimination by a provider participating in Medicaid or the child health plan program against an individual based on immunization status.

Health & Human Services

Relating to prohibited immunization status discrimination and vaccine mandates; authorizing administrative penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to vaccine administration requirements and protection of immunization exemptions for health reasons.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the right to choose medical treatments and certain control measures and to the imposition of isolation or quarantine control measures.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the enforcement within this state of certain federal laws for federally declared public health emergencies.

State Affairs

Relating to prohibited vaccination status discrimination and requirements for COVID-19 vaccines; authorizing administrative penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to COVID-19 prevention and treatment information provided to individuals receiving a COVID-19 viral test.

Health & Human Services

Relating to limitations on public health directives issued during a state of disaster or outbreak of a communicable disease.

Health & Human Services

Relating to exempting the intrastate manufacture of a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition from federal regulation.

State Affairs

Relating to the assessment, destruction, disposal, and release of certain deer.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the Texas Sovereignty Act.

State Affairs

Relating to required labeling of certain products that contain or are derived from aborted human fetal tissue.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the definition of telephone call for purposes of regulating telephone solicitations.

Business & Commerce

Relating to toll collection and enforcement by toll project entities; authorizing an administrative fee; imposing a civil penalty.

Transportation

Relating to appellate jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission regarding certain water or sewer utility fees.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the confinement in a county jail of a person pending a transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to the compensation for certain costs of confinement.

Finance

Relating to the authority of a county to require photo identification to file certain documents with the county clerk.

Local Government

Relating to complaints filed with the Texas Ethics Commission.

State Affairs

Relating to the production and regulation of hemp; providing administrative penalties; creating a criminal offense.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the compensation of members of the seawall commission in Matagorda County.

Local Government

Relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain counties.

Transportation

Relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision for certain repeat intoxication offenders.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a franchise or insurance premium tax credit for certain housing developments.

Finance

Relating to the authority of a municipality or a property owners' association to regulate the raising or keeping of chickens.

Local Government

Relating to exempting certain emergency preparation items from the sales and use tax for a limited period.

Finance

Relating to the repeal of a prohibition on cottage food production operations selling foods at wholesale.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the definition of a cottage food production operation.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Business & Commerce

Relating to food labeling by a cottage food production operation.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the terminology used in statute to refer to intellectual disability and certain references to abolished health and human services agencies.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the location where certain sales are consummated for the purpose of municipal sales and use taxes.

Finance

Relating to the authority of an emergency services district to provide preventive health care services.

Local Government

Relating to meetings of the Family and Protective Services Council held using certain telecommunication devices.

Business & Commerce

Relating to compliance programs at public institutions of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the establishment of a registry for and requiring the registration of certain unmanned teller machines; imposing a fee; providing a civil penalty.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the use of hypnotically induced statements in a criminal trial.

Criminal Justice

Relating to taxation of electronic nicotine delivery system vapor products and related transactions; imposing taxes.

Finance

Relating to a sales and use tax exemption for child and adult diapers.

Finance

Relating to the applicability of the mixed beverage gross receipts tax and the mixed beverage sales tax to items sold by certain nonprofit entity temporary event permittees.

Finance

Relating to the immunization data included in and excluded from the immunization registry.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to all individuals for whom federal matching money is available.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation of the Texas Health Insurance Exchange and premium assistance and cost-sharing reduction programs; authorizing a fee.

Health & Human Services

Relating to lobbying by former members of the legislature; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to prohibiting the purchase of certain food and drink items under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the extension of a driver's license suspension or disqualification following certain convictions.

Transportation

Relating to the prohibition on posting on the Internet information held by an appraisal district regarding certain residential property.

Local Government

Relating to county and municipal housing authority pet policies.

Local Government

Relating to a paid parental leave policy at public schools and an allotment under the Foundation School Program for the cost of providing paid parental leave under that policy.

Education

Relating to responsibility for certain expenses incurred to temporarily house a child in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services in a hotel.

Health & Human Services

Relating to credit toward payment of fines and costs for certain defendants.

Criminal Justice