Senate Floor Action for 8/6/2025

SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Wednesday

August 6, 2025

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

SB 7 (CS)

Middleton/ Kolkhorst/ et al.

Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.

1 Floor Amendment

SB 9 (CS)

Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Campbell/ Creighton/ Hagenbuch/ et al.

Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.

The following bills were laid before the Senate and finally passed:

SB 15 (CS)

West/ et al.

Relating to recording requirements for certain documents concerning real property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations for those offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.

1 Floor Amendment

Committee referral on the following:

SB 1

Perry

Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

SB 2

Bettencourt

Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

SB 67

Eckhardt/ Menéndez

Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Division of Emergency Management for a local state of disaster; enhancing a criminal penalty.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select

(CS)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE