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ITEMS ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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********** SENATE AMENDMENTS **********

Senate amendment printings:

ELIGIBLE AT 11:50 AM MAY 21, 2025:

HB 5560             Harris / et al.

Relating to penalties in certain suits involving a groundwater conservation district; increasing a penalty.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 6 pages total.

ELIGIBLE AT 9:10 PM MAY 22, 2025:

HB 762              Leach / Cook / Slawson / Landgraf / et al.

Relating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 11:10 PM MAY 22, 2025:

HB 1584             Hull / Metcalf / Lalani / Leo Wilson / et al.

Relating to the creation of a list of priority facilities by electric utilities.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:30 PM MAY 23, 2025:

HB 107              Simmons / Rose / Collier / Jones, Venton / Oliverson / et al.

Relating to the establishment of the sickle cell disease registry.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 6:00 PM MAY 23, 2025:

HB 114              Cortez / Plesa / et al.

Relating to the transfer of functions relating to certain veteran mental health programs and plans to the Texas Veterans Commission.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 10 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 7:40 PM MAY 23, 2025:

HB 138              Dean / Paul / Gerdes / Hull / Leach / et al.

Relating to the establishment of the Health Impact, Cost, and Coverage Analysis Program; authorizing a fee.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 3 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 10 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:30 PM MAY 23, 2025:

HB 4386             Wharton

Relating to the exchange or surrender of an annuity contract.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 5 pages total.


HB 2495             Dutton / Rodríguez Ramos

Relating to certain rights of a child or a parent or the sole managing conservator of a child in relation to the child's enrollment in school.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 6 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:30 AM MAY 24, 2025:

HB 581              González, Mary / Lalani / Garcia, Linda / et al.

Relating to the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 10:50 AM MAY 24, 2025:

HB 3348             Patterson / Plesa / Richardson / Troxclair

Relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program in certain counties.
     2 Amendments, consisting of 2 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 11 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 5:50 PM MAY 24, 2025:

HB 5323             King / et al.

Relating to the creation of the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:50 PM MAY 24, 2025:

HB 4341             McLaughlin

Relating to critical infrastructure facility emergency response maps and the critical infrastructure emergency response map grant program.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 5 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 10:10 PM MAY 24, 2025:

HB 6                Leach / Harris / Buckley / Metcalf / Hull / et al.

Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.
     10 Amendments, consisting of 19 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 39 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:30 PM MAY 25, 2025:

HB 2712             Darby

Relating to test years used for ratemaking purposes by certain water and sewer utilities.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:40 PM MAY 25, 2025:

HB 171              Guillen

Relating to the certificate of medical examination for chemical dependency and the duration of court-ordered treatment for a person  with a chemical dependency.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 4 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:50 PM MAY 25, 2025:

HB 3153             Kerwin / et al.

Relating to hiring and employment requirements for persons in direct contact with children at certain facilities.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 4 pages total.


HB 143              King / Darby / Hunter / Fairly / Anchía / et al.

Relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas and the Public Utility Commission of Texas to address a failure by an operator to maintain an electrical power line serving a well site or certain surface facilities in accordance with the National Electrical Code.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 4:00 PM MAY 25, 2025:

HB 2688             Harless / Oliverson / Perez, Mary Ann / Metcalf / Thompson / et al.

Relating to the public retirement systems of certain municipalities.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 15 pages total.


HB 3464             Meza / Lalani / et al.

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.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 449              González, Mary / et al.

Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 4:10 PM MAY 25, 2025:

HB 3486             Hunter / Leo Wilson

Relating to a deduction from the amount of taxable sales used to calculate the amount of sales and use taxes that the owners of restaurants that purchase Texas farm-raised oysters are required to remit to the comptroller of public accounts.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 4263             Cook

Relating to the procedures and practices of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department regarding grievances submitted by department employees and former department employees and to the eligibility of a person to be appointed to the department's release review panel and the authority of a panel member.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 8:40 PM MAY 25, 2025:

HB 2                Buckley / Bernal / Guillen / et al.

Relating to public education and public school finance.
     6 Amendments, consisting of 28 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 229 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 8:40 PM MAY 26, 2025:

HB 1522             Gerdes / et al.

Relating to notice of a meeting held under the open meetings law.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 8:50 PM MAY 26, 2025:

HB 24               Orr / Hickland / Vasut / Lopez, Ray / Lalani / et al.

Relating to procedures for changes to a zoning regulation or district boundary.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 5 pages total.


HB 1237             Guillen

Relating to the renewal by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain expired occupational licenses and registrations.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 2637             DeAyala

Relating to the practice and procedures for summoning prospective grand jurors and petit jurors and the exemption of certain persons from grand jury and petit jury service.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 14 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:00 PM MAY 26, 2025:

HB 3126             Darby / Lambert / Metcalf / Guillen

Relating to the election of certain entities to participate in the uniform group coverage program for active school employees; imposing a fee.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 3233             Harris

Relating to patient data maintained by pharmacy benefit managers.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 1 page total.


HB 4310             Vasut / et al.

Relating to a special right of access under the public information law for a member of a governing board.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 5 pages total.


HB 3487             Hunter / Leo Wilson

Relating to a deduction from the amount of taxable sales used to calculate the amount of sales and use taxes that the owners of restaurants that participate in an oyster shell recycling program are required to remit to the comptroller of public accounts.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:30 PM MAY 26, 2025:

HCR 9               Morales, Christina / Luther / Leo Wilson / Richardson / Simmons / et al.

Designating the first Saturday of every month as Small Business Saturday for a 10-year period ending in 2035.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 11:40 AM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 5331             Dean

Relating to the enforceability of certain state agency and local government contract language regarding required security incident notifications.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 1 page total.


HB 1397             Harris / Metcalf / Raymond / Cain / Leo Wilson

Relating to the care, custody, and display of the letter known as the victory or death letter, the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Declaration of Independence.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 3 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 12:20 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 163              Cortez / Simmons / Leo Wilson

Relating to the possession and administration of epinephrine delivery systems by certain entities.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 1 page total.

ELIGIBLE AT 12:30 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 3250             Darby

Relating to the regulation of real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 6 pages total.


HB 3071             Geren

Relating to cancellation of certain solid waste disposal permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 12:40 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 3463             Walle / Moody / Cook

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of theft of service.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 12:50 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 5033             Bell, Keith / Guillen / Toth / Hayes / Olcott / et al.

Relating to the authority of this state to implement a motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 35               Thompson

Relating to a peer support network for first responders.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 4 pages total.


HB 3824             King / Gerdes / et al.

Relating to fire safety standards and emergency operations plans for the operation of battery energy storage facilities; providing administrative penalties.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 8 pages total.


HB 216              Harris Davila / Frank

Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 1:00 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 4226             Morales Shaw / Raymond / Lujan / Little / Ordaz / et al.

Relating to exemptions from the taxes imposed on the sale, use, or rental of a motor vehicle for a vehicle purchased, used, or rented by a nonprofit food bank or a provider of housing and related services.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 3512             Capriglione / Orr

Relating to artificial intelligence training programs for certain employees and officials of state agencies and local governments.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 7 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 1:10 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 18               VanDeaver / Lambert / King / Johnson / Ashby / et al.

Relating to the establishment and administration of certain programs and services providing health care services to rural counties.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 19 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 1:20 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 5154             Wilson

Relating to the Joint Admission Medical Program Council.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:10 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 103              Troxclair / Meyer / Vasut / Morales, Eddie / Hickland / et al.

Relating to the creation and maintenance of a database of taxing unit bond, tax, and bond-related project information; providing a civil penalty.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:20 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 851              Schofield

Relating to the determination and reporting of the number of residence homesteads of certain property owners for which the owner is receiving certain ad valorem tax benefits.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 4:10 PM MAY 27, 2025:

HB 647              Patterson / Holt / Leo Wilson / et al.

Relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's licenses; authorizing a fee.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 8:50 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 4520             Martinez

Relating to requirements for certain funding of aviation facilities and projects.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 1 page total.

ELIGIBLE AT 9:00 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 3016             Lujan / Longoria / Guillen / Bhojani / Gámez

Relating to the circumstances in which a rental company may void a damage waiver for a rental vehicle.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 2313             Tepper

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for certain qualified projects.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:10 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 2818             Capriglione / et al.

Relating to the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


HB 2851             Howard / Perez, Vincent

Relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated application service.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:20 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 4486             Bonnen

Relating to directing payment, after approval, of certain miscellaneous claims and judgments against the state out of funds designated by this Act; making appropriations.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 15 pages total.


HB 4264             Hefner

Relating to creation of a grant program for certain peace officers who hold a master proficiency certificate.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:30 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 1500             Bell, Keith / Canales / Hull / Kitzman / Shaheen

Relating to the continuation and functions of the Department of Information Resources, including the composition of the governing body of the department and, in collaboration with the comptroller, the administration of state assistance opportunities.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 27 pages total.


HB 5081             Leach

Relating to the protection of personal identifying information of certain individuals in the judicial system; creating a criminal offense.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 12 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:40 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 2974             Craddick

Relating to municipal and county hotel occupancy taxes and the authority of certain municipalities to receive certain tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project and to pledge certain tax revenue for the payment of obligations related to the project; authorizing the imposition of taxes.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 37 pages total.


HB 2080             Gerdes / Isaac

Relating to the authority of a groundwater conservation district to regulate groundwater withdrawals from certain wells and the review of the duties of a groundwater conservation district by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 6 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 9:50 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 4384             Darby

Relating to the recovery of certain costs associated with a gas utility's plant, facilities, or equipment placed in service.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


HB 5659             Dean / VanDeaver / Hefner

Relating to the procedural requirements applicable to interbasin transfers of water involving the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 10:20 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 493              Shaheen / Capriglione / Metcalf

Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 10:40 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 4903             Harris Davila / Ordaz / Button

Relating to the establishment of the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative and the Quad-Agency Child Care Initiative Commission.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 5 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 10:50 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 2516             Guillen / Dean / Wharton / Johnson / Buckley / et al.

Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals younger than 65 years of age to purchase Medicare supplement benefit plans.
     2 Amendments, consisting of 2 pages total.


HB 4488             Bonnen

Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts, the dedication and rededication of revenue and allocation of accrued interest on dedicated revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general governmental purposes.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 11 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 11:00 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 4530             Romero / Harris / Fairly / Guillen / Zwiener

Relating to the dedication and management of water rights placed in the Texas Water Trust.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 11:20 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 3689             Hunter / Oliverson / Paul / Bonnen / Villalobos / et al.

Relating to funding of excess losses and operating expenses of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; authorizing an assessment; authorizing a surcharge.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 34 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 11:40 AM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 145              King

Relating to risk mitigation planning and associated liability for providers of electric service; providing an administrative penalty.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 6 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 12:00 PM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 43               Kitzman / Guillen / Lopez, Janie / Bonnen / González, Mary / et al.

Relating to the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority and certain programs administered by the authority.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 2 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 11 pages total.


HB 5247             Geren

Relating to an alternative capital recovery process for certain utilities.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 6 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 12:20 PM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 2221             Hull

Relating to certain trade practices related to life insurance, annuity contracts, and accident and health coverage.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 16 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 1:00 PM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 5671             Kerwin

Relating to the election of directors for and the authority to issue bonds of the Johnson County Special Utility District.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.


ELIGIBLE AT 1:20 PM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 700              McQueeney

Relating to disclosures for certain commercial sales-based financing transactions, the effect of certain commercial sales-based financing contract provisions, and the registration of commercial sales-based financing brokers; authorizing a fee and providing a civil penalty.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 3 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 3:40 PM MAY 28, 2025:

HB 3711             Capriglione / Harris Davila / Cook

Relating to assistance in the investigation of certain open meetings offenses by the open records division of the attorney general's office.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 1 page total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 2 pages total.


ELIGIBLE AT 8:20 AM MAY 29, 2025:

HB 120              Bell, Keith / Buckley / Ashby / Gates / Button / et al.

Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program.
     1 Amendment, consisting of 6 pages total.
     Committee Substitute, consisting of 32 pages total.


 

 


********** CONFERENCE COMMITTEE **********

Conference Committee Reports:

ELIGIBLE AT 2:50 PM MAY 25, 2025:

SB 17               Kolkhorst / et al.

SP: Hefner / Metcalf / Patterson / McQueeney / Spiller / et al.

Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities.

ELIGIBLE AT 11:10 AM MAY 27, 2025:

SB 1637             King

SP: Hefner

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of deadly conduct.

ELIGIBLE AT 10:40 AM MAY 28, 2025:

SB 1833             Parker

SP: Anchía / Leach / Louderback / Cook

Relating to the use of a social media platform in furtherance of an offense involving the delivery of a controlled substance; increasing criminal penalties.

SB 2155             Perry

SP: Kitzman / Bell, Keith / Hull / Canales / Buckley

Relating to the regulation of veterinary professionals and facilities by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and the temporary administration of the board by the Department of Licensing and Regulation.

ELIGIBLE AT 3:50 PM MAY 28, 2025:

SB 21               Schwertner / et al.

SP: Capriglione / Oliverson / Longoria / Vasut / Cunningham / et al.

Relating to the establishment and administration of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the purpose of investing in cryptocurrency and the investment authority of the comptroller of public accounts over the reserve and certain other state funds.

ELIGIBLE AT 4:10 PM MAY 28, 2025:

SB 2778             Hinojosa, Adam

SP: Lujan / Metcalf

Relating to the amount of an expenditure that may be paid by an emergency services district employee without board approval.

 

The Senate requests the appointment of a conference committee on:


SB 379              Middleton / et al.

SP: Gerdes / et al.

Relating to prohibiting the purchase of sweetened soft drinks under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
(Senate Conferees: Middleton, Ch./Hall/Kolkhorst/Schwertner/Sparks)