SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Monday

May 5, 2025

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

Relating to the regulation of migrant labor housing facilities; changing the amount of a civil penalty.

Relating to confirming the provision of certain notices before the full adversary hearing in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Relating to the reporting of certain public or private school employee misconduct to local law enforcement.

Relating to the acquisition of land and facilities by the Texas State Technical College System.

Relating to Medicaid provider enrollment and credentialing processes.

Relating to a study by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners on establishing a veterinarian-client-patient relationship by telephone or electronic means.

Relating to the authority of the governing body of a school district to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the district's voter-approval tax rate.

Relating to the availability of automated external defibrillators at public schools.

Relating to a prohibition on governmental contracts with companies of foreign adversaries for certain information and communications technology; authorizing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to a prohibition on the operation or movement of certain overweight vehicles transporting hazardous materials under certain circumstances; creating a criminal offense.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to intelligence databases for combinations, criminal street gangs, and foreign terrorist organizations.

3 Floor Amendments

Relating to dispute resolution for and enforcement actions against certain long-term care facilities.

Relating to transparency regarding requirements to complete a certificate or degree program at a public institution of higher education.

Relating to a maternal health training program for certain health care providers.

Relating to the Texas Physician Health Program and the regulation of certain occupations by the Texas Medical Board; expanding the applicability of surcharges.

Relating to establishing the hostile foreign adversaries unit at the Department of Public Safety and training, prohibitions, and reporting requirements designed to combat foreign influence and foreign adversary operations; creating a criminal offense.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to an exemption of the transfer of certain rights in water from certain disclosure requirements applicable to the transfer of certain interests in real property.

Relating to an exemption from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain dams or reservoirs operated and maintained for the purposes of erosion, floodwater, and sediment control.

Relating to the licensing and regulation of persons who provide services in relation to the deceased; increasing a criminal penalty; creating a criminal offense; authorizing an administrative penalty; expanding the application of a fee.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the control of disease in wildlife; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the establishment of the Task Force on Modernizing Manufacturing.

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

Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding weapons in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.

Relating to the conduct of randomized county election audits.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to an exemption from certain immunization requirements for medical and veterinary students.

Relating to investigations and disciplinary or punitive action by the Texas Medical Board regarding certain treatments or practices regarding COVID-19 and to the required expungement of certain records.

Relating to the integration of early voting by personal appearance and election day voting, including the manner in which election returns are processed and other related changes.

1 Floor Amendment

The Senate concurred in House amendments to the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a tax on the realized or unrealized capital gains of an individual, family, estate, or trust.

Relating to creating a database of the firefighting equipment in the state available for use in responding to wildfires.

Relating to authorizing certain cities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.

Relating to equitable relief from the enforcement of certain governmental requirements that affect agricultural operations.

Relating to the operation of an unmanned aircraft over a spaceport; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the sales tax exemption period for clothing, footwear, and certain school-related items.

Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals for certification as certain juvenile officers or employees of a juvenile facility.

Relating to the use of an epinephrine delivery device by certain entities.

Relating to the inspection, purchase, sale, possession, storage, transportation, and disposal of petroleum products, oil and gas equipment, and oil and gas waste; creating criminal offenses and increasing the punishment for an existing criminal offense.

The Senate refused to concur in House amendments and requested the appointment of a Conference Committee on the following:

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of deadly conduct.

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to the powers, duties, and governance of the Starr County Drainage District, changing the name of the Starr County Drainage District to the Starr County Drainage and Groundwater Conservation District, and the dissolution and transfer of the Starr County Groundwater Conservation District to the Starr County Drainage and Groundwater Conservation District; authorizing the imposition of a tax.

Local Government

Relating to the boundaries of, and validating certain acts and proceedings of, the Driftwood Conservation District.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the legislature from imposing death taxes applicable to a decedent's property or the transfer of an estate, inheritance, legacy, succession, or gift.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Health Care Workforce Education Fund to provide funding to eligible institutions of higher education to address Texas' health care workforce needs and drive the state economy.

Education K-16

Relating to licensing reciprocity agreements entered into by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibiting the investment of state money in certain countries and in certain private business entities in those countries.

State Affairs

Relating to a peer support network for first responders.

Health & Human Services

Relating to sexual assault and other sex offenses.

Criminal Justice

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

Local Government

Relating to certain sister-city agreements between governmental entities and foreign countries and communities.

State Affairs

Relating to the confidentiality of information used to prevent, detect, respond to, or investigate a hostile act of a foreign adversary of the United States.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the establishment of the Health Impact, Cost, and Coverage Analysis Program; authorizing a fee.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the qualification of candidates for, and the training and education of members of, the board of directors of an appraisal district.

Local Government

Relating to prohibiting use of social media platforms by children.

State Affairs

Relating to the treatment of military service credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas as law enforcement or custodial officer service.

Finance

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.

Criminal Justice

Relating to assistance for tuition and fees at postsecondary educational institutions for certain members of the Texas military forces.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the regulation by a property owners' association of food production on single-family residential lots.

Local Government

Relating to the authority of a Type A or Type B general-law municipality to change to a Type C general-law municipality.

Local Government

Relating to the establishment of grant programs to provide financial assistance to qualified sheriff's departments in certain rural counties.

Finance

Relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program.

Education K-16

Relating to the establishment of a county employee family leave pool program.

Local Government

Relating to civil liability for removing certain individuals or animals from a motor vehicle.

State Affairs

Relating to creating the criminal offense of trespass on or near school or day-care center property.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the period within which the Texas Juvenile Justice Department must accept custody of a person committed to the department and to the consequences for the failure of the department to accept custody of the person within that period.

Criminal Justice

Relating to fees on and grants for fuel ethanol, renewable methane, biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Economic Development

Relating to the sale of fireworks on and before the Juneteenth holiday.

Local Government

Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to regulate the assembly, association, and speech of property owners or residents related to governmental officials or candidates for political office.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision of certain co-navigation services to individuals who are deaf-blind.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the carrying of weapons by community supervision and corrections department officers, juvenile probation officers, and certain retired law enforcement officers and to criminal liability for taking a weapon from certain of those officers.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the Cosmetology Licensure Compact; authorizing fees.

Business & Commerce

Relating to an exception to certain reporting requirements for health care providers reviewing selected cases for the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.

Health & Human Services

Relating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors.

Local Government

Relating to the confidentiality of certain personal information of an applicant for or a person protected by a protective order.

State Affairs

Relating to the execution of a waiver of citation by digitized signature in a suit for the dissolution of a marriage.

State Affairs

Relating to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact; authorizing fees.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a study by the General Land Office in partnership with a working group consisting of the Texas Department of Insurance, Department of Information Resources, and other entities on the establishment and implementation of a distributed ledger-based title registry pilot program.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the confidentiality of certain information on a declaration of informal marriage.

Jurisprudence

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain students who were under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Education K-16

Relating to certain procedures required for the denial of certain applications for a license to carry a handgun.

State Affairs

Relating to certain governmental operations affecting the border region.

Economic Development

Relating to the issuance of permits for bovine producer dairy farms in certain areas of this state.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to price estimates and billing requirements for certain health care facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the continuation of a health care provider participation program by the Harris County Hospital District.

Local Government

Relating to the confinement or detention of certain individuals in a county jail or other facility operated by or for the county and to the compensation to the county for the costs of that confinement or detention.

Finance

Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of invasive visual recording and the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to that offense.

Criminal Justice

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

Criminal Justice

Relating to the Angelina and Neches River Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.

Local Government

Relating to the creation of the Lake Houston Dredging and Maintenance District; providing the authority to issue bonds.

Local Government

Relating to the sunset review process and certain governmental entities subject to that process.

Business & Commerce

Relating to an advisory committee to study suicide prevention and peer support programs in fire departments in this state.

Local Government

Relating to direct payment for certain health care provided by a hospital.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the provision of counseling services by certain providers under Medicaid and reimbursement for those services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to an owner's or lessee's access to property through a Texas Department of Transportation highway right-of-way.

Transportation

Relating to a limitation on the number of terms a person may serve as a commissioner of Port Freeport.

Transportation

Relating to the physician assistant licensure compact; authorizing a fee.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the sale of charitable raffle tickets by certain nonprofit wildlife conservation associations.

State Affairs

Relating to birth records of adopted persons; authorizing a fee.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the required age for a license or permit relating to the conduct of a public fireworks display.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the modification of a possession order and temporary possession of a child when a conservator of the child is incapacitated.

Jurisprudence

Relating to compensation for the members of the Winkler County Juvenile Board.

Criminal Justice

Relating to proof of the identity of a child's parents in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Jurisprudence

Relating to limitation of certain liability of owners, lessees, and occupants of nonagricultural land.

State Affairs

Relating to the authority of certain property owners' associations to prohibit or restrict the keeping of chickens.

Local Government

Relating to repairs made pursuant to a residential or manufactured home tenant's notice of intent to repair and the provision of notice regarding a residential or manufactured home tenant's security deposit.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 242 in Montgomery County as the Lance Corporal Armando Hernandez Memorial Bridge.

Transportation

Relating to the establishment of the Building Better Futures Program to support educational and occupational skills training opportunities and support services for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities at public and private institutions of higher education.

Education K-16

Relating to the rural sheriff's office and rural constable's office salary assistance grant programs.

Finance

Relating to hospital staffing report and complaint processes and to retaliation and mandatory overtime protections for nurses.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.

Business & Commerce

Relating to certain trade practices related to life insurance, annuity contracts, and accident and health coverage.

Business & Commerce

Relating to certain health care services contract arrangements entered into by insurers and health care providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the instructions for an application form for an early voting ballot.

State Affairs

Relating to changing the eligibility for release on parole of certain inmates serving sentences for trafficking offenses involving child victims and disabled individuals.

Criminal Justice

Relating to standing in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the authority of certain peace officers to arrest a person without a warrant while outside the officer's jurisdiction.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the determination of fees, charges, and rates for certain benefits under Medicaid.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the consequences of a criminal conviction on a person's eligibility for an occupational license.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the applicability of premium and maintenance taxes to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and Texas FAIR Plan Association.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the use of installment premium payment plans on Texas Windstorm Insurance Association policies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the open meetings law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the establishment of a work group to study and make recommendations on certain services needed by individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the terms of the members of the board of hospital managers and leasing authority of the Walker County Hospital District.

Local Government

Relating to the transport of female patients to a mental health facility or residential care facility.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the San Antonio River Authority.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to prohibiting certain limitations on the operation of certain organizations that benefit veterans during a declared state of disaster.

State Affairs

Relating to the requirement that a person submit an application for an exemption from ad valorem taxation for certain property used for human burial.

Local Government

Relating to the split-payment of ad valorem taxes.

Local Government

Relating to the development of a state information technology apprenticeship credential offered by public junior colleges or public technical institutes to address shortages in the state information resources workforce.

Economic Development

Relating to the control by lethal means of white-tailed deer in certain areas.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated application service.

Education K-16

Relating to allowing the governing bodies of certain political subdivisions to call for a local option election relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages.

State Affairs

Relating to requirements for certain meteorological evaluation towers.

Economic Development

Relating to choice of law and venue for certain construction contracts.

State Affairs

Relating to measures to support the enrollment of students with a nontraditional secondary education at public institutions of higher education, including eligibility for certain student financial assistance programs.

Education K-16

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authority of the Parks and Wildlife Department to procure goods and services related to items for resale by the department.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct an electric transmission line.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the appointment and compensation of a bailiff appointed by the judges of certain district courts in Webb County.

Jurisprudence

Relating to requiring the ballots of certain counties to be scannable.

State Affairs

Relating to user reports of explicit deep fake material on social media platforms.

State Affairs

Relating to eligibility for a master plumber license.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the Texas Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs Grant Program.

Economic Development

Relating to charitable raffles conducted by the professional sports team charitable foundations of rodeo organizations sanctioned by certain professional associations or hosting a Professional Rodeo Event at rodeo venues.

State Affairs

Relating to training on Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and related disorders for certain guardians.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the Rio Grande vegetative management program.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to fiscal transparency for bonds issued by local governmental entities.

Local Government

Relating to an emergency preparedness and contingency operations plan, including temperature regulation, for assisted living facility residents during an emergency; providing penalties.

Health & Human Services

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

Transportation

Relating to funding of excess losses and operating expenses of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; authorizing an assessment; authorizing a surcharge.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the investigation and prosecution of certain open meetings offenses as offenses against public administration and the publication of certain information regarding the prosecution of those offenses.

Local Government

Relating to reimbursing employees of the Department of Family and Protective Services for loss of or damage to personal property.

Health & Human Services

Relating to reimbursing certain Department of Family and Protective Services employees for certain legal expenses.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the removal of battery energy storage facilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the dissolution of the Rose City Municipal Utility District.

Local Government

Relating to prosecution of the criminal offense of cruelty to livestock animals.

Criminal Justice

Relating to state employment opportunities for individuals who do not hold a bachelor's degree.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the effect of certain misrepresentations on certain insurance policies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the timely billing of health care services related to a personal injury claim.

State Affairs

Relating to the authority of a city to impose certain governmental requirements on an agricultural operation.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

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

Business & Commerce

Relating to the establishment of a hike and bike trail to be known as the Bicentennial Trail.

Economic Development

Relating to creation of a grant program for certain peace officers who hold a master proficiency certificate.

Finance

Relating to critical infrastructure facility emergency response maps and the critical infrastructure emergency response map grant program.

Economic Development

Relating to access to and use of criminal history record information by the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Business & Commerce

Relating to an exemption from required disclosure of information related to the next of kin of deceased persons.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of aquatic vegetation management by the Parks and Wildlife Department; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to reconstitution of the petit jury wheel and grand juror and petit juror qualifications in certain counties.

State Affairs

Relating to the revocation of a driver's license or personal identification certificate and to disqualification from operating a commercial motor vehicle.

Transportation

Relating to a study by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas on the feasibility of offering alternative service retirement benefits to certain members of the retirement system engaged in wildland firefighting or employed in positions related to wildland firefighting.

Finance

Relating to participation by certain municipal retirement systems in the proportionate retirement program.

Finance

Relating to prohibiting certain activities by contractors and vendors of state agencies; providing administrative penalties.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the operation and dissolution of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority and to agreements between Texas Tech University and the authority.

Local Government

Relating to the criminal offense of disrupting a meeting or procession.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission, the Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium, and other governmental entities and institutions regarding aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives and to the abolishment of the spaceport trust fund.

Finance

Relating to the Texas Health Care Workforce Education Fund.

Education K-16

Designating Galveston as the official Juneteenth Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating September as Deaf Awareness Month for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Galveston as the official Mardi Gras Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Redesignating Poteet as the official Strawberry Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Redesignating Dripping Springs as the official Wedding Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Redesignating Jim Hogg County as the official Vaquero Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating La Salle County as the official Wild Hog Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Newton County as the official Forest Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Carthage as the official Country Music Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Hemphill as the official Bass Fishing Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating September 16 as Lone Star Santas Charities Day for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Brenham as the official Ice Cream Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Nacogdoches as the official Garden Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating the Texas Almanac as the official State Book of Texas.

Administration

Redesignating Brownsville as the official Bicycling Capital of the Rio Grande Valley for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Designating Port Aransas as the official Fishing Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration