SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Friday

May 16, 2025

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

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of reckless driving.

Relating to the establishment of the Health Professions Workforce Coordinating Council and the abolition of the statewide health coordinating council and the nursing advisory committee of that council.

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

Relating to contracting with a school district or open-enrollment charter school by a vendor with whom a member of the board of trustees or governing body of the district or school or a related individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal offense.

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

Relating to the insurable interest of certain persons providing care to individuals with disabilities in the life of those individuals.

Relating to the provision of information regarding a local intellectual and developmental disability authority to the parents or guardians of certain special education students.

Relating to the disposition of abandoned or unclaimed property seized by a peace officer.

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

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

Relating to human trafficking, prostitution, and child pornography and to the prosecution of sexual or assaultive offenses or the prosecution of a failure to stop or report those offenses; amending and harmonizing certain statute of limitations provisions; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the issuance of certain protective orders for certain burglary offenses.

Relating to the San Antonio River Authority.

Relating to the split-payment of ad valorem taxes.

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

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

The Senate suspended the regular order, read third time and finally passed:

Relating to hospital reporting requirements regarding suspected child abuse, exploitation, or neglect; authorizing an administrative penalty.

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Recognizing May 16, 2025, as Senate District 26 Neighborhood Leaders Day.

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public schools.

Education K-16

Relating to measures to support kindergarten readiness and early literacy and numeracy skills for public school students and to funding to support those measures.

Education K-16

Relating to measures to protect public institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; providing civil penalties; increasing a criminal penalty.

Education K-16

Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial.

Criminal Justice

Relating to placement on the minimum salary schedule and service credit in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for certain public school career or technology education teachers.

Finance

Relating to the definitions of child abuse and neglect.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the rights of victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses, the offense of continuous sexual abuse, and the prosecution, punishment, and collateral consequences of certain sex offenses; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal penalties; changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for persons convicted of certain sex offenses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to license plates and license plate windshield insignia issued for and displayed on a vehicle; authorizing a fee; creating a criminal offense.

Criminal Justice

Relating to notice to the Texas A&M Forest Service of a prescribed burn to be conducted by the Parks and Wildlife Department.

Natural Resources

Relating to the right to repurchase from a condemning entity certain real property for which ad valorem taxes are delinquent.

Local Government

Relating to regulation by certain counties of roadside or parking lot vendors and solicitors.

Transportation

Relating to the required number of minutes of instructional time to be provided by a juvenile justice alternative education program.

Education K-16

Relating to individuals whose name may be added to the central child abuse or neglect registry.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the date of dissolution of the Save Historic Muny District.

Local Government

Relating to the required approval of certain hospital visits as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision for certain releasees and to the hospital's liability for damages resulting from those visits.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the consideration of the proportion of long-term debt and equity capitalization in establishing the rates of certain electric utilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a grant program to provide financial assistance to qualified ambulance service providers in certain rural counties.

Finance

Relating to a severance tax exemption for oil and gas produced from certain previously inactive restimulation wells; providing a civil penalty.

Finance

Relating to the creation of the Texas Commission on Marriage and Family.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain stream segments, stream assessment units, and drainage areas.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to wildfire prevention, mitigation, and response at certain wells under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Natural Resources

Relating to prohibiting certain personal services performed by school district administrators; providing a civil penalty.

Education K-16

Relating to the ad valorem taxation of certain dealer's heavy equipment inventory.

Local Government

Relating to the prosecution of certain criminal offenses involving the unlawful disclosure of a residence address or telephone number.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authority of the governing board of certain state agencies to conduct a closed meeting with the agency's internal auditor to deliberate or receive information about certain internal audit matters.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 6 in Brazos County as the Sergeant Mark Butler Memorial Highway.

Transportation

Relating to the operation of a program by the Texas Department of Transportation to allow a real property owner to plant or replace vegetation in a right-of-way.

Transportation

Relating to the regulation of pharmacists and the practice of pharmacy, including the administration of a medication and the ordering and administration of an immunization or vaccination by a pharmacist.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the filing of a campaign treasurer appointment and an application for a place on the ballot by a candidate for the board of directors of an appraisal district.

Local Government

Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district.

Education K-16

Relating to the authority of counties to regulate noise levels in residential areas; creating a criminal offense.

Local Government

Relating to the designation of portions of the state highway system as memorial highways and bridges, to certain memorial markers and designations on certain highways, and to highway signs for certain cultural attractions.

Transportation

Relating to the training of prospective grand jurors.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the program of internal auditing conducted by state agencies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to health benefit plan preauthorization requirements for certain health care services and the direction of utilization review by physicians.

Health & Human Services

Relating to fire safety standards and emergency operations plans for the operation of battery energy storage facilities; providing administrative penalties.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the program categories in the unified transportation program.

Transportation

Relating to the form of a claim payment to a health care provider by a health maintenance organization, preferred provider benefit plan, or managed care organization.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to provide financial assistance to certain political subdivisions for brackish water desalination.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to information on local regulations governing the placement of political signs in a municipality.

State Affairs

Relating to requiring owners or operators of commercial passenger bus services to provide certain notifications to residents concerning operations.

Transportation

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 83 in Mission as the Corporal Speedy Espericueta Memorial Highway.

Transportation

Relating to requirements for certain orders and judgments rendered in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Jurisprudence

Relating to supplemental benefits for retired firefighters and peace officers diagnosed with certain diseases or illnesses.

Finance

Relating to reporting and auditing requirements for digital asset service providers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property of a charitable organization that provides financial support for medical care at certain institutions of higher education.

Local Government

Relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on requests for authorization to operate a composting facility.

Natural Resources

Relating to the omission or redaction of certain personal information from certain real property records.

Business & Commerce

Relating to restrictions on the fee assessed for issuance of certain birth records.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the formation of decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations and the use of distributed ledger or blockchain technology for certain business purposes; authorizing fees.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the dispensing of certain drugs by physicians specializing in ophthalmology.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the election of remedies in suits against certain veterinarians.

State Affairs

Relating to the licensing and regulation of state correctional officers and the employment of those officers; requiring an occupational license.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the return of a completed marriage license to a county clerk after the marriage ceremony.

State Affairs

Relating to liability of public schools and professional school employees for certain acts or omissions involving students.

Education K-16

Relating to the applicability of certain immunity and liability laws to certain charter school campuses or programs.

Education K-16

Relating to the composition and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission Executive Council.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the regulation of code enforcement officers and code enforcement officers in training.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of sanitarians and sanitarians in training.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the sale of fireworks on and before the Lunar New Year holiday.

Local Government

Relating to investigational stem cell treatment.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation of the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children and other protections for certain military dependents enrolled in a public school.

Education K-16

Relating to the requirements for appointment as a medical examiner or employment as an assistant or deputy medical examiner.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the exclusion of at-large and mayoral seats from the requirement of re-election following apportionment.

Local Government

Relating to an exception to the titling requirement for certain motor vehicles; creating a criminal offense; providing for a fee.

Transportation

Relating to restrictions on freight and shipping costs included in the price of instructional materials for public schools.

Education K-16

Relating to the electronic posting of notices and agendas for meetings of the commissioners court of a county.

Local Government

Relating to the authority of the Wood County Central Hospital District of Wood County, Texas, to provide brain and memory care services to residents of the hospital district through the creation and operation of brain and memory health care services districts.

Local Government

Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Management District No. 3; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Local Government