BILLS REFERRED TODAY

Friday

February 28, 2025

Committee referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas to conduct gaming on certain lands under state law; limiting certain taxes and fees.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to designate subjects for legislation during a special session.

State Affairs

Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing one or more amendments to the constitution to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and to limit the terms of office of federal officials and members of Congress.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to own, hold, and use a mutually agreed upon medium of exchange.

Business & Commerce

Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement system.

Finance

Designating the Town of Trophy Club as the official Texas Town of Patriotism for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Authorizing the State Preservation Board to approve the construction of a replica of the National Life Monument at the State Capitol Complex.

Administration

Designating the cannon as the official state gun of Texas.

State Affairs

Relating to the rights of public school educators and assistance provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators.

Education K-16

Relating to business entities.

State Affairs

Relating to design build contracts.

Transportation

Relating to an insurer's responsibility to review and audit a third-party administrator.

Health & Human Services

Relating to creating the criminal offense of continuous manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles to take an action that would disrupt commerce based on the occurrence of an astronomical event.

Transportation

Relating to a prohibition on weather and climate modification activities by a governmental entity.

Natural Resources

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

Local Government

Relating to prohibited conduct of a health benefit plan issuer in relation to affiliated and nonaffiliated providers.

Health & Human Services

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

Natural Resources

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

Finance

Relating to the prohibited report or disclosure of certain health information by physicians and other health care providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to notice of changes to municipal zoning regulations and boundaries.

Local Government

Relating to notice regarding access by a parent, guardian, or managing conservator to a child's health records.

Health & Human Services

Relating to providing information to undergraduate students regarding certain fixed or flat tuition rates provided by certain public institutions of higher education.

Education K-16

Relating to the circumstances under which an appraisal review board is required to postpone a protest hearing.

Local Government

Relating to emergency detention of certain persons evidencing mental illness and to court-ordered inpatient and extended mental health services.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate recycling businesses.

Natural Resources

Relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate junkyards, automotive wrecking and salvage yards, and recycling businesses.

Natural Resources

Relating to elimination of limitations periods for suits for personal injury arising from certain offenses against a child or disabled individual.

State Affairs

Relating to establishment of the disaster identification system for a declared state of disaster.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to public utility agencies; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments.

Local Government

Relating to international cooperation agreements between certain state agencies and the United Mexican States and funding for infrastructure investment in this state; providing authority for certain agencies to issue bonds.

Economic Development

Relating to compensation, leave, and physical fitness programs and standards for certain employees of the office of inspector general of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

Criminal Justice

Relating to exempting certain transactions from regulation by the Texas Real Estate Commission.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the amount of an expenditure made by certain political subdivisions for which a competitive procurement method may be required.

Local Government

Relating to the administration of nonprescription medications to certain public and private school students.

Education K-16

Relating to the biennial adjustment of certain towing fees and maximum charges.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a request by a member of the legislature for an opportunity for public comment on certain air permits.

Natural Resources

Relating to fire safety inspections at public and private schools.

Local Government

Relating to standard permits for certain concrete plants.

Natural Resources

Relating to the regulation of certain facilities that store and distribute benzene or another volatile organic compound; creating a criminal offense.

Natural Resources

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for certain qualified projects.

Economic Development

Relating to the regulation of combative sports by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation; creating a criminal offense.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the sale or transfer of flavored cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and tobacco products and to certain cigarette or tobacco product advertising.

State Affairs

Relating to electronic benefits transfer cards used by or for recipients of benefits under certain assistance programs.

State Affairs

Relating to the age of wine authorized to be sold by a wine collection seller.

State Affairs

Relating to an exemption from boiler registration and inspection requirements for certain boilers in medical equipment and autoclaves.

Business & Commerce

Relating to oversight of certain election procedures by the secretary of state.

State Affairs

Relating to an unauthorized vote by a delegate or alternate delegate to a federal Article V convention; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to electronic health record requirements.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the exemption of certain firefighters and police officers from jury service.

State Affairs

Relating to water losses reported by certain municipally owned utilities to the Texas Water Development Board; authorizing administrative penalties.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the development of a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average.

Education K-16

Relating to a requirement that the ballot for an election to amend the state constitution include an estimate of the cost to the state of the proposed amendment.

State Affairs

Relating to the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to the offense of child grooming.

Criminal Justice

Relating to creating the Central Texas Water Alliance; providing authority to issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain; providing authority to impose fees.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the procedures for removing names from the central registry of child abuse and neglect.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the procedures and notice required before an individual's name is added to the central child abuse or neglect registry.

Health & Human Services

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

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the designation of spaceports as critical infrastructure facilities for purposes of criminal and civil liability.

Natural Resources

Relating to the investigation of the death of a prisoner in county jail.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the required disclosure of certain financial relationships in civil actions against United States defense contractors.

State Affairs

Relating to adjustments in the appraised value of a residence homestead.

Local Government

Relating to third-party review of property development documents and inspections of improvements related to those documents, including home backup power installations.

Business & Commerce

Relating to public access to criminal proceedings.

Criminal Justice

Relating to an unborn child's rights and the civil and criminal liability and justification for prohibited conduct regarding an unborn child.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision of certain public benefits and services to persons not lawfully present in the United States.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision of certain electricity services.

Business & Commerce

Relating to instruction on adoption in the parenting and paternity awareness program in public schools.

Education K-16

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of interference with public duties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the uniform election date.

State Affairs

Relating to the jurisdiction of the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals.

State Affairs

Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain tangible personal property used in hydraulic fracturing.

Finance

Relating to the prosecution and punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons; increasing a criminal penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the establishment of a career and technical education reporting grant program by the Texas Education Agency.

Education K-16

Relating to the operations and administration of the Concho County Hospital District.

Local Government

Relating to the placement of a cultivated oyster in a natural oyster bed, a private oyster bed, or coastal waters.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas to permit the release into the air of natural gas from a gas well.

Natural Resources

Relating to sales and use tax exemptions and refunds for certain tangible personal property used to provide cable television services, Internet access services, or telecommunications services.

Finance

Relating to the contents of a trust accounting.

Business & Commerce

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

Health & Human Services

Relating to the subject matter jurisdiction of the criminal trial courts of this state.

State Affairs

Relating to the composition and duties of a court security committee.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the appointment of a former or retired justice of an appellate court as a visiting judge of a statutory probate court.

Jurisprudence

Relating to a prohibition on the collection by a state agency of biometric information from an applicant for an occupational license.

Business & Commerce

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

Education K-16

Relating to the purchase of a construction-related service from a provider related to an energy savings performance contract.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the creation of certain regional conservation and reclamation districts.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to fees for the issuance of certain military specialty license plates.

Transportation

Relating to the continuation of the Task Force on Consolidation of Workforce and Social Services.

Economic Development

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 69 in Smith County as the Veterans Memorial Highway.

Transportation

Relating to the designation of Farm-to-Market Road 10 in Panola County as the Deputy Sheriff Chris Dickerson Memorial Highway.

Transportation

Relating to a franchise tax credit for taxable entities that purchase certain theft deterrent and property loss prevention equipment.

Finance

Relating to certain health care transaction fees and payment claims and inclusion of a national provider identifier on a payment claim; providing an administrative penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to information regarding perinatal palliative care; creating an administrative penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a patient's access to health records and access to and exchange of certain health benefit plan information; authorizing a civil penalty; authorizing fees.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the relationship between pharmacists or pharmacies and health benefit plan issuers or pharmacy benefit managers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain property owned by a charitable organization that is engaged in providing housing and related facilities and services to persons who are at least 62 years of age.

Local Government

Relating to prohibited insurance discrimination on the basis of an insured's marital status following the death of the insured's spouse.

Business & Commerce

Relating to choice of law and assignment or acquisition of claims and demands in connection with certificated and uncertificated securities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the transfer of certain malt beverages between two or more licensed premises operating under the same general ownership or management.

State Affairs

Relating to college entrance examinations considered for admission to certain public institutions of higher education.

Education K-16

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

Education K-16

Relating to the dissolution of a public utility agency.

Local Government

Relating to unclaimed securities and virtual currency that are presumed abandoned.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the taking of certain aoudad sheep by using a helicopter.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to auto insurance regulation, including the creation of the Texas Automobile Insurance Public Option.

Business & Commerce

Relating to consolidating certain nonresident hunting licenses.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the disclosure of certain harvest report information submitted to the Parks and Wildlife Department.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to establishing a certified caregiver pilot program in the Borderplex workforce development area.

Economic Development

Relating to the definition of a project financing zone for the purposes of certain municipalities that use certain tax revenue to fund convention center facilities, multipurpose arenas, venues, and related infrastructure.

Economic Development

Relating to the access by a certificated telecommunications provider to the rights-of-way and poles of an electric cooperative.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate the installation or inspection of a residential energy backup system.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to provide credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the regulation of professional employer services.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of mold assessors and remediators.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the implementation of a veteran discount program for the use of certain toll projects.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the ownership of the pore space underlying the surface of land.

Natural Resources

Relating to the regulation of land surveyors by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the jurisdiction of the 2nd Multicounty Court at Law and the composition of the juvenile boards of Bee, Live Oak, and McMullen Counties.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the financing of water supply projects included in the state water plan; authorizing the issuance of obligations.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to measures for ensuring public school safety, including the commissioning of peace officers by the Texas Education Agency, public school safety and security requirements, and the provision of safety-related resources.

Education K-16

Relating to a pilot program for the safe disposal of prescription drugs, including controlled substance prescription drugs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to corrective action plans for certain emissions events.

Natural Resources

Relating to certain duties of the Texas Workforce Commission with respect to child-care resources.

Economic Development

Relating to Medicaid provider enrollment and credentialing processes.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certificates of number and certificates of title issued by and records kept by the Parks and Wildlife Department; creating a criminal offense.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the review and updating by the Texas Water Development Board of guidance principles and rules related to certain plans adopted or approved by the board.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to provision to a patient of an itemized bill for health care services and supplies.

Health & Human Services

Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the concurrent jurisdiction of this state over United States military installations with respect to certain subject matters.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of attempted capital murder of a peace officer; increasing a criminal penalty; changing eligibility for parole and mandatory supervision.

Criminal Justice

Relating to establishing the Higher Education Research Security Council.

Education K-16

Relating to prior authorization for prescription drug benefits related to the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infections.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the regulation of child-care facilities that provide temporary care to children of families in crisis.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the regulation of risk pools primarily consisting of political subdivisions.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the expiration of the municipal sales and use tax for street maintenance in certain municipalities.

Local Government

Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for victims of certain offenses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses committed in the course of or for the purpose of avoiding certain law enforcement checkpoints or evading an arrest or detention; increasing criminal penalties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the age at which a person in this state may marry.

State Affairs

Relating to certain theft offenses involving mail or a mail receptacle key or lock; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to authorizing adoption assistance agreements for certain children after a final adoption order is rendered.

Health & Human Services

Relating to resident safety from criminal activity in senior retirement communities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to civics instruction in public schools, including certain instructional requirements, civics training programs, and the essential knowledge and skills for the public school foundation curriculum and social studies curriculum.

Education K-16

Relating to the protection of bats.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the imposition of a sales tax on ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories to provide funding for the family violence program in the Health and Human Services Commission.

Finance

Relating to the effect of certain reductions in a health benefit plan enrollee's out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs that are essential health benefits on the enrollee's cost-sharing requirements.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the redesignation of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas Advisory Committee as the Texas Water Fund Advisory Committee, the abolition of the Texas Infrastructure Resiliency Fund Advisory Committee, and the composition and functions of the Texas Water Fund Advisory Committee.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the permissible uses of the Texas water fund.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to requiring backup generation at certain wastewater treatment facilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of certain persons to bring an action for declaratory judgment under the open meetings law or public information law regarding compliance or action by a governmental body.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of an appellate court to issue temporary orders in connection with an interlocutory appeal.

Jurisprudence

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

Business & Commerce

Relating to compliance with the public information law, including establishment of an open records hotline to provide information about the requirements of the public information law.

Business & Commerce

Relating to open meetings and public information training for certain public officials and attorneys regarding the open meetings and public information laws.

Business & Commerce

Relating to phasing out the tax reduction for certain high-cost gas.

Finance

Relating to the creation and elimination of certain state holidays.

State Affairs

Relating to instruction in online safety for minors provided in public schools and by the Department of Public Safety.

Education K-16

Relating to the prohibited release by a public agency of personal affiliation information regarding the members, supporters, or volunteers of or donors to certain nonprofit organizations; creating a criminal offense.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the design-build method for certain government construction projects.

Business & Commerce

Relating to eligibility for a general permit to discharge waste into or adjacent to waters in this state.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the capacity of minors to consent to contraception-related examination or medical treatment.

State Affairs

Relating to the composition of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the establishment of a grocery access investment fund program.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the age of criminal responsibility and to certain substantive and procedural matters related to that age.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a biennial health coverage reference guide developed by the Texas Department of Insurance.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the development by certain entities providing electric service in the ERCOT power region of a communication plan for use during a weather emergency.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the frequency of the notice provided to a retail electric customer by certain electric utilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to senior independent living communities; providing a civil penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a pilot program for the establishment of disaster relief hub houses.

Local Government

Relating to the disconnection of electric service by certain entities during an extreme weather emergency.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to a prohibition on certain e-cigarette products.

State Affairs

Relating to county and municipal authority to prohibit the sale of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or tobacco products near certain locations.

State Affairs

Relating to a prohibition on e-cigarette advertising in certain locations.

State Affairs

Relating to limitations on the age of individuals allowed to enter the premises of a smoke shop; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to restrictions on covenants not to compete for physicians and certain health care practitioners.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a limit on the number of athletic scholarships that may be awarded to foreign students by a public institution of higher education.

Education K-16

Relating to the establishment of the Organized Oilfield Theft Prevention Unit within the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Criminal Justice

Relating to compensation and leave for certain peace officers.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the accreditation of public institutions of higher education.

Education K-16

Relating to the curriculum requirements for high school students in public schools.

Education K-16

Relating to the establishment of a housing assistance pilot program to assist certain students enrolled in public junior colleges.

Education K-16

Relating to the provision of medication for respiratory distress in public and private schools.

Education K-16

Relating to civil liability arising from a firearm hold agreement.

State Affairs

Relating to the cremation of human remains by alkaline hydrolysis.

Business & Commerce

Relating to requiring an occupational license to practice magnetic resonance imaging physics.

Health & Human Services

Relating to school district police department accreditation, including a grant program to assist departments in becoming accredited.

Education K-16

Relating to billing and reimbursement for certain medical equipment, devices, and supplies provided to Medicare enrollees; creating a criminal offense.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the repeal of a municipal civil service system for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.

Local Government

Relating to a group health benefit plan policy or contract holder's obligation to pay premiums on behalf of an individual after the individual's eligibility for group coverage terminates.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the approval, selection, and use of an alternative electronic visit verification system under Medicaid.

Health & Human Services

Relating to decedents' estates.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the amount of certain awards under the Crime Victims' Compensation Act.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the computation of certain tax penalties and interest amounts.

Finance

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for the siblings of certain military personnel.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to a requirement that certain water districts make audio and video recordings of open meetings available on the Internet.

Local Government

Relating to studies on the allocation and use of buildings and facilities owned, leased, or otherwise occupied by this state.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of manufactured homes.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of psychiatric residential treatment facilities and Medicaid reimbursement for the provision of treatment by those facilities; requiring an occupational license.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the notice requirements of a data broker registration statement and Internet website.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a notification requirement if a public school does not have a nurse, school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all instructional hours.

Education K-16

Relating to the establishment of a public school transportation task force.

Education K-16

Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving depictions of children, computer-generated children, or other persons; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.

Criminal Justice