BILLS REFERRED TODAY

Monday

March 10, 2025

Committee referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the commissioners court of a county to exempt from ad valorem taxation by each political subdivision that taxes the property the portion of the assessed value of a person's property that is attributable to the installation in or on the property of a rainwater harvesting or graywater system.

Local Government

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

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to legalize wagering in this state on certain sporting events.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment dedicating a portion of the revenue derived from state sales and use taxes and insurance premium taxes to the Texas water fund.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a statewide referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for observing year-round standard time or daylight saving time and authorizing the legislature to enact legislation that gives effect to the preferred option.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment to clarify and implement certain provisions governing the impeachment, trial, removal from office, and disqualification of public officers.

State Affairs

Authorizing the burial of Guy Herman in the State Cemetery.

Administration

Urging Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to clarify that the states and Congress may reasonably regulate and limit the spending of money to influence campaigns, elections, or ballot measures.

State Affairs

Designating El Paso as the official Boot Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Administration

Relating to the qualifications of certain masters, magistrates, referees, and associate judges.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the temporary sale of alcoholic beverages at certain racing facilities.

State Affairs

Relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program in certain counties.

Local Government

Relating to the appointment of a receiver for and sale or acquisition of certain parcels of land that are abandoned, unoccupied, and undeveloped in certain municipalities.

Local Government

Relating to the composition of the governing body of a local mental health authority.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the eligibility of a trustee of certain school districts for employment by those districts.

Education K-16

Relating to management review of certain investigations conducted by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to management plans adopted by groundwater conservation districts.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to early voting by mail by any qualified voter and to the repeal of certain criminal offenses concerning the solicitation and distribution of an application to vote by mail.

State Affairs

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.

State Affairs

Relating to the issuance by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of permits for certain wastewater treatment facilities.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse committed against a child.

State Affairs

Relating to the failure to report child abuse or neglect; increasing a criminal penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to duties of the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services in relation to certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including in regard to the electronic transmission of certain information.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the provision of claims assistance services to veterans.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the collection of state, municipal, and county hotel occupancy taxes by an accommodations intermediary.

Economic Development

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

Economic Development

Relating to renaming the Sunset Advisory Commission as the Sunset Legislative Initiative for Cost Efficiency Advisory Commission and the duties of that commission.

Economic Development

Relating to required reporting of information on the ownership and control of certain health care entities; providing a civil penalty; authorizing a fee.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.

State Affairs

Relating to the combination of certain election precincts.

State Affairs

Relating to the release of motor vehicle collision report information.

Transportation

Relating to the authority of certain special districts to use operation and maintenance ad valorem tax funds to pay the costs of contracting for or employing peace officers.

Local Government

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 legal justification for using force or deadly force in response to the commission or attempted commission of a violent felony.

Criminal Justice

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

Criminal Justice

Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for firearms, ammunition, and other related items.

Finance

Relating to the adoption of a mental health leave policy for certain qualified employees.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the determination of the value of land that is appraised as a census of properties by the comptroller of public accounts when conducting the study of school district property values.

Education K-16

Relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to provide financial assistance from the safe drinking water revolving fund to certain political subdivisions that provide raw water to another political subdivision.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the creation of an additional judicial district composed of Comal County.

Jurisprudence

Relating to physical examination requirements for patients admitted to an inpatient mental health facility.

Health & Human Services

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

Business & Commerce

Relating to sexually violent predators, to the Texas Civil Commitment Office, and to the prosecution of the offense of harassment by sexually violent predators and other persons confined in certain facilities; amending and harmonizing certain statute of limitations provisions; amending certain sex offender registration requirements; changing the eligibility for community supervision, parole, and mandatory supervision for sexually violent predators; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal penalties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to fees assessed by the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to construction contract trust funds.

Business & Commerce

Relating to eligibility for the gifted and talented student allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Education K-16

Relating to the payment of funds under construction contracts.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the application of funds under construction contracts.

Business & Commerce

Relating to certain payment recovery and recoupment efforts under Medicaid and the child health plan program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certain contracts for the purchase of residential real property located in a colonia.

Local Government

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

Education K-16

Relating to the establishment of the Texas forensic analyst apprenticeship pilot program.

Finance

Relating to certain disclosures and other requirements relating to the online sale of concert and other event tickets.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the dedication of certain water rights to the Texas Water Trust.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the purposes for which the Texas Water Bank and the Texas Water Trust may accept and hold water rights.

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Relating to the reporting of certain security incidents by public water systems to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Department of Information Resources.

Business & Commerce