Active Legislation

Currently active bills across federal and state legislatures

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns...

Relating to the establishment of a work group to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing an acute psychiatric bed registry.

Relating to the authority of the North Texas Groundwater Conservation District to consider certain factors before granting or denying a permit.

Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.

Relating to court administration, including the term of a local administrative judge, court administration training, and the compensation of certain administrative judges.

Relating to the regulation of child-care facilities and registered family homes, including the provision of services to children with disabilities or special needs.

Recognizing Kelvin Bass for his service to the Texas Senate and congratulating him for earning a 2025 Betty King Public Service Award.

Congratulating the Voces Oral History Center at The University of Texas at Austin on its 25th anniversary.

Recognizing April 15, 2025, as Ismaili Day at the State Capitol.

Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal penalty.

Recognizing Mike Campbell for his service to the Texas Senate and congratulating him for earning a 2025 Betty King Public Service Award.

Relating to a uniform coordination of benefits questionnaire for health benefit plans.

Designating February 10 as Crossing Guard Appreciation Day for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Designating April as Texas Silver-Haired Legislature Month for a 10-year period ending in 2035.

Relating to a lottery game played or facilitated for play by telephone or through an Internet or mobile Internet application; creating criminal offenses.

Relating to the components of a school district's enrichment tax rate and the calculation of the guaranteed yield under the Foundation School Program.

Relating to board of directors meeting locations of certain special districts.

Relating to the provision of the reason for rejecting a voter registration application.

Relating to the repeal of certain requirements regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public institutions of higher education.

Relating to the admissibility of certain hearsay statements in the prosecution of certain sexual or assaultive offenses committed against a child or person with a disability.

Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

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

Relating to the prohibition on the possession of a firearm by a person following the person's conviction of certain family violence misdemeanors.

Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the limitations on increases in the appraised value of certain property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of income-producing tangible personal property for a certain period of time.

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

Directing the Texas School for the Deaf to name its middle school gymnasium the Robert Rives Gymnasium.

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

Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, and ending on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.

Expressing opposition to the creation of a central bank digital currency.

Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification the "Keep Nine" amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and recognizing the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg for honoring those who served in the conflict.

Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, and ending on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.

Urging Congress to amend the Internal Revenue Code to make spaceports eligible for tax-exempt private activity bonds.

Urging the U.S. Department of State and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take appropriate action to ensure that Mexico complies...

Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning Thursday, February 13, 2025, and ending Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

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

Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning Thursday, February 20, 2025, and ending Tuesday, February 25, 2025.

Designating the fourth Thursday of March as Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day.

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

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

Relating to a policy prohibiting the use of personal wireless communication devices by public school students during instructional time.

Relating to a grant program to fund certain short line railroad projects.

Relating to the authority of certain counties to enact certain park use rules.

Relating to critical infrastructure and utilities, including affiliation with certain foreign entities of certain persons working or participating in the electricity market;...

Relating to provisions of state law requiring diversity.

Relating to the duty of the comptroller of public accounts to provide certain information to a school district if the comptroller determines in the study of the total taxable...

Relating to skimmers on electronic terminals; authorizing a civil penalty; creating criminal offenses.

Relating to the treatment and beneficial use of fluid oil and gas waste and related material, including a limitation on liability for that treatment or use.