Active Legislation

Currently active bills across federal and state legislatures

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

Relating to the authority of the Harris County Hospital District to employ and commission peace officers.

Congratulating Purple Songs Can Fly on its receipt of an Arts Create grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Congratulating the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University on its 50th anniversary.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing at Rice University.

Relating to the repeal of an unused definition and a chapter heading formerly regulating membership dues.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.

Relating to creating the criminal offense of promotion or possession of a child-like sex doll.

Relating to the compensation of counsel appointed to provide representation and services to indigent individuals in criminal and juvenile proceedings.

Relating to the armed security officers required to be present at public schools and the appointment of reserve police officers by a school district police department.

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 labeling and representation of imported shrimp; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Relating to school district and open-enrollment charter school policies regarding student use of personal communication devices.

Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the audit of an election using an electronic voting system.

Relating to the continuation and functions of the Department of Information Resources, including the composition of the governing body of the department and, in collaboration...

Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain retired county court judges.

Relating to notice of a meeting held under the open meetings law.

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

Relating to the system for appraising property for ad valorem tax purposes.

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

Relating to massage student permits.

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

Relating to the creation of a list of priority facilities by electric utilities.

Relating to an exemption from required immunizations for school enrollment.

Relating to an alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests and diseases administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

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

Relating to notice provided to a retail electric customer of the procedure for requesting vegetation management near a transmission or distribution line.

Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, including conforming amendments.

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

Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts, including a conforming amendment.

Relating to nonsubstantive additions to, revisions of, and corrections in enacted codes, to the nonsubstantive codification or disposition of various laws omitted from enacted...

Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of...

Relating to fireworks sales to the public by retail fireworks permit holders in certain counties.

Relating to the criteria considered by groundwater conservation districts before granting or denying a permit or permit amendment.

Relating to a study on the increased incidence of cancer in female firefighters in this state.

Relating to the beneficiaries of trust funds paid or received in connection with an improvement on specific real property.

Relating to immunity for ringside physicians assigned to combative sports events.

Relating to election supplies and the conduct of elections; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.

Relating to the appeal of certain actions by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles related to motor carriers.

Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.

Relating to certain records of a health professional providing a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 302 in Ector County as the Trooper Kevin Ramirez Vasquez Memorial Highway.

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

Relating to the regulation of massage therapy.

Relating to the transfer of court files in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in which continuing, exclusive jurisdiction is transferred.

Congratulating Lee Ehmke on his retirement as president and CEO of the Houston Zoo.

In memory of Cameron Celeste Jacobson of San Antonio.

Relating to the payment of certain ad valorem tax refunds.