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HB2 is a broad Texas public-school law, not just a single teacher raise.
Official caption: Relating to public education and public school finance.
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HB6 gives schools more authority to remove disruptive students, broadens several expulsion grounds and changes suspension rules.
Official caption: Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.
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HB9 expands the property-tax exemption for income-producing tangible personal property to $125,000 of appraised value, beginning with the 2026 tax ye…
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the appraised value of tangible personal property that is held or used for the production of income.
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HB11 requires the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) to pursue more licensing-reciprocity agreements with other states, within exist…
Official caption: Relating to licensing reciprocity agreements entered into by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
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HB12 adds scheduled efficiency audits for agencies subject to the Texas Sunset Act and strengthens public input, performance measurement and follow-u…
Official caption: Relating to the review and audit of certain state agency operations.
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HB14 creates the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office within the governor’s office and a dedicated fund for reimbursement grants supporting nuclear p…
Official caption: Relating to support for the development of the nuclear energy industry.
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HB18 puts rural-hospital financial assistance into law, changes Medicaid payment rules, and expands connections to pediatric specialists and mental-h…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment and administration of certain programs and services providing health care services to rural counties.
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HB20 creates an Applied Sciences Pathway through which students in grades 11 and 12 can work toward a high-school diploma and an approved postseconda…
Official caption: Relating to establishing the Applied Sciences Pathway program.
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HB21 tightens the rules for local housing finance corporations—public nonprofit organizations used to finance housing—and for rental developments see…
Official caption: Relating to housing finance corporations; authorizing a fee.
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HB22 makes all intangible personal property exempt from Texas property tax starting with the 2026 tax year.
Official caption: Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of intangible personal property.
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HB24 changes how Texas cities handle zoning proposals, particularly proposals allowing more housing.
Official caption: Relating to procedures for changes to a zoning regulation or district boundary.
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HB26 lets Texas Medicaid managed-care contracts permit nutrition counseling and instruction as an alternative to other covered state-plan services.
Official caption: Relating to authorizing Medicaid managed care organizations to offer nutrition support services in lieu of other state Medicaid plan services.
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HB27 makes personal financial literacy a required part of the foundation high-school program for students entering ninth grade in 2026–27 or later.
Official caption: Relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public schools.
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HB29 requires large municipally owned drinking-water utilities to validate their water-loss audits and plan how to reduce losses.
Official caption: Relating to water losses reported by certain municipally owned utilities to the Texas Water Development Board; authorizing administrative penalties.
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HB30 narrows a disaster-related exception to voter approval of local property-tax increases and ties another disaster allowance to specified response…
Official caption: Relating to the effect of a disaster and associated costs on the calculation of certain tax rates and the procedure for adoption of a tax rate by a taxing unit.
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HB33 requires schools and emergency agencies to prepare, coordinate, train and learn from responses to school shootings.
Official caption: Relating to active shooter incidents at primary and secondary school facilities and other emergencies.
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HB34 restricts investments by covered public entities in securities and banks linked to designated countries, and creates a company-listing and dives…
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the investment of state money in certain countries and in certain private business entities in those countries.
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HB35 creates a Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) peer-support network for firefighters and emergency-medical services personnel.
Official caption: Relating to a peer support network for first responders.
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Everly's Law requires covered hospitals to make bereavement counseling options and any available bereavement device available after an intrauterine f…
Official caption: Relating to perinatal bereavement care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal bereavement care initiative, and a perinatal bereavement care hospital recognition program.
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HB39 replaces a basic death-certificate notification with deidentified information sharing and an annual public report.
Official caption: Relating to information and data regarding the incidence of veteran deaths in this state.
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HB40 expands the kinds of large commercial disputes Texas's specialized business court can hear and updates its operating rules.
Official caption: Relating to the business court.
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HB42 raises annual Higher Education Fund allocations from $393.75 million to $590.625 million—a 50% increase—and redistributes that money among eligi…
Official caption: Relating to the amount and allocation of the annual constitutional appropriation to certain agencies and institutions of higher education and to the permissible uses of that money.
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HB43 expands agricultural financial assistance and changes who runs the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority.
Official caption: Relating to the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority and certain programs administered by the authority.
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HB45 creates a procedure directing the Texas attorney general to prosecute certain human-trafficking cases when the local prosecutor has not acted af…
Official caption: Relating to the duty of the attorney general to represent the state in the prosecution of the criminal offense of trafficking of persons.
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HB46 expands Texas's prescription low-THC cannabis program, adds qualifying conditions and calls for more licensed suppliers and local pickup/storage…
Official caption: Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration.
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HB47 expands support for sexual-assault survivors, including payment for prescribed follow-up care, broader access to early lease termination and con…
Official caption: Relating to sexual assault and other sex offenses.
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HB48 requires the Department of Public Safety to create a specialized unit to investigate oilfield theft and help local agencies prevent it.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of an organized oilfield theft prevention unit within the Department of Public Safety.
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HB49 expands protection against certain civil damage claims for people who produce, transport, treat or beneficially reuse fluid oil-and-gas waste, w…
Official caption: 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.
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HB75 requires a magistrate who finds no probable cause for the offense behind an arrest to put supporting written findings in the court record within…
Official caption: Relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in certain criminal proceedings.
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HB100 restricts schools' purchase and use of instructional materials that the State Board of Education places on its rejected-materials list.
Official caption: Relating to the purchase, adoption, and use of instructional materials by public schools.