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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2703 designates July as American Patriotism Month in Texas.
Official caption: Relating to designating July as American Patriotism Month.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2712 lets covered water and sewer utilities choose a historical, forecast, or mixed 12-month “test year” for a rate case.
Official caption: Relating to test years used for ratemaking purposes by certain water and sewer utilities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2713 narrows the population range for a voter-petition election to repeal a municipality's Chapter 143 firefighter and police civil-service system.
Official caption: Relating to the repeal of a municipal civil service system for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2715 changes who handles removal proceedings under Subchapter B, Chapter 87 of the Local Government Code.
Official caption: Relating to the removal from office of certain officers of political subdivisions.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
For property-tax years beginning January 1, 2026 or later, HB2723 requires a chief appraiser to grant the existing cemetery exemption without an appl…
Official caption: Relating to the requirement that a person submit an application for an exemption from ad valorem taxation for certain property used for human burial.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2730 adds safeguards before a chief appraiser can require someone already receiving a Tax Code Section 11.13 residence-homestead exemption to reapp…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district to require a person allowed an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a residence homestead to file a new application or confirm the person's current qualification for the exemption.
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Beginning September 1, 2025, HB2731 changes the special roadside-regulation authority for counties bordering Mexico.
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of roadside vendors and solicitors in certain counties.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB2733 expressly adds social-media direct messages and other electronic communications to Texas's barratry statute—the l…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offenses of prohibited barratry and solicitation of professional employment.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2742 preserves access to an adopted two-part property-tax payment option when tax bills are mailed after November 30.
Official caption: Relating to the split-payment of ad valorem taxes.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
The Jovian Motley Act, effective September 1, 2025, requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) to provide de-escalation, crisis-interve…
Official caption: Relating to training on de-escalation, crisis intervention, and behavioral health for correctional officers and certain other employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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HB2757 lets a school district's board adopt a policy allowing a child whose parent or guardian is an active-duty member of a foreign military force s…
Official caption: Relating to a public school policy for establishing age for purposes of admission into the school for certain children of foreign military members.
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HB2760 specifies that a party challenging a final Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) unemployment-compensation decision must bring the court-review act…
Official caption: Relating to judicial review of a Texas Workforce Commission decision in an unemployment compensation proceeding.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB2761 says two facts are not defenses in specified prosecutions involving a child or disabled individual: that the vict…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of trafficking of persons, continuous trafficking of persons, and compelling prostitution.
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HB2763 designates the building that housed the Texas Department of Transportation's Starr County area engineer office on January 1, 2025, as the Edua…
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a Texas Department of Transportation building in Starr County as the Eduardo "Eddie" Gracia, Jr., P.E., Area Engineer and Maintenance Facility.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB2765 expands eligibility for the agriculture commissioner's Rural Economic Development and Investment Program.
Official caption: Relating to the Rural Economic Development and Investment Program and the Texas economic development fund.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB2768 allows a state agency to partner with a public junior college district or public technical institute to offer a s…
Official caption: Relating to the development of a state information technology apprenticeship credential offered by public junior colleges or public technical institutes to address shortages in the state information resources workforce.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB2775 adds seats for Ector County, Schleicher County and the City of Odessa to the I-27 Advisory Committee.
Official caption: Relating to the composition of the I-27 Advisory Committee.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2788 excludes specified fraud-detection information held by the Texas Workforce Commission from public-information access under the Texas Public In…
Official caption: Relating to the disclosure of certain fraud detection information obtained in the administration of the unemployment compensation system.
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HB2789 changes several child-welfare and child-care requirements.
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of child welfare, including licensure, community-based care contractors, family homes, and child-care facilities.
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HB2791 gives the Texas Workforce Commission express authority to buy goods and services connected with its vocational-rehabilitation work using commi…
Official caption: Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Workforce Commission with respect to the procurement of goods and services for the provision of vocational rehabilitation services.
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HB2802 restructures the Austin Firefighters Retirement Fund, rather than firefighter pensions statewide.
Official caption: Relating to the administration of, contributions to, and benefits under retirement systems for firefighters in certain municipalities.
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HB2809 requires the Department of Family and Protective Services to include the number of children who attempted suicide while in its managing conser…
Official caption: Relating to required reporting by the Department of Family and Protective Services regarding youth in the managing conservatorship of the department who attempt suicide.
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HB2818 requires the Department of Information Resources, or DIR, to establish an artificial intelligence division under its executive director.
Official caption: Relating to the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources.
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HB2820 doubles the ordinary dollar ceiling on operating capital that a licensed charitable-bingo organization may retain in its bingo account, from $…
Official caption: Relating to the maximum amount of operating capital retained in a licensed authorized organization's charitable bingo account.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2842 creates an additional route for specified entities to seek a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department permit to control white-tailed deer by lethal…
Official caption: Relating to the control by lethal means of white-tailed deer in certain areas.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2844 creates a statewide Department of State Health Services (DSHS) license for mobile food vendors, with a separate annual license for each vehicl…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of food service establishments, including retail food stores and mobile food vendors; requiring an occupational license; imposing fees; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2851 requires services that consolidate applications to medical or dental schools to include applications to Texas nursing schools, beginning with …
Official caption: Relating to including nursing school applications in a consolidated application service.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2853 removes the fixed dollar caps on the University of Texas at El Paso student-union fee.
Official caption: Relating to student union building fees at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
The Pokuaa-Flowers Act requires advance parole-officer approval for certain non-treatment visits to general hospitals.
Official caption: Relating to the required approval of certain hospital visits as a condition of release on parole or to mandatory supervision for certain releasees and to the hospital's liability for damages resulting from those visits.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2856 directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to study whether regional online portals could help reserve clinical rotations at health…
Official caption: Relating to a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on the feasibility of implementing a statewide system for coordinating clinical training placements.
