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HB5699 lets Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 405 contract with an owner of undeveloped property to remove that property from the district…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 405 to exclude territory; validating and confirming all previous acts of the district.
Regular session · Explanation in preparation
Relating to the board of directors, operations, and territory of the Palo Pinto County Municipal Water District No. 1.
Official report House author(s): Olcott
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Relating to the provision of water supply service by the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 140 to land located wholly or partly in the territory of another district.
Official report House author(s): Bell, Cecil
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Relating to the creation of the Llano Historic Railroad Authority; providing authority to impose fees.
Official report House author(s): Virdell
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SB1 is Texas's main state budget for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
Official caption: General Appropriations Bill.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2 creates Texas education savings accounts: state-supported accounts that pay approved education providers, rather than unrestricted cash paid to p…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program.
Regular session · Explanation in preparation
Relating to the regulation of products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and permits; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Official report Senate author(s): Perry
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SB4 raises the general school-district residence-homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, removing another $40,000 of qualifying home value fro…
Official caption: Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.
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SB5 sets out a state grant-making institute for research and prevention involving dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and related diso…
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
Regular session · Explanation in preparation
Relating to the planning for, interconnection and operation of, and costs related to providing service for certain electrical loads and to the generation of electric power by a water supply or sewer service corporation.
Official report Senate author(s): King, Schwertner
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SB7 expands Texas water-project financing and directs the Texas Water Development Board to coordinate water-transport infrastructure.
Official caption: Relating to the oversight and financing of certain water infrastructure matters under the jurisdiction of the Texas Water Development Board.
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SB8 requires the sheriff of a county that operates a jail or contracts with a private vendor to operate one to request and enter into an immigration-…
Official caption: Relating to agreements between certain sheriffs and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law and a grant program to cover the costs of implementing those agreements.
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SB9 changes who may make certain bail decisions, expands information available to courts, and creates faster review of some release decisions.
Official caption: Relating to the confinement or release of defendants before trial or sentencing, including regulating charitable bail organizations, and the conditions of and procedures for setting bail and reviewing bail decisions.
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SB10 directs public elementary and secondary schools to display a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments in a conspicuous place in eve…
Official caption: Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
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SB11 lets a school district or an open-enrollment charter school not operated by or affiliated with a religious organization adopt a daily opportunit…
Official caption: Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.
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SB12 expands parental access, consent and complaint procedures in public education while restricting defined diversity, equity and inclusion duties, …
Official caption: Relating to parental rights in public education, to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion duties, and social transitioning, and to student clubs at public schools.
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SB13 gives parents access to school library catalogs and checkout information, lets them restrict their own child’s borrowing, and creates district-w…
Official caption: Relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the establishment of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials.
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The Regulatory Reform and Efficiency Act creates a regulatory-efficiency office within the governor’s office, strengthens information required when s…
Official caption: Relating to reforming the procedure by which state agencies adopt rules and impose regulatory requirements and the deference given to the interpretation of laws and rules by state agencies in certain judicial proceedings.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB15 limits how certain larger cities can use minimum lot sizes, density limits and design requirements to prevent smaller single-family home lots.
Official caption: Relating to size and density requirements for residential lots in certain municipalities; authorizing a fee.
Regular session · Explanation in preparation
Relating to requiring a person to submit proof of citizenship to register to vote, including the eligibility of certain voters to vote a limited federal ballot if the voter cannot supply the required proof and the procedures for the counting of those ballots; creating criminal offenses.
Official report Senate author(s): Hughes, Bettencourt, Birdwell, Campbell, Creighton, et al.
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SB17 bars specified foreign governments, businesses and individuals from acquiring interests in Texas real property.
Official caption: Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty.
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Relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain events from receiving state or other public funding.
Official report Senate author(s): Hughes, Bettencourt, Birdwell, Campbell, Creighton, et al.
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Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying and certain other activities.
Official report Senate author(s): Middleton, Bettencourt, Campbell, Creighton, Flores, et al.
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SB20 adds Penal Code 43.235.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain obscene visual material appearing to depict a child.
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SB21 creates the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as a special fund outside the state treasury, managed by the comptroller.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment and administration of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the purpose of investing in cryptocurrency and the investment authority of the comptroller of public accounts over the reserve and certain other state funds.
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SB22 changes the Texas moving-image grant program and creates a fund outside the treasury.
Official caption: Relating to the Texas moving image industry incentive program and the establishment and funding of the Texas moving image industry incentive fund.
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SB23 raises the extra residence-homestead exemption for an adult who is disabled or is 65 or older from $10,000 to $60,000.
Official caption: Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the appraised value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.
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SB24 directs the State Board of Education to adopt appropriate social-studies knowledge and skills for grades 4–12 that develop students' understandi…
Official caption: Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB25 combines nutrition education, protections for school physical activity, professional continuing education and a food-warning-label requirement.
Official caption: Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.
Regular session · Explanation in preparation
Relating to public education, including the rights and compensation of public school educators and funding for teacher compensation under the Foundation School Program.
Official report Senate author(s): Creighton
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