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HB101 created a temporary task force to study how to improve the Texas State Guard's capabilities and recommend changes to state leaders.
Official caption: Relating to creating the Texas State Guard Professionalization Task Force.
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HB102 gives qualifying ROTC, corps-of-cadets and maritime-academy students access to early registration when their public higher-education institutio…
Official caption: Relating to early registration for students in military-related programs at public institutions of higher education.
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HB103 requires the comptroller to build and maintain a free public database connecting local bond proposals, tax elections and projects paid for with…
Official caption: Relating to the creation and maintenance of a database of taxing unit bond, tax, and bond-related project information; providing a civil penalty.
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HB107 establishes a framework for a statewide sickle cell disease registry, with patient consent and confidentiality protections.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the sickle cell disease registry.
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HB108 increases punishment when a defendant uses metal or body armor during a covered offense against a person and that fact is proved beyond a reaso…
Official caption: Relating to the use of metal or body armor while committing certain offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.
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HB109 broadens the state-facility framework for residential treatment of certain juveniles beyond a single named center and permits a direct, one-tim…
Official caption: Relating to the construction, expansion, and operation of certain inpatient mental health facilities and the designation of residential treatment facilities for certain juveniles.
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HB114 makes the Texas Veterans Commission responsible for three existing veterans’ mental-health efforts previously administered through the Health a…
Official caption: Relating to the transfer of functions relating to certain veteran mental health programs and plans to the Texas Veterans Commission.
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HB116 removes failure to comply with a particular court-ordered reunification plan as a separate ground for permanently ending a parent-child relatio…
Official caption: Relating to grounds for the involuntary termination of the parent-child relationship.
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HB117 creates a temporary governor’s task force to review how Texas agencies manage early-childhood education and care and recommend improvements.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the governor's task force on the governance of early childhood education and care.
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HB119 adds a registration requirement for covered lobbying on behalf of defined foreign adversaries and prohibits receiving or agreeing to receive co…
Official caption: Relating to the registration as a lobbyist of persons who engage in certain lobbying activities on behalf of a foreign adversary and to prohibitions on the receipt of compensation related to those lobbying activities; providing a civil penalty.
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HB120 expands support for career pathways and certain students finishing college-linked programs after high school, and requires more information abo…
Official caption: Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program.
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HB121 updates Texas public-school safety requirements.
Official caption: Relating to measures for ensuring public school safety, including the commissioning of peace officers by the Texas Education Agency, the composition of the board of directors of the Texas School Safety Center, and public school safety and security requirements and resources.
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HB126 loosens several Texas restrictions on compensation for college athletes’ name, image and likeness, often called NIL: payment for using an athle…
Official caption: Relating to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student athletes and student athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher education.
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HB127 creates a university research-security council and rules for covered public higher-education institutions on foreign gifts, partnerships, resea…
Official caption: Relating to measures to protect institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; increasing a criminal penalty.
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HB128 bars Texas state agencies and political subdivisions from establishing, maintaining or renewing a covered sister-city agreement with China, Ira…
Official caption: Relating to certain sister-city agreements between governmental entities and foreign countries and communities.
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The Texas Genomic Act of 2025 restricts certain genome-sequencing equipment, software, data storage and bankruptcy-related data transfers connected t…
Official caption: Relating to genetic information security for residents of this state; providing a civil penalty; providing a private cause of action.
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HB132 extends six existing homeland-security confidentiality provisions to specified information concerning a “hostile act by a foreign adversary of …
Official caption: Relating to the confidentiality of information used to prevent, detect, respond to, or investigate a hostile act of a foreign adversary of the United States.
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HB135 expressly adds two categories to Texas's sales-and-use-tax exemptions for agricultural items: exotic animals defined by Tax Code 23.51 and game…
Official caption: Relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes for game animals and exotic animals.
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HB136 requires Texas Medicaid to reimburse qualified lactation consultants for helping Medicaid recipients with breastfeeding.
Official caption: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for lactation consultation services.
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HB138 creates a program at UTHealth Houston's Center for Health Care Data to examine proposed health-insurance requirements before lawmakers enact th…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Health Impact, Cost, and Coverage Analysis Program; authorizing a fee.
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HB140 creates a child protective investigations advisory committee within the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).
Official caption: Relating to advisory bodies for the Department of Family and Protective Services, including the creation of the child protective investigations advisory committee and the abolition of the Family and Protective Services Council.
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HB142 updates the Texas Health and Human Services Commission's inspector-general powers and expressly extends recovery-audit work to Medicaid managed…
Official caption: Relating to the Health and Human Services Commission's office of inspector general, the review of certain Medicaid claims, and the recovery of certain overpayments under Medicaid.
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HB143 adds a response process for visibly dangerous electrical lines, poles and related equipment serving oil and gas wells or associated surface fac…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas and the Public Utility Commission of Texas to address a failure by an operator to maintain an electrical power line serving a well site or certain surface facilities in accordance with the National Electrical Code.
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HB144 requires electric utilities, electric cooperatives and municipally owned utilities distributing electricity to the public to submit plans to th…
Official caption: Relating to plans for the management and inspection of distribution poles.
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HB145 requires electric utilities, municipal utilities and electric cooperatives owning transmission or distribution facilities in a wildfire-risk ar…
Official caption: Relating to risk mitigation planning and associated liability for providers of electric service; providing an administrative penalty.
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HB148 creates an annual training requirement for appraisal-district directors in counties with 75,000 or more residents.
Official caption: Relating to the qualification of candidates for, and the training and education of members of, the board of directors of an appraisal district.
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HB149, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, took effect January 1, 2026.
Official caption: Relating to regulation of the use of artificial intelligence systems in this state; providing civil penalties.
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HB150 created the Texas Cyber Command as a separate state agency, effective September 1, 2025.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Cyber Command and the transfer to it of certain powers and duties of the Department of Information Resources.
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HB163 lets an entity in Texas, including a government entity, choose to adopt a policy for maintaining, administering and disposing of emergency epin…
Official caption: Relating to the possession and administration of epinephrine delivery systems by certain entities.
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HB166 adds substances in Texas Penalty Group 1-B—including fentanyl and specified related opioids—to the drug-related circumstances that can support …
Official caption: Relating to committing the criminal offense of endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual by engaging in certain conduct involving a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B of the Texas Controlled Substances Act.