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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2407 changes two enhancement rules for failing to comply with sex-offender registration requirements.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the failure of certain sex offenders to comply with sex offender registration requirements.
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HB2510 creates two specific licensing offenses: operating an assisted living facility without its required Chapter 247 license, and providing persona…
Official caption: Relating to assisted living facility operations and provision of certain services to assisted living facility residents without a license; creating a criminal offense.
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HB2524 makes reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees, court costs and expenses an express part of many Family Code payment and enforcement provision…
Official caption: Relating to the recovery of fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings.
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HB2593 makes indecent assault against an elderly or disabled individual a second-degree felony.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of indecent assault against a disabled or elderly individual.
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HB2594 expands venue—the county where a criminal case may be prosecuted.
Official caption: Relating to the venue for the prosecution of certain criminal conduct involving theft.
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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.
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HB3073, the Summer Willis Act, changes the intoxication-related circumstance in which sexual assault is treated as occurring without consent.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.
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HB3181 makes compensatory parenting time the general rule when court-ordered possession of or access to a child is denied, unless a party shows good …
Official caption: Relating to the enforcement of a court order for possession of or access to a child and related order modifications.
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HB3425 expands two existing crimes involving disclosure of a person's home address or telephone number.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of certain criminal offenses involving the unlawful disclosure of a residence address or telephone number.
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HB3463 allows a written payment demand to be sent by email or text message for a particular theft-of-service offense: intentionally or knowingly obta…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of theft of service.
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HB3464 increases penalties for specified contraband offenses when the person committing them is employed by the correctional facility.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.
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HB3680 creates a separate subdivision-platting framework for a county bordering both Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico—Cameron County.
Official caption: Relating to subdivision plat requirements in certain counties; authorizing a fee; authorizing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.
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HB3686 requires certain retired officers' identification cards to show the position or rank they held when they retired.
Official caption: Relating to the information included on an identification card issued to certain retired peace and law enforcement officers.
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HB3783 restricts the counseling a court may order in disputes about custody, possession of a child or access to a child.
Official caption: Relating to court-ordered counseling in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
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HB4205 creates a compensation-parity rule for counties with at least 3.3 million residents.
Official caption: Relating to compensation and employment benefits for law enforcement personnel in certain counties.
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HB4344 expands the Public Utility Commission of Texas's express authority to obtain criminal-history records to cover job applicants, current employe…
Official caption: Relating to access to and use of criminal history record information by the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
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HB4454 tightens marketing and patient-referral rules and creates an eight-member task force to recommend better enforcement.
Official caption: Relating to solicitation of patients and other prohibited marketing practices, the establishment of the task force on patient solicitation, and the prosecution of certain related criminal offenses.
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HB4996 raises the offense of refusing to release a fraudulent lien or claim from a Class A misdemeanor to a third-degree felony when the property own…
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of refusal to execute the release of a fraudulent lien or claim.
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HB5081 creates a written-request process to limit the online exposure and sharing of sensitive personal information about Texas judges, court clerks,…
Official caption: Relating to the protection of personal identifying information of certain individuals in the judicial system; creating a criminal offense.
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HB5115 raises the basic penalty for election fraud under Election Code Section 276.013 from a Class A misdemeanor to a second-degree felony.
Official caption: Relating to the penalty for the crime of election fraud; increasing a criminal penalty.
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HB5238 expressly extends Texas's offense of disrupting a lawful meeting, procession or gathering to in-person or virtual events and to electronic dis…
Official caption: Relating to the criminal offense of disrupting a meeting or procession.
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HB5436 lets a licensed used automotive parts recycler buy a vehicle without obtaining its title only if it is at least 13 years old, has not been reg…
Official caption: Relating to an exception to the titling requirement for certain motor vehicles; creating a criminal offense; providing for a fee.
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HB5534 expressly allows a county clerk to post a commissioners court meeting agenda by electronic display instead of a physical document.
Official caption: Relating to the electronic posting of notices and agendas for meetings of the commissioners court of a county.
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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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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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SB127 gives prosecutors more time to charge certain professionals who knowingly fail to report child abuse or neglect, with the clock running from di…
Official caption: Relating to the offense of failure to report child abuse or neglect by certain professionals and the statute of limitations for that offense; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions.
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SB251 authorizes Bell County’s commissioners court to select criminal magistrates and set their pay, qualifications and duties.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of criminal law magistrates for Bell County.
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SB261 enacted a temporary Texas ban on offering or selling cell-cultured protein for human consumption.
Official caption: Relating to a prohibition on the offering for sale and the sale of cell-cultured protein for human consumption; providing civil and criminal penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB305 extends Texas’s move-over-or-slow-down law to certain animal-removal and parking-enforcement vehicles.
Official caption: Relating to the criminal offense of passing certain vehicles on a highway.
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SB441 expands criminal penalties and civil remedies for realistic, nonconsensual sexual deepfakes.
Official caption: Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual material; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.
