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HB5698 renames the Harris-Montgomery Counties Management District as the Southeast Regional Management District.
Official caption: Relating to the name of and appointment of directors for the Harris-Montgomery Counties Management District.
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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.
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SB1 is Texas's main state budget for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
Official caption: General Appropriations Bill.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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SB29 changes Texas business-entity governance, owner lawsuits, records access and voting rules.
Official caption: Relating to the formation, governance, and internal management of domestic entities.
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SB31, the Life of the Mother Act, aligns several Texas abortion-law exceptions around a physician's reasonable medical judgment and adds training for…
Official caption: Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.
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SB33 expands Texas restrictions on state and local government transactions and spending connected with abortion.
Official caption: Relating to certain prohibited transactions and logistical support between a governmental entity and an abortion assistance entity or abortion provider for the procurement of an abortion or related services.
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SB34 requires a statewide wildfire-fuel study, a firefighting-equipment database and a minimum allocation of volunteer-fire assistance for areas at h…
Official caption: Relating to funding for certain volunteer fire departments, to the preparation for and the prevention, management, and potential effects of wildfires, and to emergency communications in this state.
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SB36 establishes a Homeland Security Division in the Texas Department of Public Safety to coordinate law-enforcement work supporting homeland securit…
Official caption: Relating to the homeland security activities of certain entities, including the establishment and operations of the Homeland Security Division in the Department of Public Safety.
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SB37 gives public-college governing boards and senior administrators more control over curriculum, leadership and faculty governance, and creates a s…
Official caption: Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman.
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SB38 rewrites important Texas eviction procedures, including notices, trial timing, appeals and removal orders.
Official caption: Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises.
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SB40 bars local political subdivisions from paying public money to a nonprofit that accepts public donations and uses them to deposit defendants’ bai…
Official caption: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.
