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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB314 restricts specified additives in free or reduced-price meals provided by Texas school districts and open-enrollment charter schools under the c…
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB326 requires Texas public schools and public higher-education institutions to use the existing statutory definition of antisemitism, including its …
Official caption: Relating to the procedure for determining whether a student's violation of a public school's or public institution of higher education's student code of conduct was motivated by antisemitism.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB331 expands Texas’s health-care price-disclosure law to more kinds of facilities, while exempting facilities with less than $10 million in total gr…
Official caption: Relating to the disclosure of health care cost information by certain health care facilities; imposing an administrative penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB365 lets Texas public colleges offer a broader academic fresh start, but it does not require every college to use a five-year cutoff.
Official caption: Relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education is entitled to an academic fresh start.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB370 expands protection for specified personal information of attorney-general employees and their families, and adds current and former public-defe…
Official caption: Relating to the availability of certain personal information of a child, spouse, or surviving spouse of a current or former employee of the office of the attorney general or of a public defender's office.
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SB372 makes explicit that a foreclosure trustee can be a legal entity, not just an individual.
Official caption: Relating to the persons authorized or appointed to exercise the power of sale under the terms of a contract lien on real property.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB379 restricts which drinks and candy can be bought with SNAP food benefits—not what Texans may buy with their own money.
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the purchase of sweetened drinks and candy under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB384 adds an optional donation to Operation Game Thief when applying for a Texas hunting or fishing license.
Official caption: Relating to making a donation to the operation game thief fund when applying for a hunting or fishing license.
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SB387 raises the minimum official bond for covered county judges handling guardianship or probate matters to $500,000.
Official caption: Relating to bond requirements for certain judges.
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SB401 changes eligible home-school students’ access to UIL activities from a school opt-in to an opt-out system.
Official caption: Relating to participation by non-enrolled students in University Interscholastic League-sponsored activities.
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SB402 standardizes how someone asks for a property-tax refund to be mailed to a different address.
Official caption: Relating to the payment of certain ad valorem tax refunds.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB412 removes or narrows purpose-based defenses to two existing crimes involving minors.
Official caption: Relating to defenses to prosecution for certain offenses involving material or conduct that is obscene or otherwise harmful to children.
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SB413 requires more visible records of independent school-district board meetings.
Official caption: Relating to the meetings of the boards of trustees of independent school districts.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB434 allows the Harris County Hospital District’s board to employ and commission its own peace officers.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the Harris County Hospital District to employ and commission peace officers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB437 permits live online delivery of required abuse-prevention training and adds financial-impact factors to chemical-dependency facility penalties.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities and to civil and administrative penalties assessed for violations of statutes or rules governing chemical dependency treatment facilities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
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.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB447 gives a narrowly defined border city the option to move its regular officer elections to November—and requires it to stay there if it uses that…
Official caption: Relating to authorizing certain municipalities to change the date on which their general election for officers is held.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB455 sets Texas-location and Texas-law requirements, with exceptions, for arbitration clauses in surplus lines insurance covering a risk wholly with…
Official caption: Relating to arbitration provisions in certain surplus lines insurance contracts.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB456 makes the existing crime of buying or selling human organs a state jail felony and requires physician-license revocation for knowingly using an…
Official caption: Relating to the purchase or sale of human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB457 sets a patient-care spending rule for Medicaid nursing-facility payments, requires more ownership disclosure and protects qualifying facilities…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of certain nursing facilities, including licensing requirements and Medicaid participation and reimbursement requirements.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB458 requires an appraisal process in covered personal-auto and residential-property insurance policies to resolve disputes over the amount of a los…
Official caption: Relating to an appraisal process for disputed losses under personal automobile or residential property insurance policies.
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SB462 gives eligible children of qualifying child-care workers a priority position on child-care services waiting lists.
Official caption: Relating to establishing a child-care services waiting list priority for the children of certain child-care workers.
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SB463 brings more care facilities under Texas workplace-violence prevention requirements.
Official caption: Relating to the definition of facility for purposes of workplace violence prevention requirements.
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SB467 provides a one-year, prorated property-tax exemption for a qualifying home improvement completely destroyed by fire.
Official caption: Relating to a temporary exemption from ad valorem taxation of the appraised value of an improvement to a residence homestead that is completely destroyed by a fire.
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SB480 expressly allows local governments to make joint water-research or planning agreements with other governments.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a local government to enter into an interlocal contract with certain governmental entities to participate in water research or planning activities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB482 increases penalties for certain assaults and harassment against utility workers and adds them to the law against interference with public dutie…
Official caption: Relating to the offenses of assault, harassment, and interference with public duties committed against certain employees or agents of a utility.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB487 extends an existing victim-privacy process to alleged invasive visual recording and indecent assault.
Official caption: Relating to the confidentiality of identifying information of victims of certain offenses.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB493 bars pharmacy benefit managers from silencing certain cost comparisons and pharmacy communications.
Official caption: Relating to protection of certain disclosures and communications by pharmacists and pharmacies regarding prescription drug benefits.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB494 requires the Railroad Commission of Texas to appoint a task force on petroleum-product theft.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of a theft of petroleum products task force.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB499 lets the West Coke County Hospital District choose a depository bank outside the district.
Official caption: Relating to the selection by the board of directors of the West Coke County Hospital District of a depository bank for the district.
