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HB171, called the Anell Borrego Act, sets a 30-day minimum for several kinds of court-ordered chemical-dependency treatment, while retaining their 90…
Official caption: Relating to the certificate of medical examination for chemical dependency and the duration of court-ordered treatment for a person with a chemical dependency.
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HB198, the Wade Cannon Act, requires a political subdivision employing covered firefighters to offer them a confidential occupational cancer screenin…
Official caption: Relating to periodic health screenings for firefighters.
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HB201 expands the Financial Crimes Intelligence Center's card-fraud work to include motor-fuel theft and devices used to manipulate fuel pumps or the…
Official caption: Relating to the financial crimes intelligence center.
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HB206 prohibits a county from requiring a cash bond as a condition of approving pipeline construction within its boundaries.
Official caption: Relating to a limitation on a county's authority to require a cash bond before approving the construction of a pipeline.
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HB210 creates a criminal offense for a vendor bidding on or receiving a school-district or open-enrollment charter-school contract when specified fin…
Official caption: Relating to contracting with a school district or open-enrollment charter school by a vendor with whom a member of the board of trustees or governing body of the district or school or a related individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal offense.
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HB216 changes how covered health-care providers deliver itemized bills, especially when a patient cannot be reached through an active online portal.
Official caption: Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.
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HB223 removes a municipal purchasing exemption for lobbying, government-relations and similar services intended to directly or indirectly influence s…
Official caption: Relating to competitive requirements for a procurement by a municipality for lobbying, government relations, or similar services.
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HB227 designates the portion of Farm-to-Market Road 521 in Brazoria County as the Clarence “BB” Sasser Medal of Honor Highway.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 521 in Brazoria County as the Clarence "BB" Sasser Medal of Honor Highway.
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HB229 adds definitions of sex-related terms to Texas's Code Construction Act and requires covered government data collection to identify each individ…
Official caption: Relating to general definitions for and collection of governmental information regarding biological sex.
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HB247 exempts qualifying added real-property value from property taxation when border-security infrastructure or related improvements are installed i…
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the amount of the appraised value of real property located in certain counties that arises from the installation or construction on the property of border security infrastructure and related improvements and to the consideration of the price paid by certain governmental entities for a parcel of or easement in real property purchased for the purpose of installing or constructing such infrastructure when appraising other real property.
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HB252 allows the state agencies covered by Government Code Section 659.082(a) to choose twice-monthly pay for employees in any position classified un…
Official caption: Relating to the payment of employment compensation by certain state agencies.
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HB272 gives prosecutors an additional place to bring a case for fraudulent use or possession of credit-card or debit-card information under Penal Cod…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent use or possession of credit card or debit card information.
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HB285 adds criminal negligence to the mental states that can support a prosecution for cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
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HB300 expands the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program beginning with the 2025–2026 academic year.
Official caption: Relating to the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program.
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HB303 lets existing Type A and Type B general-law cities with 500 or fewer residents seek a change to Type C status.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a Type A or Type B general-law municipality to change to a Type C general-law municipality.
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HB322 expands the permitted uses of Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) grants to include acquiring, implementing and maintaining technology needed t…
Official caption: Relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program.
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HB331 broadens when a qualifying firefighter, peace officer or emergency medical technician can use a legal presumption that a disabling or fatal hea…
Official caption: Relating to certain presumptions applicable to claims for benefits or compensation for certain medical conditions brought by certain first responders.
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HB334 allows a county commissioners court to create a family-leave pool funded by employees’ voluntary donations of earned sick or vacation leave.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of a county employee family leave pool program.
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HB346 removes two statutory ceilings on Secretary of State expedited-service fees: the $15 ceiling for certain security-interest record searches or f…
Official caption: Relating to the fee amounts prescribed by the secretary of state for expedited commercial and business record searches or filings and the exemption from the franchise tax and certain filing fees for veteran-owned businesses.
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HB367 requires school districts to adopt a physician-certification form for absences caused by a student’s serious or life-threatening illness or rel…
Official caption: Relating to verification of excused absences from public school for students with severe or life-threatening illnesses.
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HB388 requires a uniform coordination-of-benefits questionnaire for the health plans it covers.
Official caption: Relating to a uniform coordination of benefits questionnaire for health benefit plans.
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HB426 requires Medicaid to cover the full cost of a qualifying cranial-remolding orthosis for a child enrolled in the program, with CHIP providing co…
Official caption: Relating to Medicaid and child health plan program coverage and reimbursement for childhood cranial remolding orthosis.
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HB431 expressly includes a solar roof tile in the definition of a “solar energy device” used in Texas law governing property owners’ associations.
Official caption: Relating to the regulation by a property owners' association of the installation of solar roof tiles.
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HB451 adds screening for commercial sexual exploitation risk in two settings.
Official caption: Relating to a screening for the risk of commercial sexual exploitation of certain children.
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HB467 creates a special procedure for dissolving the Cedar Creek Hospital District and using its remaining money for the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursin…
Official caption: Relating to the procedure for the dissolution of the Cedar Creek Hospital District and the disposition of district money.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB493 makes a person ineligible to serve as a poll watcher after a final conviction for a first- or second-degree felony, or for a felony involving c…
Official caption: Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB500 adjusts Texas's budget with additional appropriations, permission to reuse earlier unspent money, transfers and spending reductions.
Official caption: Relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding appropriations.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB517 stops a property owners' association from assessing certain vegetation or turf fines while a home is under a qualifying drought watering restri…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of residential watering restriction.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB519 expands the honey-production operations exempt from local regulation of honey or honeycomb production and from being treated as food service es…
Official caption: Relating to honey production operations and the harvesting and packaging of honey and honeycomb.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB521 changes Texas curbside-voting procedures.
Official caption: Relating to accommodating voters with a disability; creating a criminal offense.