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HB1318 revises compensation and property-transfer rules in a specific process for giving a municipal or city-franchised utility the sole water or sew…
Official caption: Relating to a certificate of public convenience and necessity to provide water or sewer service in an area incorporated or annexed by a municipality.
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HB1327 extends the Harris County Hospital District health care provider participation program by moving both its operating-authority expiration and t…
Official caption: Relating to the continuation of a health care provider participation program by the Harris County Hospital District.
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Effective January 1, 2026, HB1392 treats a property-tax payment as timely when its last payment day falls on a day the relevant taxing unit's collect…
Official caption: Relating to the postponement of the delinquency date for a payment of ad valorem taxes imposed by a taxing unit if the office of the collector for the taxing unit is closed on the delinquency date.
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HB1393 directs Texas to observe daylight saving time year-round—but only if Congress enacts a law authorizing Texas to do so.
Official caption: Relating to daylight saving time.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1397 assigns the State Preservation Board responsibility for the care and custody of the Texas Constitution, Texas Dec…
Official caption: Relating to the care, custody, and display of the letter known as the victory or death letter, the Texas Constitution, and the Texas Declaration of Independence.
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HB1399 exempts the appraised value of qualifying animal feed owned and held for retail sale from property taxation.
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1403 prohibits the Health and Human Services Commission, Department of Family and Protective Services and child-placin…
Official caption: Relating to the collection and confidentiality of information regarding firearms in agency foster homes; creating a civil penalty.
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HB1422 creates a continuous sexual abuse offense for someone 17 or older who commits two or more qualifying acts against two or more victims over a p…
Official caption: Relating to the rights of victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses, the offense of continuous sexual abuse, and the prosecution, punishment, and collateral consequences of certain sex offenses; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal penalties; changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for persons convicted of certain sex offenses.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1443 creates an offense for knowingly promoting, possessing with intent to promote, or possessing a statutorily define…
Official caption: Relating to creating the criminal offense of promotion or possession of a child-like sex doll.
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HB1445 allows the director's designee in a county's managed assigned counsel program to receive, approve or reduce appointed lawyers' payment request…
Official caption: Relating to the compensation of counsel appointed to provide representation and services to indigent individuals in criminal and juvenile proceedings.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1458 expands who can fill the armed-security-officer role under the existing school-district campus requirement.
Official caption: Relating to the armed security officers required to be present at public schools and the appointment of reserve police officers by a school district police department.
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HB1465 expands the location-based part of Texas's invasive visual recording offense.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of invasive visual recording and the applicability of sex offender registration requirements to that offense.
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HB1481 requires school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to adopt, implement and comply with a written policy prohibiting student use of …
Official caption: Relating to school district and open-enrollment charter school policies regarding student use of personal communication devices.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1500 continues the Department of Information Resources (DIR) until its next Sunset abolition date, September 1, 2037, …
Official caption: Relating to the continuation and functions of the Department of Information Resources, including the composition of the governing body of the department and, in collaboration with the comptroller, the administration of state assistance opportunities.
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HB1506 adds a retired constitutional-county-court or statutory-county-court judge who served at least 48 months in those courts to the definition of …
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain retired county court judges.
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Effective September 1, 2025, HB1520 moves the Angelina and Neches River Authority's next Sunset review to 2037, with reviews every 12 years afterward.
Official caption: Relating to the Angelina and Neches River Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.
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Starting September 1, 2025, HB1522 changes Texas's general open-meetings notice requirement from 72 hours before a meeting's scheduled time to at lea…
Official caption: Relating to notice of a meeting held under the open meetings law.
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HB1532 creates the Lake Houston Dredging and Maintenance District, effective June 20, 2025, when it became law without the governor's signature.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Lake Houston Dredging and Maintenance District; providing the authority to issue bonds.
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HB1533 changes several parts of Texas's property-tax appraisal and appeal system.
Official caption: Relating to the system for appraising property for ad valorem tax purposes.
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HB1535 updates how the Trinity River Authority is governed.
Official caption: Relating to the Trinity River Authority of Texas, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.
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Texas periodically reviews agencies through the Sunset process to decide whether they should continue and what should change.
Official caption: Relating to the sunset review process and certain governmental entities subject to that process.
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A student enrolled in a Texas massage school must have a permit that includes a photograph of the student's face.
Official caption: Relating to massage student permits.
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Covered electric utilities must keep a list of priority facilities in their retail service areas, including each facility's name, type and address.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of a list of priority facilities by electric utilities.
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HB1586 makes the state's blank immunization-exemption affidavit available to print online without supplying personal information to obtain it.
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from required immunizations for school enrollment.
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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service must develop and operate a statewide internet-based alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests, disease…
Official caption: Relating to an alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests and diseases administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
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HB1593 creates a temporary advisory committee to study whether and how Texas fire departments should implement suicide-prevention and peer-support pr…
Official caption: Relating to an advisory committee to study suicide prevention and peer support programs in fire departments in this state.
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Electricity customers must periodically receive information with their bills explaining how to request vegetation management near transmission or dis…
Official caption: Relating to notice provided to a retail electric customer of the procedure for requesting vegetation management near a transmission or distribution line.
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HB1610 reorganizes existing Texas laws on family violence, public-health offenses, death investigations and fire investigations.
Official caption: Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, including conforming amendments.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
An uninsured patient can request to pay a covered hospital directly, subject to limits tied to the hospital's insurance-related prices.
Official caption: Relating to direct payment for certain health care provided by a hospital.
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HB1615 gathers and reorganizes the laws governing five existing special districts into named chapters of the Special District Local Laws Code.
Official caption: Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts, including a conforming amendment.