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892 HB4 · 2026-11-03
Texas redrew its 38 U.S. congressional districts with plan PLANC2333 for the 2026 primary and general elections for the 120th Congress.
89R SB1 · 2026-11-03
SB1 is Texas's main state budget for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
892 SB5 · 2026-11-03
Second-special-session SB5 appropriates $283,078,991 for disaster response, flood warnings, weather forecasting and implementation of camp-safety leg…
89R SB3059 · 2026-11-03
SB3059 sets up a future transfer of Alamo oversight from the General Land Office to a five-member Alamo Commission led by the governor, lieutenant go…
89R SB2995 · 2026-11-03
SB2995 requires public higher-education institutions to warn applicants that financial aid can shrink and to explain how to seek and protect gift aid.
89R SB2774 · 2026-11-03
SB2774 lets qualifying industrial-uniform, garment and linen rental activities count as retail trade for Texas franchise-tax purposes.
89R SB2753 · 2026-11-03
SB2753 connects early in-person voting to Election Day, with no intervening days when regular in-person voting is closed.
89R SB2610 · 2026-11-03
SB2610 gives qualifying businesses with fewer than 250 employees protection from punitive damages after a data breach if they can prove they had a co…
89R SB2601 · 2026-11-03
SB2601 expands Texas’s landowner compensation program to agricultural lessees and damage to livestock, timber and crops, including qualifying cleanup…
89R SB2321 · 2026-11-03
SB2321 lets Texas environmental regulators use enforcement discretion when extra electricity generation is needed to address an emergency or a signif…
89R SB2308 · 2026-11-03
SB2308 creates a Texas-selected research consortium to pursue FDA-regulated clinical trials of ibogaine and related therapeutics, with non-state matc…
89R SB2139 · 2026-11-03
SB2139 creates a process for releasing the State of Texas’s remaining interests in a specific former military tract in Palo Pinto County.
89R SB1637 · 2026-11-03
SB1637 gives peace officers two specific protections under Texas’s deadly-conduct statute.
89R SB1566 · 2026-11-03
SB1566 removes one municipal paperwork barrier to utility service for qualifying land that has left a city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction—the nearby…
89R SB1398 · 2026-11-03
SB1398 changes how Texas oversees regional foster-care contractors and transfers family-preservation work to them.
89R SB1273 · 2026-11-03
SB1273 creates a Higher Education Research Security Council to coordinate research protection and reduce foreign espionage and interference risks.
89R SB1058 · 2026-11-03
SB1058 lets a qualifying registered securities-market operator exclude certain liquidity-incentive payments to brokers or dealers from its total reve…
89R SB667 · 2026-11-03
SB667 creates a list-based investment restriction and divestment process for six specified Texas public funds and retirement systems, with fiduciary …
89R SB535 · 2026-11-03
SB535 extends restrictions on using a victim's past sexual behavior as evidence to additional criminal prosecutions.
89R SB326 · 2026-11-03
SB326 requires Texas public schools and public higher-education institutions to use the existing statutory definition of antisemitism, including its …
89R SB231 · 2026-11-03
SB231 sets equipment and leasing conditions for temporary emergency generators used by transmission and distribution utilities.
89R SB227 · 2026-11-03
SB227, the Charles Edward Barton Act, changes how Texas reviews applications for delayed birth certificates.
89R HB2692 · 2026-11-03
HB2692 puts the San Antonio River Authority's governing law into a single code chapter and changes some of its wording and procedures.
89R HB1237 · 2026-11-03
HB1237 gives holders of Texas Commission on Environmental Quality occupational licenses and registrations more time to apply for late renewal.
89R HB29 · 2026-11-03
HB29 requires large municipally owned drinking-water utilities to validate their water-loss audits and plan how to reduce losses.
89R HB27 · 2026-11-03
HB27 makes personal financial literacy a required part of the foundation high-school program for students entering ninth grade in 2026–27 or later.
89R HB20 · 2026-11-03
HB20 creates an Applied Sciences Pathway through which students in grades 11 and 12 can work toward a high-school diploma and an approved postseconda…
89R HB9 · 2026-11-03
HB9 expands the property-tax exemption for income-producing tangible personal property to $125,000 of appraised value, beginning with the 2026 tax ye…
89R HB11 · 2026-11-03
HB11 requires the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) to pursue more licensing-reciprocity agreements with other states, within exist…
89R HB2694 · 2026-11-03
HB2694 changes when voters elect the three commissioners of Brazoria Drainage District No. 4 and how board vacancies are filled.