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TXSB974VetoRelating to the eligibility of a person employed by a school district as a teacher to serve on the appraisal review board of an appraisal district; creating a criminal offense.
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2025-06-22
Vetoed by the Governor
TXSB2206PassRelating to a franchise tax credit for, and the application of sales and use taxes to, certain research and development expenses.
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2025-06-22
Effective on 1/1/26
TXSB785PassRelating to the regulation of new HUD-code manufactured housing.
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2025-06-22
Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2026
TXHB762PassRelating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors.
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2025-06-22
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB75PassRelating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities.
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2025-06-20
Effective immediately
TXSB509PassRelating to requiring notice to the attorney general in an action under the Election Code seeking a temporary restraining order.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB510PassRelating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB506PassRelating to requirements for certain ballot propositions and to related procedures and provisions.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB568PassRelating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program.
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2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date
TXSB571PassRelating to the reporting and investigation of certain misconduct and child abuse and neglect; creating a criminal offense.
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2025-06-20
Effective immediately
TXSB843PassRelating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB965PassRelating to the right of a public school employee to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB991PassRelating to the inclusion of chronically absent and truant students as students at risk of dropping out of school and the collection and reporting of data regarding those students.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB260PassRelating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB10PassRelating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB11PassRelating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB13PassRelating 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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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1433PassRelating to the assertion of legislative privilege by the attorney general in certain legal challenges to the constitutionality of state statutes.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1453PassRelating to the current debt rate and tax rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem tax purposes.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 1/1/26
TXSB17PassRelating 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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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB213PassRelating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1300PassRelating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1540PassRelating to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information of election officials and their employees.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1567PassRelating to the authority of home-rule municipalities to regulate the occupancy of dwelling units.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1566PassRelating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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2025-06-20
Effective immediately
TXSB15PassRelating to size and density requirements for residential lots in certain municipalities; authorizing a fee.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1883PassRelating to the approval of land use assumptions, capital improvement plans, and impact fees.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB24PassRelating 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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2025-06-20
Effective immediately
TXSB12PassRelating 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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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB790PassRelating to the procedure for resolving certain customer complaints before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB2068PassRelating to the duty of an appraisal district to keep confidential certain identifying information provided by a property owner.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB2237PassRelating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB1346PassRelating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB293PassRelating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an admi...
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2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date
TXSB869PassRelating to the deadline for the Texas Ethics Commission to resolve certain complaints.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB2383PassRelating to the employment of certain peace officers of the Department of Public Safety.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB2477PassRelating to certain municipal regulation of conversion of certain office buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB7PassRelating to the oversight and financing of certain water infrastructure matters under the jurisdiction of the Texas Water Development Board.
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2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date
TXSB2520PassRelating to the calculation of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 1/1/26
TXSB38PassRelating 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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2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date
TXSB33PassRelating 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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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB31PassRelating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.
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2025-06-20
Effective immediately
TXSB1737PassRelating to service retirement benefits payable by the Employees Retirement System of Texas to certain law enforcement officers and custodial officers.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB3034PassRelating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 249 in Grimes and Montgomery Counties as the Doug Pitcock Aggie Expressway.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB231PassRelating to temporary emergency electric energy facilities.
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2025-06-20
Effective immediately
TXSB1313PassRelating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB2064PassRelating to an exemption from certain taxes imposed on the transfer of a motor vehicle to a person from a decedent or the decedent's estate.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXHB1393PassRelating to daylight saving time.
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2025-06-20
See remarks for effective date
TXHB2559PassRelating to the imposition by a municipality of a moratorium on property development in certain circumstances.
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
TXSB2514PassRelating to establishing the hostile foreign adversaries unit at the Department of Public Safety and training, prohibitions, and reporting requirements designed to combat foreign influence and foreign adversary operations; creating a criminal offense...
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2025-06-20
Effective on 9/1/25
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