HB Bills

Relating to civil liability for removing certain individuals or animals from a motor vehicle.

Relating to the separation of federal elections from state and local elections, and to related practices and procedures.

Relating to the eligibility of a person who is not a United States citizen to be appointed to or serve in a public office or on an advisory board or task force.

Relating to the maintenance of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather alert radios by certain campgrounds, hotels, and recreational vehicle parks.

Relating to temporary vehicle tags and the offense of tampering with a governmental record.

Relating to the text of ballot propositions that increase taxes.

Relating to a requirement that the ballot for an election to amend the state constitution include an estimate of the fiscal impact to the state of the proposed amendment.

Relating to the vote required in an election to approve an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds a taxing unit's voter-approval tax rate; making conforming changes.

Relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance of bonds.

Relating to powers of regional transportation authorities.

Relating to a prohibition on the guarantee of public school bonds.

Relating to the authority of the attorney general to investigate violations of law by certain local governments and to take action against those local governments to enforce the law.

Relating to the distribution of hookahs; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to state preemption of certain municipal and county regulation.

Relating to the exercise of the power of eminent domain by a political subdivision to acquire property outside the political subdivision's boundaries.

Relating to state agency terminology used in describing the landlocked territory on the western bank of the Jordan River.

Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public institutions of higher education.

Relating to prohibited considerations in governmental entity contracting and elimination of the state's historically underutilized business program.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to propose for voter approval the issuance of general obligation bonds for a purpose rejected by voters at a bond election held during the preceding five years.

Relating to the effect of a disaster on the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for a taxing unit that is located in a large federally declared disaster area.

Relating to the repeal of the Texas Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act.

Relating to a comprehensive review of taxable goods and services.

Relating to a limitation on the authority of political subdivisions to issue public securities.

Relating to a prohibition on the issuance of certain bonds by a school district.

Relating to a study and report by the Upper Guadalupe River Authority of risks from and solutions to flooding.

Relating to the creation of a flood recovery loan program to provide low-interest loans to persons who are victims of flood-related disasters.

Relating to the election date for the authorization of the issuance of bonds.

Relating to training and credentialing requirements for certain emergency management coordinators and officers of this state or a political subdivision of this state who have emergency management responsibilities.

Relating to the administration of elections.

Relating to a prohibition on the issuance of certain bonds by a school district.

Relating to the regulation of certain products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and registrations; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Relating to the regulation of groundwater produced in the boundaries of a groundwater conservation district.

Relating to a limit on political subdivision expenditures and the adoption of ad valorem tax rates.

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project.

Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total appraised value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly individuals and their surviving spouses.

Relating to certain measures to prevent and reduce fraudulent charitable solicitations during disasters, including establishing a voluntary certification program for disaster relief organizations.

Relating to the authority of the comptroller to provide funding for the deployment and operation of certain emergency communication systems.

Relating to required flood disaster plans for campgrounds; authorizing a civil penalty.

Relating to disaster response and preparedness, including required training for justices of the peace and responding to mass fatality events; requiring a license; authorizing a fee.

Relating to the creation and operation of the Texas Interoperability Council and a grant program administered by the council.

Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, record retention, youth diversion, court-ordered mental health services, the powers of the Texas Supreme Court, and jurors; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.

Relating to state agency terminology used in describing the landlocked territory on the western bank of the Jordan River.

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of part of the appraised value of the residence homestead of a partially disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of such a veteran based on the disability rating of the veteran.

Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.

Relating to the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools.

Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.

Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion litigation, immunity defenses and limits on state-court jurisdiction and relief, the parens patriae standing of the attorney general, and the jurisdiction of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals; providing for severability.

Relating to the provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the enforcement of and exceptions to laws regulating the provision of abortion-inducing drugs; providing a civil penalty.