Texas Bills and Legislation

Relating to county and municipal authority to prohibit the operation of e-cigarette retailers near public primary or secondary schools.

Relating to the regulation of certain political communications, a prohibition on electioneering by school district and open-enrollment charter school officials and employees, and actions and other proceedings by a public school challenging the operations of the public school system; authorizing an administrative penalty; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the removal of a public school student from the classroom for engaging in certain conduct against a school district employee.

Relating to the authority of a taxing unit to enter into an agreement under the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the value of property on which a solar power facility is located or is planned to be located.

Relating to the creation of additional judicial districts composed of Harris County.

Relating to patients' rights, consumer protection, and directives for the provision of health care services; providing an administrative penalty.

Relating to the certification of peer specialists and peer specialist supervisors for purposes of Medicaid mental health and substance use services.

Relating to prohibiting a child in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services from declining a placement.

Relating to requiring certain public and private employers in this state to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify, and notice regarding certain persons whose eligibility to work in the United States cannot be verified; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of sexual assault.

Relating to additional state aid for school districts for the provision of certain prekindergarten classes.

Relating to the terms of members of a board of trustees of a military reservation school district.

Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.

Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit images or videos using deep fake technology; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates of a taxing unit and the manner in which a proposed ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate is approved.

Relating to the prosecution and punishment of certain trafficking and sexual offenses; increasing criminal penalties; changing parole eligibility.

Relating to reading instruction, assessment instruments, and interventions provided to public school students.

Relating to the applicability of the public information law to information of a toll project entity.

Relating to prohibiting sex offenders from residing or loitering within a certain distance of certain locations where children commonly gather and from participating in certain Halloween activities; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the installation by the Texas Department of Transportation of highway signs for certain cultural attractions.

Relating to posting and other requirements applicable to meetings of the governing body of a hospital district.

Relating to the provision of a student transcript by an independent school district.

Relating to authorization for a statewide referendum allowing voters to indicate a preference for whether an additional restriction on abortion access should be repealed.