Texas · Current officeholder
Ray Lopez
Democratic Texas House, District 125
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Sponsored legislation
133 bills in the current data (66 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 5 | Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 18, 2025 |
| HCR 13 | Urging the federal government to take immediate action to curb the spread of the New World screwworm in Texas. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 1 | Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 5, 2025 |
| HB 5 | Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. | Co-sponsor | In committee | August 21, 2025 |
| HB 257 | Relating to emergency warning systems operated by municipalities and counties. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | August 19, 2025 |
| HB 1056 | Relating to the recognition of gold and silver specie as legal tender and the establishment of a transactional currency based on gold and silver; authorizing a fee. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 22, 2025 |
| SB 681 | Relating to the term and renewal of an engineering or land surveying license or registration. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2143 | Relating to the authority of a county to commission certain individuals as peace officers and establish certain law enforcement agencies. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2137 | Relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HCR 98 | Urging Congress to enhance coordination among federal, state, and local authorities in the deployment of C-UAS technologies for border security. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 908 | Relating to the reporting by law enforcement agencies of missing children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 6 | Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4226 | Relating to exemptions from the taxes imposed on the sale, use, or rental of a motor vehicle for a vehicle purchased, used, or rented by a nonprofit food bank or a provider of housing and related services. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 39 | Relating to information and data regarding the incidence of veteran deaths in this state. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 33 | Relating to active shooter incidents at primary and secondary school facilities and other emergencies. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 3211 | Relating to vision care benefits, including participation of optometrists and therapeutic optometrists in vision care or managed care plans. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 300 | Relating to the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 2516 | Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals younger than 65 years of age to purchase Medicare supplement benefit plans. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 24 | Relating to procedures for changes to a zoning regulation or district boundary. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 20 | Relating to establishing the Applied Sciences Pathway program. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 1866 | Relating to the state law enforcement authority of federal National Park Service law enforcement officers. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 1851 | Relating to the disposition of certain surplus motor vehicles and other law enforcement equipment by the Texas Facilities Commission to certain school districts. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 1481 | Relating to school district and open-enrollment charter school policies regarding student use of personal communication devices. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 143 | Relating to the authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas and the Public Utility Commission of Texas to address a failure by an operator to maintain an electrical power line serving a well site or certain surface facilities in accordance with the National Electrical Code. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 14 | Relating to support for the development of the nuclear energy industry. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 132 | Relating to the confidentiality of information used to prevent, detect, respond to, or investigate a hostile act of a foreign adversary of the United States. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 120 | Relating to college, career, and military readiness in public schools, including career and technology education programs, the Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program, and the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program, funding for those programs under the Foundation School Program, and workforce reporting to support those programs, to the public school accountability system, and to the new instructional facility allotment and the permissible uses of funding under the Foundation School Program. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 107 | Relating to the establishment of the sickle cell disease registry. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 102 | Relating to early registration for students in military-related programs at public institutions of higher education. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 4 | Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 16, 2025 |
| SB 23 | Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the appraised value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 16, 2025 |
| HB 9 | Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the appraised value of tangible personal property that is held or used for the production of income. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 12, 2025 |
| SJR 59 | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of funds to support the capital needs of educational programs offered by the Texas State Technical College System. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 2, 2025 |
| HB 150 | Relating to the establishment of the Texas Cyber Command and the transfer to it of certain powers and duties of the Department of Information Resources. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 2, 2025 |
| SB 651 | Relating to the requirement that a veterans county service office report to the commissioners court or a designated county executive official. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 30, 2025 |
| SB 1646 | Relating to criminal conduct involving the theft, damage, or destruction of copper or brass or involving the unauthorized possession of certain copper or brass material, to transactions of metal recycling entities involving certain copper or brass material, to training on identifying certain copper or brass material, and to studying the effect of certain regulations on incidents of theft of copper or brass material; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties; providing an administrative penalty. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 30, 2025 |
| SB 1227 | Relating to fees for the issuance of certain military specialty license plates. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2025 |
| HB 5238 | Relating to the criminal offense of disrupting a meeting or procession. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2025 |
| HB 210 | Relating to contracting with a school district or open-enrollment charter school by a vendor with whom a member of the board of trustees or governing body of the district or school or a related individual has certain business interests; creating a criminal offense. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2025 |
| HCR 59 | Designating April as Promise Month for a 10-year period ending in 2035. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 37 | Relating to perinatal bereavement care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal bereavement care initiative, and a perinatal bereavement care hospital recognition program. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 21 | Relating to housing finance corporations; authorizing a fee. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 1899 | Relating to the required age for a license or permit relating to the conduct of a public fireworks display. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 1151 | Relating to neglect of a child and the grounds for termination of the parent-child relationship and possession of a child by the Department of Family and Protective Services. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| SB 1080 | Relating to the revocation of an occupational license from certain license holders and the issuance of an occupational license to certain applicants with criminal convictions. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 2183 | Relating to the periods during which a retail fireworks permit holder may sell fireworks to the public. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 5 | Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| HR 1130 | Congratulating Gregg Popovich on his retirement as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 24, 2025 |
| HR 1028 | Recognizing May 21, 2025, as Texas Capitol Staff Appreciation Day. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 24, 2025 |
| HB 3248 | Relating to the authority of a defense base development authority to employ and commission peace officers. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| HB 22 | Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of intangible personal property. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| HB 1392 | 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. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| HB 50 | Relating to informed consent for certain screening tests. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| HB 290 | Relating to assistance for tuition and fees at postsecondary educational institutions for certain members of the Texas military forces. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| SJR 85 | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the market value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 22, 2025 |
| SJR 2 | Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 22, 2025 |
| HB 561 | Relating to the eligibility of certain local governmental entities affected by the realignment of defense worker jobs or facilities to receive grants. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| SB 494 | Relating to the establishment of a theft of petroleum products task force. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 20, 2025 |
| HJR 1 | Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the market value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 20, 2025 |
| HB 2136 | Relating to design and use of a model criminal citation and an addendum to the citation. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 19, 2025 |
| HB 1738 | Relating to the repeal of the offense of homosexual conduct. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 19, 2025 |
| SJR 3 | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, establishing the Dementia Prevention and Research Fund to provide money for research on and prevention and treatment of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and related disorders in this state, and transferring to that fund $3 billion from state general revenue. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 15, 2025 |
| SB 897 | Relating to the administration of a grant program to support community mental health programs assisting veterans and their families. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 3753 | Relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 3009 | Relating to the qualifying offenses and related information included in the Department of Public Safety's computerized central database of offenders who have committed certain violent offenses. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 2192 | Relating to permit requirements for the sale of fireworks. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 15, 2025 |
| HB 3552 | Relating to criminal conduct involving the theft, damage, destruction, or unlawful possession of copper or brass, to criminal conduct committed in, around, or in relation to critical infrastructure facilities or equipment or interrupting or impairing the operation of those facilities or equipment, and to the sale of regulated materials, including copper or brass material, to metal recycling entities and training on identifying those materials; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties; providing an administrative penalty. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2025 |
| HB 1930 | Relating to the qualifications for serving as a member of the board of directors of certain municipal utility districts. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 14, 2025 |
| HB 4176 | Relating to the investigation of certain motor vehicle collisions by former peace officers. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 3134 | Relating to advanced air mobility. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 2827 | Relating to the term and renewal of an engineering or land surveying license or registration. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 2806 | Relating to an attack by a dangerous dog; increasing a criminal penalty. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 135 | Relating to exemptions from sales and use taxes for game animals and exotic animals. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 13, 2025 |
| HB 4175 | Relating to the adoption of a mental health leave policy for certain qualified employees. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 12, 2025 |
| HB 2858 | Relating to the establishment of a temporary guest worker program in this state. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 12, 2025 |
| HB 1268 | Relating to the creation of the Texas technology and innovation program. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 9, 2025 |
| HJR 5 | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of funds to support the capital needs of educational programs offered by the Texas State Technical College System and removing that system and its campuses from the annual appropriation of certain constitutionally dedicated funding for public institutions of higher education. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 535 | Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle passing a pedestrian or a person operating a bicycle in certain municipalities; creating a criminal offense. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 510 | Relating to the issuance of a certified birth record to a homeless individual. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 8, 2025 |
| HB 5144 | Relating to prohibiting certain deceptive trade practices by businesses assisting veterans with Department of Veterans Affairs claims. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 7, 2025 |
| HB 4113 | Relating to the rating of child-care providers participating in the Texas Rising Star Program that install certain safety barriers. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 7, 2025 |
| HB 3673 | Relating to the revocation of an occupational license from certain license holders and the issuance of a provisional occupational license to certain applicants with criminal convictions. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 7, 2025 |
| SB 844 | Relating to procedures for changes to a zoning regulation or district boundary. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 6, 2025 |
| HB 3265 | Relating to discriminatory practices by a health benefit plan issuer, pharmacy benefit manager, and third-party payor and certain prescription drug manufacturers, distributors, and related persons with respect to certain entities participating in a federal drug discount program; providing a civil penalty. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 5, 2025 |
| HB 482 | Relating to the provision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to the pertinent state representative and state senator of notice of certain administrative actions of the commission. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2025 |
| HB 3895 | Relating to a study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute on wireless energy transmission for electric vehicles. | Primary sponsor | In committee | May 1, 2025 |
| HB 1647 | Relating to the establishment of a theft of petroleum products task force. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 30, 2025 |
| HB 1819 | Relating to the administration of a grant program to support community mental health programs assisting veterans and their families. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 29, 2025 |
| HB 503 | Relating to the eligibility of certain counties to participate in the rural sheriff's office salary assistance grant program and the rural prosecutor's office salary assistance grant program. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 28, 2025 |
| HB 3345 | Relating to authorizing an increase in an optional county fee on vehicle registration in certain counties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 28, 2025 |
| HR 945 | In memory of Pope Francis. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 24, 2025 |
| HB 215 | Relating to the payment of support rights and other benefits for a child in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 23, 2025 |
| HB 2433 | Relating to the collection of state, municipal, and county hotel occupancy taxes by an accommodations intermediary. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 21, 2025 |
| HCR 101 | Designating the tomahawk rib-eye steak as the official State Steak of Texas and directing the Texas Department of Agriculture to promote the tomahawk rib-eye steak as part of efforts to support Texas beef and agricultural products. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 16, 2025 |
| HB 3953 | Relating to a study by the broadband development office on Internet service for multiunit residential properties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 16, 2025 |
| HB 4901 | Relating to the regulation of platforms for the sale and distribution of software applications for mobile devices. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2025 |
| HB 446 | Relating to workplace heat illness prevention, including the creation of a heat illness prevention advisory board; imposing administrative penalties; providing a private cause of action. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 15, 2025 |
| HB 8 | Relating to a reduction in the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district. | Co-sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 460 | Relating to a study regarding the cost of child care in this state in comparison to family income. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 9, 2025 |
| HB 5475 | Relating to a study and report on the Underground Facility Damage Prevention and Safety Act. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 7, 2025 |
| HB 5030 | Relating to the provision of certain mental and behavioral health services under Medicaid, Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for those services, and the regulation of psychiatric residential treatment facilities; requiring an occupational license. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 4754 | Relating to access to universal changing facilities in places of public accommodation and public buildings. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 4711 | Relating to the confidentiality of information used to prevent, detect, respond to, or investigate a hostile act of a foreign adversary of the United States. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 4544 | Relating to the operation and administration of practice and procedure related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government. | Primary sponsor | In committee | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 195 | Relating to the dissemination of certain school district ad valorem tax-related information. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 13 | Relating to creating the Texas Interoperability Council and a grant program administered by the council. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | April 3, 2025 |
| HB 3917 | Relating to coverage for maternal depression screenings under Medicaid and the child health plan program. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 27, 2025 |
| HB 3894 | Relating to the eligibility of a service member or veteran of the United States armed forces to participate in a veterans treatment court program based on citizenship status. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 27, 2025 |
| HB 583 | Relating to the regulation of fences near certain reservoirs by certain counties. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| HB 1171 | Relating to a study on state land use to facilitate health and wellness for veterans. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 24, 2025 |
| HB 3083 | Relating to an independent study on the effectiveness and feasibility of mini nuclear reactors. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 20, 2025 |
| HB 2381 | Relating to the reporting of lost or stolen firearms; creating a criminal offense. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 14, 2025 |
| HB 2380 | Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 14, 2025 |
| HB 2356 | Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 14, 2025 |
| HB 1537 | Relating to the Licensed Professional Counselors Compact; authorizing fees. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 12, 2025 |
| HJR 3 | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, establishing the Dementia Prevention and Research Fund to provide money for research on and prevention and treatment of dementia and related disorders in this state, and transferring to that fund $3 billion from state general revenue. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| HB 5 | Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| HB 381 | Relating to a pilot program awarding grants for the provision of personalized treatment protocols for veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| HB 1300 | Relating to information and data regarding the incidence of veteran deaths in this state. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 10, 2025 |
| HB 1172 | Relating to requiring the Department of Information Resources to conduct a study concerning the cybersecurity of small businesses. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 7, 2025 |
| HB 1049 | Relating to the issuance of gold and silver specie and the establishment of a currency based on gold and silver; authorizing a fee. | Co-sponsor | In committee | March 7, 2025 |
| HB 634 | Relating to the creation of a task force to evaluate the housing needs of senior citizens who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2025 |
| HB 617 | Relating to the prohibition of housing discrimination on the basis of veteran status and to the enforcement of that prohibition. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 4, 2025 |
| HB 599 | Relating to the provision of information regarding certain public assistance programs by public schools. | Primary sponsor | In committee | March 3, 2025 |
| HB 440 | Relating to requiring certain alert messages to be in English and Spanish. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 434 | Relating to creating a reimbursement program to reimburse certain supplemental nutrition assistance program recipients for the cost of certain food delivery service fees. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 412 | Relating to health benefit plan coverage for early childhood intervention services. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 385 | Relating to the collection and publication of affordable housing information by certain municipalities and the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 357 | Relating to a defendant's eligibility for reduction or termination of community supervision. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 326 | Relating to authorizing the increase or decrease of the rates of the gasoline and diesel fuel taxes based on the cost of certain highway projects. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 28, 2025 |
| HB 254 | Relating to the eligibility of an individual to pay the ad valorem taxes imposed on the individual's residence homestead in installments. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |
| HB 225 | Relating to a pilot program to provide grants for free or reduced-tuition prekindergarten classes to certain children. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |
| HB 190 | Relating to a grant program to provide free or reduced-tuition prekindergarten classes to certain children. | Primary sponsor | In committee | February 27, 2025 |