Texas · Current officeholder
Paul Bettencourt
Republican Texas Senate, District 7
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Sponsored legislation
347 bills in the current data (256 as primary sponsor), sorted by most recent official action. Linked by Open States person ID.
| Bill | Title | Role | Stage | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 23 | Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain nonprofit corporations, located in a populous county, and used to promote agriculture, support youth, and provide educational support in the community. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | April 15, 2026 |
| SB 8 | Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 22, 2025 |
| SB 12 | Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 19, 2025 |
| SB 5 | Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 18, 2025 |
| SB 18 | Relating to an exemption from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain dams or reservoirs operated and maintained for the purposes of erosion, floodwater, and sediment control. | Primary sponsor | Vetoed | September 17, 2025 |
| SB 16 | Relating to real property theft and real property fraud; establishing recording requirements for certain documents concerning real property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations, restitution, and certain procedures with respect to those offenses. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| SB 14 | Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| SB 11 | Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 8 | Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 7 | Relating to prohibitions on the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the jurisdiction of and effect of certain judgments by courts within and outside this state with respect to the manufacture and provision of those drugs, and to protections from certain counteractions under the laws of other states and jurisdictions; authorizing qui tam actions. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 26 | Relating to contracting with law enforcement agencies in certain counties. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 25 | Relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without a prescription. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 192 | Relating to the funding of law enforcement agencies in certain counties. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| HB 16 | 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, jurors, and the special prosecution unit; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 17, 2025 |
| SB 3 | Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flash flood-prone areas. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 5, 2025 |
| SB 1 | Relating to campground and youth camp safety. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | September 5, 2025 |
| HB 1 | Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | September 5, 2025 |
| SR 4 | In memory of James Bruce Bugg Jr. of San Antonio. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | September 4, 2025 |
| SB 10 | Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | September 2, 2025 |
| SB 19 | Relating to a prohibition on the making and acceptance of political contributions during a special legislative session. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 28, 2025 |
| SB 2 | Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | August 27, 2025 |
| HB 3 | Relating to the interoperability of emergency communication equipment and infrastructure in this state, including the creation and operation of the Texas Interoperability Council, a grant program administered by the council, and the purchase of certain public safety radio communication systems. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 27, 2025 |
| SB 17 | 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. | Primary sponsor | In committee | August 26, 2025 |
| HB 17 | Relating to the requirements regarding notice of certain property tax-related information to be provided by taxing units and appraisal districts. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 26, 2025 |
| SB 15 | Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 25, 2025 |
| SB 6 | 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. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 20, 2025 |
| SB 13 | Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 20, 2025 |
| SB 46 | Relating to the funding of, contracting with, and employment for law enforcement agencies in certain counties. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | August 19, 2025 |
| SB 40 | Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain nonprofit corporations, located in a populous county, and used to promote agriculture, support youth, and provide educational support in the community. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | August 18, 2025 |
| SB 9 | Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. | Primary sponsor | In committee | August 15, 2025 |
| SB 29 | Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | August 15, 2025 |
| SB 8 | Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 6 | 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 4 | Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 3 | Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 2 | Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 14 | Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 1 | Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 12, 2025 |
| SB 9 | Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 6, 2025 |
| SB 7 | Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 6, 2025 |
| SB 69 | Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin. | Primary sponsor | Introduced | August 6, 2025 |
| SB 5 | 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. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 4, 2025 |
| SB 12 | Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | August 4, 2025 |
| SB 974 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Vetoed | June 22, 2025 |
| SB 785 | Relating to the regulation of new HUD-code manufactured housing. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 22, 2025 |
| SB 3 | Relating to the regulation of products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and permits; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty. | Co-sponsor | Vetoed | June 22, 2025 |
| SB 2206 | Relating to a franchise tax credit for, and the application of sales and use taxes to, certain research and development expenses. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 22, 2025 |
| HB 762 | Relating to severance pay for political subdivision employees and independent contractors. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 22, 2025 |
| SB 991 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 965 | Relating to the right of a public school employee to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 869 | Relating to the deadline for the Texas Ethics Commission to resolve certain complaints. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 843 | Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 835 | Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 790 | Relating to the procedure for resolving certain customer complaints before the Public Utility Commission of Texas. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 75 | Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 7 | Relating to the oversight and financing of certain water infrastructure matters under the jurisdiction of the Texas Water Development Board. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 571 | Relating to the reporting and investigation of certain misconduct and child abuse and neglect; creating a criminal offense. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 568 | Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 510 | Relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 509 | Relating to requiring notice to the attorney general in an action under the Election Code seeking a temporary restraining order. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 506 | Relating to requirements for certain ballot propositions and to related procedures and provisions. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 38 | Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 37 | Relating to the governance of public institutions of higher education, including review of curriculum and certain degree and certificate programs, a faculty council or senate, training for members of the governing board, and the establishment, powers, and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Office of the Ombudsman. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 33 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 31 | Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 3070 | Relating to the abolishment of the Texas Lottery Commission and the transfer of the administration of the state lottery and the licensing and regulation of charitable bingo to the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation; creating criminal offenses. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 3059 | Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 3034 | Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 249 in Grimes and Montgomery Counties as the Doug Pitcock Aggie Expressway. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 293 | Relating 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 administrative penalty. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 260 | Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2520 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2514 | Relating 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. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2477 | Relating to certain municipal regulation of conversion of certain office buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 24 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2383 | Relating to the employment of certain peace officers of the Department of Public Safety. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 231 | Relating to temporary emergency electric energy facilities. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2237 | Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 213 | Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2068 | Relating to the duty of an appraisal district to keep confidential certain identifying information provided by a property owner. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 2064 | Relating 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. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1883 | Relating to the approval of land use assumptions, capital improvement plans, and impact fees. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1737 | Relating to service retirement benefits payable by the Employees Retirement System of Texas to certain law enforcement officers and custodial officers. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 17 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1567 | Relating to the authority of home-rule municipalities to regulate the occupancy of dwelling units. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1566 | Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1540 | Relating to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information of election officials and their employees. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 15 | Relating to size and density requirements for residential lots in certain municipalities; authorizing a fee. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1453 | Relating to the current debt rate and tax rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem tax purposes. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1433 | Relating to the assertion of legislative privilege by the attorney general in certain legal challenges to the constitutionality of state statutes. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1346 | Relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1313 | Relating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 1300 | Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 13 | Relating 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 12 | Relating 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. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 11 | Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 10 | Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 851 | Relating to the determination and reporting of the number of residence homesteads of certain property owners for which the owner is receiving certain ad valorem tax benefits. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 677 | Relating to the restrictions on political activities of a county elections administrator. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 621 | Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to regulate the assembly, association, and speech of property owners or residents related to governmental officials or candidates for political office. | 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 5666 | Relating to the creation of the Fenske Road Municipal Utility District of Harris County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 551 | Relating to address information contained on reports of political contributions and expenditures made available on the Internet by the Texas Ethics Commission. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 493 | Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4751 | Relating to the establishment and administration of the Texas Quantum Initiative. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4687 | Relating to the applicability of certain immunity and liability laws to certain charter school campuses or programs. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4623 | Relating to liability of public schools and professional school employees for sexual misconduct involving students. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 46 | Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4490 | Relating to an exemption from required disclosure of information related to the next of kin of deceased persons. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4236 | Relating to the creation of a study group to evaluate the school district property value study conducted by the comptroller of public accounts. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 4205 | Relating to compensation and employment benefits for law enforcement personnel in certain counties. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 3687 | Relating to certification requirements for a fire marshal and any related employee, officer, inspector, and investigator appointed by certain counties and emergency services districts. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 3424 | Relating to the ad valorem taxation of certain dealer's heavy equipment inventory. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 34 | Relating to prohibiting the investment of state money in certain countries and in certain private business entities in those countries. | Co-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 2559 | Relating to the imposition by a municipality of a moratorium on property development in certain circumstances. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 2001 | Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for certain misuse of official information, including misuse of official information that results in certain net pecuniary gains. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 2 | Relating to public education and public school finance. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 1661 | Relating to election supplies and the conduct of elections; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 1533 | Relating to the system for appraising property for ad valorem tax purposes. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 148 | Relating to the qualification of candidates for, and the training and education of members of, the board of directors of an appraisal district. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 1393 | Relating to daylight saving time. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 138 | Relating to the establishment of the Health Impact, Cost, and Coverage Analysis Program; authorizing a fee. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 127 | Relating to measures to protect institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; increasing a criminal penalty. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| HB 103 | Relating to the creation and maintenance of a database of taxing unit bond, tax, and bond-related project information; providing a civil penalty. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 20, 2025 |
| SB 9 | Relating to the confinement or release of defendants before trial or sentencing, including regulating charitable bail organizations, and the conditions of and procedures for setting bail and reviewing bail decisions. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 16, 2025 |
| SB 40 | Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | June 16, 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. | Primary 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. | Primary 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | June 12, 2025 |
| SR 629 | In memory of Joshua Daniel King. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | June 2, 2025 |
| SJR 5 | Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | June 2, 2025 |
| SR 719 | In memory of Dave Welch. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | June 1, 2025 |
| SR 686 | Recognizing Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw and her staff for their valuable contributions and service. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | June 1, 2025 |
| SR 222 | In memory of former state Senator and Representative Joe J. Bernal of San Antonio. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | June 1, 2025 |
| SR 709 | Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 568. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 31, 2025 |
| SR 695 | Returning Senate Bill No. 293 to the House for further consideration. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 30, 2025 |
| SCR 19 | Authorizing the State Preservation Board to approve the construction of a Texas Life Monument at the State Capitol Complex. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 30, 2025 |
| SB 984 | Relating to access to individualized investigational treatments for patients with life-threatening or severely debilitating illnesses. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2025 |
| SB 1020 | Relating to personal bond offices, to the notification provided to a judge regarding tampering with an electronic monitoring device while released on bond or community supervision, and to the availability of certain information regarding a person required to submit to an electronic monitoring program or being supervised by a community supervision and corrections department. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 29, 2025 |
| HB 4 | Relating to the assessment of public school students, public school accountability and actions, and proceedings challenging the operations of the public school system. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 29, 2025 |
| SJR 1 | Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 28, 2025 |
| HJR 133 | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a veteran who died as a result of a condition or disease that is presumed under federal law to have been service-connected. | Co-sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 4580 | Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain nonprofit corporations and used to promote agriculture, support youth, and provide educational support in the community. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 30 | Relating to the effect of a disaster and associated costs on the calculation of certain tax rates and the procedure for adoption of a tax rate by a taxing unit. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 2703 | Relating to designating July as American Patriotism Month. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| HB 21 | Relating to housing finance corporations; authorizing a fee. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 28, 2025 |
| SJR 84 | Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for a temporary exemption from ad valorem taxation of the appraised value of an improvement to a residence homestead that is completely destroyed by a fire. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 505 | Relating to processes to address election irregularities; providing a civil penalty. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 2858 | Relating to state preemption of certain municipal and county regulation. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 2764 | Relating to information provided to a purchaser of a manufactured home regarding the ability to elect to treat the home as real property or personal property. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 2521 | Relating to notification of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district of the death of a resident of the county in which the district is located and the determination by the chief appraiser of the effect of the decedent's death on the continued eligibility of any property in the county previously owned by the decedent for any exemption allowed for the property. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 2361 | Relating to the transfer of the University of Houston--Victoria to The Texas A&M University System. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 2035 | Relating to prohibiting contributions, expenditures, and related activities involving political committees that support or oppose a ballot measure; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1962 | Relating to public school accountability, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement and public school performance ratings under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 18 | Relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain events from receiving state or other public funding. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 1023 | Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 27, 2025 |
| HB 3772 | Relating to the sale of certain e-cigarettes in this state and a directory of e-cigarette manufacturers and their products; authorizing fees; authorizing administrative and civil penalties; creating a criminal offense. | Co-sponsor | In committee | May 27, 2025 |
| SB 875 | Relating to prohibiting election activities committed by a member of the board of trustees or superintendent of an independent school district or on certain school district premises; creating criminal offenses. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 570 | Relating to an attendance policy adopted by public schools to prevent truancy. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 414 | Relating to the text of ballot propositions for bond elections. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 2891 | Relating to the establishment of the Health Professions Workforce Coordinating Council and the abolition of the statewide health coordinating council and the nursing advisory committee of that council. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 2681 | Relating to the basis for a third-party challenge to a voter's registration. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 2541 | Relating to the calculation of the unused increment rate of a taxing unit. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 2539 | Relating to the adoption of an ordinance issuing a tax increment bond by certain municipalities that have designated a tax increment reinvestment zone. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 2538 | Relating to the plan required to be adopted by the board of directors of an appraisal district for periodically conducting certain reappraisal activities. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 26, 2025 |
| SB 16 | Relating to requiring a person to submit proof of citizenship to register to vote, including the eligibility of certain voters to vote a limited federal ballot if the voter cannot supply the required proof and the procedures for the counting of those ballots; creating criminal offenses. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 25, 2025 |
| SB 1024 | Relating to the issuance of certain anticipation notes and certificates of obligation. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 25, 2025 |
| SB 985 | Relating to the combination of certain election precincts. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| SB 3016 | Relating to state preemption of municipal and county regulation on land use, structures, businesses, and related activities and municipal boundaries and annexation. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 24, 2025 |
| SB 1502 | Relating to the authority of the governing body of a school district to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the district's voter-approval tax rate. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| SB 1490 | Relating to adult high school charter program funding. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| SB 1349 | Relating to creating the criminal offenses of transnational repression and unauthorized enforcement of foreign law and to a study and law enforcement training regarding transnational repression. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| SB 1025 | Relating to the text of ballot propositions that increase taxes. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| HB 767 | Relating to the designation of the portion of State Highway 249 in Montgomery County as the Paul P. Mendes Memorial Parkway. | Primary 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. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| HB 1244 | Relating to the eligibility of land to continue to be appraised for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land following a transfer to a person who uses the land in materially the same way as the former owner and to late applications for such appraisal filed by the new owner of the land. | Primary sponsor | Enacted | May 24, 2025 |
| SB 987 | Relating to the subject matter jurisdiction of the criminal trial courts of this state over certain criminal actions. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| SB 511 | Relating to prohibiting an officer or employee of this state or of a political subdivision of this state from distributing certain voter registration application forms and to the notice of availability of such forms; creating criminal offenses. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| SB 2794 | Relating to the criminal offense of interference with child custody. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| SB 2519 | Relating to restrictions on the use of certain ad valorem tax revenue for the payment of public securities. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| SB 1539 | Relating to requirements and procedures in the contest of an election on a proposed constitutional amendment. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 23, 2025 |
| SB 1450 | Relating to third-party review of development documents and inspection of improvements required to be approved by a political subdivision. | 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. | Primary 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. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 22, 2025 |
| SB 988 | Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of criminal mischief involving impairment of a motor fuel pump or electric vehicle charging station. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| SB 2722 | Relating to the use of certain tolls and charges imposed by certain counties; authorizing a civil penalty and limiting the counties' authority to adopt an ad valorem tax rate. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| SB 2639 | Relating to the designation of a property as a historic landmark and the inclusion of a property in a historic district or similar preservation district by certain municipalities. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| SB 2529 | Relating to the vote required by the governing body of a taxing unit to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate or authorize the issuance of tax bonds. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| SB 2017 | Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for operating a motor vehicle under certain circumstances causing a tire of the vehicle to spin, lose traction, or leave the surface of a highway. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| HB 3709 | Relating to the partial count of electronic voting system ballots. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 22, 2025 |
| SR 553 | Recognizing the 2025 University of Houston Hobby School Fellows. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 21, 2025 |
| SB 990 | Relating to increasing the punishment for certain conduct constituting the offense of murder. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 21, 2025 |
| SB 2533 | Relating to the accreditation of law schools in this state. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 21, 2025 |
| SB 1541 | Relating to state oversight of county elections following a county election audit. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 21, 2025 |
| SB 1316 | Relating to a prohibition on e-cigarette advertising in certain locations. | Co-sponsor | Enacted | May 21, 2025 |
| SB 689 | Relating to employment practices regarding diversity and prohibiting the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by certain governmental entities. | Co-sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 20, 2025 |
| SB 494 | Relating to the establishment of a theft of petroleum products task force. | Co-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. | Primary sponsor | Passed both chambers | May 20, 2025 |
| SR 545 | Recognizing Summer Willis for her advocacy on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 19, 2025 |
| SR 536 | Honoring Mark Garcia for his 25 years of service as Texas Senate auditor. | Primary sponsor | Passed one chamber | May 19, 2025 |
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