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State bill data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 8:06 PM.

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• SB 1 Became law 892
  Relating to campground and youth camp safety.
  Sep 5, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 3 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 2 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 43 Passed Senate 891
  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.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 1 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 13 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 15 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to 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 for those offenses.
  Aug 6, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 25 Became law 89R
  Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty.
  Jun 22, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 3185 Became law 89R
  Relating to investigations of certain cybercrimes.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 285 Became law 89R
  Relating to the prosecution of the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 3464 Became law 89R
  Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1164 Became law 89R
  Relating to emergency detention of certain persons evidencing mental illness and to court-ordered inpatient and extended mental health services.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 367 Became law 89R
  Relating to verification of excused absences from public school for students with severe or life-threatening illnesses.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 27 Became law 89R
  Relating to courses in personal financial literacy for high school students in public schools.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 1281 Became law 89R
  Relating to certain criminal offenses involving mail or a mail receptacle key or lock; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 500 Became law 89R
  Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 3966 Became law 89R
  Relating to requiring owners or operators of commercial passenger bus services to provide certain notifications to residents concerning operations.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1902 Became law 89R
  Relating to the administration of the dealer-issued license plates database and to the removal and transfer of license plates.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• SB 3039 Became law 89R
  Relating to the transfer of students in public higher education and to transparency regarding certificate or degree program requirements.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 1105 Became law 89R
  Relating to the exemption of tuition and laboratory fees at public institutions of higher education for certain paramedics.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 46 Became law 89R
  Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis under and the administration of the Texas Compassionate-Use Program; requiring registration.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1946 Became law 89R
  Relating to the creation of a family violence criminal homicide prevention task force.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 20 Became law 89R
  Relating to establishing the Applied Sciences Pathway program.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 763 Became law 89R
  Relating to standard permits for certain concrete plants.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 260 Became law 89R
  Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 252 Became law 89R
  Relating to the payment of employment compensation by certain state agencies.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 4361 Became law 89R
  Relating to establishing policies regarding the timely issuance of emergency notifications at public institutions of higher education.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 2193 Became law 89R
  Relating to a study by the Texas Veterans Commission regarding the provision of veterans benefits in this state.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 1333 Became law 89R
  Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 3923 Became law 89R
  Relating to state employment opportunities for individuals who do not hold a bachelor's degree.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 2373 Became law 89R
  Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1302 Became law 89R
  Relating to eligibility to use a general permit to discharge waste into or adjacent to waters in this state.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 75 Became law 89R
  Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 3963 Became law 89R
  Relating to an early childhood integrated data system.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1498 Became law 89R
  Relating to civil asset forfeiture of digital currency or other similar property.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 33 Became law 89R
  Relating to active shooter incidents at primary and secondary school facilities and other emergencies.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 1211 Became law 89R
  Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain students who were under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 2 Became law 89R
  Relating to public education and public school finance.
  Jun 20, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 1383 Became law 89R
  Relating to the regulation of referral agencies for senior living communities.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 2137 Became law 89R
  Relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 217 Became law 89R
  Relating to establishing the Historic Texas Freedmen's Cemetery Designation Program; authorizing a fee.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 23 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 16, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 4 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 16, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• HB 346 Became law 89R
  Relating to the fee amounts prescribed by the secretary of state for expedited commercial and business record searches or filings and the exemption from the franchise tax and certain filing fees for veteran-owned businesses.
  Jun 12, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 2308 Became law 89R
  Relating to the establishment of a consortium to conduct United States Food and Drug Administration's drug development clinical trials with ibogaine to secure the administration's approval of the medication's use for treatment of opioid use disorder, co-occurring substance use disorder, and any other neurological or mental health conditions for which ibogaine demonstrates efficacy and to the administration of that treatment.
  Jun 11, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 1497 Became law 89R
  Relating to the search of certain wireless communications devices by a peace officer.
  May 30, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 462 Became law 89R
  Relating to establishing a child-care services waiting list priority for the children of certain child-care workers.
  May 28, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 801 In committee 89R
  Relating to the issuance of a certified birth record to a homeless individual.
  May 28, 2025: Not again placed on intent calendar
• SB 2717 In committee 89R
  Relating to the creation of the Texas Energy Efficiency Council.
  May 28, 2025: Not again placed on intent calendar
• SB 314 Became law 89R
  Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included in free or reduced-price meals provided by school districts.
  May 27, 2025: Effective immediately