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

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• HB 25 Became law 892
  Relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without a prescription.
  Sep 17, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• HB 8 Became law 892
  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.
  Sep 17, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 2 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 14 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 6 Passed Senate 891
  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.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 8 Passed Senate 891
  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.
  Aug 12, 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
• SB 650 Became law 89R
  Relating to requiring the use of electronically readable information to verify a purchaser's age in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.
  Jun 22, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1300 Became law 89R
  Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 14 Became law 89R
  Relating to support for the development of the nuclear energy industry.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 34 Became law 89R
  Relating to funding for certain volunteer fire departments, to the preparation for and the prevention, management, and potential effects of wildfires, and to emergency communications in this state.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 31 Became law 89R
  Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 1388 Became law 89R
  Relating to family support services provided under a Health and Human Services Commission program.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 1871 Became law 89R
  Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of attempted capital murder of a peace officer; increasing a criminal penalty; changing eligibility for parole and mandatory supervision.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1313 Became law 89R
  Relating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 912 Became law 89R
  Relating to the verification of health care practitioner continuing education compliance through the establishment of continuing education tracking systems.
  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
• SB 568 Became law 89R
  Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program.
  Jun 20, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 293 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 1737 Became law 89R
  Relating to service retirement benefits payable by the Employees Retirement System of Texas to certain law enforcement officers and custodial officers.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 2508 Became law 89R
  Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a veteran who died as a result of a qualifying condition or disease.
  Jun 20, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 2407 Became law 89R
  Relating to the Lower Neches Valley Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying term length grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 713 Became law 89R
  Relating to an exception to certain reporting requirements for health care providers reviewing selected cases for the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 43 Became law 89R
  Relating to the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority and certain programs administered by the authority.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 2406 Became law 89R
  Relating to the Sabine River Authority of Texas, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying term lengths and grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 835 Became law 89R
  Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 843 Became law 89R
  Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 4623 Became law 89R
  Relating to liability of public schools and professional school employees for sexual misconduct involving students.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 9 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 16, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 40 Became law 89R
  Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.
  Jun 16, 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
• SJR 5 Adopted 89R
  Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony.
  Jun 2, 2025: Filed with the Secretary of State
• SJR 1 Adopted 89R
  Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony.
  May 28, 2025: Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
• HJR 133 Adopted 89R
  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.
  May 28, 2025: Filed with the Secretary of State
• HB 2703 Became law 89R
  Relating to designating July as American Patriotism Month.
  May 28, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 2891 Passed Senate 89R
  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.
  May 26, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• SB 464 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to the operation near a public or private primary or secondary school of a retail establishment selling cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vaping apparatuses, or tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.
  May 24, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• SJR 85 Adopted 89R
  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.
  May 22, 2025: Filed with the Secretary of State
• SB 27 Passed House 89R
  Relating to the rights of public school educators and financial and other assistance provided to educators and to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators.
  May 21, 2025: Co-author authorized
• SB 990 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to increasing the punishment for certain conduct constituting the offense of murder.
  May 21, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• SB 1316 Became law 89R
  Relating to a prohibition on e-cigarette advertising in certain locations.
  May 21, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 855 Became law 89R
  Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.
  May 21, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 942 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.
  May 20, 2025: Committee report sent to Calendars
• SB 1967 Became law 89R
  Relating to the provision of financial assistance by the Texas Water Development Board for certain projects.
  May 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1169 Became law 89R
  Relating to the provision of water or sewer service by public entities operating jointly or concurrently.
  May 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SCR 13 Adopted 89R
  Urging the U.S. Department of State and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take appropriate action to ensure that Mexico complies with the 1944 Treaty regarding shared water resources.
  May 15, 2025: Signed by the Governor
• SB 2060 In committee 89R
  Relating to funding mechanisms within the Office of the Governor and Texas Public Utility Commission to support the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors in this state.
  May 13, 2025: Co-author authorized
• SB 513 Became law 89R
  Relating to a rural community-based care pilot program.
  May 13, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 365 Became law 89R
  Relating to the period for which an applicant for admission as an undergraduate student to a public institution of higher education is entitled to an academic fresh start.
  May 6, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 229 In committee 89R
  Relating to prohibiting a retail seller of motor vehicles from imposing certain restrictions on the purchase of a motor vehicle.
  May 1, 2025: Left pending in committee