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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 16 Became law 892
  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.
  Sep 17, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• HB 7 Became law 892
  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.
  Sep 17, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• HB 1 Became law 892
  Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties.
  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 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 1 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.
  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 4 Passed Senate 891
  Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas.
  Aug 12, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 7 Passed Senate 891
  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.
  Aug 6, 2025: Reported engrossed
• SB 5 Passed Senate 891
  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.
  Aug 4, 2025: Received from the Senate
• SB 3 Vetoed 89R
  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.
  Jun 22, 2025: Vetoed by the Governor
• SB 785 Became law 89R
  Relating to the regulation of new HUD-code manufactured housing.
  Jun 22, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• HB 127 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 869 Became law 89R
  Relating to the deadline for the Texas Ethics Commission to resolve certain complaints.
  Jun 20, 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
• SB 1346 Became law 89R
  Relating to prohibited sales to persons attempting to purchase all or substantially all possible winning tickets in a lottery drawing.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 231 Became law 89R
  Relating to temporary emergency electric energy facilities.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• 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
• HB 493 Became law 89R
  Relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 4751 Became law 89R
  Relating to the establishment and administration of the Texas Quantum Initiative.
  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
• 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 260 Became law 89R
  Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 37 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• 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
• SB 213 Became law 89R
  Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 790 Became law 89R
  Relating to the procedure for resolving certain customer complaints before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 621 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 12 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 34 Became law 89R
  Relating to prohibiting the investment of state money in certain countries and in certain private business entities in those countries.
  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 6 Became law 89R
  Relating to discipline management and access to telehealth mental health services in public schools.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 3070 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• 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 3059 Became law 89R
  Relating to the preservation, maintenance, restoration, and protection of the Alamo complex and surrounding area by the Alamo Commission.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• HB 2 Became law 89R
  Relating to public education and public school finance.
  Jun 20, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• SB 2064 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 2514 Became law 89R
  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.
  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
• 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
• SCR 19 Adopted 89R
  Authorizing the State Preservation Board to approve the construction of a Texas Life Monument at the State Capitol Complex.
  May 30, 2025: Signed by the Governor
• SB 1020 Became law 89R
  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.
  May 29, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• 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