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State bill data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 4:19 PM.

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• HB 5424 Became law 89R
  Relating to volunteer firefighter compensation limits.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• 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 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
• 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 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
• HB 3284 Became law 89R
  Relating to the creation of the Texas Commission on Marriage and Family.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 75 Became law 89R
  Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• 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
• SB 706 Became law 89R
  Relating to the recognition of a handgun license issued by another state.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 8 Became law 89R
  Relating to agreements between certain sheriffs and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law and a grant program to cover the costs of implementing those agreements.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 1/1/26
• HB 4211 Became law 89R
  Relating to certain residential property interests controlled by certain entities.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• 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
• SB 1283 Became law 89R
  Relating to resident safety from criminal activity in senior retirement communities.
  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 581 Became law 89R
  Relating to the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors.
  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
• HB 1106 Became law 89R
  Relating to the definitions of child abuse and neglect.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• HB 229 Became law 89R
  Relating to general definitions for and collection of governmental information regarding biological sex.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1563 Became law 89R
  Relating to county jailer training on interacting with veterans in the criminal justice system.
  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 868 Became law 89R
  Relating to the allocation of money appropriated to the rural volunteer fire department assistance program.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 6 Became law 89R
  Relating to the planning for, interconnection and operation of, and costs related to providing service for certain electrical loads and to the generation of electric power by a water supply or sewer service corporation.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective immediately
• 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 120 Became law 89R
  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.
  Jun 20, 2025: See remarks for effective date
• 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
• HB 4144 Became law 89R
  Relating to supplemental benefits for retired firefighters and peace officers diagnosed with certain diseases or illnesses.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 1405 Became law 89R
  Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services.
  Jun 20, 2025: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
• 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
• SB 927 Became law 89R
  Relating to the issuance of Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal specialty license plates.
  May 30, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 30 Passed House 89R
  Relating to recovery of health care-related damages in certain civil actions.
  May 30, 2025: House appoints conferees-reported
• SB 1646 Became law 89R
  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.
  May 30, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 5138 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.
  May 29, 2025: Senate appoints conferees-reported
• SB 1988 In committee 89R
  Relating to the abolishment of the state lottery.
  May 29, 2025: Co-author authorized
• 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 3225 Passed House 89R
  Relating to the restriction of access by minors to sexually explicit materials in municipal public library collections; providing a civil penalty.
  May 28, 2025: Placed on intent calendar
• HB 2703 Became law 89R
  Relating to designating July as American Patriotism Month.
  May 28, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 618 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to the unlawful altering of election procedures; providing a civil penalty.
  May 28, 2025: Returned to committee
• SB 1271 Became law 89R
  Relating to the concurrent jurisdiction of this state over United States military installations with respect to certain subject matters.
  May 27, 2025: Effective immediately
• HB 1939 Passed House 89R
  Relating to a credit for prepayment of the amount required to be paid by a school district for the purchase of attendance credit under the public school finance system.
  May 27, 2025: Left pending in committee
• SB 1273 Became law 89R
  Relating to establishing the Higher Education Research Security Council.
  May 27, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 781 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency.
  May 27, 2025: Postponed
• SB 1080 Became law 89R
  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.
  May 27, 2025: Effective immediately
• SB 1355 Became law 89R
  Relating to liquor sales on credit by the holder of a distiller's and rectifier's permit to a wholesaler.
  May 27, 2025: Effective on 9/1/25
• SB 35 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to the selection, prioritization, construction, and funding of transportation projects.
  May 27, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar
• SB 1730 Passed Senate 89R
  Relating to civil liability arising out of justified uses of or threats to use force or deadly force.
  May 26, 2025: Placed on General State Calendar