Texas Legislature
Bills Cosponsored
Rep. Eddie Morales
88th Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 12/2/2024

Number of Bills: 15

SB 3 Author: Bettencourt | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Meyer | Bonnen | Burrows | Thierry | Raymond
Cosponsor: Allison | Anderson | Ashby | Bailes | Bell, Cecil | et al.
Last Action: 05/26/2023 S House appoints conferees-reported
Caption: Relating to providing property tax relief through the public school finance system, exemptions, limitations on appraisals and taxes, and property tax administration.

SB 252 Author: Alvarado
Sponsor: Guillen | Vo | Cortez | Garcia | Neave Criado
Cosponsor: Morales Shaw | Morales, Eddie
Last Action: 06/18/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23
Caption: Relating to the licensing of certain veterans by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and the hiring of those veterans by political subdivisions.

SB 379 Author: Huffman | Alvarado | Campbell | Eckhardt | Kolkhorst | et al.
Sponsor: Howard | Button
Cosponsor: Allen | Allison | Anchía | Anderson | Bernal | et al.
Last Action: 06/18/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23
Caption: Relating to an exemption from sales and use taxes for certain family care items.

SB 490 Author: Hughes
Sponsor: Harris, Caroline | Klick | Frank | Campos | Collier
Cosponsor: Allen | Allison | Anderson | Ashby | Bailes | et al.
Last Action: 05/29/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23
Caption: Relating to itemized billing for health care services and supplies provided by health care providers.

SB 617 Author: Blanco
Sponsor: González, Mary | Guillen | Gamez | Lopez, Janie | VanDeaver
Cosponsor: Morales, Eddie | Patterson | Plesa | Slawson
Last Action: 05/19/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the confidentiality of certain home address information in ad valorem tax appraisal records.

SB 838 Author: Creighton
Sponsor: Thierry | Buckley | King, Tracy O. | Collier
Cosponsor: Anderson | Bumgarner | Cain | Cole | Cook | et al.
Last Action: 05/05/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools providing silent panic alert technology in classrooms.

SB 840 Author: West
Sponsor: Anchía | Johnson, Julie | Jones, Venton
Cosponsor: Bowers | Buckley | Campos | Cook | Gamez | et al.
Last Action: 05/24/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23
Caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault of certain hospital personnel.

SB 975 Author: Menéndez
Sponsor: Dorazio | Swanson | Garcia | Bucy
Cosponsor: Allison | Bailes | Bell, Cecil | Bryant | Bumgarner | et al.
Last Action: 06/18/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23
Caption: Relating to the procedures for the issuance of a personal identification certificate to a person whose driver's license is surrendered.

SB 1238 Author: Nichols
Sponsor: Ashby | Anderson | Rose | Bailes | Clardy
Cosponsor: Allison | Bell, Keith | Bernal | Bhojani | Burns | et al.
Last Action: 06/02/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to broadband development.

SB 1325 Author: Alvarado
Sponsor: Goodwin | Thompson, Senfronia | Sherman, Sr. | Raymond | Leach
Cosponsor: Allen | Anchía | Bernal | Bowers | Bryant | et al.
Last Action: 05/13/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the notice given to certain victims of family violence, stalking, harassment, or terroristic threat.

SB 1402 Author: Zaffirini | Paxton
Sponsor: Howard | Guillen | Neave Criado | Garcia | Harless
Cosponsor: Flores | Morales, Eddie | Plesa
Last Action: 06/09/2023 E Effective on 9/1/23
Caption: Relating to the composition, continuation, and duties of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force, compensation for task force members and certain other task force participants, and establishment of a mandatory training program for persons responding to reports of and treating survivors of child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault.

SB 1425 Author: Perry
Sponsor: Smithee | King, Tracy O. | Ashby | Anderson | Dean
Cosponsor: Bailes | Bell, Keith | Bumgarner | Burns | Cunningham | et al.
Last Action: 05/19/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to disbursements from the universal service fund for certain small and rural companies.

SB 2057 Author: Hinojosa | LaMantia
Sponsor: Lopez, Janie | Ashby | Flores | Holland | Troxclair
Cosponsor: Allison | Bernal | Bowers | Campos | Dorazio | et al.
Last Action: 05/23/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the operation and management of the Iwo Jima monument and museum by the Texas Historical Commission.

SB 2193 Author: LaMantia
Sponsor: Frank | Rose | Price | Shaheen | Garcia
Cosponsor: Morales, Eddie
Last Action: 05/19/2023 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to programs established and operated by federally qualified health centers to provide primary care access to certain employees.

SJR 3 Author: Bettencourt | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Meyer | Bonnen | Burrows | Thierry | Raymond
Cosponsor: Allison | Anderson | Ashby | Bailes | Bell, Cecil | et al.
Last Action: 05/26/2023 S House appoints conferees-reported
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes, to increase the amount of an exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district applicable to residence homesteads, to adjust the amount of the limitation on school district ad valorem taxes imposed on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect increases in certain exemption amounts, and to except certain appropriations to pay for ad valorem tax relief from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations.

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