Senate Floor Action for 8/18/2025

SENATE FLOOR ACTION



Monday

August 18, 2025




The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:


SB 2 Perry/ Alvarado/ Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Blanco/ et al.

Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 3 Bettencourt/ Alvarado/ Birdwell/ Blanco/ Campbell/ et al.

Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flash flood-prone areas.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 5 Huffman/ Bettencourt/ Blanco/ Campbell/ Creighton/ et al.

Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.


SB 11 Parker/ Alvarado/ Bettencourt/ Blanco/ Campbell/ et al.

Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.


SB 14 Perry/ Alvarado/ Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Blanco/ et al.

Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.


SB 16 West/ Alvarado/ Bettencourt/ Blanco/ Campbell/ et al.

Relating to real property theft and real property fraud; establishing 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, restitution, and certain procedures with respect to those offenses.


SB 18 Zaffirini/ Alvarado/ Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Blanco/ et al.

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.


SB 34 Huffman

Relating to testimony or the production of evidence before a house of the legislature or a legislative committee.


The Senate suspended the regular order, read second time and passed to engrossment:


SB 6 Perry/ Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Blanco/ Campbell/ et al.

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.


SB 8 Middleton/ Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Campbell/ Creighton/ et al.

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.


SB 10 Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Campbell/ Creighton/ Hagenbuch/ et al.

Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.


SB 12 Hughes/ Bettencourt/ Campbell/ Creighton/ Hagenbuch/ et al.

Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.


SB 13 Middleton/ Bettencourt/ Birdwell/ Campbell/ Creighton/ et al.

Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.


SB 15 King/ Bettencourt/ Creighton/ Flores/ Hagenbuch/ et al.

Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency.

1 Floor Amendment


Committee referral on the following:


SB 1 Perry/ Bettencourt/ Blanco/ Flores/ Hagenbuch/ et al.

Relating to campground and youth camp safety.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select