SENATE BILLS RETURNED FROM HOUSE WITH AMENDMENTS

Friday

May 23, 2025

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony.

Relating to the regulation of products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and hemp beverages and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and permits; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing civil penalties; imposing taxes.

Relating to an increase in the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district and the protection of school districts against certain losses in local revenue.

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.

Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession or promotion of obscene visual material appearing to depict a child.

Relating to the establishment and administration of the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the purpose of investing in cryptocurrency and the investment authority of the comptroller of public accounts over the reserve and certain other state funds.

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.

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.

Relating to certain prohibited transactions and logistical support between a governmental entity and an abortion assistance entity or abortion provider for the procurement of an abortion or related services.

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.

Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief.

Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities.

Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies.

Relating to required reports of certain vaccine-related or drug-related adverse events.

Relating to prohibiting the purchase of sweetened soft drinks under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Relating to an appraisal process for disputed losses under personal automobile or residential property insurance policies.

Relating to inpatient competency restoration services.

Relating to the filing or recording of documents or instruments conveying or purporting to convey an interest in real or personal property.

Relating to recording requirements for certain instruments concerning real property.

Relating to requiring the use of electronically readable information to verify a purchaser's age in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.

Relating to the term and renewal of an engineering or land surveying license or registration.

Relating to certain proceedings by the Public Utility Commission of Texas regarding water or sewer service.

Relating to certain municipal regulation of certain mixed-use and multifamily residential development projects and conversion of certain commercial buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy.

Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.

Relating to entities that provide video services.

Relating to procedural requirements for uranium mining production area authorizations.

Relating to rights of a victim, guardian of a victim, or close relative of a deceased victim in certain criminal cases involving family violence, sexual or assaultive offenses, stalking, or a violation of a protective order or condition of bond.

Relating to excepting certain fiber-optic cable projects from certain notice requirements for projects on state or local public land.

Relating to the plugging of and reporting on inactive wells subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Relating to electronic health record requirements; authorizing a civil penalty.

Relating to the designation of spaceports as critical infrastructure facilities for purposes of criminal and civil liability.

Relating to third-party review of property development documents and inspections of improvements related to those documents, including home backup power installations.

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

Relating to restrictions on covenants not to compete for physicians and certain health care practitioners.

Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.

Relating to increasing access to and reducing taxation of Internet services.

Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 2275 in Gregg County as the Bill Stoudt Parkway.

Relating to the establishment by the Texas Workforce Commission of an advanced nuclear energy workforce development program.

Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Relating to a centers of excellence program developed by the Texas Judicial Council for certain justices and judges.

Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving depictions of children, computer-generated children, or other persons; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.

Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm to Market Road 70 in Nueces County as the Los Robles Trail.

Relating to electric service quality and reliability.

Relating to permit application review and contested case procedures for environmental permits involving a project to construct or modify a liquefied natural gas export terminal; authorizing a fee.

Relating to the regulation of composting in certain counties; authorizing a civil penalty.

Relating to loans and grants awarded from the Texas energy fund.

Relating to eligibility for mediation of certain out-of-network health benefit claims.

Relating to a legal justification for the use of force with a less-lethal force weapon by a correctional facility guard or a peace officer.

Relating to a border crime property damage compensation program.

Relating to the amount of an expenditure that may be paid by an emergency services district employee without board approval.