Joan Huffman

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Bills this legislator primary-sponsored. Data from OpenStates.

• SB 8 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. · Became Law · Sep 22, 2025
• SB 12 Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state. · Became Law · Sep 19, 2025
• SB 5 Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. · Became Law · Sep 18, 2025
• SB 11 Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• SB 16 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. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• SB 14 Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• HCR 14 Congratulating Lori Rickert on her retirement as presiding judge for Brazoria County Court at Law No. 4 and Probate Court. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• SB 3 Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flash flood-prone areas. · Became Law · Sep 5, 2025
• SB 1 Relating to campground and youth camp safety. · Became Law · Sep 5, 2025
• SR 57 Recognizing Richard L. Jankovsky III on the occasion of his retirement. · Passed One Chamber · Sep 4, 2025
• SR 4 In memory of James Bruce Bugg Jr. of San Antonio. · Passed One Chamber · Sep 4, 2025
• SR 85 Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 5. · Passed One Chamber · Sep 3, 2025
• SB 10 Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units. · Passed Legislature · Sep 2, 2025
• SB 2 Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees. · Passed Legislature · Aug 27, 2025
• SB 17 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, and jurors; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees. · Introduced · Aug 26, 2025
• SB 34 Relating to testimony or the production of evidence before a house of the legislature or a legislative committee. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 20, 2025
• SB 6 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. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 20, 2025
• SB 29 Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin. · Introduced · Aug 15, 2025
• SR 77 In memory of Kenneth Allen Griffin. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 15, 2025
• SB 9 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. · Introduced · Aug 15, 2025
• SB 8 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 12, 2025
• SB 3 Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 12, 2025
• SB 9 Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 6, 2025
• SB 37 Relating to the creation of additional judicial districts composed of Fort Bend County. · Introduced · Jul 22, 2025
• SB 38 Relating to the creation of an additional judicial district composed of Brazoria County. · Introduced · Jul 22, 2025
• HB 3120 Relating to certain duties of the owner or operator of a residential child detention facility. · Vetoed · Jun 22, 2025
• SB 1 General Appropriations Bill. · Became Law · Jun 22, 2025
• HB 413 Relating to the release of certain defendants detained in jail pending trial. · Vetoed · Jun 22, 2025
• SB 22 Relating to the Texas moving image industry incentive program and the establishment and funding of the Texas moving image industry incentive fund. · Became Law · Jun 22, 2025
• HB 449 Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology. · Vetoed · Jun 22, 2025
• SB 2206 Relating to a franchise tax credit for, and the application of sales and use taxes to, certain research and development expenses. · Became Law · Jun 22, 2025
• HB 500 Relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding appropriations. · Became Law · Jun 22, 2025
• SB 260 Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2073 Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of certain court orders or conditions of bond in cases involving family violence, child abuse or neglect, sexual assault or abuse, indecent assault, stalking, or trafficking. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 38 Relating to the eviction from real property of certain persons not entitled to enter, occupy, or remain in possession of the premises. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 3031 Relating to the punishment for the offense of aggravated assault. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1737 Relating to service retirement benefits payable by the Employees Retirement System of Texas to certain law enforcement officers and custodial officers. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 10 Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 24 Relating to the inclusion of an understanding of communist regimes and ideologies in the essential knowledge and skills for the social studies curriculum for certain public school students. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 293 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. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 11 Relating to a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text in public schools. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 4488 Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts, the dedication and rededication of revenue and allocation of accrued interest on dedicated revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general governmental purposes. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 20 Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain obscene visual material appearing to depict a child. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2688 Relating to the public retirement systems of certain municipalities. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 5246 Relating to the administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Space Commission and Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium, to other governmental entities regarding aerospace, aviation, and space exploration initiatives and activities, and to the abolishment of the spaceport trust fund. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2593 Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of indecent assault against a disabled or elderly individual. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 8 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. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 33 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. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 4486 Relating to directing payment, after approval, of certain miscellaneous claims and judgments against the state out of funds designated by this Act; making appropriations. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1621 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. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 17 Relating to the purchase or acquisition of an interest in real property by certain aliens or foreign entities; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 5661 Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 286; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 535 Relating to the admissibility of evidence regarding a victim's past sexual behavior in prosecutions of certain trafficking, sexual, or assaultive offenses. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 3133 Relating to user reports of explicit deep fake material on social media platforms. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1300 Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 4158 Relating to the compensation of the directors of the Texana Groundwater Conservation District. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 663 Relating to the approval of a community supervision and corrections department's budget and strategic plan. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 1902 Relating to creating the criminal offense of jugging. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 1422 Relating to the rights of victims of sexual assault and other sex offenses, the offense of continuous sexual abuse, and the prosecution, punishment, and collateral consequences of certain sex offenses; creating a criminal offense; increasing criminal penalties; changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for persons convicted of certain sex offenses. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1120 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 and to the duration of certain protective orders. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 42 Relating to the amount and allocation of the annual constitutional appropriation to certain agencies and institutions of higher education and to the permissible uses of that money. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 45 Relating to the duty of the attorney general to represent the state in the prosecution of the criminal offense of trafficking of persons. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1896 Relating to the provision of information regarding an arrested person and the victim of the offense to a magistrate for purposes of an order for emergency protection. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1019 Relating to the admissibility of certain hearsay statements in the adjudication of certain sexual or assaultive offenses committed against a child or a person with a disability. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2697 Relating to certain procedures in connection with a bond forfeiture. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SCR 30 Designating Matagorda County as the official Birding Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2035. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2529 Relating to the annual state salary supplement for certain county judges. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 75 Relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in certain criminal proceedings. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 506 Relating to requirements for certain ballot propositions and to related procedures and provisions. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1021 Relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision of a person convicted of stalking and to the offense of improper contact with the person's victim. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1660 Relating to the retention and preservation of toxicological evidence of certain intoxication offenses. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 13 Relating to a school district's library materials and catalog, the establishment of local school library advisory councils, and parental rights regarding public school library catalogs and access by the parent's child to library materials. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2293 Relating to the election of the members of the board of directors of the Sweeny Hospital District. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 5699 Relating to the authority of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 405 to exclude territory; validating and confirming all previous acts of the district. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 40 Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds; authorizing injunctive relief. · Became Law · Jun 16, 2025
• SB 9 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. · Became Law · Jun 16, 2025
• SB 4 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. · Became Law · Jun 16, 2025
• SR 629 In memory of Joshua Daniel King. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 2, 2025
• SJR 5 Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony. · Passed Legislature · Jun 2, 2025
• SJR 27 Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the membership of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, the membership of the tribunal to review the commission's recommendations, and the authority of the commission, the tribunal, and the Texas Supreme Court to more effectively sanction judges and justices for judicial misconduct. · Passed Legislature · Jun 2, 2025
• SR 672 In memory of Karen Anntoinette Richard. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 1, 2025
• SR 222 In memory of former state Senator and Representative Joe J. Bernal of San Antonio. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 1, 2025
• SR 686 Recognizing Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw and her staff for their valuable contributions and service. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 1, 2025
• SR 634 Suspending limitation on conference committee jurisdiction on S.B. No.1. · Passed One Chamber · May 31, 2025
• SR 715 Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 5246. · Passed One Chamber · May 31, 2025
• SB 1620 Relating to the establishment of the Texas forensic analyst apprenticeship pilot program. · Became Law · May 30, 2025
• SB 1901 Relating to the administration of the Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council and Texas Opioid Abatement Trust Fund. · Became Law · May 30, 2025
• SB 664 Relating to qualifications, training, removal, and supervision of certain masters, magistrates, referees, associate judges, and hearing officers. · Became Law · May 30, 2025
• HB 1729 Relating to a limitation on the number of terms a person may serve as a commissioner of Port Freeport. · Became Law · May 29, 2025
• HB 2027 Relating to the authority of the Brazoria County Commissioners Court to execute tax abatement agreements for property within the Port Freeport district. · Became Law · May 29, 2025
• HB 3474 Relating to the evaluation and reporting of investment practices and performance of certain public retirement systems. · Became Law · May 29, 2025
• HB 1778 Relating to human trafficking, prostitution, and child pornography and to the prosecution of sexual or assaultive offenses or the prosecution of a failure to stop or report those offenses; amending and harmonizing certain statute of limitations provisions; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty. · Became Law · May 29, 2025
• SB 1020 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. · Became Law · May 29, 2025
• SB 1018 Relating to distribution of state traffic fine revenue received by the comptroller. · Became Law · May 29, 2025
• SJR 1 Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail under certain circumstances for illegal aliens charged with certain offenses punishable as a felony. · Passed One Chamber · May 28, 2025
• SJR 87 Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail to persons accused of certain offenses punishable as a felony who have previously been convicted of or who were released on bail for certain offenses punishable as a felony at the time of the new offense. · Passed One Chamber · May 28, 2025
• HB 37 Relating to perinatal bereavement care provided by certain hospitals, a perinatal bereavement care initiative, and a perinatal bereavement care hospital recognition program. · Became Law · May 28, 2025
• SB 816 Relating to authorizing the disclosure of certain electronic customer data by a provider of an electronic communications service or a remote computing service in certain immediate life-threatening situations. · Passed One Chamber · May 27, 2025
• SB 18 Relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain events from receiving state or other public funding. · Passed One Chamber · May 27, 2025
• SB 552 Relating to changing the eligibility of certain persons to receive community supervision, including deferred adjudication community supervision. · Passed One Chamber · May 27, 2025
• SB 505 Relating to processes to address election irregularities; providing a civil penalty. · Passed One Chamber · May 27, 2025
• SB 3073 Relating to the duty of a magistrate to make written findings in certain criminal proceedings. · Passed One Chamber · May 27, 2025
• SB 1152 Relating to creating the criminal offense of continuous manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance. · Passed One Chamber · May 26, 2025
• SB 1370 Relating to the establishment of the office of medical examiner in certain counties. · Passed One Chamber · May 26, 2025
• HB 2756 Relating to training on de-escalation, crisis intervention, and behavioral health for correctional officers and certain other employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. · Became Law · May 26, 2025
• HB 220 Relating to the care provided to sexual assault survivors by health care facilities. · Passed One Chamber · May 25, 2025
• SB 16 Relating to requiring a person to submit proof of citizenship to register to vote, including the eligibility of certain voters to vote a limited federal ballot if the voter cannot supply the required proof and the procedures for the counting of those ballots; creating criminal offenses. · Passed One Chamber · May 25, 2025
• SB 3038 Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 286; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. · Became Law · May 25, 2025
• SB 5 Relating to the creation of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. · Became Law · May 24, 2025
• SJR 2 Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption of residence homesteads from ad valorem taxation by a school district. · Passed Legislature · May 22, 2025
• SB 1998 Relating to a preceptorship program in a pediatric subspecialty for medical students in this state. · Became Law · May 21, 2025
• SB 2530 Relating to the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; providing an administrative penalty. · Passed One Chamber · May 20, 2025
• SB 2066 Relating to the repeal of the Texas Research Incentive Program. · Became Law · May 19, 2025
• SR 543 Recognizing Marvin Joe Moore and Mildred Ann Moore for their 50 years of service at First Church Bay City. · Passed One Chamber · May 19, 2025
• SR 536 Honoring Mark Garcia for his 25 years of service as Texas Senate auditor. · Passed One Chamber · May 19, 2025
• SR 545 Recognizing Summer Willis for her advocacy on behalf of survivors of sexual violence. · Passed One Chamber · May 19, 2025
• SJR 3 Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, establishing the Dementia Prevention and Research Fund to provide money for research on and prevention and treatment of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and related disorders in this state, and transferring to that fund $3 billion from state general revenue. · Passed Legislature · May 15, 2025
• SB 2065 Relating to the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System. · Became Law · May 15, 2025
• SB 1738 Relating to the Judicial Retirement System Plan Two, including resuming service in the retirement system and contributions to the retirement system. · Became Law · May 15, 2025
• SB 1426 Relating to operation and management of the first capitol state historic site and replica by the Texas Historical Commission. · Became Law · May 15, 2025
• SB 330 Relating to an election to approve a reduction or reallocation of funding or resources for certain county prosecutors' offices. · Passed One Chamber · May 14, 2025
• SB 1704 Relating to certain rights of crime victims and witnesses and associated persons and to victim impact statements. · Passed One Chamber · May 12, 2025
• SJR 57 Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the use of state funds to pay for the obligations of a local public retirement system. · Passed One Chamber · May 12, 2025
• SB 1727 Relating to procedures related to juvenile justice proceedings, the adjudication and disposition of cases involving delinquent conduct, and certain offenses or conduct committed by a child or by a person placed in or committed to certain juvenile facilities; changing the eligibility for community supervision. · Passed One Chamber · May 10, 2025
• SR 506 Recognizing May 2025 as Jewish American Heritage Month. · Passed One Chamber · May 8, 2025
• SB 28 Relating to a lottery game played or facilitated for play by telephone or through an Internet or mobile Internet application; creating criminal offenses. · Passed One Chamber · May 6, 2025
• SR 484 Recognizing Bryan Collier for his 40 years of service to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. · Passed One Chamber · May 5, 2025
• SR 473 Recognizing the National Conference of State Legislatures on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. · Passed One Chamber · May 1, 2025
• SR 463 In memory of Pope Francis. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 30, 2025
• SB 2146 Relating to the information reported by prosecuting attorneys to the Texas Judicial Council. · Introduced · Apr 29, 2025
• SR 432 Recognizing Rob Kepple on his exemplary career with the Texas District and County Attorneys Association. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 24, 2025
• SB 14 Relating to reforming the procedure by which state agencies adopt rules and impose regulatory requirements and the deference given to the interpretation of laws and rules by state agencies in certain judicial proceedings. · Became Law · Apr 23, 2025
• SB 819 Relating to renewable energy generation facilities; authorizing fees. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• SR 438 Recognizing Elijah Douglas Frankum on the occasion of his graduation. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• SR 440 Recognizing Haley Elizabeth Orias on the occasion of her graduation. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• SR 437 Recognizing Tambre Kay Davenport on the occasion of her graduation. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• SB 1386 Relating to testimony or the production of evidence before a house of the legislature or a legislative committee. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• HCR 119 In memory of the Honorable Terrell Lynn Roberts of Angleton. · Became Law · Apr 22, 2025
• SR 439 Recognizing Jazlyn Alyse Mook on the occasion of her graduation. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• SR 436 Recognizing Colby Lane Chandler on the occasion of his graduation. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 22, 2025
• SB 1124 Relating to discovery in a criminal case. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 17, 2025
• SB 1899 Relating to the minimum standards of care provided to sexual assault survivors by health care facilities. · Introduced · Apr 14, 2025
• SCR 24 Expressing support for the strengthening of our partnership with Israel and for the creation of a Texas Trade and Investment Office in Israel. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 9, 2025
• SB 2830 Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive certain tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project and to pledge certain tax revenue for the payment of obligations related to the project. · Introduced · Apr 7, 2025
• SB 2839 Relating to training on de-escalation, crisis intervention, and behavioral health for correctional officers and certain other employees of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. · Introduced · Apr 7, 2025
• SR 311 Recognizing March 27, 2025, as CASA Day. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 27, 2025
• SR 279 Recognizing March 24 to 28, 2025, as Texas Retired Teachers Week. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 26, 2025
• SB 2396 Relating to certain duties of the owner or operator of a residential child detention facility. · Introduced · Mar 25, 2025
• SB 2219 Relating to certain procedures in connection with a bond forfeiture. · Introduced · Mar 25, 2025
• SB 2192 Relating to state fiscal matters. · Introduced · Mar 24, 2025
• SB 2193 Relating to directing payment, after approval, of certain miscellaneous claims and judgments against the state out of funds designated by this Act; making appropriations. · Introduced · Mar 24, 2025
• SB 2191 Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts, the dedication and rededication of revenue and allocation of accrued interest on dedicated revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general governmental purposes. · Introduced · Mar 24, 2025
• SB 2140 Relating to certain tobacco products for purposes of the cigars and tobacco products tax. · Introduced · Mar 24, 2025
• SR 304 Recognizing March 20 and 21, 2025, as Texas Federation of Republican Women Days. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 20, 2025
• SR 265 Recognizing March 21, 2025, as World Down Syndrome Day. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 19, 2025
• SR 238 Recognizing March 18, 2025, as Matagorda County Day. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 18, 2025
• SB 1900 Relating to the unlawful possession of a firearm by a person not lawfully present in the United States; creating a criminal offense. · Introduced · Mar 17, 2025
• SR 258 In memory of U.S. Congressman Sylvester Turner of Houston. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 13, 2025
• SB 1668 Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of the possession, manufacture, transport, repair, or sale of certain devices intended to modify handguns. · Introduced · Mar 12, 2025
• SB 1696 Relating to the inclusion of a person's sex on certain government documents and identification cards. · Introduced · Mar 11, 2025
• SB 1385 Relating to the unlawful acquisition of certain weapons; creating a criminal offense. · Introduced · Mar 11, 2025
• SR 175 Recognizing February 2025 as Black History Month. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 27, 2025
• SR 123 Recognizing the Consulate General of France in Houston. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 26, 2025
• SR 143 In memory of Roy P. Benavidez. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 26, 2025
• SR 152 Recognizing February 26, 2025, as Orange and Maroon Legislative Day. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 26, 2025
• SB 1047 Relating to the release of defendants on bail, the duties of a magistrate in certain criminal proceedings, and the notice provided by peace officers to victims of family violence, stalking, harassment, or terroristic threat. · Introduced · Feb 26, 2025
• SR 126 Recognizing Port Freeport on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 25, 2025
• SR 122 Recognizing February 25, 2025, as Brazoria County Day. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 25, 2025
• SR 98 Recognizing Senator Judith Zaffirini on the occasion of her birthday. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 13, 2025
• SR 70 Recognizing February 11, 2025, as Texas State Technical College Day. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 11, 2025
• SR 66 Recognizing February 11, 2025, as University of Houston Day. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 11, 2025
• SR 64 In memory of Donald Jean Hollier of Houston. · Passed One Chamber · Feb 11, 2025
• SB 741 Relating to human trafficking, prostitution, and child pornography and to the prosecution of sexual or assaultive offenses or the prosecution of a failure to stop or report those offenses; amending and harmonizing certain statute of limitations provisions; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty. · Introduced · Feb 7, 2025
• SJR 49 Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the denial of bail for an illegal alien charged with an offense punishable as a felony. · Introduced · Feb 3, 2025
• SB 328 Relating to the creation of additional judicial districts composed of Fort Bend County. · Introduced · Feb 3, 2025
• SB 662 Relating to the definition of crosswalk for the purpose of motor vehicle collisions involving a pedestrian or other vulnerable road user within the area of a crosswalk. · Introduced · Feb 3, 2025
• SB 329 Relating to the creation of additional judicial districts composed of Brazoria County. · Introduced · Feb 3, 2025
• SB 1048 Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds. · Introduced · Feb 3, 2025
• SJR 17 Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail under limited circumstances to a person accused of certain violent or sexual offenses or of continuous trafficking of persons. · Introduced · Feb 3, 2025
• SR 18 In memory of Michael Shannon Ewing of Austin. · Passed One Chamber · Jan 29, 2025
• SR 17 Recognizing January 28, 2025, as Sexual Assault Survivors Day. · Passed One Chamber · Jan 28, 2025
• SR 14 In memory of Jesus "Jesse" Vargas of Brazoria County. · Passed One Chamber · Jan 28, 2025
• SB 3 Relating to an appropriation to provide funding for the construction, operation, and maintenance of border barrier infrastructure and border security operations, including funding for additional overtime expenses and costs due to certain increased law enforcement presence. · Became Law · Dec 18, 2023
• HCR 15 In memory of former Brazoria County sheriff and judge E. J. "Joe" King. · Became Law · Dec 18, 2023
• SB 5 Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program and the establishment of a school safety grant program; making an appropriation. · Passed One Chamber · Dec 5, 2023
• SR 62 In memory of Brad Jones. · Passed One Chamber · Dec 1, 2023
• SR 19 Recognizing Columbus Community Hospital for its contributions to public health. · Passed One Chamber · Nov 16, 2023
• SB 2 Relating to a local optional teacher designation system implemented by a school district, the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the public school finance system, and certain allotments under the Foundation School Program; making an appropriation. · Passed One Chamber · Nov 10, 2023
• SR 4 In memory of Barbara Jean York Hancock. · Passed One Chamber · Nov 9, 2023
• SR 72 In memory of Barbara Jean York Hancock. · Introduced · Nov 1, 2023
• SB 6 Relating to an appropriation for border security. · Passed One Chamber · Nov 1, 2023
• SB 2 Relating to a local optional teacher designation system implemented by a school district, a security officer employed by a school district, the basic allotment and guaranteed yield under the public school finance system, and certain allotments under the Foundation School Program; making an appropriation. · Passed One Chamber · Oct 13, 2023
• SR 21 Recognizing Regina Stock for winning the 2023 Mrs. America Pageant. · Passed One Chamber · Oct 12, 2023
• SR 2 Recognizing Israel's right to use decisive force in defending its citizens and reaffirming Texas' support for Israel. · Passed One Chamber · Oct 9, 2023
• SR 31 In memory of Mario A. Martinez. · Passed One Chamber · Jul 12, 2023
• SR 15 In memory of Karon Kaye Tinsley Goolsby. · Passed One Chamber · Jul 7, 2023
• SR 35 Adopting Rules of Impeachment of Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr., Attorney General of the State of Texas. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 21, 2023
• SB 1246 Relating to authorized investments of public money by certain governmental entities and the confidentiality of certain information related to those investments. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023
• HB 1595 Relating to the administration and investment of, and distribution and use of money from, certain constitutional and statutory funds to support general academic teaching institutions in achieving national prominence as major research universities and driving the state economy. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023
• HB 1 General Appropriations Bill. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023

Bills this legislator coauthored or cosponsored. Data from OpenStates.

• HB 25 Relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without a prescription. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• HB 7 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. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• HB 192 Relating to the funding of law enforcement agencies in certain counties. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• HB 8 Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• HB 26 Relating to contracting with law enforcement agencies in certain counties. · Became Law · Sep 17, 2025
• HB 1 Relating to youth camp emergency plans and preparedness; authorizing penalties. · Became Law · Sep 5, 2025
• HB 15 Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency. · Passed Legislature · Sep 2, 2025
• SB 15 Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 25, 2025
• SB 13 Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 20, 2025
• SB 2 Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 12, 2025
• SB 1 Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees. · Passed One Chamber · Aug 12, 2025
• SB 25 Relating to health and nutrition standards to promote healthy living, including requirements for food labeling, primary and secondary education, higher education, and continuing education for certain health care professionals; authorizing a civil penalty. · Became Law · Jun 22, 2025
• SB 7 Relating to the oversight and financing of certain water infrastructure matters under the jurisdiction of the Texas Water Development Board. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 1212 Relating to the prosecution and punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons; increasing a criminal penalty. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 2373 Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 75 Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 2 Relating to public education and public school finance. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 31 Relating to exceptions to otherwise prohibited abortions based on a physician's reasonable medical judgment. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 568 Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• HB 4623 Relating to liability of public schools and professional school employees for sexual misconduct involving students. · Became Law · Jun 20, 2025
• SB 23 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. · Became Law · Jun 16, 2025
• HJR 7 Proposing a constitutional amendment to dedicate a portion of the revenue derived from state sales and use taxes to the Texas water fund and to provide for the allocation and use of that revenue. · Passed Legislature · Jun 2, 2025
• SB 2611 Relating to the status of certain documents or instruments concerning real or personal property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations for those offenses; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions; increasing a criminal penalty. · Passed One Chamber · May 27, 2025
• SB 1377 Relating to a grant program to provide financial assistance to qualified ambulance service providers in certain rural counties. · Introduced · May 26, 2025
• SB 1798 Relating to the resident status, tuition rates, certain financial support, and certain documentation requirements for students enrolled at public institutions of higher education, including students not lawfully present in the United States. · Introduced · May 26, 2025
• SB 1073 Relating to discrimination against or burdening certain constitutional rights of an applicant for or holder of a license to practice law in this state. · Passed One Chamber · May 23, 2025
• SB 2722 Relating to the use of certain tolls and charges imposed by certain counties; authorizing a civil penalty and limiting the counties' authority to adopt an ad valorem tax rate. · Passed One Chamber · May 22, 2025
• SJR 85 Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district of the market value of the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled. · Passed Legislature · May 22, 2025
• SB 990 Relating to increasing the punishment for certain conduct constituting the offense of murder. · Passed One Chamber · May 21, 2025
• SCR 13 Urging the U.S. Department of State and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take appropriate action to ensure that Mexico complies with the 1944 Treaty regarding shared water resources. · Became Law · May 15, 2025
• SB 2943 Relating to the prohibition of certain actions by a state agency against an applicant for or holder of an occupational license. · Passed One Chamber · May 14, 2025
• SB 324 Relating to requiring state contractors, political subdivisions of this state, and private employers to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. · Passed One Chamber · May 2, 2025
• SJR 68 Proposing a constitutional amendment to clarify and implement certain provisions governing the impeachment, trial, removal from office, and disqualification of public officers. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 24, 2025
• SB 2051 Relating to the impeachment or removal from office of certain public officers, including procedures governing the impeachment, trial on impeachment, and disqualification of state officers, and to the grounds for which certain public officers may be removed from office. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 24, 2025
• SB 26 Relating to public education, including the rights and compensation of public school educators and funding for teacher compensation under the Foundation School Program. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 9, 2025
• SB 400 Relating to requiring parental consent for psychological or psychiatric examination, testing, or treatment conducted by a school district employee. · Passed One Chamber · Apr 9, 2025
• SB 19 Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying and certain other activities. · Passed One Chamber · Mar 25, 2025
• SB 79 Relating to a lottery game played or facilitated for play by telephone or through an Internet or mobile Internet application; creating criminal offenses. · Introduced · Feb 19, 2025
• SB 4 Relating to the punishment for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house; increasing criminal penalties. · To Executive · Nov 2, 2023
• SB 11 Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of improper entry from a foreign nation. · Passed One Chamber · Oct 16, 2023
• SB 3 Relating to the amount of the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax and the exclusion of certain taxable entities from the requirement to file a franchise tax report. · Became Law · Jul 22, 2023
• SB 2 Relating to providing property tax relief through the public school finance system, exemptions, limitations on appraisals and taxes, and property tax administration; authorizing the imposition of a fee. · Became Law · Jul 22, 2023
• HJR 2 Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to establish a temporary limit on the maximum appraised value of real property other than a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes; to increase the amount of the 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; to except certain appropriations to pay for ad valorem tax relief from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations; and to authorize the legislature to provide for a four-year term of office for a member of the governing body of certain appraisal entities. · Passed Legislature · Jul 14, 2023
• SB 1 Relating to providing property tax relief through the public school finance system, exemptions, and limitations on taxes and providing franchise tax relief. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 30, 2023
• SJR 1 Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the 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, to provide supplemental payments to full-time classroom teachers in school districts, and to except certain appropriations to pay for school district ad valorem tax relief from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations. · Introduced · Jun 30, 2023
• SB 26 Relating to providing property tax relief through the public school finance system, exemptions, and limitations on taxes and providing franchise tax relief. · Passed One Chamber · Jun 27, 2023
• SB 640 Relating to the state agencies responsible for providing facilities management services for certain state buildings allocated for legislative use. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023
• SB 129 Relating to the prosecution and punishment for possession or promotion of child pornography; increasing criminal penalties. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023
• SB 402 Relating to the preference given by trial courts to hearings and trials for murder and capital murder offenses. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023
• SB 24 Relating to the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission and the transfer to the commission of certain powers and duties from the Department of Family and Protective Services. · Became Law · Jun 18, 2023
• SB 17 Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public institutions of higher education. · Became Law · Jun 17, 2023
• HB 1181 Relating to the publication or distribution of sexual material harmful to minors on an Internet website; providing a civil penalty. · Became Law · Jun 12, 2023
• HB 916 Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs. · Became Law · Jun 9, 2023
• SB 29 Relating to prohibited governmental entity implementation or enforcement of a vaccine mandate, mask requirement, or private business or school closure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. · Became Law · Jun 2, 2023
• SB 1089 Relating to repealing the ability to declare certain unopposed candidates for office as elected. · Became Law · Jun 2, 2023
• SB 1 Relating to a reduction in the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district and additional state aid for certain school districts impacted by compression, an increase in the amount of certain exemptions from ad valorem taxation by a school district applicable to residence homesteads, an adjustment in 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 the exemption amounts, and the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in local revenue. · Passed One Chamber · May 30, 2023
• SJR 1 Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the 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 school district ad valorem tax relief from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations. · Passed One Chamber · May 30, 2023
• SB 224 Relating to catalytic converters, including criminal conduct involving catalytic converters; providing an administrative penalty; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty; increasing a fee. · Became Law · May 29, 2023
• SJR 81 Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of funds to support the capital needs of educational programs offered by the Texas State Technical College System and certain component institutions of the Texas State University System and repealing the limitation on the allocation to the Texas State Technical College System and its campuses of the annual appropriation of certain constitutionally dedicated funding for public institutions of higher education. · Passed Legislature · May 26, 2023