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• Clerk call the roll.
• Clerk call the roll.
• Kirk, call the roll.
• Clerk call the roll.
• Kirk, call the roll.

Bills: HB 246, HB 796, HB 1056, HB 1544, HB 1846, HB 2001, HB 2618, HB 2625, HB 2869, HB 2898, HB 3069, HB 3114, HB 3157, HB 3228, HJR 98

Keywords: federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information

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• The Chair calls Cy Tongate.
• OK, so the Chair calls her.
• The Chair calls Roy Herrera.
• The Chair calls Steve Olson.
• That's your call. Thank you. Chair calls Danny Cox.

Bills: HB 43, HB 3364, HB 3469, HB 3479, HB 43, HB 3364, HB 3469, HB 3479

Keywords: agriculture, finance, young farmers, financial assistance, pest control, veterinarian, veterinary medicine, veterinary telemedicine, telehealth, telemedicine, veterinarian-client-patient relationship, VCPR, animal health, livestock, pets, remote care, electronic means, telephone consultation, controlled substances, prescription drugs

Summary: The second bill, House Bill 3469, was introduced to address pest control regulations concerning nuisance birds. Representative Campos explained how the bill proposes non-lethal methods to deter these birds, such as the use of laser lights and sounds, which avoids conflict with both state and federal regulations. The committee heard impassioned testimonies from members of the public who shared firsthand experiences regarding the adverse effects of these birds on property and public health. The meeting concluded with both bills being left pending, reflecting a desire for further deliberation among the committee members.

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• The Senate will stand at recess at the call of the Chair.
• President, I move the Senate stand at recess, at the call of the Chair.
• Senate Democrats, caucus call. Caucus call. Senate Democrats, please note the caucus call.
• Republican colleagues caucus call. Caucus call.
• Senate Democrats, caucus call. Caucus call. Senate Democrats, please note the caucus call.

Summary: The Senate met with a quorum, excused several members, and heard a memorial statement from Majority Floor Leader Singh honoring Thomas James Cleary, a longtime Michigan public servant, lobbyist, and civic volunteer. The chamber also recognized a departing staff member from Senator Geis’s office and later welcomed guests from Cleary’s family. No substantive debate occurred during these tributes, and remarks were ordered printed in the journal. The Senate then handled a large number of introductions and referrals, including Senate Joint Resolution K to prohibit autopen use by certain executive officials, Senate bills on Treasury revenue collection and liquor control, and numerous House bills covering housing, health, insurance, natural resources, education, consumer finance, child care licensing, public employment contracts, and other topics. Several housing and finance-related House bills were sent directly to the Committee of the Whole by unanimous consent. In Committee of the Whole, bills including House Bill 4072, House Bill 5630, Senate Bills 792, 793, 947, 1013, and 885 were considered; substitutes were adopted for House Bill 5630, Senate Bills 1013, 947, and 885, and the committee recommended all of those bills, plus House Bill 4072, Senate Bills 792 and 793, for third reading. On final passage, House Bill 4042 and House Bill 5630 each passed 34-0, with four members excused. The Senate also concurred in the House substitute to Senate Concurrent Resolution 14, approving an extension of the state energy emergency, by a 33-1 vote. By contrast, concurrence in the House substitute to Senate Bill 878 failed 2-32, sending that appropriations bill to conference committee. The House then named conferees on Senate Bill 878, and the Senate named conferees for both SB 878 and HB 5630 after the chambers disagreed on those measures.

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• The clerk will call the roll. Will the Senate agree to the bill? The clerk will call the roll.
• And when history called, he answered.
• And when history called, he answered.
• The clerk will proceed with a fast roll call. Mr. Costa or Judy.
• The clerk will proceed with a fast roll call. Kim, Muth, or Judy.

Keywords: Scheduler, 972, senate, all

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• . >> Call the roll. >> Addabbo, Gianaris, Krueger, Ortt, Stewart-Cousins, Weik. >> Announce the result
• the Labor Law. >> Read the last section. >> Section 6, this act shall take effect immediately. >> Call
• shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as the chapters of the Laws of 2025. >> Call
• >> CALL THE ROLL. >> ADDABBO, GIANARIS, KRUEGER, ORTT, STEWART-COUSINS, WEIK.
• Rec., this act shall take effect in the same manner as the chapters of the Laws of 2025. >> Call the

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate met on January 20, 2026, approved the Journal, and adopted the resolution calendar. It then took up Senate Resolution 1324, sponsored by Senator Stec, which memorializes the Governor to proclaim January 25-31, 2026, as Medicolegal Death Investigation Professionals Week. Senator Stec described the work of medicolegal death investigators and recognized guests from several districts; the resolution was opened for co-sponsorship. The Senate then considered a series of bills on the calendar, including measures amending the Insurance, Labor, Workers’ Compensation, Public Health, State Finance, State Technology, Environmental Conservation, Criminal Procedure, Executive, and Veteran Services laws. Most bills passed with broad support, though several drew negative votes from individual senators or small groups, including Calendar 34 (Insurance Law), Calendar 47 (Environmental Conservation Law), Calendar 61 (Public Health Law), and Calendar 74 (Veteran Services Law). Senator Murray briefly explained his support for Calendar 62, a Criminal Procedure Law bill, suggesting additional confirmation for victim notifications if email notice is expanded. The Senate also discharged Assembly Bill 9436 from Rules and substituted identical Senate Bill 8773. After completing the calendar, the Majority Conference committee assignments were filed in the Journal. The Senate then adjourned until Monday, January 26, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., with intervening days designated as legislative days.

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• The clerk will call the roll. Chairman Bettencourt? Present. Senator Middleton? Senator Cook?
• The clerk will call the roll. Senator Cook? Senator Gutierrez? Senator Nichols? Senator Paxton?
• The clerk will call the roll. Chairman Bettencourt? Aye. Senator Middleton? Senator Cook?
• The clerk will call the roll. Chairman Bettencourt? Aye. Senator Middleton? Senator Cook?
• Clerk, call the roll for HB 3687. It's HB 3687, by Representative Harlis. Clerk will call the roll.

Bills: HB24, SB3038, SB3045, SB3065, SB3069, SB3071, HB2025, HB2149, HB3370, HB4205, HB4506, HB5424, HB5652, HB24, HB3687

Keywords: groundwater, conservation, water permits, sustainability, resource management, Fort Bend County, Municipal Utility District, MUD, special district, Rosenberg, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, TCEQ, ad valorem tax, bond issuance, assessments, fees, taxes, eminent domain, road district, storm drainage

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• Secretary, please call the roll. You call the roll.
• Secretary, please call the absent members.
• Denim Day calls on us to do more than wear jeans.
• We will call the roll. Secretary, please call the roll. Allen. Aye. Alvarado-Gil. Aye. Archuleta.
• Secretary, please call the roll. Alan Avarado. Call the roll. Alan. Havarado Gill. Archiletta. Aye.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• Tamara, please call the roll.
• Clerk: Representative Call? Representative Call: Yes. Clerk: Representative Cross?
• Clerk: Representative Call? Representative Call: Yes. Clerk: Representative Cross?
• Clerk: Representative Call? Representative Call: Yes. Clerk: Representative Cross?
• It's about the ingrained—and I will call it white supremacy.

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• Chair calls, uh, oh, I'm sorry.
• The chair calls Veronica worms.
• The chair calls Kathy Hagler.
• All right, so at this time, chair calls, who am I calling?
• So I had just called, um, sure called, had called for, what did I say?

Bills: HB311

Keywords: flood hazards, recreational vehicles, temporary dwelling structures, Texas Water Development Board, flood safety standards, emergency management

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• This time the chair calls up Charlie Malouf.
• Uh, under the penal code, it's called deadly conduct.
• This time the chair calls up Patty Henry.
• We, uh, call up at this time, the chair calls up Ron Foster, director of enforcement of TDLR.
• The chair calls up Jeff Ormsby.

Bills: HB153

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• Julia, please call the roll. Chair Brannon. Here. Vice Chair Barnaby. Here.
• Julia, please call the roll on CS for HB 757.
• Call the roll on HB 6519 and announce the vote.
• And FOP did call me the night before. I have no recollection of the phone call.
• They did call me. I had a four-minute-long conversation.

Summary: The Judiciary Committee took up a long agenda of 20 bills, beginning with CS/HB 1173 on the Florida Trust Code, which clarified that the Florida Attorney General is the only public official with standing to enforce charitable trusts administered in Florida; it was amended and reported favorably. The committee also unanimously or near-unanimously approved several claims and relief bills, including HB 6507 for Marcus Button, HB 6523 for Darlene Engerville and J.R., HB 6525 for Eric and Jennifer Miles, HB 6529 for J.N., and HB 6519 for the estate of Beniel Hambier, all involving settlements or compensation for injuries or wrongful death. Other measures reported favorably included CS/HB 213 on commercial squatters, CS/HB 1447 on trespass at large-scale ticketed events, CS/HB 515 updating the Uniform Commercial Code for virtual currency and related technologies, CS/HB 1007 on gift card fraud, CS/HB 1049 on protection of court officials, CS/HB 1219 on non-compete and garden leave agreements, CS/HB 399 on stolen valor in the ethics code, CS/HB 57 on xylazine regulation, HB 901 on court-appointed psychologists, and CS/HB 265 on enforcing terrorism-related judgments against frozen assets. Most of these bills had support from industry, law enforcement, or affected parties and passed with little or no opposition. The most contested measure was CS/HB 1517, which would expand Florida’s wrongful death statute to include parents of unborn children as survivors. Supporters argued it would allow families to recover damages when negligence causes the loss of a pregnancy, while opponents—including the ACLU of Florida, Planned Parenthood affiliates, reproductive rights advocates, and some committee members—warned it could be used to advance fetal personhood, chill medical care, and empower abusive partners or others to sue over abortion-related conduct. The sponsor said the bill remained within the wrongful death framework and included protections for mothers and lawful medical providers, but the committee still reported it favorably on a 14-6 vote. CS/HB 903, a corrections bill addressing inmate litigation, sentencing, execution methods, tracking devices, health services, and offender review appointments, also drew debate over a proposed tolling amendment and due process concerns; the amendment failed and the bill passed 16-5. CS/HB 57 on xylazine likewise saw debate over whether penalties should target users or traffickers, but the committee rejected a narrowing amendment and passed the bill 20-1. Several bills were amended in committee, often with technical or clarifying changes, including CS/HB 1219, HB 1351 on sexual offender and predator registration, and HB 901. Public testimony was generally supportive on the non-controversial bills, especially from law enforcement, business groups, and affected claimants. At the end of the meeting, Rep. Gottlieb offered a personal correction, acknowledging he had wrongly criticized FOP in a prior meeting after learning the organization had, in fact, contacted him. The committee then adjourned after completing the full agenda.

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• The clerk will call the roll. Chair Button? The clerk will call the roll. Button, here.
• The clerk will call the roll. Button? Pass and be printed. The clerk will call the roll.
• The chair calls Mary York.
• The chair calls Chuck Ross.
• The chair calls Emily Ames.

Bills: HB112, HB199, HCR9

Keywords: school district, bond issuance, election dates, voter approval, Texas Education Code, HCR 9, Texas State Cemetery, Hill Country flood, July 4 2025 flood, Guadalupe River, Camp Mystic, memorial, monument, concurrent resolution, disaster remembrance, natural disaster, flood victims, survivors, State Preservation Board, Texas secretary of state

Summary: The Committee on Trade, Workforce and Economic Development met with a quorum and moved quickly through a long agenda, hearing testimony and taking recorded votes on several bills. Early in the meeting, HB 2214 was laid out to exempt certain short-term residential leases and leaseback arrangements from flood-disclosure requirements; Texas Realtors supported the change, and the bill was left pending. The committee then voted out a series of pending measures, including HB 46, HB 186 (with a committee substitute), HB 431, HB 1147, HB 1154, HB 2468, HB 2488, HB 2788 (with a substitute), HB 2791 (with a substitute), HB 3260, and HCR 90, all reported favorably to the full House, with HB 1147 receiving two nays and the others passing unanimously or nearly so. A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 112, which would create a Texas Science Park district and commission to support advanced manufacturing and innovation sites. The bill’s author and supporters, including Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the Texas Association of Business, and the Governor’s economic development office, argued it would strengthen supply chains, attract investment, and support national security and workforce development. Testimony described interest from semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies and referenced the model of foreign science parks such as Sinshu in Taiwan. HB 112 was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard HB 3698 and HB 3699, both related to unemployment insurance administration. HB 3698 would expand eligibility for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program using federal funds, while HB 3699 would tighten the definition of “last work” to help the Texas Workforce Commission investigate UI fraud. Both bills were discussed with TWC resource witnesses and left pending after the committee withdrew the substitutes. HB 1349, which would extend HOA transparency and property-rights provisions to condominiums and refine HOA rules, and HB 621, which would require HOA meeting spaces to be available for residents to reserve for qualified political candidates or elected officials, were also heard and left pending. Finally, the committee heard HCR 9 to designate the first Saturday of each month as Small Business Saturday, HB 199 to index unemployment benefit duration to the state unemployment rate, and HB 3466 to exempt certain cancelable service contracts from Texas’s in-home sales cooling-off law; each drew supportive and opposing testimony and was left pending before adjournment.

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• The Chief Clerk will call the names of the members voting remotely. I'm going to call the roll.
• A roll call has been requested. Seeing 15 hands, there will be a roll call.
• I'd like to request a roll call on this amendment. A roll call has been requested.
• Madam Speaker, I request a roll call. A roll call has been requested.
• He has requested a roll call. There will be a roll call.

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• Clerk Jared will call the roll.
• The clerk will call the roll.
• The clerk will call the roll.
• The clerk will call the roll.
• The clerk will call the roll.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Local Government considered a series of pending bills and committee substitutes, with most measures advancing on largely party-line or unanimous votes. Senator Hinojosa explained Senate Bill 427, which would require local governments to be current on annual financial reporting before receiving state loans or grants, with exceptions for disaster declarations and added procedures for water districts. The committee adopted the substitute and reported it to the Senate, then placed it on the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also advanced SB 65, SB 241, SB 304, SB 402, SB 413, SB 499, SB 621, SB 850, SB 854, SB 974, SB 15, SB 1023, SB 1024, and SB 1025, with several of those also sent to the local and uncontested calendar. Several bills were briefly explained before votes. SB 304 concerned municipal court jurisdiction over health and safety and nuisance matters. SB 850’s substitute created a uniform 60-day timeline for property tax refund issuance. SB 854’s substitute made multiple changes to local land-use authority, including removing group homes in support of housing, allowing regulation of short-term rentals, preserving HOA and deed restrictions, protecting historic districts, lowering the required residential share in mixed-use projects from 65% to 50%, and limiting new setback, height, and parking restrictions on existing building conversions. SB 413 and SB 850 were reported with committee substitutes in lieu of the filed bills. Most votes were favorable, often unanimous, though SB 241 and SB 621 each had one dissenting vote, SB 1106 was reported with one member present and not voting, and SB 1024 initially had one present-not-voting before Senator West later changed to aye. SB 1106 was reported to the full Senate with a recommendation that it do not pass, while the other measures generally received do-pass recommendations. The committee concluded by recessing subject to the call of the chair.

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• The Senate Committee on Housing is now called to order.
• Okay, we'll keep that on call.
• We call it the California Housing Justice Act.
• Okay, we'll keep that bill and call for absent.
• If we can please call the roll. Motion do pass to the... If we can please call the roll.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• And I hope when it is, if it's adopted by a call of the yeas and nays.
• Sufficient number have arisen; a yeas and nays will be called.
• Those in support of a call of the yeas and nays, please rise.
• A sufficient number have arisen; the yeas and nays will be called.
• School committees are called upon every day to approve policies.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate resumed debate on Senate No. 2696, An Act Regarding Free Expression, a bill addressing challenges to books and other library materials in school and public libraries. Senators supporting the bill argued it protects free expression and gives students, parents, guardians, and others a court path to challenge removals, while opponents raised concerns about parental rights, school control, and the scope and timing of the review process. Several speakers also emphasized the broader context of book bans and the impact on authors, librarians, and students. A number of amendments were considered. Amendment 4, offered by Senator Creem, was adopted and extended standing to authors and creators to challenge removals of their works, including in municipal libraries. Amendment 5, by Senator DiDomenico, was adopted and limited who may initiate challenges to those connected to the school community. Amendment 6, by Senator Comerford, was adopted to require that challenged materials be considered in their entirety. Amendment 8, by Senator Tarr, proposing parental notification of challenges, was rejected after a roll call. Subsequent Tarr amendments on parental opt-out, reporting, public process, and written policy were also rejected, while Amendment 19, requiring written reasons when librarians remove outdated or successor materials, was rejected as well. Amendment 7, a Ways and Means amendment, was adopted. The Senate then ordered the bill to a third reading and passed it to be engrossed by a roll call vote of 35 in favor and 3 against. The chamber also adopted an order to meet again the following Monday at 11:00 a.m., and then adjourned.

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• Please call the Roll Chair Passadomo here.
• Please call the >> Appreciate your favorable support, Cindy. Please call the Roll on Cs for SB 658.
• So when we think about implementing this bill, the hotel operators to calling their calling law enforcement
• Cindy, please call the role on SB 2.
• Cindy, please call the role on SB. 26 7.26.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• No, she called. Okay. Okay. No, she called. Okay. Okay.
• Seeing none, the question is, who called roll call? Senator Mcu has requested a roll call.
• clerk will call the role. clerk will call the role.
• No roll call. Okay. No roll Okay. Nope. No roll call. Okay.
• Roll call. Second. A roll call question? Roll call. Second.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• The clerk will call the role. The clerk will call the role.
• request a roll call, Madam President. request a roll call, Madam President.
• I haven't been called called called >> on.<00:50:41.119> I<00:50:41.599> I<00:50:
• call. Seconded by Senator Alchiller. call. Seconded by Senator Alchiller.
• The clerk will call the role. >> Okay. The clerk will call the role.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• The chair calls Aleem Virani. Thank you. Thank you. The chair calls David Smith.
• That and then give me a call.
• So the reason I call it...
• Next, the Chair calls Sean Breedlove. Next, the Chair calls Sean Breedlove. Thank you. Mr.
• We're going to call the chair's going to call Chad Goldwasser.

Bills: HB24, HB2015, HB2149, HB2559, HB2701, HB2797, HB3172, HB24

Keywords: zoning, public notice, local government, residential development, protests, water conservation, municipal utility districts, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, environmental regulation, groundwater management, nonconforming uses, zoning regulations, land use, property rights, municipal authority, municipal moratorium, development moratorium, property development, subdivision, site plan