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• the Texas Code Construction Act.
• Texas Property Code chapter 51 relates to liens created against real property as enforcement of a deed
• We all know that Texas is becoming.
• Texas side.
• I, I've been in Texas since 2012.

Bills: HB74, HB175

Keywords: environmental project, public money, political subdivision, greenhouse gas emissions, federal law compliance, renewable energy, water conservation, retroactive child support, child conception, paternity, family law, health care expenses

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• He authored and passed a complete revision of the Texas ethics laws described by Texas Monthly as, quote
• the government code.
• Amanda is a graduate of Texas A&M and the University of Texas Law School.
• under 572021A3 of the government code.
• government code 572.054.

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• In fact, Texas Penal Code Section 38.11 prohibits such things as alcohol, deadly weapons, cell phones
• Under Texas Penal Code Section 38.115, it is an offense to operate a drone below 400 feet on a correctional
• Under Texas Penal Code 38.115, it is an offense to operate a drone below 400 feet on a correctional facility
• And that individual has absolutely no authority to enforce the Transportation Code in Cedar Park, Texas
• We're out in West Texas, San Antonio, Central Texas.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• I'm the Texas director and chief of staff for Right on Crime at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
• Uh, Little Housekeeping, we show you registered as Nikki Presley, Texas director, Right on Crime, Texas
• In sections 4904, 4905, 06, and 065, the penal code and chapter 71 of the penal code.
• The Texas Government Code 501, inmate welfare subchapter B addresses mental health conditions.
• This penal code is nothing more.

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• the heart of Central Texas.
• Rob played a key role in drafting and implementing the 1993 Texas Penal Code.
• And in Texas, we will not.
• Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 843, relating to a Texas Education database of school district bonds
• Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 843, relating to a Texas Education database of school district bonds

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation, messages from the House, and several recognitions, including county day delegations from Fayette, LaSalle, Jim Hogg, Austin, and others, as well as a recognition of Rob Keppel for his career with the Texas District and County Attorneys Association. The chamber also adopted several resolutions, including SR 429 designating October 2025 as RET Syndrome Awareness Month and SR 432 honoring Rob Keppel. A doctor-of-the-day introduction and a public announcement about free skin checks were also made. The Senate then took up and passed several bills. SB 1152, creating the offense of continuous manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance, passed after suspension of the rules. SB 1868, regulating kratom and related substances, was amended to prohibit smokeable kratom products and kratom pills and to clarify THC variants such as Delta-8 and Delta-10, then passed. SB 1349, creating offenses for transnational repression and unauthorized enforcement of foreign law, drew debate over a failed amendment that would have added election misinformation and foreign meddling; the bill ultimately passed unanimously. SB 2037, expediting review of LNG environmental permits, passed after amendments clarifying fees and deadlines, with opposition focused on its energy-policy implications. SB 1164, addressing emergency detention and court-ordered inpatient mental health treatment, passed after a drafting-error correction and discussion of the bill’s basis in recommendations from the Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health. The Senate also advanced SB 2743 on prosecution of certain election offenses, which would allow a court process to disqualify a local prosecutor who repeatedly refuses to prosecute election cases and appoint the Attorney General; it passed to engrossment amid questions about evidence and local discretion. SB 1299, protecting nonprofit members, supporters, volunteers, and donors from disclosure by public agencies, passed unanimously. SB 2349, exempting certain short-term leases and temporary tenancies from floodplain notice requirements, passed unanimously. SB 2788, adding PSAT and pre-ACT scores for Texas Success Initiative exemptions and clarifying dual-credit eligibility, passed unanimously after amendment. SB 843, creating a TEA database of school district bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects and adding charter schools, passed after amendments on funding and scope. Finally, SB 1832, allowing parents to transfer a student who was victimized by a public school employee to another campus, passed to engrossment after extended debate over whether the bill should also cover private schools and how it would interact with school choice and ESA policy. SB 39, revising the admission rule in commercial motor vehicle collision cases, was laid out and debated over its effect on negligent entrustment and related evidence, with the author emphasizing that the bill preserves the bifurcated trial structure and does not alter other admissibility rules.

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• We are educators wanting to improve the educational experience for all Texas students.
• In Texas, 1.1 million Latino students are served by bilingual education, and 12% of all Texas students
• Bad education bills are abundant in Austin, Texas.
• Texas wants to lead the nation in public education.
• Texas wants to lead the nation in public education.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 convened with a quorum, adopted its committee rules, and heard opening remarks from members introducing staff and outlining priorities for the session. Several senators emphasized support for public education, teacher pay and safety, parental choice, and the combined K-16 jurisdiction of the committee. The chair also reviewed hearing procedures, including public testimony registration and time limits. The main item was Senate Bill 2, the Texas Education Freedom Act, laid out by Chairman Creighton. He described the bill as an education savings account program intended to expand school choice, with a $200 million universal eligibility pool and an additional $800 million targeted to students with disabilities and lower-income families. He said the bill includes anti-fraud safeguards, criminal background checks for vendors, reporting requirements, data protections, and annual testing for participating students, while not imposing STAAR on private schools or homeschoolers. He also said the bill removes a prior hold-harmless provision for public schools and is separate from public school funding and teacher pay legislation. Members questioned the bill’s income threshold, lottery and priority structure, treatment of homeschoolers, microschools, charter schools, religious freedom protections, citizenship/lawful presence language, cybersecurity, open records, and disability-related issues, including whether 504 students and foster children should be included. Creighton said the bill is designed to prioritize former public school students with disabilities or lower incomes, while also allowing universal eligibility within the program’s first funding tier, and that the Comptroller would oversee vendor screening and cybersecurity rules. He said the bill does not direct curriculum or interfere with religious beliefs and that amendments may be offered later on citizenship and other issues. After member questions, the committee began invited testimony, starting with EdChoice representative Robert Inlow, who testified in support of SB 2 and cited national growth in school choice programs and studies he said show positive effects for students and public schools.

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• property code.
• Texas is different. Texas was founded on ideals of freedom and liberty.
• Texas is different.
• Um, appointed pursuant to the Texas government code. I specifically set for eviction dockets.
• Ways of Texas.

Bills: HB15, HB171, HB204

Keywords: flood risk, campground, safety regulations, civil penalty, guest safety, Harris County, flood control, governance, expansion, public health, local governance, environmental management

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• Section 264.902 of the Texas Family Code-created parental Child Safety Placement Agreements, which are
• code.
• It closes a loophole in the Texas Education code by making it clear that anabolic steroids prescribed
• education.
• SB 2398 instructs the Texas Education Agency TEA to create a list of non-medical academic accommodations

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• SB 1322 supports Texas's higher education institutions by establishing a Texas Higher Education Accreditation
• The Texas Higher Education Accreditation Commission, or the Act, will be composed of nine board members
• I'm the higher education policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
• The bill amends the Texas Education Code by establishing the Texas Higher Education Accrediting Commission
• It simply replaces the outdated term ACT plan with pre-ACT across the education code.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 heard several bills and took no final votes, leaving each measure pending. The first major item, SB 1322 by Senator Hagenbuch, would create a Texas Higher Education Accrediting Commission to evaluate and approve accrediting agencies for public colleges and universities using outcome-based metrics such as retention, graduation, employment, debt, and repayment. Supporters, including Kate Byerley of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, argued the bill would add competition and align accreditation with Texas workforce needs; Senator Menendez questioned the need for a new bureaucracy and noted the $3.6 million fiscal note, suggesting existing reporting and oversight structures could serve the same purpose. The committee then heard SB 1998, which would establish a pediatric subspecialty preceptorship program to encourage medical students to enter pediatric subspecialties. Dr. Lauren Gamble testified in strong support, saying the program would help address shortages and improve access for children, especially in rural and underserved areas. SB 2788, authored by Senator Menendez, would add the PSAT as an accepted assessment for dual credit and Texas Success Initiative purposes; Priscilla Camacho of Alamo Colleges supported the bill, citing strong student outcomes and widespread use of the PSAT as a readiness indicator. Senator Creighton laid out SB 2076, which would remove or modify certain Capitol view corridor restrictions affecting the UT Austin Academic Medical Center project, including the planned specialty hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center expansion. He said the existing corridors are outdated and limit development. The committee also heard SB 1418, a cleanup bill replacing outdated references to ACT Plan with Pre-ACT and removing obsolete SAT subject test language. After brief testimony and no opposition on the later bills, the committee closed public testimony and left SB 1322, SB 1998, SB 2788, SB 2076, and SB 1418 pending before recessing for the floor session.

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• The legislature in Texas provides a vast amount of support to its veterans in the state of Texas through
• Each program is in the Texas Government Code, authorized by the legislature to serve our veterans.
• In Texas, we have it at the Texas Veterans Commission.
• And we also send out a recurring Work in Texas data from our Texas workforce partners.
• Government Code.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Veteran Affairs heard a briefing from the Texas Veterans Commission on its major programs and outreach efforts. TVC described its claims assistance, health care advocacy, education oversight, employment services, entrepreneurship support, mental health and suicide prevention work, women veterans services, grant funding for nonprofits and local governments, and support for veteran treatment courts. The agency also highlighted its communications strategy, including media outreach, events, newsletters, social media, and the Texas Veterans State Benefits Booklet, and noted that less than 58% of veterans were aware of TVC in the latest needs assessment. A committee member asked about performance metrics, and TVC said each appropriation has associated measures and that it could provide recent results. The committee then took up Senate Bill 651, which would allow a county veterans service office in a large county to report either directly to commissioners court or to a designated county executive official. Senator West explained the bill as a cleanup of current practice, and Dallas County testified in support, saying the change would streamline internal management. No opposition was heard, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 897 would reduce the non-state matching requirement for the Texas Veterans and Family Alliance grant program in larger counties from 100 percent to 75 percent in the committee substitute, rather than the 50 percent reduction in the filed version. Supporters from MetroCare and Emergence Health Network said the lower match would help sustain and expand veteran mental health services, citing increased demand and program growth. The bill was left pending after testimony. The committee also adopted its rules. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 1814, which would create an interagency database to collect and coordinate contact information for transitioning veterans so agencies could proactively connect them with services. Senator Hancock said the goal was to better use information already being collected, though he noted the bill had a significant fiscal note. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1818, which would create a temporary six-month licensing and certification process for military members and spouses assigned to Texas while they wait for letters of good standing from other states. VFW testified in support, emphasizing the importance of employment for military families. Both bills were left pending, and the committee recessed subject to the call of the chair.

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• Lindy McGee testifying on behalf of Texas Medical Association and Texas.
• He's licensed in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Texas, and I'm a licensed Texas realtor.
• Did this occur in Texas? It did not occur in Texas. I'm in Virginia. Thank you. OK. Thank you.
• No realtor member in Texas has ever been found in violation of the code of ethics anti-discrimination
• These are Texas realtors.

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• So we respond in Texas from Texas to other states and we see that as well, but just in Texas itself we
• data as described in Texas Water Code 16.026. ex-resident stations began reporting in 2016.
• And there are only two networks in Texas, Texas Mesonet and West Texas Mesonet, that meet this 5-minute
• Texas at Austin.
• On a smaller scale, here in Texas, we have the South Texas Weather Modification Association. by the Texas

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• vote in Texas?
• vote in Texas?
• Texas Government Code Chapter 552 and Texas Election Code Sections 1.012 and 18.66 say the door to election
• That loss of transparency conflicts with the Texas Election Code, Section 122.001A10, which requires
• Across the Texas Election Code, certain election processes overlap, leading to inefficiencies and potential

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• The Speaker pro tempore: The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas, Mr.
• REMOVING OUR NAVAJO CODE TALK YOURS WHO HELPED US DEFEAT JAPAN.
• OF JANUARY 3, 2025, THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM TEXAS, MS.
• We must educate.
• and higher education, and uplifting immigrant and marginalized communities.

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• codes.
• This bill creates a new offense under Section 16.021 of the Texas Penal Code, making it a second-degree
• crime networks, which this bill smartly addresses by amending section 71.02 of the Texas Penal Code
• Uh, code As a part of this bill.
• Under current Texas Penal Code Section 2201, assault is generally classified as a Class A misdemeanor

Bills: HB316

Keywords: Medicaid, healthcare, affordable care act, medical assistance, federal funding

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• tax code.
• House Bill 3699 would amend the Texas Labor Code to define last work and.
• Section 552,130 of the government code and Section 730007 of the Transportation code to clarify that
• By amending Chapter 201, Texas Labor Code, House Bill 33,700 would ensure that all programs at TWC have
• Labor Code.

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• It represents a strategic investment in the educational and economic future of Texas.
• Department of Education amended federal rules to no longer require institutions of higher education to
• However, there are parts of the code that still require Texas institutions of higher education to be
• Senate Bill 530 simply cleans up Texas code to be in line with federal rules.
• Senate Bill 530 simply cleans up Texas code to be in line with federal rules and gives colleges and universities

Summary: The Senate Committee on K-16 met with 14 bills on the agenda and announced it would recess around 9:45 to attend the floor session, then resume afterward. The committee first took up Senate Bill 2361, which would transfer governance of the University of Houston-Victoria from the University of Houston System to the Texas A&M University System and rename it Texas A&M University-Victoria. Senator Cole explained that the committee substitute added transition language for employee health benefits and ERS contributions. Supporters, including Texas A&M System officials, Victoria’s mayor, regional economic development leaders, a Formosa Plastics representative, a Victoria College trustee, and a local business owner, said the move would better align the university with regional industry needs, especially engineering, agriculture, and workforce development, while helping retain local students and support economic growth. A Texas A&M official also noted accreditation, data-system, and other transition challenges, but said the change was manageable. Because there was no quorum, the committee could not adopt the substitute, and SB 2361 was left pending subject to the call of the chair after public testimony closed. The committee then heard Senate Bill 530 from Senator Sparks, which would update Texas higher education law to match federal rules allowing institutions to use any nationally recognized accreditor rather than only a regional accreditor. Sparks said the bill was a cleanup measure responding to a 2019 federal rule change and prior concerns had been addressed over the interim. Testimony in support came from a Texas Public Policy Foundation fellow, who said the bill would give universities flexibility, preserve quality standards, and simplify credit transfer and costs for students. With no opposition and no questions, public testimony closed and SB 530 was left pending. The committee then recessed subject to the call of the chair.

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• It requires the department to work in coordination with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
• That as my work or through my work as chair of the Texas Board of Nursing Education Task Force, I've
• around Texas.
• Zip codes, CIP codes are like the Dewey Decimal system for college degrees, and zip code 51 degrees are
• Just for some context, um, the nursing education program information survey that's produced by the Texas

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• And so today under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, Texas Rules of Appellate procedure.
• I'm here on my own behalf and on behalf of the Texas Business Law Foundation.
• I'm with the 3rd, uh, division of the Texas Business Court.
• CLE and other educational opportunities to talk about our court, um.
• The bankruptcy code has related to jurisdiction and it's, what is it, 28 USC 1334.

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• to education K through 16.
• Senate Bill 735 by Menendez relating to Holocaust education and training to education K through 16.
• Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding enrollment and success in higher education for students
• Texas Families Program to Health and Human Services.
• to Education K through 16.