The House has adjourned until Monday, August 23rd at 4:00 p.m.
The Senate has recessed until Thursday, August 26th at 2:00 p.m.
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Senate
The Senate convened on August 23 to refer the following bill and recessed shortly after:
SB 83 (Hughes) Relating to certain interference with electronic mail messages
- Referred to State Affairs
House
The House confirmed a quorum was present on August 19th shortly after 6:00 p.m. The following bills were then referred to committee, scheduled for hearing, or voted out:
HB 1 (Bonnen) relating to making appropriations for the legislature and legislative agencies.
- Referred to House Appropriations, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
HB 5 (Bonnen) relating to making supplemental appropriations and giving direction regarding appropriations.
- Referred to House Appropriations, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
HB 7 (Landgraf) Relating to the transportation, storage, or disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
- Referred to House Environmental Regulation
HB 9 (Bonnen) Relating to making supplemental appropriations relating to border security and giving direction regarding those appropriations.
- Referred to House Appropriations
HB 20 (Cain) Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages.
- Referred to House Select Constitutional Rights & Remedies, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
HB 28 (Toth/Metcalf/White) Relating to curriculum, materials, and activities in public schools.
- Referred to House Public Education, scheduled for public hearing on 8/24
SB 1 (Hughes) Relating to election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses; providing civil penalties.
- Referred to House Select Constitutional Rights & Remedies, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
SB 2 (Perry) Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.
- Referred to House Public Education, scheduled for public hearing on 8/24
SB 3 (Hughes) Relating to civics training programs for certain public school social studies teachers and principals, parental access to certain learning management systems, and certain curriculum in public schools, including certain instructional requirements and prohibitions.
- Referred to House Public Education, scheduled for public hearing on 8/24
SB 4 (Lucio) Relating to abortion complication reporting and the regulation of drug-induced abortion procedures, providers, and facilities; creating a criminal offense.
- Referred to House Public Health
SB 5 (Hughes) Relating to complaint procedures and disclosure requirements for, and to the censorship of users’ expressions by, social media platforms.
- Referred to House Select Constitutional Rights & Remedies
SB 6 (Huffman) Relating to rules for setting the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a monetary bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bonds.
- Referred to House Select Constitutional Rights & Remedies, voted out in a public hearing on 8/23
SB 7 (Huffman) Relating to a one-time supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
- Referred to House Appropriations, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
SB 8 (Bettencourt) Relating to the authority of a person who acquires a residence homestead to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the homestead in the year in which the property is acquired and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in revenue.
- Referred to House Ways & Means, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
SB 9 (Huffman/West) Relating to requiring public schools to provide instruction and materials and adopt policies relating to the prevention of child abuse, family violence, and dating violence.
- Referred to House Public Education, scheduled for public hearing on 8/24
SB 12 (Bettencourt/Kolkhorst) Relating to the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction from the preceding tax year in the district’s maximum compressed rate and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in local revenue.
- Referred to House Ways & Means, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
SB 13 (Huffman) Relating to dates of certain elections to be held in 2022.
- Referred to House Select Constitutional Rights & Remedies, voted out in a formal meeting on 8/20
SB 15 (Taylor) Relating to virtual and off-campus electronic instruction at a public school, the satisfaction of teacher certification requirements through an internship teaching certain virtual courses, and the allotment for certain special-purpose school districts under the Foundation School Program.
- Referred to House Public Education, scheduled for public hearing on 8/24
SJR 2 (Bettencourt/Kolkhorst) Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.
- Referred to House Ways & Means, scheduled for public hearing on 8/23
SJR 3 (Huffman) Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary and authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons.
- Referred to House Select Constitutional Rights & Remedies, voted out in a formal meeting on 8/20