Texas Legislature
Bills Authored / Joint Authored
Sen. José Menéndez
89th Legislature Second Called Session
Report Date: 9/1/2025

Number of Bills: 14

No bills have been authored.

Additional Primary Authors (14):
SB 2 Author: Perry | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Sponsor: King | Meyer | Moody | Wilson | Darby
Last Action: 08/27/2025 S House appoints conferees-reported
Caption: Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.

SB 3 Author: Bettencourt | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Wilson | Darby | Leo Wilson | Virdell | Wharton
Last Action: 08/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flash flood-prone areas.

SB 5 Author: Huffman | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Sponsor: Bonnen
Last Action: 08/26/2025 S House appoints conferees-reported
Caption: Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.

SB 11 Author: Parker | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Cook
Last Action: 08/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.

SB 14 Author: Perry | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Sponsor: Bell, Cecil
Last Action: 08/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.

SB 16 Author: West | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: Dyson | Anchía | Ashby | Cain | DeAyala
Last Action: 08/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: 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.

SB 18 Author: Zaffirini | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Sponsor: Gerdes | Bumgarner | Leo Wilson
Last Action: 08/28/2025 E Sent to the Governor
Caption: Relating to an exemption from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain dams or reservoirs operated and maintained for the purposes of erosion, floodwater, and sediment control.

SB 31 Author: Johnson | Alvarado | Blanco | Cook | Eckhardt | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to the regulation of the cultivation, manufacture, processing, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, possession, use, and taxation of cannabis and cannabis products and the local regulation of licensed cannabis growers, cannabis establishments, cannabis testing facilities, and cannabis secure transporters; providing for expunction of records relating to certain decriminalized conduct; authorizing the imposition of fees; requiring an occupational license; creating a criminal offense; imposing a tax.

SB 32 Author: Eckhardt | Menéndez
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Division of Emergency Management for a local state of disaster; enhancing a criminal penalty.

SB 42 Author: Alvarado | Blanco | Cook | Eckhardt | Gutierrez | et al.
Last Action: 08/18/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to exceptions to certain laws prohibiting abortion.

SB 43 Author: Alvarado | Blanco | Cook | Eckhardt | Gutierrez | et al.
Last Action: 08/18/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to exceptions to and the repeal of certain laws prohibiting abortion.

SJR 2 Author: Johnson | Blanco | Cook | Eckhardt | Gutierrez | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Filed
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission to establish districts for the election of the members of the United States House of Representatives elected from this state, the Texas Senate, and the Texas House of Representatives.

SJR 3 Author: Johnson | Alvarado | Blanco | Cook | Eckhardt | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Filed
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the time in which the legislature may enact or modify districts for the Texas Legislature or the United States House of Representatives.

SR 4 Author: Campbell | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Last Action: 08/18/2025 S Received by the Secretary of the Senate
Caption: In memory of James Bruce Bugg Jr. of San Antonio.

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