Senate Floor Action for 8/27/2025

SENATE FLOOR ACTION



Wednesday

August 27, 2025




The Senate concurred in House amendments to the following:


SB 3 Bettencourt/ Alvarado/ Birdwell/ Blanco/ Campbell/ et al. SP: Wilson/ Darby/ et al.

Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flash flood-prone areas.


SB 16 West/ Alvarado/ Bettencourt/ Blanco/ Campbell/ et al. SP: Dyson/ Anchía/ et al.

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.


Committee referral on the following:


HB 8 Buckley/ Bell, Keith/ Metcalf/ Landgraf/ Wilson/ et al. SP: Bettencourt

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.

Finance


HB 25 Shofner/ Harris/ Wilson/ Pierson/ Virdell/ et al. SP: Hall

Relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without a prescription.

Health & Human Services


HB 26 Oliverson/ Schofield/ DeAyala/ Harless/ Hull/ et al. SP: Bettencourt

Relating to contracting with law enforcement agencies in certain counties.

Finance


HB 48 Darby/ Lalani/ Zwiener/ et al.

Relating to the creation of a working group to study alert notification systems.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select


HB 149 Louderback/ Leo Wilson/ Lopez, Janie/ Plesa/ Lalani

Relating to the governor's review of purchases by political subdivisions of public safety radio communication systems.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select


HB 192 Oliverson/ Cain/ Toth/ Hull/ Cunningham/ et al. SP: Bettencourt

Relating to the funding of law enforcement agencies in certain counties.

Finance


HB 254 Ashby/ Virdell/ Wharton/ Holt/ Lopez, Janie/ et al.

Relating to eligibility of a political subdivision for a grant from the Rural Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Program.

Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select