Senate Floor Action for 4/22/2025

SENATE FLOOR ACTION



Tuesday

April 22, 2025




The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:


SJR 68 Birdwell/ et al.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to clarify and implement certain provisions governing the impeachment, trial, removal from office, and disqualification of public officers.


SB 217 West/ et al.

Relating to establishing the Historic Texas Freedmen's Cemetery Designation Program; authorizing a fee.


SB 331 (CS) (LC)Kolkhorst

Relating to the disclosure of health care cost information by certain health care facilities; imposing an administrative penalty.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 530 Sparks

Relating to the accreditation of certain postsecondary educational institutions in this state or of certain programs offered by those institutions.


SB 546 (CS)Menéndez/ et al.

Relating to seat belts on buses that transport children.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 586 West/ et al.

Relating to establishing the Historic Texas Cemeteries Designation Program; authorizing a fee.


SB 1150 (CS)Middleton/ et al.

Relating to the plugging of and reporting on inactive wells subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas; authorizing an administrative penalty.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 1184 Creighton

Relating to the age of wine authorized to be sold by a wine collection seller.


SB 1261 (CS) (LC)Perry/ et al.

Relating to the financing of water supply projects included in the state water plan; authorizing the issuance of obligations.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 1398 (CS)Kolkhorst/ et al.

Relating to certain procedures in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship for a child placed in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and the provision of family preservation services and community-based foster care.


SB 1620 (CS)Huffman/ et al.

Relating to the establishment of the Texas forensic analyst apprenticeship pilot program.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 1923 (CS) (LC)West/ et al.

Relating to the modification of certain orders providing for the support of a child.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 1951 Paxton

Relating to the imposition of a penalty for failure to timely file a rendition statement or property report with the chief appraiser of an appraisal district.


SB 1960 (LC)Schwertner/ et al.

Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee.


SB 2051 (CS) (LC)Birdwell/ et al.

Relating to the impeachment or removal from office of certain public officers, including procedures governing the impeachment, trial on impeachment, and disqualification of state officers, and to the grounds for which certain public officers may be removed from office.

2 Floor Amendments


SB 2129 (LC)Johnson

Relating to the operation of vehicles at railroad grade crossings; increasing a criminal penalty.


SB 2183 Hinojosa, Adam

Relating to the periods during which a retail fireworks permit holder may sell fireworks to the public.


SB 2185 Hinojosa, Adam/ et al.

Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.


SB 2252 (CS)Creighton/ et al.

Relating to measures to support kindergarten readiness and early literacy and numeracy skills for public school students, including an early childhood parental support program and prekindergarten programs in public schools, and to funding under the Foundation School Program for certain school districts and to support those measures.

4 Floor Amendments


SB 2368 (CS) (LC)Campbell/ Hughes/ King/ Kolkhorst/ et al.

Relating to affiliation with certain foreign entities of certain persons working or participating in the electricity market; increasing an administrative penalty.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 2405 (CS)Parker/ Blanco/ Middleton/ Paxton/ Sparks/ et al.

Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to the functions of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee, the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments, and the Windham School District.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 2949 (CS)Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy"/ Hinojosa, Adam/ et al.

Relating to certain regulations involving motor fuels or other hazardous materials, including the transportation of motor fuels and other hazardous materials and restrictions on certain motor fuel depots; creating criminal offenses; authorizing a civil penalty.

3 Floor Amendments


The Senate suspended the regular order, read second time and passed to engrossment:


SB 825 (CS)Middleton/ et al.

Relating to an annual study on the economic, environmental, and financial impact of illegal immigration in this state.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 1870 (CS) (LC)Perry

Relating to municipal and county enforcement of drug and consumable hemp product laws; providing civil penalties.


SB 2010 (CS)Bettencourt/ et al.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to establish and operate a guaranteed income program.


The Senate adopted the following resolutions:


SR 434 Gutierrez/ Menéndez/ Zaffirini

Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Goodwill Industries of San Antonio.


Committee referral on the following:


SB 3048 Birdwell

Relating to the creation of the Bluebonnet Hills Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Local Government


SB 3049 Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy"

Relating to the release of a conservation easement burdening the Nueces County historic courthouse property.

Economic Development


SB 3050 Hughes

Relating to the creation of the Fannin County Improvement District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Local Government


SB 3051 Paxton

Relating to the creation of the Grassland Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Collin County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Local Government


SB 3052 Parker

Relating to the powers and duties and validating certain acts and proceedings of the Cole Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County, Texas.

Local Government


SB 3053 Parker

Relating to the powers and duties and validating certain acts and proceedings of the Hunter Ranch Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County, Texas.

Local Government


SB 3055 Middleton/ Blanco

Relating to the licensing and regulation of advanced practice registered nurses and the number of advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants with whom a physician may enter into a prescriptive authority agreement.

State Affairs


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