SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     State Affairs 

TIME & DATE:   1:00 PM or upon adjournment
Friday, August 15, 2025 

PLACE:         E1.028 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Bryan Hughes 

The Senate Committee on State Affairs will meet to consider the following:

SB 6           Perry | et al.          
Relating to the regulation of certain products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and registrations; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.

SB 7           Hughes | et al.         
Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion litigation, immunity defenses and limits on state-court jurisdiction and relief, the parens patriae standing of the attorney general, and the jurisdiction of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals; providing for severability.

SB 8           Middleton | et al.      
Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.

SB 11          Parker | et al.         
Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.

SB 12          Hughes | et al.         
Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

SB 13          Middleton | et al.      
Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.

SB 15          King | et al.           
Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency.

SB 17          Hughes | et al.         
Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, record retention, youth diversion, court-ordered mental health services, the powers of the Texas Supreme Court, and jurors; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.

Public testimony will be limited to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please provide 25 copies to the committee clerk with your name and the bill number on each copy.

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