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| Bill | Caption | Action |
|---|---|---|
| HB 11 | Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Department of Public Safety, military and law enforcement training, and the investigation, prosecution, punishment, and prevention of certain offenses; creating an offense and increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees. | Filed |
| HB 12 | Relating to the border prosecution unit. | Filed |
| HB 62 | Relating to the transportation of certain mental health patients. | Filed |
| HB 66 | Relating to the consideration of the performance of students of limited English proficiency on state assessment instruments and inclusion of related information in campus report cards. | Filed |
| HB 68 | Relating to the creation of a Texas resident driver's permit, provisional Texas resident driver's permit, and Texas resident driver's instruction permit; creating an offense. | Filed |
| HB 88 | Relating to requiring state contractors to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. | Filed |
| HB 154 | Relating to a prohibition on certain law enforcement inquiries regarding the nationality or immigration status of a victim of or witness to a criminal offense. | Filed |
| HB 183 | Relating to requiring state agencies to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. | Filed |
| HB 209 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Filed |
| HB 231 | Relating to extending the court's jurisdiction in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship over certain young people for purposes of obtaining special immigrant juvenile status and Department of Family and Protective Services policies for handling cases involving those young people. | Filed |
| HB 306 | Relating to the provision of certain public benefits and services to persons not lawfully present in the United States and reimbursement from the federal government for those benefits and services. | Filed |
| HB 310 | Relating to the cost of confinement and imprisonment of persons not lawfully present in the United States and reimbursement from the federal government for that cost. | Filed |
| HB 316 | Relating to allowing a county commissioners court to contract with an attorney to enforce subdivision platting requirements in certain counties that are economically distressed or that are located near the international border of this state. | Filed |
| HB 360 | Relating to in-state tuition for non-legal residents of Texas and the United States. | Filed |
| HB 437 | Relating to eligibility to participate in health benefit programs for certain state employees reemployed after military service. | Filed |
| HB 559 | Relating to the duties of a magistrate to inform an arrested person of consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. | Filed |
| HB 586 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Filed |
| HB 592 | Relating to the duties of a law enforcement agency regarding the immigration status of an arrested person and the enforcement of an immigration detainer. | Filed |
| HB 630 | Relating to requiring state contractors and governmental entities to participate in the federal electronic verification of work authorization program, or E-Verify, and authorizing the suspension of certain licenses held by private employers for the knowing employment of persons not lawfully present in this state; authorizing a fee. | Filed |
| HB 672 | Relating to certain information concerning an applicant for certain occupational licenses. | Filed |
| HB 693 | Relating to the creation of a temporary visitor's driver's license, provisional temporary visitor's driver's license, and temporary visitor's driver's instruction permit; authorizing fees; creating an offense. | Filed |
| HB 715 | Relating to the disposition of certain surplus property by the Department of Public Safety to certain local governments. | Filed |
| HB 731 | Relating to a pilot program under the foundation school program for funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school districts with early high school graduation programs. | Filed |
| HB 739 | Relating to requiring governmental entities to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program or E-verify. | Filed |
| HB 796 | Relating to the purchase of certain insurance coverage and the performance of related risk management services for the Texas State University System and the component institutions of that system. | Filed |
| HB 887 | Relating to protections under civil and criminal law for certain young victims of trafficking; increasing the penalty for trafficking of persons. | Filed |
| HB 889 | Relating to requiring state contractors to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. | Filed |
| HB 966 | Relating to the creation of an optional consumer-directed health plan for certain individuals eligible to participate in the group benefits program provided under the Texas Employees Group Benefits Act and their qualified dependents. | Filed |
| HB 977 | Relating to expanding eligibility for medical assistance to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and ensuring the provision of quality care under and the effectiveness of the medical assistance program. | Filed |
| HB 979 | Relating to a grant program to reduce wait times for agricultural inspections of vehicles at ports of entry along the Texas-Mexico border. | Filed |
| HB 997 | Relating to certain duties of employers voluntarily participating in the federal E-Verify program and of the Texas Workforce Commission in regard to the E-Verify program; providing civil penalties. | Filed |
| HB 1063 | Relating to state assistance to certain counties for indigent burial costs. | Filed |
| HB 1125 | Relating to a study on the availability of natural gas utility service in certain counties. | Filed |
| HB 1150 | Relating to the sale of fireworks on and before certain holidays; affecting a provision subject to a criminal penalty. | Filed |
| HB 1213 | Relating to the regulation of amusement redemption machine game rooms in certain counties. | Filed |
| HB 1407 | Relating to the comparison of any list of the legal status of certain persons who are not citizens to the list of registered voters. | Filed |
| HB 1432 | Relating to optional fees on registration of vehicles in certain counties to fund transportation projects; authorizing a fee. | Filed |
| HB 1439 | Relating to the creation of an educational publication for judicial guidance on cases involving a child who may be eligible for special immigrant juvenile status. | Filed |
| HB 1450 | Relating to creating the Texas Border Security Division. | Filed |
| HB 1553 | Relating to requiring political subdivisions to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program or E-verify. | Filed |
| HB 1563 | Relating to the procedures for registering to vote. | Filed |
| HB 1602 | Relating to the establishment of the Texas Commission on Immigration and Migration and a migrant worker visa pilot project. | Filed |
| HB 1742 | Relating to certain convention center hotel projects. | Filed |
| HB 1761 | Relating to the oversight of state border security activities. | Filed |
| HB 1778 | Relating to the verification of the immigration status of an arrested person. | Filed |
| HB 1854 | Relating to documentation verifying that the interior of certain commercial motor vehicles was cleaned before loading cargo into the vehicles. | Filed |
| HB 1886 | Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose an assessment on landowners for the installation, operation, and maintenance of streetlights. | Filed |
| HB 1899 | Relating to a ribbon for certain members of the military forces who served in support of operations to secure the Texas border. | Filed |
| HB 2030 | Relating to the oversight of state border security activities. | Filed |
| HB 2035 | Relating to regulation by certain alcohol-related businesses based on the amount of alcohol sold. | Filed |
| HB 2095 | Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to undertake a qualified hotel project. | Filed |
| HB 2214 | Relating to the use of earnest money contracts to purchase land in certain border and economically distressed counties; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. | Filed |
| HB 2215 | Relating to notice and opportunity to cure before filing certain enforcement actions against subdividers of land in certain border and economically distressed counties. | Filed |
| HB 2280 | Relating to the creation and operations of health care provider participation programs in certain counties. | Filed |
| HB 2416 | Relating to an annual report on the financial impact of undocumented immigrants on the state budget and economy. | Filed |
| HB 2476 | Relating to the operations of health care funding districts in certain counties located on the Texas-Mexico border. | Filed |
| HB 2538 | Relating to the designation of certain customer bill payment assistance program costs as an expense of operation that is a first lien against revenue securing certain public securities or obligations in certain municipalities. | Filed |
| HB 2573 | Relating to a deceptive trade practice related to the use of certain words to imply that a person who is not an attorney is authorized to practice law and the prosecution of a cause of action arising from that practice. | Filed |
| HB 2640 | Relating to the cost of confinement and imprisonment of persons not lawfully present in the United States and reimbursement from the federal government for that cost. | Filed |
| HB 2661 | Relating to the functions of the Office of Immigration and Refugee Affairs and the Governor's Advisory Committee on Immigration and Refugees. | Filed |
| HB 2743 | Relating to enrollment of certain retirees in the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program. | Filed |
| HB 2783 | Relating to the establishment of the task force on asylum-seeking children. | Filed |
| HB 2806 | Relating to the prosecution of and increasing the punishment for the offense of unlawful smuggling or concealment of persons; creating an offense. | Filed |
| HB 2834 | Relating to restrictions in connection with public subsidies and contracts awarded to businesses that employ undocumented workers. | Filed |
| HB 2878 | Relating to certain qualified residential rental assistance projects financed by private activity bonds. | Filed |
| HB 2889 | Relating to the verification of citizenship of an applicant for voter registration. | Filed |
| HB 2912 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Filed |
| HB 2937 | Relating to the cancellation of a person's voter registration on notice that the person has acknowledged that the person is not a citizen. | Filed |
| HB 3037 | Relating to the border prosecution unit. | Filed |
| HB 3040 | Relating to the authority of certain economic development corporations to undertake and operate transportation-related projects. | Filed |
| HB 3057 | Relating to the creation of a pilot program for the purpose of controlling certain predatory animals. | Filed |
| HB 3073 | Relating to eligibility for a TEXAS grant. | Filed |
| HB 3112 | Relating to a report to the Legislative Budget Board on the border security functions of certain state agencies. | Filed |
| HB 3301 | Relating to the recognition of state citizenship and the issuance of state identification cards, driver's licenses, and occupational licenses to state residents regardless of their immigration status. | Filed |
| HB 3378 | Relating to the border commerce coordinator. | Filed |
| HB 3383 | Relating to the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program administered by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. | Filed |
| HB 3401 | Relating to an interstate compact on border security and immigration enforcement. | Filed |
| HB 3452 | Relating to regulation of subdivisions in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities. | Filed |
| HB 3584 | Relating to the verification of employment authorization by governmental entities, state contractors, and state grant recipients, including the use of the federal E-verify program. | Filed |
| HB 3587 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Filed |
| HB 3675 | Relating to the regulation of commercial development of groundwater in certain areas. | Filed |
| HB 3718 | Relating to the possible use of certain state-owned land for border security. | Filed |
| HB 3735 | Relating to cooperation with federal agencies on a guest worker program in this state. | Filed |
| HB 3793 | Relating to authorizing certain border counties and municipalities in those counties to regulate land development; providing a penalty. | Filed |
| HB 3860 | Relating to immigration visa waivers for physicians. | Filed |
| HB 3934 | Relating to Medicaid eligibility for certain residents. | Filed |
| HB 3948 | Relating to the review of the economic impact of the immigrant investor visa program. | Filed |
| HB 3950 | Relating to the recognition of certain employment authorizations granted by federal executive action. | Filed |
| HB 4017 | Relating to the appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund to finance certain temporary border security initiatives. | Filed |
| HB 4059 | Relating to limitations on annexation by and extraterritorial jurisdiction of certain municipalities. | Filed |
| HB 4076 | Relating to the recognition of certain employment authorizations granted by federal executive action. | Filed |
| HB 4117 | Relating to the enforcement of state and federal laws governing immigration by certain governmental entities. | Filed |
| HB 4120 | Relating to money transmissions sent to destinations outside the United States; authorizing a fee. | Filed |
| HCR 61 | Urging Congress to reimburse the State of Texas for bearing the financial burden of the federal government's responsibility to secure the Texas-Mexico international border. | Filed |
| HJR 137 | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for certain excess revenue to be dedicated toward contributions to state retirement systems, the health benefit plan for retired education employees and their dependents, the Texas tomorrow fund, the permanent school fund, and the permanent university fund. | Filed |
| HR 244 | Honoring the individuals who are providing humanitarian assistance to immigrants in McAllen. | Filed |
| SB 3 | Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Department of Public Safety, military and law enforcement training, and the investigation, prosecution, punishment, and prevention of certain offenses; creating an offense and increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 51 | Relating to local option elections to legalize or prohibit the operation of eight-liners and the imposition of a fee on eight-liner owners; providing penalties. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 58 | Relating to the enforcement of commercial vehicle safety standards by certain municipalities and counties. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 62 | Relating to accounting for costs incurred by this state as a result of the presence of persons who are not lawfully present in the United States. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 117 | Relating to eligibility for a TEXAS grant. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 132 | Relating to the creation of a Texas resident driver's permit, provisional Texas resident driver's permit, and Texas resident driver's instruction permit; creating an offense. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 160 | Relating to a prohibition on certain law enforcement inquiries regarding the nationality or immigration status of a victim of or witness to a criminal offense. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 171 | Relating to the addition of an offense for the continuous smuggling of persons. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 174 | Relating to the eligibility of certain persons to receive a sentence of community supervision, including deferred adjudication community supervision. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 185 | Relating to the enforcement of state and federal laws governing immigration by certain governmental entities. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 268 | Relating to the duties of a magistrate to inform an arrested person of consequences of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 351 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 374 | Relating to requiring state agencies to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 401 | Relating to requiring state contractors to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 421 | Relating to participation of certain school districts in the three-year high school diploma plan pilot program. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 423 | Relating to expanding eligibility for medical assistance to certain persons under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and ensuring the provision of quality care under and the effectiveness of the medical assistance program. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 482 | Relating to the creation of an optional consumer-directed health plan for certain individuals eligible to participate in the group benefits program provided under the Texas Employees Group Benefits Act and their qualified dependents. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 484 | Relating to restrictions in connection with public subsidies and contracts awarded to businesses that employ undocumented workers. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 579 | Relating to optional fees on registration of vehicles in certain counties to fund transportation projects; authorizing a fee. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 731 | Relating to funding for certain transportation infrastructure projects near the international border of this state; making an appropriation. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 781 | Relating to the purchase of certain insurance coverage and the performance of related risk management services for certain university systems and the component institutions of those systems. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 797 | Relating to a grant program to reduce wait times for agricultural inspections of vehicles at ports of entry along the Texas-Mexico border. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 838 | Relating to the functions of the Office of Immigration and Refugee Affairs, the Governor's Advisory Committee on Immigration and Refugees, and the use of the state's disaster contingency fund for purposes related to immigration and refugees. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 866 | Relating to the regulation of amusement redemption machine game rooms in certain counties. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 877 | Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the investigation, prosecution, punishment, and prevention of certain offenses; creating an offense and increasing a criminal penalty. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 897 | Relating to the verification of citizenship of an applicant for voter registration. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 959 | Relating to the collection of a complete set of fingerprints from certain applicants for driver's licenses. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 969 | Relating to the applicability of the law governing the mineral use of subdivided land. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 976 | Relating to certain qualified residential rental assistance projects financed by private activity bonds. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1029 | Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to undertake a qualified hotel project. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1035 | Relating to the oversight of state border security activities. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1091 | Relating to criminal trespass by an unauthorized immigrant; creating a criminal offense. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1252 | Relating to an interstate compact on border security and immigration enforcement. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1253 | Relating to a ribbon for certain members of the military forces who served in support of operations to secure the Texas border. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1348 | Relating to the operations of health care funding districts in certain counties located on the Texas-Mexico border. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1354 | Relating to state border security activities. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1375 | Relating to authorizing certain border counties and municipalities in those counties to regulate land development; providing a penalty. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1388 | Relating to cooperation with federal agencies on a guest worker program in this state. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1389 | Relating to the border commerce coordinator. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1429 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1464 | Relating to the creation of the transnational and organized crime division within the office of the attorney general. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1587 | Relating to the creation and operations of health care provider participation programs in certain counties. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1592 | Relating to the designation of certain customer bill payment assistance program costs as an expense of operation that is a first lien against revenue securing certain public securities or obligations in certain municipalities. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1734 | Relating to the eradication of Carrizo cane along the Rio Grande River. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1742 | Relating to immigration visa waivers for physicians. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1801 | Relating to the recognition of certain employment authorizations granted by federal executive action. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1819 | Relating to the determination of resident status of students by public institutions of higher education. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1834 | Relating to participation in the state group benefits program by a member of the Texas National Guard called to protect the border. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1841 | Relating to the verification of employment authorization by governmental entities, state contractors, and state grant recipients, including the use of the federal E-verify program. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1928 | Relating to ensuring local governmental and community input in any federal refugee resettlement program established in this state. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 1953 | Relating to the establishment of the Texas-Mexico Commission. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SB 2016 | Relating to limitations on annexation by, extraterritorial jurisdiction of, and the authority to provide electric service of certain municipalities. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SCR 5 | Urging Congress to reimburse the State of Texas for bearing the financial burden of the federal government's responsibility to secure the Texas-Mexico international border. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SJR 37 | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for certain excess revenue to be dedicated toward contributions to state retirement systems, the health benefit plan for retired education employees and their dependents, the Texas tomorrow fund, the permanent school fund, and the permanent university fund. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
| SJR 48 | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the issuance of additional obligations to provide financial assistance to counties for roadways to serve border colonias. | Received by the Secretary of the Senate |
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