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88th Texas Legislature Bill Tracking Chart
*Note-Click on bill number and it will take you directly to the bill along with IF there is a hearing, the hearing agenda,time,date,place is all linked into Bill tracking will be
Updated every weekend and sent out no later than Sunday.
Recap of week’s movement: 1 bill was heard this week and left pending in committee; 2 bills are scheduled for next week.The remaining do not have any movement yet.
General Subject | Bill Number | Bill Author | Bill Purpose | Movement |
Gender Identity | HB 41 | Toth | Very detailed bill that does not allow doctors to transition children. | Referred to Public Health |
HB 42
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Slaton | Further defines child abuse to include encouraging gender identity change. Would include medical profession | Referred to Public Health | |
HB 672 | Hefner | Criminal prosecution for providing hormones and other gender id treatment | Referred to Public Health | |
HB 888 | Slawson | Statute of limitations that allows minors to claim by their 25th bday malpractice for giving puberty suppression drugs or cross-sex hormones, surgery, etc | Referred to Judiciary and Judicial Jurisprudence | |
SB 249 | Hall, Campbell, Perry | Adds criminal offense to medically change a person’s sex | Referred to State Affairs | |
SB 250 | Hall, Campbell, Perry | Makes it illegal for insurance companies to participate in gender reassignments while also revoking medical license of those that participate in gender affirming medical care | Public hearing in State Affairs on Monday, March 16th; bill left pending in committee | |
Harmful literature to a minor/Obscenity Exemption | HB 552, 571,858,869
Duplicate bills
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Toxclair
Slaton Hefner |
Repealing the affirmative defense to prosecution for the criminal offense of sale, distribution or display of harmful material to a minor
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Referred to State Affairs |
HB 976, HB 111,SB 437
Duplicate bills |
Patterson
Toth Middleton
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Relating to affirmative defenses to prosecution for certain offenses involving material or conduct that is obscene e or otherwise harmful to children | Referred to Local Govt | |
HB 338
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Oliverson
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Relating to content ratings for books and other written materials used in public schools | Referred to State Affairs | |
HB 917 | Dutton | No books can be removed from public schools but the parent will have to opt in to reading pervasively vulgar books. This would be an overriding of PICCO. Note the usage of SHALL and MAY | Referred to Public Ed | |
HB 977 | VanDeaver | Creation of a Texas Commission on Assessment/Accountability | Referred to Public Ed | |
HB 900 | Patterson | Adding definition of sexually explicit material for public ed literature; standards developed by Tx State Library and Archives Commission that must include obscene material is Not recog by the 1st amend; vendors that sell the materials with obscene literature will be put on list notifying the schools they may not buy from this vendor, etc.. | Public Ed Hearing on 3/21 at 8am, E2.036 | |
HB 1253 | Shaheen | Relating to the punishment for the offense of sale, distribution or display of harmful material to a minor, increasing a criminal penalty, eliminates class A misdemeanor | Referred to State Affairs | |
HB 1665 | Patterson | Relating to the regulation of books sold to or included in public school libraries | Referred to Public Health | |
SB 395
HB 1936 (duplicate) Lozano |
Hall | Relating to defenses to prosecution for certain criminal offenses involving material or conduct that nay be obscene or is otherwise harmful to children | Referred to Criminal Justice | |
SB 417 | Paxton | Relating to the electronic device filters for certain explicit material; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty | Referred to State Affairs | |
SB 419 | Paxton | Relating to parental access to a public school’s library catalog and consent for student access to certain public school library materials | Referred to Education | |
SB 13 | Paxton | Relating to a public school’s library materials/catalog, creating a local school library advisory council to assure “community values” are reflected in library materials, | Referred to Education | |
Parental Rights | HB 221 | Toth | Changing School Board Trustees to declare their partisanship | Referred to Elections |
HB 360 | Toth | Requiring disclosure of certain info re public school teaching materials/activities | Referred to Public Ed | |
HB 478 | Hull | Relating to parental approval for a student’s participation in human sexuality instruction in public schools | Referred to Public Ed | |
HB 631 | Toth | Parental rights re grades K-5 that gender discussions are not ok | Referred to Public Ed | |
SB 165 | Campbell | Parental rights and audits of school district curriculum by Tx Education Agency | Referred to Public Ed | |
Criminal | HB 964 | Jetton | Adds teachers to those who have to register as sex offenders and dating students as a registerable offense | Public hearing in Criminal Jurisprudence subcommittee on 3/21 at 10:30 or upon adjournment, E2.014 |