88^th Texas Legislature Bill Tracking Chart

 

FINAL ACTIONS: RED indicates that the bill passed and blue states that the bill has died in the legislative process.

 

*Note-Click on bill number and it will take you directly to the bill on the Texas capitol website.  There it will have all the information including downloadable bill, in-house bill analysis, bill movement (if any), etc.   Bill tracking will be updated every weekend.

 

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 DIED
	HB 42	Slaton	Further defines child abuse to include encouraging gender identity change. Would include medical profession	Referred to Public Health DIED
	HB 672	Hefner	Criminal prosecution for providing hormones and other gender id treatment	Referred to Public Health DIED
	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; Some of the bill language changed when they passed it out of committee. When the substitute is available for the public, it will be reported here.	Public Hearing Mar 29th, 8am, E2.106, Judiciary and Judicial Jurisprudence ; Left Pending; Voted out as substituted 4-10; Sent to Calendars Committee 4-25 DIED
	SB 249	Hall, Campbell, Perry	Adds criminal offense to medically change a person’s sex	Referred to State Affairs DIED
	SB 250	Hall, Campbell, Perry	This bill prohibits physicians and other health care providers from prescribing and performing treatments and procedures which would modify or alter the sex characteristics of a child suffering from gender dysphoria, prohibits professional liability insurance coverage for gender-transitioning drugs and procedures for minors, and requires the revocation of the licensure of health care providers who prescribe gender-transitioning drugs or who perform gender-transitioning procedures.	Public hearing in State Affairs on Monday, March 16th; bill left pending in committee; Favorably voted out of committee with a 9-2 vote; Committee report being developed and distributed; going to Calendars Committee ; No movement last week   DIED
	HB 1686	Overton	Ban of child gender modification	Left Pending in Public Health Committee 3-28; Voted out favorably as substituted; no scheduled movement this week DIED
	SB 14	Campbell	amends the Health and Safety Code to prohibit a physician licensed in Texas or other health care provider from knowingly doing any of the following to a child younger than 18 years of age for the purpose of transitioning the child's biological sex as determined by their sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles or affirming the child's perception of their sex if that perception is inconsistent with their biological sex: with limited medical exceptions provided; does not allow public funds to be used for such medical procedures under the forementioned conditions; empowers attorney general to bring suit against any alleged violators	Passed Senate and currently being debated on House;Passed on 5-12-engrossment in House;   PASSED1.  SENT TO GOVERNOR!
Harmful literature to a minor/Obscenity Exemption	HB 552, 571,858,869   Duplicate bills	Toxclair Slaton Hefner	Repealing the affirmative defense to prosecution for the criminal offense of sale, distribution or display of harmful material to a minor	Referred to State Affairs DIED
	HB 976, HB 111,SB 437 Duplicate bills	Patterson Toth Middleton	Relating to affirmative defenses to prosecution for certain offenses involving material or conduct that is obscene e or otherwise harmful to children	Referred to Committee DIED
	HB 338	Oliverson	Relating to content ratings for books and other written materials used in public schools	Referred to State Affairs DIED
	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 DIED
	HB 977	VanDeaver	Creation of a Texas Commission on Assessment/Accountability	Referred to Public Ed DIED
	HB 900	Patterson	Adding definition of sexually explicit material for public ed literature; standards developed by Tx State Library and Archives Commission  and voted on by the State Board of Education (SBOE) that must include obscene material and is Not recog by the 1st amend; vendors must provide a rating for all previously sold books to the school districts and are not allowed to sell the materials with obscene literature	PASSED1  SENT TO GOVERNOR11
	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 DIED
	HB 1665	Patterson	Relating to the regulation of books sold to or included in public school libraries	Referred to Public Health DIED
	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 DIED
	SB 417	Paxton	Relating to requiring electronic device filters for certain explicit material; creating a criminal offense; providing a civil penalty	Hearing at 9:30am on Monday, April 3rd, State Affairs, Senate Chambers; Vote taken in committee and approved/sent to Local and Consent Calendar; 4-13; voted out of Senate; House Received from the Senate DIED
	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 DIED
	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. Language was added to the bill and approved substituted) using the same language as that of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) .  The FCC definition of "indecent material," which is the standard upheld by the Supreme Court for content that can be regulated between 6 AM and 10 PM�the hours in which children may reasonably be in the audience. If this content cannot be on TV or radio when there is a reasonable risk of children being in the audience, then this content should not be in school libraries�somewhere there is an expectation that children are the audience.	Referred to Education: Public hearing 3-27; bill left pending; Vote taken in committee on 4-6,sent to Senate floor, final passage; sent to House 4-13 as Substituted; Received by the House; Referred to State Affairs 4-24  DIED
Parental Rights	HB 221	Toth	Changing School Board Trustees to declare their partisanship	Referred to Elections DIED
	HB 360	Toth	Requiring disclosure of certain info re public school teaching materials/activities	Referred to Public Ed DIED
	HB 478	Hull	Relating to parental approval for a student’s participation in human sexuality instruction in public schools	Referred to Public Ed DIED
	HB 631	Toth	Parental rights re grades K-5 that gender discussions are not ok	Referred to Public Ed DIED
	SB 165	Campbell	Parental rights and audits of school district curriculum by Tx Education Agency	Referred to Public Ed; Public Hearing 4-27; left pending in committee DIED
	SB 163	Patterson	Last session the legislature chose to give more parents control over the option of having their child be taught sex ed by the school.  In order to be more transparent, the law was changed to say that parents had to OPT IN to have their child taught sex ed with a written permission.  In order to “test” the new law, there was an “sunset expiration date” put in the bill e.g. the law would be reviewed again this legislature and it would need to be voted by a majority to eliminate the sunset expiration date of opt in to sex Ed.  Note:  This provision is often put in bills to “try out” the new law for two years until the legislature meets the next time.	Referred to Public Education; Hearing on 5-9-23 DIED
Criminal	HB 964	Jetton	Adds teachers to those who have to register as sex offenders who have an improper relationship with a student	DIED