Texas Legislature
Bills Authored / Joint Authored
Sen. Bob Hall
89th Legislature Second Called Session
Report Date: 8/18/2025

Number of Bills: 15

Report Sections: Authored Bills | Additional Primary Authored Bills

Author (1):
SB 29 Author: Hall | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Filed
Caption: Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin.

Additional Primary Authors (14):
SB 2 Author: Perry | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 6:38PM
Caption: Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.

SB 3 Author: Bettencourt | Alvarado | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 6:17PM
Caption: Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flood-prone areas.

SB 5 Author: Huffman | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 7:26PM
Caption: Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.

SB 6 Author: Perry | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 9:33PM
Caption: 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 Author: Hughes | Campbell | Creighton | Hagenbuch | Hall | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 9:34PM
Caption: 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 Author: Middleton | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 8:24PM
Caption: 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 9 Author: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | Flores | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 8:21PM
Caption: Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.

SB 10 Author: Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | Hagenbuch | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 7:17PM
Caption: Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.

SB 11 Author: Parker | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 7:48PM
Caption: Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.

SB 12 Author: Hughes | Bettencourt | Campbell | Creighton | Hagenbuch | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 7:53PM
Caption: Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.

SB 13 Author: Middleton | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Campbell | Creighton | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 8:06PM
Caption: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.

SB 14 Author: Perry | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Birdwell | Blanco | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 6:22PM
Caption: Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.

SB 16 Author: West | Alvarado | Bettencourt | Blanco | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 7:39PM
Caption: Relating to real property theft and real property fraud; establishing recording requirements for certain documents concerning real property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations, restitution, and certain procedures with respect to those offenses.

SB 17 Author: Hughes | Bettencourt | Campbell | Creighton | Hagenbuch | et al.
Last Action: 08/15/2025 S Committee report printed and distributed: Aug 15 2025 9:30PM
Caption: 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.

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