(February 15, 2021), after a
winter storm.
Enacted • House bills • HB 5: The measure would aim to incentivize the expansion of broadband internet access to areas across the state through the creation of the State Broadband Development Office. The office would award grants, low-interest loans and other incentives to build out broadband access. • HB 20: Prohibits large social media
platform censorship of Texans. • HB 1239: The measure would ban public officials from closing churches or other places of worship during a disaster declaration. • HB 1280: The measure would ban abortion in Texas if
Roe v. Wade were overturned by the
Supreme Court of the United States. • HB 1927 (
Constitutional carry): The measure would allow people to carry handguns in Texas without a concealed handgun license. •
HB 3979: The bill would ban the teaching of
critical race theory in Texas schools and limit what public school students can be taught about the United States' history of subjugating people of color. • SB 3: The legislation would create a statewide emergency system to alert Texans if power outages are expected and require power generation companies to better prepare their facilities to withstand extreme weather. • SB 4: The bill would require any professional sports teams with contracts with the state government to play the national anthem before the start of a game. • SB 8:
Texas Heartbeat Act (nicknamed "Fetal
Heartbeat bill"): The measure allows private citizens to sue people who perpetrate or aid and abet abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. It bans the procedure at about six weeks into a pregnancy, except to save the mother's life.
Proposed (but not enacted) • House bills • HB 3: The measure would give lawmakers more oversight of the governor's emergency powers during a pandemic and carves out future pandemics from how the state responds to other disasters, like hurricanes. • HB 20: The legislation would keep more people accused or previously convicted of violent crimes in jail before trial unless they can post cash bonds. • Senate bills • SB 7: A change on the state election process; election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses. • SB 10: The bill would ban local governments from using taxpayer dollars to lobby the state. • SB 12: The bill would prohibit social media companies with at least 100 million monthly users from blocking, banning, demonetizing or discriminating against users based on their viewpoint or their location within the state. • SB 29: The bill would prevent transgender Texas children from joining school sports teams that match their gender identity. • SB 1311: The measure would prohibit health care providers and physicians from performing gender-confirmation surgery or prescribing, administering or supplying puberty blockers or hormone treatment to anyone younger than 18. • SB 1529: The measure would create a new statewide court of appeals that would hear cases that have statewide significance — including ones that challenge state laws or the Constitution, or when the state or its agencies are sued. ==Major resolutions adopted==