Texas House Bills - Just the Facts
 Updated on Saturday, Jun 7, 2025

As the Texas House faced a May 15 deadline to act on House bills, the chamber passed many bills last week that were applauded by various conservative advocacy organizations, including the Republican Party of Texas.

There are some "conservative" organizations that will publish negative "news" about certain House members based on their hidden agenda and rarely provide information that is balanced and would bring you to a different conclusion on any given House member. If you do some digging, it becomes more obvious that their agenda is something less than creating and maintaining peace, goodwill and prosperity for Texans (perhaps maybe just for themselves and their wealthy donors?). Some of the most notable bills passed by the Texas House last week included: 

• House Bill 4076 by State Representative Jeff Leach, which prohibits health care providers from discriminating against patients based on their vaccination status for an organ transplant
• House Bill 4623 by State Representative Mitch Little, which allows public schools and public school employees to be held civilly liable for sexual misconduct
• House Bill 3053 by State Representative Wes Virdell, which bans cities and counties from sponsoring or participating in a gun buyback program
• House Bill 113 by State Representative Cody Vasut will prohibit courts from considering the legislative history or intent of a law, requiring courts only to consider the statute’s plain language. 
• House Bill 1533 by State Representative Angie Chen Button, to increase transparency in the property tax appraisal process
• House Bill 3225 by State Representative Daniel Alders, which will prohibit municipal public libraries from making sexually explicit materials available to minors
• Senate Joint Resolution 37 by State Senator Brian Birdwell and State Representative Candy Noble, is a proposed State Constitutional amendment to clarify that non-citizens are prohibited from voting
• House Bill 2674 by State Representative David Cook, which prohibits the Texas Education Agency or the State Board of Education from regulating homeschool programs. 
• House Bill 229 by State Representative Ellen Troxclair, known as the Women’s Bill of Rights, which clearly defines terms related to biological sex such as “male” and “female” in state law
• House Bill 1586 by State Representative Lacey Hull, to make vaccine exemption forms for public school students easily available online
• House Bill 4 by State Representative Brad Buckley, to eliminate the STAAR test
• House Bill 4535 by State Representative John McQueeney, which will require health care providers to obtain written informed consent from an individual before administering a COVID-19 vaccine