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Latest Update:  30 June, 2025; The 89th Texas Legislature is over the end of 02 June 2025. Willow Park Civics Blog will update this blog daily for the next several weeks. • Summary: Journal of blogs, articles, and sources about the RESULTS of the 89th Texas Legislature, 2025. • Willow Park Civics reads widely, deeply, and daily, and then provides an INDEX of the activities of the 89th Texas Legislature, whose regular session is scheduled to meet from 14 January 2025 to  02 June 2025.

• Latest post: repostd 02 June 2025l 05 March, 2025






Results. 89th TX Legislative Session, 2025

• Journal of blogs, articles, and sources about RESULTS of the 89th Texas Legislature, 2025. • Willow Park Civics reads widely, deeply, and daily, and then provides an INDEX of the activities of the 89th Texas Legislature, whose regular session is scheduled to meet from January 14, 2025, to June 2, 2025.


140 days and 1,200 bills later, the Texas Legislature officially adjourned sine die on Monday, 03 June, 2025, marking the end of the 89th Regular Legislative Session.


Journal

• Texas Legislative Session 2025, Fort Worth Report

• Texas Legislature 2025, The Texas Tribune

• 89th-session, The Texan

• 89th, Texas Scorecard

Texas law grants Gov. Greg Abbott the power to reject legislation approved by state lawmakers, which requires a two-thirds vote to override.

Once the regular session concludes, the governor is allotted a 20-day window to finalize any veto decisions.

Find an updated tracker of the bills nixed by Abbott this session below — a catalog of proposals that survived the full legislative gauntlet, only to be halted at the governor’s desk.

Check back regularly, as more entries will be added.


• TX House Olcott: Conservative Rankings of the Texas House, Willow Park Civics Blog, posted 29 June 2025

  Report from Mike Olcott, House Rep. for Texas House District 60, which includes Willow Park. "During my campaign to represent you in Austin, I promised you that I would provide our district with conservative representation and stand firm against the Austin establishment... I am pleased to report... that I was ranked as the most conservative member of the Texas House." Details in linked blog.


Food manufacturers will be required to place a warning label on products containing certain harmful ingredients.


• Turning on the Juice, Dr. M. Ray Perryman, 25 June 2025, excerpts

The 89th Session of the Texas Legislature adjourned on June 2 after 140 days... Considerable progress was made in dealing with a number of challenges facing the state, including, among others, public school finance and teacher pay (though much remains to be done), water supplies, rural health care, wildfire preparation, and the current topic of electric power supplies and the stability of the grid. Amongst the usual sound and fury, there were clear steps in the right direction.


Legislation approved this year is partly aimed at helping Texas meet its goal of helping 60% of working-age Texans get a postsecondary degree or credential by 2030.






Texas lawmakers approved a sweeping package to overhaul the state’s bail system, a longtime priority of Gov. Greg Abbott’s.



• We accomplished a great deal, email from Phil King, TX House Senator, 13 June 2025


Anti-squatting legislation bolsters property rights for Texans.


After successful campaign efforts on school choice and bail reform, Abbott is now eyeing property tax reform.


Faculty senates at Texas universities will be given “advisory only” roles in decision-making.





Lalani said the bill complements and builds upon Cruz’s TAKE IT DOWN Act.



Texas passed sweeping changes to cannabis policy, including expanding the medical marijuana program and banning hemp products, while also boosting psychedelics research.


A number of technology-focused laws will soon shake-up the digital economy in Texas.


A coalition of 34 Republican lawmakers is urging Gov. Greg Abbott to veto a Democrat-authored bill that would expand state-funded student loan repayment programs—this time, specifically for school counselors and mental health professionals.

Senate Bill 646, authored by Democrat State Sen. Royce West, would broaden eligibility for Texas’ loan repayment assistance program to include school counselors, marriage and family therapists, and other behavioral health professionals.


The Texas Legislature passed a number of significant bills that will have an immediate effect on public education.


The spending package will give schools more money for staff pay raises, operational expenses, special education and more.



Texas will soon have the “largest state-based cybersecurity department in America” after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law this week.

Abbott signed HB 150 in a ceremony at the University of Texas-San Antonio, pledging $135 million to the Texas Cyber Command, according to the release. The command will “protect Texans against cyber threats” by coordinating between San Antonio local, state, and federal agencies.


The Texas Senate has 24 of its 40 priorities already signed into law or on Abbott’s desk.


A plethora of bills addressing abortion were filed during Texas’ 89th Legislative Session related to taxpayer-funded abortion travel, chemical abortion pills, clarifying abortion law exceptions, and increasing funding for the alternatives to abortion program — bills that either never got past filing, lavished in committee, or are en route to the governor’s desk.


With a favorable administration in the White House, Texas lawmakers looked to combat illegal immigration and bolster border security.


The budget is 5 percent bigger than last session's adopted budget.


An agenda driven by conservative priorities, schools’ financial duress and teacher needs led to an $8.5 billion boost, new discipline rules, more Christianity in classrooms and a DEI ban.




• Gov. Abbott Signs Historic Bail Reform Laws to Combat the Release of Violent Offenders, Texas Scorecard, 03 June 2025

The measures were symbolically signed in Houston, where judges have been accused of releasing dangerous criminals on easy bail.




The Legislature wrapped up without the same drama that defined the end of the last two sessions, with state GOP leaders checking off nearly everything on their to-do lists.





Texas has been ranked second worst state in the nation for squatting problems.




• Texas Lawmakers Approve Record-High State Budget, Texas Scorecard, 30 May 2025

The legislature has finally passed a $338 billion biennial budget.

The Texas Legislature has approved the final version of the state’s budget, with both chambers passing the conference committee report for Senate Bill 1—the only bill lawmakers are constitutionally required to pass.

Despite a historic $24 billion surplus and calls from conservative groups to use the funds for meaningful tax relief and spending restraint, the budget instead marks yet another expansion.

The final version of SB 1 totals over $338 billion in all funds, with state funds exceeding $237 billion—an 8.3 percent increase over the last biennium and a staggering 43 percent increase since the 2022–23 budget.

Only $6.5 billion of the surplus is being used for new property tax relief, even as property taxes have risen $13 billion (21.6 percent) since the last biennium.


The measure fell just three votes short of the 100 needed for passage.



A law providing for the removal of local officials from office via a lawsuit on incompetency or misconduct grounds was amended to ensure the process is more uniform.


Gov. Greg Abbott has already said he intends to sign the bill, which will give schools funding for salary increases, special education, teacher preparation and operational costs.


Texas lawmakers are providing an extra $100 million in child care scholarships and giving regional workforce development boards more freedom to allocate money to key providers.

Nearly 95,000 Texas children are on a waitlist for child care scholarships. Meanwhile, brick and mortar facilities are closing and the cost of child care in Texas is making it difficult for working parents to make ends meet.


A cap of $500,000 was added to the bill, limiting the amount that school districts may be sued.

Public school districts may be held civilly liable when their employees are found to have sexually assaulted students, after legislation removing sovereign immunity for public schools in acts of negligence resulting in such crimes passed the Texas Legislature. 

House Bill (HB) 4623 by state Rep. Mitch Little (R-Lewisville) passed the Senate unanimously on Tuesday night, two weeks after it passed the House of Representatives with 109 votes in favor and 19 against. 


• Texas colleges will soon be able to pay their athletes, The Texas Tribune, 28 May 2025

House Bill 126, which allows student athletes to receive a slice of the billions Texas colleges generate in revenue from their teams, now awaits the governor’s signature.


• Texas to expand how schools discipline students, The Texas Tribune, 28 May 2025

House Bill 6, which now heads to the governor, targets the increase in violence that has plagued schools since the pandemic.


Lawmakers filed dozens of bills that would increase transparency around spending in elections and strengthen penalties for campaign and lobbying violations. None are poised to pass.


Legislation is on its way to the governor that will stop secret sex abuse settlements, past and future.


Texas judges have not received a pay increase since 2013.


Patrick pledged to pass the Ten Commandments legislation a year ago.



House Bill (HB) 2003 passed both houses of the Texas Legislature.

The bill would require the project, which is part of the Texas Rail Plan, to submit an annual disclosure to the Texas Department of Transportation about the following:

• Proposed method of financing and its availability;

• Recent balance sheet;

• Estimated full cost of the project;

• Costs for each year of construction;

• Proposed completion timeline;

• Ridership projections;

• Proposed route;

• Organization chart; and

• Any foreign investment.


Texas legislation to support high-speed rail has apparently stopped in its tracks.

House Transportation Chairman Tom Craddick, a Midland Republican, said high-speed rail is a tough sell in the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature, particularly among lawmakers in East and Southeast Texas who have become increasingly combative after years of acrimony over the long-proposed Dallas to Houston line.




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