Texas Votes

Creates a transactional currency backed by "gold and silver," and recognizes it as "legal tender."

Authorizes $8.5 billion in new funding to public schools, including for teacher and staff pay raises, early-childhood programs, and bilingual education.

Performs "outreach and education" to inform "migrant agricultural workers" of their "rights," studies the "need" for "additional or improved migrant labor housing facilities," and locates "unlicensed migrant labor housing facilities" without identifying "individual migrant agricultural workers."

Would have repealed the criminal offense of homosexual conduct in state law.

Would begin a formal process for Texas to declare certain federal acts as unconstitutional and prevent their enforcement.

Applies to Congress to "call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution."

Allocates $1.54 billion for border security over two years, funding law enforcement and border barriers.

Establishes penalties for unauthorized entry or reentry into the state by individuals classified as "aliens" under federal law.

Strengthens penalties for smuggling, stash houses, and evading arrest, imposing mandatory minimums of 10 years and allowing consecutive sentences for related crimes.

Would increase the criminal penalty for illegal voting from a Class A misdemeanor to either a state jail felony for attempted illegal voting or second-degree felony for illegal voting.

Establishes the Future Texas Teachers Scholarship Program for certain students at public institutions of higher education.

Enacts an insurance premium tax credit for certain housing developments.

Withdraws Texas from Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

Enacts government support for nursing-related postsecondary education, including scholarships to nursing students, loan repayment assistance to nurses and nursing faculty, and grants to nursing education programs.

Bans diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at colleges and public institutions of higher education.

Allows public utility agencies in some counties, through condemnation, to acquire land, easements, and property within its service area for the agency's use and benefit.

Expands eligibility for funding under the Major Events Reimbursement Program by amending the Government Code to classify each series of World Cup games in a designated market area as separate, single events.

Prohibits a person or entity from surveilling, reporting, or tracking the purchase of firearms, ammunition, and accessories through the use of certain credit card merchant category codes.

Appropriates approximately $1.8 billion for border security efforts.

Appropriates approximately $248.6 billion for the FY 2022-23, of which roughly $248.1 billion became law.

Allows the governor to issue "pandemic disaster" declarations and establishes the 10-member Pandemic Disaster Legislative Oversight Committee to oversee them when the legislature is not convened.

Prohibits an abortion after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, except for when a woman has a "medical emergency," which places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.

Limits the issuance of 'no-knock' arrest and search warrants to only situations in which it is "necessary to avoid the risk of death or serious bodily injury to peace officers and others."

Allows permitless carry of a handgun for persons 21 years of age or older.

Would add additional healthcare coverage and cost by adding mammography to certain health plans.

Would ensure that anyone who misrepresents a child through a port of entry can be charged and prosecuted in any Texas county.

Would allow greater competition in the bids for public projects by opening them to nonunion groups.

Would ensure that college campuses in Texas cannot take actions that restrict free speech on their premises.

Would use taxpayer money to subsidize certain music venues and performances.

Would allow children under the age of 18 to be given contraceptives using taxpayer funding.