90th Session Prefiling Opens

Prefiling for the 90th Texas Legislature opened Monday, November 9, 2026. As of 10 PM CST, members had filed 1,179 bills, 900 in the House and 279 in the Senate. Below is a summary of notable bills filed on the first day.

1,179

Bills filed

900

House bills

279

Senate bills

23 of 31

Senators on SB 293

Data Centers

Repeal of the sales tax exemption for data centersSB 293Huffman, plus 22 Senate authors

Five House bills on the same exemptionHB 167, 408, 681, 750 and 851

Large load permits, cost recovery and county authoritySB 32, 33 and 34Zaffirini

Water

Data center water use and wastewater reportingHB 529Bhojani

ERCOT large load data shared with TWDBSB 35Zaffirini

Cybersecurity for water and sewer utilitiesSB 292Perry and Sparks

North Texas groundwater district permittingSB 163Hagenbuch

Technology

Texas Department of Artificial IntelligenceHB 605Bhojani

Human oversight of high risk AI systemsHB 510Bhojani

Disclosure of consumer interactions with AIHB 914Lalani

AI and altered media in political advertisingHB 929 and SB 46Mizani and Zaffirini

Health Care

Medicaid expansion, nine bills (full list below)

Pharmacy benefit managersHB 163 and HB 444Oliverson and Martinez

340B program reporting requirementsHB 703Oliverson

Physician assistant licensure compactHB 743Campos

Aerospace, Broadband and Transportation

Advanced air mobilityHB 565Lalani

Broadband service in certain rural countiesHB 869Landgraf

Broadband infrastructure fund recipient dataHB 442Wilson

High speed railHB 270 and HB 728Bucy and Harrison

Also Filed

Abolition of ad valorem taxes and a joint interim committee on their abolitionHB 731Harrison

Repeal of the education savings account program, six bills (full list below)

Regulation and taxation of cannabisHB 362, HB 369 and SB 237Bucy, Moody and Alvarado

Bill and Author Index

Repeal of the sales tax exemption for data centers (6 bills)
Bill	Author(s)
SB 293	Huffman, Alvarado, Ashby, Bettencourt, Campbell, David Cook, Flores, Hagenbuch, Hall, Adam Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, Hughes, King, Kolkhorst, Ligon, Parker, Paul, Paxton, Perry, Schwertner, Sparks, West, Zaffirini
HB 167	Martinez Fischer
HB 408	Isaac
HB 681	Vasut
HB 750	Jimenez
HB 851	Vincent Perez

Medicaid expansion (9 bills)
Bill	Author(s)
HB 101	Bucy
HB 102	Bucy
HB 138	Rodríguez Ramos
HB 141	Lalani
HB 363	Howard
HB 855	Anchía
SB 31	Zaffirini
SB 109	Menéndez
SB 229	Alvarado, Molly Cook, Gutierrez, Menéndez, Rehmet

Repeal of the education savings account program (6 bills)
Bill	Author(s)
HB 164	Bucy
HB 646	Mary González
HB 675	Herbert
HB 735	Jimenez
SB 106	Menéndez
SB 294	West, Alvarado, Blanco, Molly Cook, Gutierrez, Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, Menéndez, Miles, Rehmet, Zaffirini

Regulation and taxation of cannabis (3 bills)
Bill	Author(s)
HB 362	Bucy
HB 369	Moody
SB 237	Alvarado