2025 Texas Legislature Tracker

Project 2025 is a right-wing, authoritarian federal playbook and blueprint, led by the Heritage Foundation, the same organization that wrote the Texas abortion ban.

The tenants of Project 2025 are not new to Texans. The creators of Project 2025 have been laying the groundwork in Texas and banning abortion is just the first step in their agenda. The bills filed this session show just that, which means that the fight we put up in Texas matters more than ever because as Texas goes, so goes the nation.

Our opponents are counting on us to be overwhelmed and give up while they undermine our rights and democracy at the legislature. Texans have never backed away from a hard fight. Here’s the bills we need your support fighting back on this legislative session:

 

Jump to: Ban Healthcare  |   Criminalization  |  Censorship + Misinformation  |  Surveillance  |  Unchecked Power

BAN HEALTHCARE

This category involves bills aimed at further restricting or eliminating access to abortion care and contraceptives.

Mifepristone and misoprostol

HB 818 – Designates mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV controlled substances, making it harder for doctors to access life-saving medications in emergency situations.

1. In committee

HB 1636 – Designates mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV controlled substances, making it harder for doctors to access life-saving medications in emergency situations. It does not exclude possession by a pregnant person for their own consumption. 

1. In committee

Contraceptives

HB 4358 – Bans the sale or provision of over-the-counter oral contraceptives without a prescription.

1. In committee

SB 1985 – Allows for pharmacists to refuse dispensing contraceptives, abortion pills, and controlled substances listed in Schedules II through V.

1. In committee

Telehealth abortion care

HB 4593 | SB 2625 – Attempts to block telehealth abortion care, establishing that a physician may not provide abortion medication unless the physician is physically present in this state.

1. In committee

SMA

HB 2197 – Allows a pregnant person to be prosecuted for their pregnancy outcome, making abortion a crime eligible for the death penalty.

1. In committee

HB 1651 – Bans individuals from selling or otherwise distributing abortion medication through an Internet website.

1. In committee

Access to out-of-state abortion travel support

SB 33 – Bans municipal abortion travel funds that help people travel out of state for abortion care by paying for lodging, childcare, and transportation.

5. Referred to other chamber

SB 730 | HB 1806 – Bans municipal abortion travel funds that help people travel out of state for abortion care by paying for lodging, childcare, and transportation.

1. In committee

HB 3200 – Bans municipal abortion travel funds that help people travel out of state for abortion care by paying for lodging, childcare, and transportation.

1. In committee

CRIMINALIZATION

This category involves bills that seek to expand activities or behaviors that are punishable under criminal and civil law, or that enhance penalties for existing crimes.

HB 818 – Designates mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV controlled substances, making it harder for doctors to access life-saving medications in emergency situations.

1. In committee

SB 2880 | HB 5510 – Further criminalizes medication abortion, information-sharing about medication abortion, abortion funds, and practical support funds. It expands Texas’s abortion ban by making it easier to sue those who “aid and abet” abortion, while broadening the definition of aiding and abetting. The bill allows lawsuits against pro-choice websites, social media platforms, payment processors (like Venmo), app stores (like Apple/Google).

2. Public hearing scheduled

HB 1636 – Designates mifepristone and misoprostol as schedule IV controlled substances, making it harder for doctors to access life-saving medications in emergency situations. It does not exclude possession by a pregnant person for their own consumption.

1. In committee

HB 4595 | SB 2352 – Criminalizes support for minors traveling out-of-state for abortion care.

1. In committee

SB 31 | HB 44 – Revives a 1857 abortion ban that criminalizes pregnant people, abortion funds, and anyone who supports people seeking abortion care.

2. Public hearing scheduled

HB 2197 – Allows a pregnant person to be prosecuted for their pregnancy outcome, making abortion a crime eligible for the death penalty.

1. In committee

Censorship + Misinformation

This category involves bills that restrict free speech, the flow of information and encourage the spread of misinformation online, in public schools and in state agencies.

SB 2880 | HB 5510 – Further criminalizes medication abortion, information-sharing about medication abortion, abortion funds, and practical support funds. It expands Texas’s abortion ban by making it easier to sue those who “aid and abet” abortion, while broadening the definition of aiding and abetting. The bill allows lawsuits against pro-choice websites, social media platforms, payment processors (like Venmo), app stores (like Apple/Google).

2. Public hearing scheduled

SB 1388 | HB 5285 – Bans any organization that even mentions abortion from receiving funding from the Texas Thriving Families program.

5. Referred to other chamber

HB 196 –  Forces K-12 schools to teach our kids that “life begins at conception” as part of the required school curriculum.

1. In committee

HB 3739 – Forces schools to provide pro-life, anti-abortion information to 7th-12th graders.

1. In committee

HB 4183 – Bans teachers employed by a school district from “providing instruction, information, educational materials, or resources to a student regarding abortion.” This bill also creates a criminal offense for violating this ban.

1. In committee

HB 4208 – Requires students to receive “fetal development instruction, including the humanity of the unborn child and the concept that life begins at fertilization.” This would be part of the health curriculum for Texas schools.

1. In committee

SB 1396 – Prohibits the adoption or use of national sex education standards in public schools and reinforces an abstinence-only curriculum.

5. Referred to other chamber

Surveillance

Bills that expand surveillance powers through government and the tech industry (the vast majority of which are housed in Texas) to monitor individuals, groups, or communities in ways that compromise privacy and security.

SB 2880 | HB 5510 – Further criminalizes medication abortion, information-sharing about medication abortion, abortion funds, and practical support funds. It expands Texas’s abortion ban by making it easier to sue those who “aid and abet” abortion, while broadening the definition of aiding and abetting. The bill allows lawsuits against pro-choice websites, social media platforms, payment processors (like Venmo), app stores (like Apple/Google).

2. Public hearing scheduled

HB 1651 – Bans individuals from selling or otherwise distributing abortion medication through an Internet website.

1. In committee

Unchecked Power

This category involves bills that give the office of the Attorney General expanded and unchecked power to initiate investigations, initiate lawsuits, and bills that override local control.

SB 846 | HB 1004 – Expands the Attorney General’s power to prosecute criminal and civil abortion laws, overriding local control and district attorney discretion.

1. In committee

SB 1026 | HB 4957 | HB 5138 – Expands the Attorney General’s power to prosecute election crimes.

3. Voted out of committee

Fetal Personhood

This category involves bills that further establish fetal personhood in the law which will lead to greater criminalization of pregnant people and the range of pregnancy outcomes.

SB 942

1. In committee

HB 3539

1. In committee

HB 2462

1. In committee

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HOW BILLS BECOME LAW

0. Filed

 Step 0 – Bill is introduced in either chamber

1. In committee

Step 1 – Bill gets assigned to a committee, which is responsible for approving the bill before the full House or Senate reviews it 

2. Public hearing scheduled

Step 2 – A public hearing is scheduled and public testimony is allowed in the committee 

3. Voted out of committee

Step 3 – Committee members vote to approve the bill for a full vote of the House or Senate

4. Floor debate scheduled

Step 4 – Bill gets put on the floor calendar for the full House or Senate to vote on 

5. Referred to other chamber

Step 5 – Bill passes in the House or Senate and is referred to the other chamber

6. Public hearing scheduled

Step 6

  • A – A public hearing is scheduled in the other chamber to review the bill
  • B – Committee members vote to approve the bill for a full vote in the other chamber
  • C – Bill gets put on the floor calendar for the other chamber
7. Conference committee

Step 7 – A conference committee is scheduled to review any differences between versions of the bill in the House and in the Senate

8. Approved

Step 8 – If both chambers (House & Senate) pass the same version of the bill, then it gets sent to the Governor to sign or veto

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