A First Look At Texas's 89th Legislative Session: Opening Day Bill Highlights

An early peek at Texas lawmakers' agendas in 2025.

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Today marks the pre-session filing opening of the Texas 89th Legislative Session. We’ve had a flurry of new bills being filed today. As of writing this, 1,511 bills have been filed. During the last legislative session, 920 were filed on the first day, and nearly 12,000 were filed throughout the session. Obviously, we aren’t discussing them all, but we will get into some of the good, the bad, and the downright bizarre.

The burst of bills on the first filing day gives us a glimpse into some of the legislators’ top priorities and where their heads are going in the session. Of course, more bills will come, maybe for the better or, the worse, but it’s easy to see who is working for the people of Texas and who is working for the billionaires or only focused on culture war issues.

This list is just a small sample of some of the bills in 2025. Not all of them will get a hearing, and even fewer will become law, but this list will tell you much about who is focused on what.