Charles Schwertner

Sponsored bills

• SB0012: Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute criminal offenses prescribed by the election laws of this state.
• SB0005: Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.
• SB0054: Relating to election procedures regarding accepting a voter with a residence address that is not current and the immediate effect of a voter's registration after the registrar's receipt of certain change of address notices.
• HB0007: Relating to prohibitions on the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, including the jurisdiction of and effect of certain judgments by courts within and outside this state with respect to the manufacture and provision of those drugs, and to protections from certain counteractions under the laws of other states and jurisdictions; authorizing qui tam actions.
• HB0025: Relating to a pharmacist's authority to dispense ivermectin without a prescription.
• SB0014: Relating to the provision by a political subdivision of credits against impact fees to builders and developers for certain water conservation and reuse projects.
• SB0016: Relating to real property theft and real property fraud; establishing recording requirements for certain documents concerning real property; creating the criminal offenses of real property theft and real property fraud and establishing a statute of limitations, restitution, and certain procedures with respect to those offenses.
• SB0011: Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for certain victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.
• SB0001: Relating to campground and youth camp safety.
• SB0003: Relating to outdoor warning sirens in flash flood-prone areas.
• HB0004: Relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Texas.
• SR0001: Honoring the lives lost during the 2025 Texas flooding.
• SB0010: Relating to the calculation of the voter-approval tax rate for certain taxing units.
• SB0002: Relating to disaster preparedness, response, and recovery; requiring a license; authorizing fees.
• SB0015: Relating to certain files maintained by a law enforcement agency regarding certain employees of the agency.
• SB0013: Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities.
• SB0006: Relating to the regulation of certain products derived from hemp, including consumable hemp products and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products; requiring occupational licenses and registrations; imposing fees; creating criminal offenses; authorizing an administrative penalty.
• SB0007: Relating to abortion, including civil liability for the manufacture and provision of abortion-inducing drugs, exemptions from the Texas Citizens Participation Act and Religious Freedom Restoration Act, authorizing civil and qui tam actions, amendments to the fee-shifting statute governing abortion litigation, immunity defenses and limits on state-court jurisdiction and relief, the parens patriae standing of the attorney general, and the jurisdiction of the Fifteenth Court of Appeals; providing for severability.
• SB0009: Relating to public school accountability and transparency, including the implementation of an instructionally supportive assessment program and the adoption and administration of assessment instruments in public schools, indicators of achievement, public school performance ratings, and interventions and sanctions under the public school accountability system, a grant program for school district local accountability plans, and actions challenging Texas Education Agency decisions related to public school accountability.
• SB0029: Relating to a statewide order issued by the commissioner of state health services authorizing a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin.