Brian Birdwell

Sponsored bills

• SB0008: Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
• SB0005: Relating to making supplemental appropriations for disaster relief and preparedness and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding those appropriations.
• 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.
• SB0018: Relating to an exemption from the requirement to obtain a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for certain dams or reservoirs operated and maintained for the purposes of erosion, floodwater, and sediment control.
• HB0008: 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.
• 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.
• SR0004: In memory of James Bruce Bugg Jr. of San Antonio.
• 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.
• 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.
• SB0017: Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government, including court security, court documents and arrest warrants, document delivery, juvenile boards, constitutional amendment election challenges, record retention, youth diversion, court-ordered mental health services, the powers of the Texas Supreme Court, and jurors; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.
• SR0012: Recognizing the Tarleton State University men's rodeo team for winning a National Championship. (primary sponsor)
• SR0015: Congratulating the Tarleton State University women's rodeo team on winning a National Championship. (primary sponsor)
• SR0014: Congratulating the Midway High School baseball team on winning the 2025 University Interscholastic League Class 6A Division I state championship. (primary sponsor)