Texas House suspends some posting rules, authorizes committee meetings and adopts multiple ceremonial resolutions; clerk reads and refers dozens of bills

The Texas House of Representatives met in Austin on March 27, 2025, and the presiding officer announced there was no calendar for bills for the day. Members instead approved procedural motions allowing committee work to continue, suspended a notice requirement to set a March 31 hearing on HB 3305, adopted a series of honorary and memorial resolutions and the clerk read a long list of bills for first reading and referral to committees.

Why it matters: With no bills on the floor calendar, the House used procedural motions to keep committee business moving and to set a committee hearing on HB 3305 (a measure described on the floor as relating to continuation of health care provider participation programs in certain counties). Those steps determine whether and when bills will be considered in committee and ultimately affect the legislative timeline.

Representative Harrison pressed the presiding officer with a parliamentary inquiry, asking, “are we taking up and considering any bill today on any topic?” The presiding officer replied, “there is no calendar for today,” leaving substantive bill debate off the floor for the day.

Representative Garren moved — and the House adopted without objection — a motion to defer the remainder of the reading and referral of bills until the end of the day’s business. Later in the session the…