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Texas House suspends rules and adopts multiple ceremonial resolutions; grants committees permission to meet
Summary
During the March 13, 2025 session the Texas House granted committee meeting permissions, accepted a Senate message about SB 20, and adopted a series of ceremonial and congratulatory resolutions recognizing colleges, professional associations and community groups.
The Texas House on March 13, 2025, moved through a series of procedural motions and ceremonial measures, suspending rules to consider several resolutions and adopting a broad slate of recognitions and congratulatory items.
Early in the session, the House received a message from the Senate that it had passed SB 20 (Flores); the message was announced at the desk but no House action on SB 20 was recorded in the transcript. Later, Representative Garen moved and the chair ordered the further reading of referral bills until the end of the day’s business. Representative Harris successfully moved that committees and subcommittees be permitted to meet while the House remained in session during the bill referral period until 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 18.
Members suspended rules and adopted multiple resolutions recognizing organizations and observances. Key adopted measures included HR 441 (Collin College Day at the State Capitol), HR 514 (recognizing April 2025 as Landscape Architecture Month), HR 371 (Urban League Day at the Capitol), HR 493 (Texas Nursery and Landscape Association Day), and HR 530 (Nepali Lumbini Advocacy Day). Each of these measures was brought up under unanimous-consent or by suspension of the rules and carried without recorded objection.
The House also read and adopted an extensive congratulatory calendar and a memorial calendar en masse; the clerk read dozens of individually numbered resolutions recognizing counties, institutions, anniversaries and local days, and the chair recorded no objections to adoption.
Collin College was noted by Representative Leach as celebrating its 40th anniversary and serving more than 60,000 students across 10 campuses. Representative Guin highlighted the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association’s economic impact, saying TNLA members help support the Texas green industry, which the resolution described in the reading as generating nearly $40,000,000,000 in output and supporting over 250,000 jobs.
The session’s procedural motions and broad adoption of ceremonial items concluded with the chair stating the speaker’s desk was clear and adjourning until the next convened business day.
Votes at a glance
- Motion to allow committees and subcommittees to meet while the House is in session during the bill referral period until 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 18 — mover: Representative Harris — outcome: adopted (no objection). - Further reading of referral bills until end of today’s business — mover: Mister Garen — outcome: ordered (no objection). - HR 441 — Collin College Day (Leach) — outcome: adopted (no objection). - HR 514 — Landscape Architecture Month (Shaheen) — outcome: adopted (no objection). - HR 371 — Urban League Day at the State Capitol (Reynolds) — outcome: adopted (no objection). - HR 493 — Texas Nursery and Landscape Association Day (Guin) — outcome: adopted (no objection). - HR 530 — Nepali Lumbini Advocacy Day (Lalani) — outcome: adopted (no objection). - Congratulatory calendar (multiple HR numbers read and adopted en masse) — outcome: adopted (no objection). - Memorial calendar (multiple HR numbers read and adopted en masse) — outcome: adopted (no objection).
No roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the transcript for these items; the chair consistently reported “none” to indicate no objections were heard.
