Votes at a glance: Texas Senate floor actions on March 12, 2025

The following is a concise summary of formal actions recorded on the Texas Senate floor on March 12, 2025. This list is drawn from the Senate transcript and records bill captions, the sponsor where shown, and the final Senate vote as recorded on the floor.

Votes recorded on the floor (bill — sponsor — brief description — Senate final vote as recorded in the transcript):

- SB 616 (Schwartner) — Relating to aquifer storage and recovery projects transacting a portion of the Edwards Aquifer — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - SB 494 (Sparks) — Establish theft-of-petroleum-products task force at Railroad Commission — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - CSSB 929 (Johnson; committee substitute for Senate Bill 929) — Deadlines and timing for mechanics’ and materialmen’s liens — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - SB 890 (Paxton) — Adds statutory probate judges to list eligible for a special license to carry for judicial officers — Passed final passage: 28 ayes, 3 nays. - SB 20 (Flores) — Creates offense for possession or promotion of obscene visual material appearing to depict a child — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - SB 442 (Hinojosa) — Prosecution/punishment of unlawful production or distribution of certain explicit deepfake media — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - SB 1621 (Huffman) — Revises prosecution and punishment for explicit visual material involving depictions of children or computer-generated children — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - CSSB 992 (Nichols; Senate Bill 992) — Procedure for attorney general to approve/deny agency contracts for outside legal services — Passed final passage: 30 ayes, 1 nay. - CSSB 25 (Kolkhorst) — Health and nutrition standards; labeling; advisory committee — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - CSSB 25 companion items/amendments — Multiple floor amendments adopted (ingredient list, on-site ready-to-eat exemption, CE for nurses/PAs) — adopted by voice/roll as described on floor. - CSSB 314 (Hughes) — Prohibiting certain additives from free or reduced-price school meals — Passed final passage: 30 ayes, 1 nay. - CSSB 260 (committee substitute for Senate Bill 260) — School safety allotment changes to the Foundation School Program — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - SB 1145 (Birdwell) — Transferring permitting authority for land application of produced water to TCEQ — Final vote recorded in transcript as 21 ayes, 0 nays (transcript block shows 21 ayes). - CSSB 293 (Huffman) — Judicial discipline, notice of certain reprimands, compensation, and retirement benefits — Passed final passage: 30 ayes, 1 nay. - SB 869 (Bettencourt) — Deadlines for Texas Ethics Commission to resolve certain complaints — Passed final passage: 31 ayes, 0 nays. - SB 384 (Flores) — Allowing donations to Operation Game Thief when purchasing hunting/fishing license — Final roll call as shown on the transcript is unclear (scribe recorded an irregular tally); transcript earlier recorded suspension vote of 31 ayes for rule suspension. (Final tally on the transcript is inconsistent; not specified here.) - Nominations committee report — 66 nominees reported and confirmed: recorded as 31 ayes, 0 nays.

Notes and caveats: (1) Tallies and procedural details are taken directly from the Senate floor transcript supplied. Where the transcript contains inconsistent or unclear numbers (for example, one passage that lists “41 ayes” on a chamber of 31 members), this summary flags those entries as inconsistent and does not invent a corrected number. (2) The list includes committee substitutes and floor amendments adopted on the floor; it does not attempt to reproduce bill text changes adopted by amendment beyond the floor summary. (3) Bills that received extended debate or multiple related bills (for example several bills addressing AI/deepfake child imagery) are covered in separate articles that provide fuller context.

The measures listed above were recorded on the March 12 Senate floor and, where recorded as passed, were transmitted to the House for further action.