Coppell legislative update: liaison outlines Texas session priorities, emergency items and bill activity

Jennifer Rodriguez, providing a legislative update to the Coppell City Council on Feb. 11, said the 2025 Texas Legislature is early in its regular session and that lawmakers face about 110 days remaining of the 140-day session.

Rodriguez told the council the state comptroller delivered the biennial revenue estimate and reported roughly $194,600,000,000 available for general-purpose spending, which Rodriguez described as including a surplus "a little over $23,000,000,000" remaining from the 2023 budget. "That surplus is down, several billion dollars from where they started in '23, but that's obviously still a healthy amount of money," she said.

Why it matters: the revenue estimate and leadership changes shape which bills move and how much the Legislature can appropriate for state priorities. Rodriguez highlighted three areas already seeing action in the Senate: an education savings/school-choice measure, a property-tax relief bill and proposed…