Bill Filing Day One Closes at 1,236 Measures for the 90th Texas Legislature
The first day of prefiling for the 90th Texas Legislature ended with 1,236 bills and resolutions on the books — 126 of them on health and Medicaid alone — in a session that does not convene until Jan. 12.
AUSTIN — Day one of bill filing for the 90th Texas Legislature is closed, and the final count is 1,236 bills and resolutions filed on Monday, according to a Lone Star Standard review of the Legislature's records — up from almost 970 at noon and more than 1,160 by mid-afternoon in the counts the Texas Desk filed earlier today.
The review's category counts sketch the session's shape: 126 of the day-one measures fall under health and Medicaid, and 50 under local government. The first health bill out of the gate carries an Austin name — Rep. John Bucy III's House Bill 101 would expand Medicaid to every adult who applies and qualifies for federal matching money under the Affordable Care Act, and would require the Health and Human Services Commission to report on the expansion every year.
The data center fight picked up another named vehicle on day one: Sen. Roland Gutierrez's Senate Bill 296 would regulate where and how data centers are built, permitted and operated, according to the bill's official caption — alongside the tax-break repeal (SB293) the desk filed this evening.
None of it is law, or close to it: filing a bill guarantees neither a hearing nor a floor vote, and filing stays open through March 12. The 90th Legislature convenes Jan. 12, 2027, when committees form and the day-one stack starts, slowly, to sort itself into the session's real agenda.
