The Texas Tribune offers a comprehensive look at what did and did not happen this session. Some of these are conditional based on whether the governor will sign them. Here's a review of their summary
A budget bill was passed - detail to follow - including some tax relief measures. The $4 billion necessary for the Texas Department of Transportation was not found, though measures were passed to help counties pay for road damage caused by the oil drilling boom.
The state's charter school system was expanded and testing and graduation requirements in high school were lowered. Some funding cuts from the previous session were also restored. Public universities will have to offer four year fixed rate tuition options for students and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board passed its sunset review. Students will not be able to carry concealed weapons on campus and a proposal to pass bonds authorizing over $2 billion in campus construction projects was defeated as well.
The Railroad Commission survived its sunset review, but must go through a more rigorous one in four years.
Ethics bills were stripped down or defeated. A bill that would have required more disclosure of contributions was defeated, studies were authorized on the needs for more transparency down the line.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice passed sunset review and the leg requested guidelines for how to deal with a decrease in the number of prisoners in the state. Moves were made to close the two private prison facilities in the state. And an innocence commission is to be established in order to deal with wrongful convictions.
Medicaid fraud legislation was passed and the leg fought efforts to expand the program in the state in accordance with the Affordable Care Act. The Cancer Prevention Agency was refunded despite controversies surrounding it.
Undocumented immigrants will not be able to get drivers permits and a resolution supporting federal immigration reform was defeated.
Recipients of unemployment benefits might be subject to drug tests, though a similar effort to do so for welfare recipients died.
A variety of bills expanding the right to carry concealed weapons died, but legislation was passed restricting the use of unmanned drones for surveillance purposes.
