House Bill 6 is a response to reports of more violent classroom disruptions after the pandemic. It lowers the bar for when schools can discipline for the state’s homeless and youngest students.

The 89-43 vote comes less than two months after an Austin federal judge declared extreme heat in Texas prisons “plainly unconstitutional."

Senate Bill 1146 would encourage the owners of leases or mineral rights to which abandoned oil and gas wells are attached to plug the wells by reducing their potential legal liability for taking action.