Paul Bettencourt

Senator · Texas

Party

Republican

State

Texas

Chamber

Senator

District

SD-007

Years active

2017–2025

Bills sponsored

24 bills

Bills sponsored

• TX-SB12-2025 enacted · co-sponsor
  Relating to parental rights in public education, to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity, and inclusion duties, and social transitioning, and to student clubs at p…
• TX-SB1565-2025 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to a school district's grievance procedure and to certain public school requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction and diversity, equity, and inclusion duties and the loss of funding for public schools…
• TX-SB1696-2025 failed · primary sponsor
  Relating to the inclusion of a person's sex on certain government documents and identification cards.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB102-2021
• TX-SB18-2025 failed · primary sponsor
  Relating to prohibiting municipal libraries that host certain events from receiving state or other public funding.
• TX-SB2149-2025 failed · primary sponsor
  Relating to the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by providers of electric service.
• TX-SB412-2025 enacted · co-sponsor
  Relating to defenses to prosecution for certain offenses involving material or conduct that is obscene or otherwise harmful to children.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB1434-2025
• TX-SB689-2025 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to employment practices regarding diversity and prohibiting the implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by certain governmental entities.
• TX-SB7-2025 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB214-2025
• TX-SB8-2025 enacted · primary sponsor
  Relating to the designation and use of certain spaces and facilities according to sex; authorizing a civil penalty and a private civil right of action.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB214-2025
• TX-SB1029-2023 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to civil liability for, governmental health plan coverage of, and public funding for gender modification procedures and treatments.
• TX-SB12-2023 enacted · co-sponsor
  Relating to the authority to regulate sexually oriented performances and to restricting those performances on the premises of a commercial enterprise, on public property, or in the presence of an individual younger than…
• TX-SB14-2023 enacted · primary sponsor
  Relating to prohibitions on the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria and on the use of public money or public assistance to provid…
  Model-bill family: TX-HB1686-2023
• TX-SB15-2023 enacted · primary sponsor
  Relating to requiring public institution of higher education students who compete in intercollegiate athletic competitions to compete based on biological sex.
• TX-SB17-2023 enacted · co-sponsor
  Relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public institutions of higher education.
• TX-SB249-2023 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to the offense of genital mutilation.
• TX-SB8-2023 failed · primary sponsor
  Relating to public education, including parental rights and public school responsibilities regarding instructional materials and the establishment of an education savings account program.
• TX-SB1646-2021 failed · primary sponsor
  Relating to the definition of abuse of a child.
• TX-SB2-2021 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to requiring public school students to compete in interscholastic athletic competitions based on biological sex.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB10-2021
• TX-SB29-2021 failed · primary sponsor
  Relating to the required inclusion of a person's sex on a birth certificate and prohibited change of sex on the birth certificate of certain minors.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB102-2021
• TX-SB17-2019 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to discrimination by a state agency against an applicant for or holder of an occupational license.
  Model-bill family: TX-HB2827-2019
• TX-HB3859-2017 enacted · co-sponsor
  Relating to protection of the rights of conscience for child welfare services providers.
• TX-SB2095-2017 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to regulation of steroid use by students participating in athletic competitions sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League.
• TX-SB3-2017 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to the regulation of certain facilities and activities of political subdivisions, including public school districts, and open-enrollment charter schools.
• TX-SB6-2017 failed · co-sponsor
  Relating to regulations and policies for entering or using a bathroom or changing facility; authorizing a civil penalty.