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TX HB4850

Bill

Status

Passed

6/20/2025

Primary Sponsor

Angie Button

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands the aerospace and aviation advisory committee to include one member representing a federal entity or the U.S. armed forces, in addition to the existing seven qualified members and spaceport development corporation representatives

  • Removes the requirement that the Texas Business and Community Economic Development Clearinghouse operate through a statewide toll-free telephone service

  • Restructures the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Consortium by shifting strategic planning responsibility from the executive committee to the Governor's office, changing the consortium's role to an advisory capacity that provides recommendations rather than developing and executing plans directly

  • Requires the Governor's office to hire an executive director for the consortium and establishes staggered six-year terms for appointed executive committee members, with designees serving two-year terms

  • Repeals Chapter 490H of the Government Code (the Governor's Broadband Development Council) and modifies the "Go Texan" program criteria to require at least 51 percent of significant parts and processing originate in Texas, rather than "all or virtually all"

Legislative Description

Relating to programs to promote economic development in the Office of the Governor and to the repeal of the governor's broadband development council.

Business & Commerce

Last Action

Effective on 9/1/25

6/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Economic Development5/8/2025
Trade, Workforce & Economic Development4/3/2025

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