Terry Wilson, Texas State Representative of 20th district | Facebook
Terry Wilson, Texas State Representative of 20th district | Facebook
More specifically, the official text was summarized by the state legislature as ’’Relating to food service establishment, temporary food service establishment, and retail food store permits for certain small-scale businesses’’.
The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.
This bill exempts small-scale businesses, defined as those with less than $1.5 million in annual gross revenue and established by a farmer or food producer, from obtaining or paying for more than one permit to operate a temporary food service establishment. Additionally, if such a business is licensed as a food manufacturer under specific regulations, it is not required to obtain or pay for permits to operate a food service establishment, temporary food service establishment, or retail food store. The bill seeks to reduce the regulatory burden on small-scale food producers by limiting the number of permits and associated fees required for their operations. It is set to take effect Sept. 1, 2025.
Terry Wilson, chair of the House Committee on Higher Education and member of the House Committee on Redistricting, proposed another 16 bills during the 89(R) legislative session.
Wilson graduated from Texas A&M University in 1990 with a BS.
Terry Wilson is currently serving in the Texas State House, representing the state's 20th House district. He replaced previous state representative Marsha Farney in 2017.
Bills in Texas go through a multi-step legislative process, including committee review, debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching a final decision. Each session, there are typically thousands of bills introduced, but only a portion successfully navigate the process to become law.
You can read more about the bills and other measures here.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| HB 5631 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to a public institution of higher education's orientation on the institution's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking policy |
| HB 5619 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to extending the Hazlewood Exemption Act to active-duty members |
| HB 5606 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to a sick day pool of school employees in the state |
| HB 5548 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to prohibiting certain food additives from being included at primary and secondary schools |
| HB 5387 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of residential watering restriction |
| HB 5385 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to aquifer storage and recovery projects that transect a portion of the Edwards Aquifer |
| HB 5190 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to requiring parental consent before interviewing a student regarding certain alleged incidents of misconduct in public schools |
| HB 5154 | 04/07/2025 | Relating to the reporting of the Joint Admission Medical Program |
| HB 4980 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to establishing the Child-Care Professional Pathway program |
| HB 4953 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to the designation of Ranch-to-Market Road 1431 in Llano, Burnet, Travis, and Williamson Counties as the Gary P. Nunn Memorial Highway |
| HB 4899 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to private rights of action arising from certain solicitation-related communications |
| HB 4892 | 04/03/2025 | Relating to the creation of an additional judicial district in Williamson County |
| HB 127 | 04/02/2025 | Relating to measures to protect public institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; providing civil and administrative penalties; increasing a criminal penalty |
| HB 1018 | 03/07/2025 | Relating to the establishment of a certification program for public work contracting purposes for operators of certain facilities that emit air contaminants |
| HB 982 | 03/06/2025 | Relating to the authority of a taxing unit other than a school district, county, municipality, or junior college district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the taxing unit may impose on the residence homesteads of certain low-income individuals who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses |
| HB 873 | 03/05/2025 | Relating to air quality permits for aggregate production operations and concrete batch plants |
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