AT A GLANCE Bills the lieutenant governor favors
Here are Patrick’s top priorities in numerical order.

■ SB1 by Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound. State budget.

■ SB2 by Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston. Would cap local property tax revenue.

■ SB3 by Nelson. Would provide a $5,000 pay raise for librarians and full-time teachers.

■ SB4 by Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood. Would overhaul the method for funding public schools.

■ SB5 by Bettencourt. Would increase the homestead exemption from $25,000 to $35,000.

■ SB6 by Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham. Would create a disaster response model for local officials, rules and guidelines regarding debris removal, and a training and credentialing program for emergency management directors.

■ SB7 by Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe. Would create an infrastructure resiliency fund to pay for flood mitigation projects and continued responses to Hurricane Harvey.

■ SB8 by Charles Perry, R-Lubbock. Would create the framework for the first statewide flood mitigation plan.

■ SB9 by Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola. Would create new rules for people who assist others in filling out their ballots and new penalties for those who block walkways to polling places and candidates who commit election fraud.

■ SB10 by Nelson. Would create a higher-education consortium to come up with best practices for addressing the mental health needs of young students.

■ SB11 by Taylor. Would outline more rules for school safety plans and give $50 per student to fund security and other preparedness measures.

■ SB12 by Joan Huffman, R-Houston. Would shore up the pension system for educators.

■ SB13 by Creighton. Would bar most lobbyists from qualifying for public office and place on lawmakers who become lobbyists.

■ SB14 by Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville. Would expand rural broadband.

■ SB15 by Creighton. Would prohibit local ordinances defining sick leave and other benefits and those that bar private employers from taking action against an employee based on criminal history.

■ SB16 by Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills. Would create a college loan forgiveness plan for police officers.

■ SB17 by Perry. Would prohibit the state from refusing to issue an occupational license to someone based on conduct they say is tied to their faith.

■ SB18 by Huffman. Would require institutions of higher education to codify their free speech rules and would bar rules that infringe on speech that is not disruptive.

■ SB19 by Hughes. Would expand the ability of tenants to possess firearms.

■ SB20 by Huffman. Would require, in many case, that judges send those convicted of prostitution to community supervision programs instead of putting them behind bars.

Would create new penalties for those who offer others up for prostitution online. Would generally bar using a history of prostitution as evidence against someone who commits another crime.

■ SB21 by Huffman. Would raise the smoking age to 21.

■ SB22 by Donna Campbell, R-New Braunfels. Would block state money to many abortion providers.

■ SB23 by Kolkhorst. Would penalize doctors who do not try to save the life of an infant born after an abortion.

■ SB24 by Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville. Would require women to receive information about adoption and “the characteristics of an unborn child” before receiving an abortion.

■ SB25 by Royce West, D-Dallas. Would create new higher education systems to facilitate credit transfer and on-time graduation.

■ SB26 by Kolkhorst. Would change how state sales and use taxes fund state parks and historical sites.

■ SB27 by Hughes. Would allow someone defending against “a frivolous regulatory action” to recover up to $1 million in damages.

■ SB28 by Huffman. Would amend rules on political subdivisions contract based upon a contingency fee for legal services.

■ SB29 by Bob Hall, R-Edgewood. Would bar private organizations from spending state money on lobbying.

■ SB30 by Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury. Would require bond election language to be “plain” and describe “the rate of any tax that will be increased.”