2025 in Texas

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The following is a list of events of the year 2025 in the U.S. state of Texas.

• Governor: Greg Abbott (R)
• Lieutenant Governor: Dan Patrick (R)
• Attorney General: Ken Paxton (R)
• Comptroller: Glenn Hegar (R)
• Land Commissioner: Dawn Buckingham (R)
• Agriculture Commissioner: Sid Miller (R)
• Railroad Commissioners: Christi Craddick (R), Wayne Christian (R), and Jim Wright (R)

• Mayor of Austin: Kirk Watson (D)
• Mayor of Dallas: Eric Johnson (R)
• Mayor of El Paso: Oscar Leeser (D) (until January 6), Renard Johnson (D) (since January 6)
• Mayor of Fort Worth: Mattie Parker (R)
• Mayor of Houston: John Whitmire (D)
• Mayor of Lubbock: Mark McBrayer (R)^[1]
• Mayor of San Antonio: Ron Nirenberg (I) (until June 18), Gina Ortiz Jones (D) (since June 18)

• January 16 – SpaceX launches its seventh test flight of the Starship launch vehicle, with an improved second stage out of its Starbase launch site in Boca Chica. The company catches the first stage but the second stage breaks up shortly before engine shutdown.^[2]

• February 24 – The Department of State Health Services in Texas places several major cities in the state on high alert due to a measles outbreak that spreads to 99 people in Texas and New Mexico, the third-largest outbreak since it was considered eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.^[3]
• February 25 – The Texas Department of State Health Services reports the first death in the ongoing measles outbreak. The decedent is a child who died in a hospital in Lubbock.^[4]
• February 27 – Two people are killed when a Robinson R44 helicopter crashes on a private property in Uvalde.^[5]
• February 28 – The number of measles cases in Texas increases to 146 with 20 people hospitalized, spanning nine counties.^[6]

• March 4 – Strong storms and tornados cause damage across North Texas, with thousands losing power in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.^[7]

• April 2 – 17-year-old Austin Metcalf is stabbed to death at a track meet in Frisco. Another 17-year-old is charged with murder.^[8]

• May 3 – Voters, largely employees of SpaceX, approve a measure to incorporate the space of Cameron County that SpaceX occupies into the city of Starbase.^[9]
• May 4 – One person is killed and 13 injured in a mass shooting at a family party in southeast Houston.^[10]
• May 25 – The Texas House of Representatives passes a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom in Texas.^[11]
• May 28 – The Texas Senate passes the Ten Commandments bill.^[12]

• June 6 – Texas beats Texas Tech to win the 2025 NCAA Division I softball tournament, their first title.^[13]
• June 7 — 2025 San Antonio mayoral election: In San Antonio, Gina Ortiz Jones is elected mayor, and will become the city's first lesbian mayor and the first female Asian American mayor of a major city in Texas.^[14]
• June 12 – At least thirteen people are killed by flooding in San Antonio.^[15]
• June 20 – Texas' Supreme Court ruled that Southwest Airlines pilots can sue Boeing over 737 MAX crashes.^[16]
• June 21 – Governor Abbott signs a law that will require all public schools to display the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. A similar law was blocked by a federal court in Louisiana the previous day.^[17]
• June 27 – The Supreme Court upholds the Texas law requiring age verification for accessing pornographic websites.^[18]

• July 3 – Over a hundred people are killed by flooding in central Texas, with Kerr County hit the hardest. Multiple summer camps, including Camp Mystic, are hit by floods, and the casualties include campers, staff, and camp directors.^[19]
• July 4 – An Alvarado Police Department officer is shot in the neck while responding to vandalism of and the use of fireworks outside a Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Alvarado.^[20]
• July 7 – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in McAllen is attacked by a 27-year-old gunman who injures a McAllen Police Department officer before he is fatally shot by local police and Border Patrol officers.^[21]
• July 18 – At least four people are killed and over a dozen others are injured in a multiple-vehicle collision on Interstate 35 in San Antonio.^[22]

• August 3 – At least 51 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives leave the state in a bid to prevent the house from voting on a proposed congressional map that was deliberately drawn to yield more Republican representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. At least 100 of the 150 members of the Texas House are required to be in the state for a vote to proceed.^[23]
• August 4 – The Texas House votes to issue civil arrest warrants for the Democrats who left the state. The civil arrest warrants only apply in Texas and are largely symbolic.^[24]
• August 11 – Three people are fatally shot in the parking lot of a Target store in Austin. A suspect is arrested in another part of the city.^[25]
• August 17 – An ICE detention center dubbed the "Lone Star Lockup" opens at Fort Bliss in El Paso. The Trump administrations says it is the largest federal detention center in history.^[26][27]
• August 18 – The Democrats who left Texas return to the state. After returning, those who left are required to sign a form requiring Texas Department of Public Safety escorts. One representative, Nicole Collier, refuses to sign the slip and remains in the House chambers.^[28]

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