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Running forState House, District 76

Suleman Lalani

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Overview

Suleman Lalani is an American politician and medical doctor who represents district 76 of the Texas House of Representatives.

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Source: Open States

Bills they wrote

Bills and joint resolutions where they're the main author, since 2023. Laws first, then the ones that got furthest.

Wrote

101 bills

Became law

4 became law. Another 15 passed the House or Senate but didn't.

  • Introduced Mar 27, 2025HB 5656: Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 263; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
    Became law
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 783: Relating to civil liability for online impersonation.
    Became law
  • Introduced Apr 20, 2023HB 5395: Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 11; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
    Became law
  • Introduced Mar 8, 2023HB 4250: Relating to the right of the clerk of a court to deduct from the amount of the excess proceeds from an ad valorem tax sale of property the cost of postage for sending to the former owner of the property a notice of the owner's right to claim the proceeds.
    Became law
  • Introduced Aug 15, 2025HB 149: Relating to the governor's review of purchases by political subdivisions of public safety radio communication systems.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2025HB 2874: Relating to the inclusion of provenance data on content shared on social media platforms.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025HB 2300: Relating to the distribution of hookahs; creating a criminal offense.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025HB 2298: Relating to a health care facility grant program supporting the use of artificial intelligence technology in scanning medical images for cancer detection.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 514: Relating to a maternal health care workforce campaign.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 850: Relating to emergency cardiovascular care at public schools and certain private schools in this state.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 876: Relating to the establishment of certain information sharing and analysis organizations by the Department of Information Resources.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 484: Relating to the use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and tobacco products on the campus of a public institution of higher education.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 842: Relating to a study and report on burying power lines in the Gulf Coast region.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 869: Relating to the review and revision by the state's classification officer of information in the position classification plan regarding state information technology positions.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023HB 4762: Relating to liability of hospital personnel for certain uses of force while on duty.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023HB 4897: Relating to civil liability for online impersonation.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3631: Relating to a requirement that public institutions of higher education provide certain information regarding mental health services to entering students.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3091: Relating to identification cards issued by health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3124: Relating to the use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and tobacco products on the campus of a public institution of higher education.
    Passed the House
  • Introduced Aug 15, 2025HB 129: Relating to the distribution of hookahs; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 15, 2025HB 119: Relating to emergency preparedness and contingency operations plans, inspections, and enforcement for senior retirement communities.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 15, 2025HB 123: Relating to emergency preparedness and safety requirements for youth camps.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Aug 6, 2025HB 286: Relating to emergency preparedness and contingency operations plans, inspections, and enforcement for senior retirement communities.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 31, 2025HB 238: Relating to the distribution of hookahs; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 22, 2025HB 174: Relating to emergency preparedness and safety requirements for youth camps.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 13, 2025HB 4887: Relating to the provision of loans and grants from the Texas energy fund for certain electric generating facilities.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 12, 2025HB 4692: Relating to the storage or disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 12, 2025HB 4639: Relating to the development and implementation of a veterans health care coverage program to assist certain veterans in obtaining health care coverage.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 12, 2025HB 4702: Relating to requiring the consideration of standardized test scores as a factor in nonautomatic admissions decisions at certain public institutions of higher education.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2025HB 4019: Relating to providing certain students in this state with career opportunities in state agencies through the Texas pathways program.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2025HB 4018: Relating to use of artificial intelligence in utilization review conducted for health benefit plans.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025HB 3882: Relating to the participation of certain juvenile justice entities in the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025HB 3949: Relating to advanced air mobility.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025HB 3884: Relating to foreign language curriculum requirements for high school students in public schools.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2025HB 3881: Relating to the parking of a commercial motor vehicle in or near certain residential subdivisions.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2025HB 2875: Relating to the development and adoption by school districts of local policies to address eloping behavior by students with autism or other intellectual or developmental disabilities.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 14, 2025HB 2873: Relating to the replacement and modernization of obsolete and inefficient computer hardware and software technology used by certain state agencies.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 11, 2025HB 2641: Relating to health benefit plan preauthorization requirements for physicians and providers providing certain health care services.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 11, 2025HB 2639: Relating to preauthorization determinations conducted by physicians of the same specialty as the requesting physician or health care provider.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 11, 2025HB 2640: Relating to medical director certification and training requirements at certain nursing facilities.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Feb 11, 2025HB 2659: Relating to certain mammography reports providing required breast density information.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 31, 2025HB 2299: Relating to a community health clinic grant program.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025HB 1885: Relating to providing voters access to a restroom facility at a polling place.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025HB 1900: Relating to providing water to voters near a polling place.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 16, 2025HB 1903: Relating to a "Texas Way" to reforming and addressing issues related to the Medicaid program, including the creation of an alternative program designed to ensure health benefit plan coverage to certain low-income individuals through the private marketplace.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jan 10, 2025HB 1811: Relating to the duration of services provided under Medicaid to women following a pregnancy.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 6, 2024HB 1539: Relating to seeking a waiver under Medicaid to provide a continuous period of eligibility under the program for certain children.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 6, 2024HB 1538: Relating to the authority of a peace officer to apprehend a person for emergency detention and of certain facilities and physicians to temporarily detain a person with mental illness.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Dec 6, 2024HB 1541: Relating to the establishment of an advisory committee to study and make recommendations on services provided to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 26, 2024HB 1474: Relating to the prohibited retail sale and provision to minors of certain over-the-counter weight loss drugs and dietary supplements; providing a civil penalty.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 25, 2024HB 1467: Relating to emergency preparedness of assisted living facilities and the health and safety of residents of those facilities; providing civil and administrative penalties.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 863: Relating to senior independent living communities; providing civil and administrative penalties.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 570: Relating to informing certain housing assistance applicants about the availability of certain public assistance programs.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 456: Relating to the translation of certain forms and information associated with complaints filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 891: Relating to a "Texas solution" to reforming and addressing issues related to the Medicaid program, including the creation of an alternative program designed to ensure health benefit plan coverage to certain low-income individuals through the private marketplace; requiring a fee.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 770: Relating to prohibiting a sex offender from possessing a firearm.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 895: Relating to the development and implementation of the Live Well Texas program and the expansion of Medicaid eligibility to provide health benefit coverage to certain individuals; imposing penalties.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 724: Relating to notice of the health of children attending and adults employed by a child-care facility.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 746: Relating to an e-cigarette and tobacco use prevention and cessation program established by the Department of State Health Services.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 690: Relating to creation of the criminal offense of possessing or smoking tobacco inside or on the grounds of certain state buildings.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 846: Relating to a parental leave policy for certain school district classroom teachers.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 885: Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for emergency outpatient dialysis treatment provided to certain individuals with end stage renal disease.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 625: Relating to a halal food option for breakfast and lunch programs provided by public schools.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 702: Relating to a notification provided by a transportation network company regarding a designated bicycle lane.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 667: Relating to a halal food option for breakfast and lunch programs provided by certain public schools.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 352: Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 856: Relating to a policy regarding the maintenance, administration, and disposal of medication for respiratory distress by public and private schools.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 306: Relating to prohibiting certain transfers, purchases, and possession of firearms; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 181: Relating to a requirement that public institutions of higher education provide applicants with certain information regarding eligibility for public health programs.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 601: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 826: Relating to monitoring air contaminant emissions in certain counties.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 397: Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 836: Relating to establishing a minimum base wage for certain personal attendants under Medicaid and other programs administered by the Health and Human Services Commission.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 260: Relating to prohibiting sex offenders from purchasing firearms.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 428: Relating to identification cards issued by health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 543: Relating to signs posted by public institutions of higher education to facilitate the reporting of and to prevent incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 860: Relating to requirements for subscription service contracts; providing a civil penalty.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Nov 12, 2024HB 880: Relating to the reporting of certain information regarding medically necessary debt on a consumer report.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Jul 6, 2023HJR 14: Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation by a school district applicable to residence homesteads, to adjust the amount of the limitation on school district ad valorem taxes imposed on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect increases in certain exemption amounts, to establish the property tax relief to rental households fund and authorize the legislature to provide payments to rental households from that fund based on a proportion of rent paid, and to except certain appropriations to pay for school district ad valorem tax relief and property tax relief payments to rental households from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023HB 4927: Relating to seeking a waiver under Medicaid to provide a continuous period of eligibility under the program for certain children.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023HB 4761: Relating to the notification required following a breach of security of computerized data.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 10, 2023HB 4881: Relating to prohibiting a sex offender from possessing a firearm.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 9, 2023HB 4682: Relating to an e-cigarette and tobacco use prevention and cessation program established by the Department of State Health Services.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 8, 2023HB 4001: Relating to notice of the health of children attending and adults employed by a child-care facility.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 8, 2023HB 3986: Relating to the authority of a peace officer to apprehend a person for emergency detention and the authority of certain facilities and physicians to temporarily detain a person with mental illness.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 7, 2023HB 3944: Relating to a notification provided by a transportation network company regarding a designated bicycle lane.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3633: Relating to a study on the establishment of a program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission to train individuals in certain skills related to artificial intelligence systems.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3629: Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of making a firearm accessible to a child.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3630: Relating to a halal food option for breakfast and lunch programs provided by public schools.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3628: Relating to establishing a process to inform certain housing assistance applicants of their potential eligibility for certain public assistance programs.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3626: Relating to a maternal health care workforce campaign.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3634: Relating to a halal food option for breakfast and lunch programs provided by public schools.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3635: Relating to the creation of the offense of smoking tobacco on the grounds of certain state buildings.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 6, 2023HB 3627: Relating to signs posted by public institutions of higher education to facilitate the reporting of and to prevent incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3092: Relating to the translation of certain forms and information associated with complaints filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3090: Relating to the authority of a county to maintain a sewer utility.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3087: Relating to prohibiting certain transfers, purchases, and possession of firearms; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3089: Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3088: Relating to prohibiting the transfer of firearms to certain recipients.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3086: Relating to prohibiting sex offenders from purchasing firearms.
    Introduced
  • Introduced Mar 1, 2023HB 3085: Relating to a requirement that public institutions of higher education provide applicants with certain information regarding eligibility for public health programs.
    Introduced

Source: Open States

How they voted

Final votes on bills that passed either chamber of the Texas legislature, since 2025. Votes on amendments, committees, and procedure are left out.

Votes shown

1,778 votes on bills that passed at least one chamber.

Attendance

Didn't vote on 148 of 1,778 votes (8%). Some of these may be excused absences, approved by the House ahead of time. The vote records we use don't say which.

By topic
Academic and Career-Oriented Education7 votes
    Agriculture and Livestock21 votes
      Appropriations7 votes
        Border Security4 votes
          Business and Commerce82 votes
            Congressional Redistricting, Select1 vote
              Corrections22 votes
                County and Regional Government35 votes
                  Courts and Civil Law (Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence)75 votes
                    Courts and Civil Law (Jurisprudence)19 votes
                      Criminal Justice80 votes
                        Criminal Law (Criminal Jurisprudence)57 votes
                          Culture, Recreation and Tourism22 votes
                            Defense and Veterans' Affairs17 votes
                              Dis Prev and Women's and Children's Health16 votes
                                Disaster Preparedness and Flooding13 votes
                                  Disaster Preparedness and Flooding, Select1 vote
                                    Economic Development16 votes
                                      Education K-1654 votes
                                        Elections22 votes
                                          Energy Resources18 votes
                                            Environmental Regulation22 votes
                                              Family and Fiduciary Relationships41 votes
                                                Finance4 votes
                                                  Government Efficiency67 votes
                                                    Health and Human Services58 votes
                                                      Higher Education50 votes
                                                        Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans' Affairs55 votes
                                                          Human Services52 votes
                                                            Insurance37 votes
                                                              Intergovernmental Affairs39 votes
                                                                International Relations1 vote
                                                                  Juvenile Justice11 votes
                                                                    Land and Resource Management20 votes
                                                                      Licensing and Administrative Procedures37 votes
                                                                        Local Government53 votes
                                                                          Natural Resources57 votes
                                                                            Pensions, Investments and Financial Services42 votes
                                                                              Property Tax Appraisals13 votes
                                                                                Public Education56 votes
                                                                                  Public Health73 votes
                                                                                    State Affairs143 votes
                                                                                      State-Federal Relations1 vote
                                                                                        Taxes (Ways and Means)82 votes
                                                                                          Trade, Workforce and Economic Development38 votes
                                                                                            Transportation66 votes
                                                                                              Transportation Funding8 votes
                                                                                                Veterans' Affairs9 votes
                                                                                                  Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs41 votes
                                                                                                    Workforce13 votes

                                                                                                      Source: Open States, Texas Legislature Online. Topics from the state legislature.