Texas HB 14 (2025): Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office and development fund
Texas law signed on 20 June 2025 and effective 1 September 2025. It creates a state nuclear office and fund; it does not license or approve any reactor, which remains the NRC's role.
- Category
- Laws, rules and executive directives
- Status
- In effect
- Instrument
- statute · 89(R) HB 14; Texas Government Code chapter 483
- Issued by
- Texas Legislature
- Jurisdiction
- Texas
- Affects
- Project funding, State programme administration
- In effect from
- 2025-09-01
- Expiry or completion
- 2035-09-01 — The office is abolished and chapter 483 expires on this date unless continued under the Texas Sunset Act.
- Operative text
- Texas 89(R) HB 14, enrolled version (Enrolled)
- Last checked · next review
- 2026-10-03 · 2026-11-02
Legal and geographic scope
State law creating the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office in the Office of the Governor and the Texas Advanced Nuclear Development Fund, with grant programmes for advanced nuclear projects in Texas.
Not approved or still pending
Grants depend on the fund's rules and award decisions; none is recorded here.
Dated lifecycle
- 2025-06-20 · Signed (Texas Legislature Online: 89(R) HB 14 history)
- 2025-09-01 · Took effect (Texas Legislature Online: 89(R) HB 14 history)
Definitions in this instrument
- advanced nuclear reactor (Gov't Code 483.001(2)): Reactor technologies the NRC determines to be Generation III+ or IV, including large light-water reactors, small modular reactors, microreactors and nuclear cogeneration.
Legal definition used by this instrument only; SMRMap's inclusion rule for SMRs is separate and unchanged. This definition includes large reactors that SMRMap does not cover.
Related instruments
- Texas Advanced Nuclear Development Fund (establishes)
- TANEO grant rules (10 TAC chapter 331) (implemented by)
Projects or designs named by the source
- None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.
Sources
- Texas Legislature Online: 89(R) HB 14 history (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-03)
- Texas 89(R) HB 14, enrolled version (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-03)