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SB 429 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 429 would require the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating Council to develop a comprehensive plan to increase and improve the Texas workforce to serve persons with mental health and substance use issues. The Council and the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) are required to implement a provision of this bill only if the legislature appropriates money to HHSC specifically for that purpose.Read More
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SB 1504 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1504 would allow the remaining funds in the B-On-Time account to be disbursed to universities using a performance-based methodology that allocates funding based on a three-year average of the number of bachelor's degrees conferred on at-risk students. It would define an "at-risk student" to mean an undergraduate student whose SAT or ACT score is less than the national mean score and who has previously received a Pell Grant or met the...Read More
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SB 1577 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1577 would prohibit the legislature from appropriating money, and prohibit a state agency from using appropriated money, to settle or otherwise pay a sexual harassment claim made against an elected member of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government, or a person serving as a member of a department, commission, board, or other public office within those branches of government.Read More
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SB 489 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 489 would require the removal or redaction of a federal or state judge's address on certain public reports and records. It would also require the director of security and emergency preparedness to annually submit a report on court security activities throughout the state and recommendations for court security.Read More
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SB 2117 |
86(R) - 2019 |
In the 85th Legislature, SB 1882 was passed into law in an effort to provide incentives for traditional independent school districts to enter into partnerships with open-enrollment charter schools.SB 2117 would allow for charter schools and public school districts to apply to the Texas Education Agency to jointly operate a campus or campus program. The commissioner of the TEA would be prohibited from approving more than 3 contracts in a...Read More
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SB 1177 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1177 would require the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to allow a Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) to offer "medically appropriate, cost-effective, evidence-based services" from a list approved by the state Medicaid managed care advisory committee. Additionally, HHSC would be required to submit an annual report to the legislature on the number of times a service from the list included in the contract is used by a MCO. Read More
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SB 2150 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2150 would amend Section 34.001, Health and Safety Code, to bring state law in alignment with federal law in order to allow Texas to apply for grant funding by adding a definition of "pregnancy-associated death," change the name of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force to the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, and allow health care professionals and family members to report maternal mortality data to DSHS.This...Read More
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SB 384 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 384 would require any health care facility to report to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) each health care-associated infection that occurs in the facility and that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires a facility participating in the Medicare program to report. The bill would expand reporting requirements beyond just surgical site infections to health care-associated infections generally, and would...Read More
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SB 1636 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1636 would require the Health Professions Council to include strategies for expanding the healthcare workforce in their annual report. Specifically, the annual report would include methods for reducing the processing time for healthcare professional applications, increasing the number of practitioners providing mental and behavioral healthcare services, and any other recommendation regarding how to expand the healthcare workforce.Read More
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SB 2322 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2322 would prohibit a municipality or municipally owned utility from engaging in "rate discrimination" by charging a higher utility rate to tax exempt or nonprofit entities than the rate for other entities that receive comparable utility services. Read More
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SB 2180 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2180 would require the State Board of Education to include coding, computer programming, computational thinking, and cybersecurity on the essential knowledge and skills curriculum for grades kindergarten through 8th grade. This bill would also create the Computer Science Strategic Advisory Committee to develop and provide recommendations to increase computer science classes in participating public schools.Read More
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SB 1390 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1390 would require school districts to include mental health and suicide prevention as part as their enrichment curriculum. Essential knowledge and skills in the health curriculum would include the relationship between drugs and alcohol to suicide, recognizing signs of suicide, and help-seeking behaviors and community suicide prevention services. This bill also requires local school health advisory councils to make policy recommendations...Read More
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SB 1884 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1884 would create an offense if a person: (1) intentionally causes the loss of an animal or crop from an animal or crop facility without the consent of the owner or operator; (2) damages, vandalizes, or steals property on or from an animal or crop facility; (3) breaks and enters into an animal or crop facility with the intent to obtain unauthorized possession of records, data, materials, equipment, animals, or crops; (4) knowingly obtains...Read More
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SB 1056 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1056 would clarify the conditions under which a physician may delegate to pharmacists the authority to implement or modify a patient's drug therapy, regardless of whether they practice in a hospital setting. This applies to pharmacists and physicians who have entered into a collaborative practice agreement. Read More
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SB 2126 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2126 would allow the San Jacinto River Authority and the Harris County Flood Control District to move sand, gravel, marl, shell, or mudshell from the San Jacinto River to restore, maintain, or expand the capacity of the river and its tributaries to convey storm flows. These entities would not be required to obtain a permit to take these materials nor would they be required to purchase the materials. These entities would be allowed...Read More
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SB 2305 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2305 would return the application and approval process of Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) certificates of compliance for completed property improvements back to Texas Department of Insurance (TDI). Also, this bill authorizes TDI to rescind a certificate of compliance if the department finds that the
certificate was improperly issued and to impose penalties on a professional engineer who failed to provide complete and...Read More
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SB 1676 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1676 would require court ordered spousal maintenance payments to be paid through the State Disbursement Unit when the court is also ordering child support. The bill also clarifies the standard for owing support if incarcerated for a period of greater than 180 days as a "material and substantial change" for the purposes of modifying a child support payment. Furthermore, the bill requires courts to render separate cumulative judgments...Read More
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SB 1564 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1564 would align Texas Medicaid policy with federal law with respect to the ability to prescribe buprenorphine by using the federal definition of "qualifying practitioner," which includes physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse midwives. This would allow these practitioners to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid...Read More
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SB 1879 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1879 would require the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement to develop a basic training program for the use of firearms by county jailers. The training would cover legal limitations on the use of firearms and the
powers and authority of jailers; range firing and procedure; firearms safety and maintenance; and other topics determined by the Commission to be
necessary for the responsible use of firearms by jailers.Read More
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SB 1772 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1772 would exempt from taxation a portion of the appraised value of qualified property. Qualified property consists of personal property used for production of income or an improvement on real property, is located in a disaster area, and is at least 15% damaged from a disaster as determined by the chief appraiser. SB 1772 is enabling legislation for SJR 57.Read More
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