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HB 3912 |
86(R) - 2019 |
State agencies are required by the legislature to make various reports on an ongoing, indefinite basis while other reports are required for a limited duration only. HB 3912 effectively places a sunset on indefinite reporting by stipulating that an agency is not required to submit the report to the legislature after the 10th anniversary of the date the agency first submitted the report to the legislature. Read More
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HB 72 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Star Health is a Medicaid managed care program serving children and youth in foster care in all 254 counties in Texas.HB 72 would require the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to ensure that each child who resides in Texas and who is eligible for certain adoption assistance or services provided by the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), or for assistance or services provided under the permanency care assistance...Read More
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HB 3911 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3911 would require, rather than allow, the commissioner of insurance to examine an insurer to determine the quality and adequacy of a network used by a preferred provider benefit plan or an exclusive provider benefit plan offered by the insurer. An insurer would be subject to a qualifying examination of the insurer's preferred provider benefit plans and exclusive provider benefit plans, and subsequent quality of care and network adequacy...Read More
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HB 3162 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3162 would change the date that a funeral establishment must annually give written notice to the banking commissioner of Texas regarding presumed abandoned money related to prepaid funeral benefits. The notice would be required to be given on March 1, and not later than the following June 1. The current statutory requirement for this notice is June 30 and not later than October 1.The bill would also allow the commissioner to...Read More
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SB 1260 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1260 would require a commercial lodging establishment that imposes a minimum age policy that denies or restricts lodging to individuals based on age to waive that policy for a military service member who seeks to obtain lodging at the establishment and presents a valid military identification card.Read More
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HB 1439 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1439 would authorize Texas A&M - San Antonio to charge students an intercollegiate athletics fee of not more than $10 per semester credit hour. The students would have to vote for the fee for it to go into affect and students could also vote to increase the fee. The fee would be for an intercollegiate athletics program. Read More
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HB 2952 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Under current statute, a General Revenue Dedicated account exists to fund emergency radio infrastructure. According to the bill author's office there have been problems with funds from this account being used for purposes other than the emergency radio infrastructure purposes to which they are dedicated. HB 2952 is an attempt to address that issue.HB 2952 would abolish GR
Account 5153 - Emergency Radio Infrastructure and in its place create...Read More
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SB 1355 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1355 would create the work-based learning task force to develop strategies for expanding and improving the delivery of work-based learning opportunities in this state. A "work-based learning opportunity" would be defined as a youth or adult apprenticeship or internship that provides paid work experience and corresponding classroom instruction, delivered in an employment relationship that both the business and worker intend to lead to...Read More
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HB 2790 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2790 would repeal the section of the Alcoholic Beverage Code that considers it prima facie evidence (meaning evidence sufficient to raise a presumption of) of intent to sell if someone possesses one quart of liquor or more than 24 twelve-ounce bottles of beer in a dry area.Read More
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HB 2697 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2697 addresses the abusive practice of coerced
debt which is defined by some interested parties as "non-consensual, credit-related transactions that occur in intimate relationships where one partner uses coercive control to dominate the other."Current law related to identity theft prohibits a person from obtaining or using using another person's identifying information without the person's consent. HB 2697 would add "or effective consent"...Read More
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HB 2452 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2452 would allow the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation to contract with a qualified individual to assist with complaint review process. The contractor would be immune from liability except in cases of fraud, conspiracy, or malice on their part. The department would additionally be permitted to accept, but not be obligated to
investigate, a complaint that lacks sufficient information to
identify the source...Read More
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HB 2320 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2320 would require the division of emergency management to, if possible, include private wireless communication, internet, and cable service providers in disaster relief planning. The division would also be required to develop plans to harden utility facilities and critical infrastructure, such as hospitals and fire stations in order to maintain operations of essential services during disasters. The bill would also require the public...Read More
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SB 1045 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1045 would require public schools offering full-time virtual education programs to receive a separate accountability rating for their traditional and virtual programs. More specifically, it would require school districts that contract with an entity that to operate a full-time online program to report to the Texas Education Agency the identity of the entity and normal reporting requirements as if the program was a campus. A school district...Read More
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SB 723 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 723 would require school districts to post on their website the annual salary, bonuses, benefits, or any allowances and stipends received by the superintendent.Read More
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HB 2868 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2868 would add interior design to the list of professional services which may be procured under the Professional Services Procurement Act. Read More
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SB 1874 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1874 would provide that a violation relating to the criminal offense of failure to report on time for certain political reports is a Class B misdemeanor if it is shown at trial that the person knowingly failed to file three or more consecutive reports on time. Currently, the offense is a Class C misdemeanor under all circumstances.Read More
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HB 2845 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2845 would require and prohibit certain contract provisions between a landowner and grantee (a lessee or operator of a wind power facility on the property). More specifically, it would void any provision in a wind power facility agreement that purported to waive a right or exempt a grantee from a liability or duty established in the relevant chapter. It would require that the lease agreement provide that the grantee is responsible for...Read More
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HB 2546 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2546 would allow manufacturers or builders of industrialized housing to construct in accordance with energy efficiency performance standards as found in the energy code or a local amendment to the energy code that is applicable to the municipality or county in which state industrialized housing will be located and equally or more stringent than the state energy code.Read More
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HB 2099 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2099 would require the required notice provided by a health benefit plan issuer that modifies drug coverage under the plan to include a statement indicating that the issuer is modifying drug coverage, explaining the type of modification, and indicating that, on renewal of the plan, the issuer may not modify an enrollee's contracted benefit level for any prescription drug that was approved or covered under the previous plan year as provided...Read More
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HB 2042 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2042 would make changes to the procedure concerning audits conducted by the Comptroller on state agencies. The bill would clarify in statute the resources available to the Comptroller when conducting a post-payment audit and would clarify that the Comptroller may not access information not to be released under federal law without approval from the appropriate federal agency. In addition, the bill would make various changes to...Read More
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