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HB 2365 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2365 would require a military medical treatment facility that is designated as a Level 1 trauma center to be considered a provider under Medicaid for purposes of
providing and receiving reimbursement for inpatient emergency services and related outpatient services. HB 2365 would prevent the Health and Human Services Commission from imposing a requirement that limits the period of time an injured Medicaid recipient may receive emergency...Read More
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HB 2056 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2056 would expand telemedicine to include the use of
Teledentistry dental services. This is a health care service delivered by a
dentist or health professional acting under the delegation and supervision of a
dentist within the scope of the dentist's or health professional's license or
certification to a patient at a different physical location than the dentist or
health professional using telecommunications on information technology....Read More
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HB 1280 |
87(R) - 2021 |
The provisions of HB 1280 would become effective on the 30th
day after a U.S. Supreme Court judgment or constitutional amendment authorizing
the states to prohibit abortion or Roe v. Wade (1973) is overturned.HB 1280
would prohibit abortion unless a licensed physician makes a reasonable medical
judgment that not performing the abortion would put the pregnant mother at a
serious risk of death or substantial impairment due to a life-threatening...Read More
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HB 700 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 700 would allow foster youth
who complete the standardized curriculum for the Preparation for Adult Living
Program to receive college credit for completing the program.Read More
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HB 4107 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4107 would modify the requirements with which a common carrier must comply with respect to entering private property for the purpose of exercising the power of eminent domain. HB 4107 would require the common carrier or
its employees, contractors, agents, or assigns, that intend to survey property to exercise eminent domain authority, to provide the property owner with a notice of intent to enter the property and an indemnification provision...Read More
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HCR 1 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HCR 1 would resolve that the 87th Legislature supports prayers, including the use of the word "God," at public gatherings and the display of the Ten Commandments in public educational institutions and other government buildings.Read More
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SB 1047 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1047 would permit a search warrant issued to collect a blood specimen from a person suspected of committing certain intoxication-related offenses to be executed in a county adjacent to the county in which the offense took place and warrant was issued, and by any law enforcement officer with arresting authority in the county of execution. The purpose of this bill is to allow the blood sample to be drawn in a hospital that serves the county...Read More
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HB 4293 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4293 would permit the Office of Court Administration to develop a court reminder program that would allow a county to send a text message to a criminal defendant to remind them of a scheduled court appearance. The office would have to make the program available to counties at no cost. Each county would be required to establish such a program and would have the option of using the statewide program provided or developing their own. The...Read More
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HB 4361 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4361 would allow an institution of
higher education to enter into an agreement with an employer to
provide a credit or noncredit off-campus workforce education or
lower-division program at a site
requested by the employer without the approval of a higher
education regional council and regardless of whether the site at which the program would be offered
is located within the institution’s uniform state service region
or,...Read More
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HB 3348 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3348 would allow certain eligible junior or community colleges to offer up to five baccalaureate degree programs. Read More
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HB 2416 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2416 would permit a person to recover attorney’s fees as compensatory damages from any eligible entity in a suit for the breach of a construction contract.Read More
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HB 2675 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2675 would require the creation of an "at risk" designation for a person who applies for a license to carry a handgun and who is at an increased risk of
becoming a victim of violence. The bill outlines qualifications for obtaining such a designation and procedures for handling the expediting of an application for a license to carry a handgun for an at risk applicant. Read More
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HB 2509 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2509 would add nationally accredited post-doctor of
podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) programs that prepare podiatrists for
independent practice in the specialty area of podiatry to those programs eligible for funding by the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company.Read More
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HB 3717 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3717 would exempt a
municipality from a requirement to hold an election to allow the
sale of a municipal retail water or sewer utility system only if the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued a Notice of Violation to the utility system and the municipal governing body finds the municipality is unable to
restore the water or sewer system to compliance with the relevant laws or
regulations.Read More
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HB 2107 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2107 would specify that a juvenile court may order a juvenile unable to proceed due to an intellectual disability to receive services for their disability, rather than only treatment. It would require the facility in which the juvenile is placed to include any services provided to the child in their report to the court.Read More
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HB 1588 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1588 would require that a health benefit plan that provides benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident, or sickness to provide coverage for scalp cooling for an enrollee who is undergoing or has undergone medical treatment for cancer and is determined by the enrollee’s treating physician to be appropriate.Read More
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HB 981 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 981 would require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a religious studies
program at Texas Southern University.Read More
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HB 929 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 929 would require a law enforcement agency's body worn
camera policy to include provisions relating to the collection of a body worn camera, including
the applicable video and audio recorded by the camera, as evidence, and would require a peace officer who is equipped with a body worn camera and actively participating in
an investigation to keep the camera activated for the entirety of the officer's active participation
in the...Read More
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HB 1900 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1900 addresses the issue of municipal defunding of police departments.HB 1900 would require the Governor's office to determine
whether municipalities with more than 250,000 people are defunding
municipalities, defined as a municipality that adopts a budget which reduces
the appropriation to their law enforcement agency. Such a municipality would be
exempt if the reduction in law enforcement appropriation is proportionate to a
percentage...Read More
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HB 2073 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2073 would mandate political subdivisions pay emergency personnel, who have been ordered to quarantine, all employment benefits and compensation,
including leave accrual, pension benefits, and health benefit plan
benefits as well as costs related to the quarantine, including
lodging, medical, and transportation costs and may not reduce their paid sick leave accrual due to time missed while in quarantine. CSHB...Read More
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