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SB 1918 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1918 would reauthorize certain municipalities with a population of two million or more to adopt a land bank program (specifically, the Houston Land Bank) for the purpose of acquiring, managing, and disposing of vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties and returning those properties to productive uses.Read More
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SB 1239 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1239 would extend the continuing education requirements that currently apply to surgical technologists to non-certified surgical technologists (30 hours completed every two years). Also, a health care facility may restrict the abilities of a surgical technologist who does not complete the continuing education requirements. The continuing education requirements are the sole responsibility of the surgical technologists, and not their employers. Read More
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SB 2244 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2244 would allow students to enroll into courses on the state virtual school network. The bill would remove fees and certain restrictions on students. This bill would also establish a study on the effectiveness of digital learning in public schools and the partnerships between school districts and open enrollment charter schools that would be providing these services.Read More
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SB 1117 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1117 would allow the governing body of a municipality to adopt a land bank program in which the officer, charged with selling real property ordered sold pursuant to foreclosure of a tax lien, may sell certain eligible real property by private sale for purposes of affordable housing development. This bill would also provide certain requirements for developer participation and public hearings on proposed plans.Read More
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SB 945 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 945 would require public and private institutions of higher education that already have mandatory training for residential advisors and officers of student organizations to include a training component on drug and alcohol overdose awareness and response. Read More
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SB 751 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 751 would create an offense for any person who, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, creates a "deep fake video" and causes it to be published or distributed within 30 days of an election. A "deep fake video" is defined as a video created with artificial intelligence that, with the intent to deceive, appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not occur in reality.Read More
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SB 12 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 12 would increase the state contribution rate to the Teacher Retirement System gradually until 2023. Teacher contributions would not change. The state contribution would increase from 7.25% to 8.8%. The employer or district contribution would not change. Read More
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HB 2000 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2000 would authorize the issuance of an additional $3.8 billion in tuition-revenue bonds to various public universities in Texas for capital construction projects. The construction projects would include building improvements for certain universities around the state. As the fiscal note mentions, this would cost the state $660 million in debt service payments.Read More
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SB 666 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Currently, county and district courts are required to report low-level family violence convictions to the Department of Public Safety (DPS); municipal courts and justice of the peace courts are not. SB 666 would require all courts to report Class C misdemeanor family violence convictions to DPS, including municipal courts and justice of the peace courts. It would also require DPS to establish a procedure to correct DPS records and transmit...Read More
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HB 3252 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3252 would update certain notice requirements for conventions and elections, including requiring that certain already required notices must also be posted during the early voting period. The bill would also require election notices to be published on a county clerk's website rather than displaying the information on the individual county party websites.Read More
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HB 2166 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2166 would transfer the authority of the seed
certification process from the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to an
eligible private entity. The current certification process is voluntary. The
bill would lay out specific guidelines for private entities that would be participating in the program.Read More
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SB 493 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 493 would allow the board for the Department of Housing and Community Affairs to allocate housing tax credits to more than one development in a community if: (1) the community is located in a county with a population of four million or more and an area that is a federally-declared disaster, and (2) the governing body of the municipality containing the development has by vote specifically authorized the allocation of housing tax credits...Read More
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HB 3092 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3092 would amend Chapter 823 of the Health and Safety Code to require an animal shelter to provide notice to each person who adopts an animal from the shelter if any epizootic infectious disease occurred in that shelter within 15 days before or after the adoption. Read More
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HB 113 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 113 would require drivers to indicate that an automated vehicle is automated when registering the vehicle.Read More
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SB 243 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 243 would remove restrictions on school marshals in public and private schools requiring them to lock their handgun in a locker or safe if their job requires them to be in regular and direct contact with students in a classroom setting. Individual schools would still be able to adopt this requirement if it is in the best interest of their students' safety.Read More
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HB 953 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 953 would require charter schools to pay the state's contribution on the portion of the member's salary that exceeds the statutory minimum salary. Currently public school districts have to pay this portion to TRS, while charter schools do not. Read More
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SB 2156 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2156 would designate a portion of Interstate Highway 14 in Bell County as a "The First Calvary Veterans Highway". Read More
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SB 2024 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2024 would rename a portion of Interstate Highway 35 as the "Trooper Tom Nipper Memorial Highway". Read More
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HB 1209 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Current law allows a tenant to break a lease without penalty under certain circumstances. HB 1209 would add to the circumstances under which a tenant may break a lease without penalty by including victims of family violence. A tenant would have to show proof of family violence by presenting a landlord a letter provided by a family violence center advocate, a licensed health care provider who examined the victim, or a mental health provider...Read More
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HB 1074 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1074 would expand the prohibition on age discrimination for certain employee training programs by abolishing a statutory provision that allows age discrimination for employees between the ages of 40 and 56. This bill would prohibit age discrimination for training programs for all employees 40 or older. Read More
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