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SB 62 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 62 would allow the Texas Ethics Commission to hold seminars addressing the laws enforced by the commission and allow them to charge an attendance fee including the cost of providing food and nonalcoholic beverages to attendees. Read More
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SB 793 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 793 would allow the governor or adjutant general to adopt policies and regulations relating to awarding the Texas Border Security and Support Service Ribbon. This ribbon would be awarded to a service member of the military forces in this state, another state, or the United States who served on or after July 28, 2014, was on state active duty or active duty under state authority for at least 90 consecutive days, or served in response...Read More
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SB 1341 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1341 would require the Health and Human Services Commission to develop and implement methods for reducing abuse, fraud, and waste in public assistance programs by:conducting electronic data matches with the Texas Lottery Commission;using the Medicaid data collection database system to match vital statistics unit death records with a list of individuals eligible for assistance; andreviewing the out-of-state electronic benefit transfer...Read More
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SB 2046 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 2046 would prohibit the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs from including in the report for certain applications any instance of noncompliance associated with a project of the applicant or affiliate of the applicant if the applicant or affiliate has submitted documentation, in a format acceptable to the department, demonstrating that the responsibility for project compliance was delegated to another participant in the project.Read More
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SB 1179 |
87(R) - 2021 |
Under current law, people who serve jury duty are entitled to receive compensation for time and travel expenses. Jurors are given donation cards at the beginning of their service letting them know that they may choose to donate their all or a portion of their compensation to a number of different funds designed to benefit the victims of crimes, or to a veterans treatment court. SB 1179 would amend the law to require that the donation...Read More
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HB 678 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 687 would revise the pharmacy and pharmacists occupation code to expand the ability of pharmacists to order or administer immunizations or vaccinations to patients who are at least three years old as long as the immunizations or vaccinations are: authorized or approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, and administered in accordance with the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices vaccine-specific recommendations.Read More
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SB 1827 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1827 would create an Opioid Abatement Account as a dedicated account in Texas' general revenue fund composed of money received by the state from any source resulting directly or indirectly from an action by the state against an opioid manufacturer, distributor, or another person in the opioid industry relating to a violation of state or federal law. This fund would be used to provide evidence-based opioid education and prevention, support...Read More
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SB 1111 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1111 would prohibit a person from claiming residence for the sole purpose of voting in an election. The bill specifies that a person cannot claim residence at a place they do not inhabit, including past residences they no longer inhabit.SB 1111 would require voter registrar to send a written request to confirm the voter's address, if the registrar has reason to believe the voter's residence on registration records is a PO Box or...Read More
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SJR 19 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SJR 19 is a constitutional amendment which would ensure residents of a nursing facility, assisted living facility, intermediate care facility for individuals with a disability, residence providing home and community based services, or state supported living center have their rights protected. Namely the right to designate an essential caregiver with whom the facility, residence, or center would be prohibited from inhibiting in-person visitation. SJR...Read More
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SB 741 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 741 would allow school marshals of any public or private school or public junior college to conceal carry a firearm rather than be required to keep their firearm in storage when not in use.Read More
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SB 204 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 204 would allow the board of trustees of a school to provide an economical public
school transportation system to students served by the county system or enrolled in the school
district but reside outside the county or district.Read More
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SB 1281 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1281 would require the PUC use, as a criterion to certify a transmission project, a comparison of the
estimated cost of the transmission project for consumers and the
estimated cost savings for consumers that may result from the
transmission project.SB 1281 would allow an electric utility to not amend the utility’s certificate of public convenience when constructing a new transmission line if the line is 3 miles or...Read More
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SB 907 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 907 would require the Texas Judicial Council to develop a process in which county clerks may become certified to issue marriage licenses through the use of remote technology. In counties in which the clerk chooses to become certified, a person who applies for a marriage license through remote technology would be considered to have appeared before the court, as required by law.Read More
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SB 957 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 957 would prohibit the Attorney General from denying or
reducing funds given to a person from the Crime Victims' Compensation Program based on that person's interactions with law enforcement at the crime
scene or a hospital, unless they find that the person subsequently refused to substantially cooperate with law enforcement.Read More
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SB 1764 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1764 would allow a tax collector to adopt a written policy to require payment of delinquent taxes, penalties, interest, and costs and expenses on certain seized property or property subject to a tax sale to be paid with a cashier's check, certified check, of electronic funds transfer. Read More
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SB 1816 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1816 would make certain changes to display requirements of temporary tags issued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles by requiring that 72-hour or 144-hour temporary permits be carried inside the vehicle, in addition, would also amend the Transportation Code to require that for one-trip or 30-day trip permits, the permit be located in the rear license plate display area.SB 1816 would establish a maximum number of temporary...Read More
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SB 165 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 165 would prohibit an institution of higher education from counting toward the number
of courses permitted to be dropped a course dropped by a student during
the 2020 spring semester or summer term or the 2020-2021 academic
year because of a limit on in-person course attendance at the
institution during the applicable semester or term due to COVID.Read More
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SB 331 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 331 would allow an election officer to appoint an interpreter to communicate with a voter whose language the election officer does not understand. The bill would also lay out eligibility rules for becoming an interpreter for a voter.Read More
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SB 1531 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1531 would align the formula-eligible hours for students of an institute of higher education who receive financial state assistance to only apply to credit hours up to 25% beyond their respective degree requirements.Read More
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SB 398 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 398 would require a seller or lessor who enters into a purchase, lease, or power purchase agreement with a residential or small commercial customer for the operation of an on-site distributed renewable generation resource to provide to the customer, in writing, contact information, a description of all equipment to be installed, the cost of equipment to be installed, a detailed accounting of fees associated with installation or operation...Read More
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