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SB 1317 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 1317 would prohibit a school teacher’s first day of service from being any earlier than the seventh day before the first day of school instruction. However, schools would be allowed to require a teacher to report for service up to 10 days before the first day of instruction if it is the teacher's first year of service.Read More
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SB 213 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would create an office of ombudsman for the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). This office would be responsible for handling complaints by children and youth in the conservatorship of the department regarding issues of authority of the department with another health and human services agency, and in assisting persons with complaints against the department regarding case-specific activities of the programs...Read More
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SCR 5 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SCR 5 would designate the city of Rockwall as the official Live Music
Capital of North Texas for 10 years and urge that free live music continue to be
readily available to residents and visitors.Read More
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SB 1229 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 1229 is a bracketed bill for a county with a population of over 1.5 million and at least 75 percent of the population resides in a single municipality that enables a county to provide for solid waste collection, handling, storage, and disposal in the county’s extraterritorial jurisdictions through a competitive bidding process. The county would be authorized to contract with a municipality to provide management to extraterritorial jurisdictions...Read More
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HB 89 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 89 would amend the Government Code to prohibit any governmental entity from investing in a company that has boycotted business relations with the country of Israel. In addition, a governmental entity may not enter into a contract with a company unless the contract contains a written verification from the company that it does not boycott Israel and will not boycott Israel during the term of the contract. Read More
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HB 1292 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 1292 would amend the Occupations Code to make a series of changes regarding the Texas Funeral Service Commission. Notable changes include making changes to the qualifications of commission members, authorizing the establishment of fees for license renewal or replacement of a license, stipulating that a funeral director's or embalmer's initial license would be valid for 24 months, etc. Read More
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HB 1504 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require a community supervision and corrections department to adopt a policy regarding the scheduling of meeting or visits with defendants placed on community supervision. The policy must require the officer supervising the defendant to take into consideration the defendant’s work, treatment, or community service schedule when scheduling visits. Read More
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HB 2035 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would extend the sunset provision of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force to 2023. Read More
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HB 3263 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a retiree who resumes service as a judicial officer not through appointment or assignment are not allowed to rejoin or receive credit in the retirement system for the resumed service. HB 3263 amends this by allowing a retired judge to elect to rejoin and receive service credit in the Judicial Retirement System Plan Two if the retiree has been separated from judicial service for at least 12 consecutive months. If the election...Read More
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HB 115 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the cap on the value of a raffle of a residential dwelling is $250,000. If this bill passes, the cap would be increased to $2 million. Read More
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HB 2943 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the state water pollution control revolving fund exists to provide financial assistance to political subdivisions for construction of treatment works and to persons for nonpoint source pollution control and abatement projects. HB 2943 would instead only offer this assistance to projects eligible for assistance under federal law. This bill would also require that loans be offered for a term not to exceed the projected useful...Read More
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HB 1156 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would create an offense for the
unlawful restraint of a dog. This bill provides the necessary conditions under
which a dog may be restrained, and which restraints would be considered lawful
if this bill were to pass. This bill also provides various exceptions to this
rule including the use of the animal for shepherding or herding animals. An
offense under this law, would be considered a Class C misdemeanor for each dog
that...Read More
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HB 2356 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2356 would amend the Local Government Code to include a county adjacent to a county with a U.S. military installation wholly or partly located in it in the definition of “local government” for the purpose of state aid to certain local governments disproportionately affected by granting property tax relief to disabled veterans.Read More
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HB 2413 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would amend the definition of “student information” as identifying information regarding a student that is in the possession of the Texas Workforce Commission and any school, college, or educational institution or business entity from which the commission receives information.Read More
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HB 2378 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, groundwater may be transferred outside of a district if a permit is granted. Depending on whether or not the construction of a conveyance system has been initiated, the permit allows for the transfer of water for three or 30 years. HB 2378 would automatically extend a water transference permit before its expiration for at least as long as the operating permit.Read More
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HB 578 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Current law provides for the circumstances under which a an administrative head of a state agency may approve emergency leave without a deduction in pay for a state employee. An example of this would be to attend to a death in the family.This legislation provides accountability by requiring that in order to approve emergency leave without deduction in pay an administrative head must believe in good faith "that the
employee being granted...Read More
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HB 2143 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would prohibit the suspension, termination, or discipline of a physician assistant for refusing to engage in an act that would violate a rule in the chapter or constitutes grounds for reporting the physician assistant to the board. If a medical peer review board determines that the act is not grounds for reporting and does not violate the chapter, a person disciplining the physician assistant for their refusal would not be in violation...Read More
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HB 2387 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would modify the code of criminal procedure relating to the disclosure of certain information. If this bill passes, an application for compensation under the Crime Victims Compensation Act and any information, document, summary, or other record provided to the attorney general would not be subject to disclosure. Under current law, if a crime victim is compensated for pecuniary loss arising from criminally injurious conduct, their...Read More
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HB 1861 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 1861 would add information directly arising from a governmental body's routine efforts to prevent, detect, or investigate a computer security incident, including information contained in or derived from an information security log, to the list of information that is confidential.Read More
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HB 2571 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2571 would amend the Education Code to have the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio establish and maintain the National Center for Warrior Resiliency to be devoted to research and clinical care for combat-related PTSD and comorbid conditions and enhancing the psychological resiliency of military personnel and veterans. The board of regents of The
University of Texas System would provide for the employment of...Read More
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