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SB 884 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This is a local bill, applying only to a county with a population of 3.3 million or more. SB 884 would prohibit county revenue from being used to improve or redevelop a facility "designed to be used in part as a venue for professional sports events and that opened to the public before 1966" if the project will cost $10 million or more unless the funding is approved by the voters of the county at an election held for that purpose.Read More
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HB 544 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the Water Code permits contracting for outreach, financial, and technical assistance by rural political subdivisions in obtaining and using financing from the rural water assistance fund. HB 544 would add contracting for planning to the current list of appropriate activities and would allow rural political subdivisions to use this assistance to obtain funding from any source, rather than exclusively from the rural water assistance fund.Read More
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SB 1158 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This is a bracketed bill. Under current law, a county with a population of at least 2.8 million is permitted to require that a trained food manager be on duty during the normal operating hours of a food establishment. SB 1158 would change this provision to allow a county with a population of at least 4 million to require a food manager either be certified or trained.Read More
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SB 758 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This is a bracketed bill which would change the circumstances under which a person may receive utility assistance payments under an already existing program. Currently in order to receive assistance, an individual must be threatened with disconnection of services and be deemed by the municipality to be a low-income customer. This legislation would rescind the requirement that a person must first be threatened with disconnection of services...Read More
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SB 325 |
85(R) - 2017 |
The substantial changes that this bill would enact would involve allowing an attorney of the state to request an expunction for an acquitted person. Current law allows only a defendant to request expunction, and it puts a burden on the defendant and the defendant’s attorney to prepare the order for the court’s signature. If this bill passes that burden could be taken on by the state but would not be mandated. Read More
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SB 680 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 680 would amend the Insurance Code to add that a health benefit plan issuer that requires a step therapy protocol before providing coverage for a prescription drug must establish and implement the step therapy protocol in accordance with clinical review criteria. A prescription provider would be able to submit a request for exemption from the protocol to the patient’s health plan provider. If the request is denied and appealed, an independent...Read More
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SB 510 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, certain individuals are afforded explicit confidentiality with regard to home address information disclosed in tax appraisal records (such as a peace officer, an employee of the Department of Justice, or a judge). SB 510 would add to this list a current or former employee of a federal or state judge.Read More
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SB 368 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill is bracketed for Harris County. Under current law, a person who operates an automotive wrecking and salvage yard in violation of Chapter 397 of the Transportation Code is liable for additional civil penalties for each violation of at least $500 and at most $1,000. SB 368 would change the maximum penalty to $5,000.Read More
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SB 87 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law a civil penalty is
imposed for motor vehicle owners who fail to pay or are delinquent in payment
for traffic violations detected by a photographic traffic signal enforcement
system.
Currently, the Texas Department of
Motor Vehicles may refuse to register a motor vehicle based on the driver's
delinquency.
SB 87 amends current Transportation
Code by striking the provision that the...Read More
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SB 19 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill, if enacted, would tie the control of tuition rates to performance based standards at universities. These standards would be based on an eleven point criteria that includes: the total number of undergraduate degrees awarded; the total number of undergraduate degrees awarded by the college, adjusted by the college's six year graduation rate; the total number of undergraduate degrees awarded by the institution per 100 full time student...Read More
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SB 865 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, groundwater conservation districts are required to have at least two directors sign all disbursements. SB 865 would exempt this requirement in situations involving a federal reserve wire transfer or electronic transfers. In addition, the board may authorize payroll disbursements by electronic direct deposit.Read More
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HB 1148 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require administration hubs under Section 773.012, Health and Safety Code, to consult with trauma service area regional advisory councils (RAC) to develop a 25-year plan for coordinating emergency care in Texas and submit it to the Department of State Health Services not later than September 1, 2021. The bill would also require the executive commissioner to review the rules adopted under the section every seven years. The...Read More
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SB 550 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 550 would amend the Tax Code to add that an entity that is rehabilitating a certified historic site or building to which all or part of a credit for up to 25% of the total eligible costs incurred is sold or assigned and that is subject to an insurance premium tax may claim all or part of the credit against that tax. An entity claiming all or part of a credit authorized would not be required to pay any additional retaliatory tax levied...Read More
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SB 258 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, abortion facilities may dispose of fetal remains in the same manner they dispose of medical waste. This bill creates a disposition of remains form for a woman getting an abortion to fill out in order to fulfill her request as to what is to be done with the fetal remains. Read More
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SB 330 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, in order to have land appraised as open space land, which is taxed at a lower rate than residential or industrial land, the land must have been in continuous agricultural use for five of the past seven years. For land that has fallen out of qualification, a new landowner would have to pay taxes at a higher rate until the land re-qualifies. SB 330 would reform this system with the intent of making the open space valuation...Read More
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SB 151 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a municipality may issue obligations to fund all or any part of an unfunded liability. Before authorizing issuance of an obligation, the governing body of the municipality must enter into a written agreement with the governing body of the public retirement system. SB 151 would add to this process by also requiring a municipality to gain majority qualified voter approval before they issue an obligation. The municipality...Read More
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HB 132 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Current law only allows qualified grandparents age 45 or older taking care of dependent children to be eligible for supplemental financial assistance. The bill would make more relative caretakers of dependent children qualified for supplemental financial assistance (aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters) and lower the age requirement from 45 to 25. Read More
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SB 717 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the governing body of a taxing unit has the option to reappraise property damaged after a disaster. Procedures and guidelines to carry out this reappraisal are outlined in current code. SB 717 would assign these duties to the chief appraiser of the respective appraisal district and mandate that the reappraisal be done. The bill would only apply to property that FEMA estimates to have sustained 5% or greater damage as a...Read More
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HB 1014 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, to be eligible to serve as an elected member of the board of the Employee Retirement System, an individual must be a member of the retirement system and must hold a position that is included in the employee class of membership. The individual may not be with an agency or department with which another trustee holds a position. HB 1014 would allow for one of the three elected members to be a retiree.Read More
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HB 265 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Current law requires that, among other things, the three elected members of the Employees Retirement System of Texas be members of the retirement system. HB 265 would maintain the current statutory requirements for two of the members but allow the third to simply be a retiree without being a member of retirement system or meet the other criteria. Read More
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