Bill Analysis

BILL NAME SESSION ANALYSIS
HB 4426 87(R) - 2021 HB 4426 would revise requirements for the cancellation of platted subdivisions that were filed and approved decades ago but never developed in certain counties along the international border. The purpose of this bill is to help control the proliferation of colonias. Read More
HB 3067 87(R) - 2021 HB 3067 would add State Highway 195 to the National Purple Heart Trail. This would not remove any other designation on State Highway 195 but simply add a new designation. Read More
HB 2431 87(R) - 2021 HB 2431 would designate the portion of State highway 173 in Bandera County from the south end of the bridge crossing the Medina River in the city of Bandera to the Medina County line as the "Master Sergeant Rodney Lee Buentello Memorial Highway." The Texas Department of Transportation would design and construct markers indicating this highway and any other appropriate information and erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate...Read More
HB 1207 87(R) - 2021 HB 1207 would require the State Board of Education to establish training requirements a principal must complete to receive a school turnaround specialist endorsement. Read More
HB 3833 87(R) - 2021 HB 3833 would change the rollback period on the additional tax owed from 5 years to 3 years if certain restricted land changes use to a non-qualifying use. The interest rate on the tax that would be imposed is also reduced from 7 percent to 5 percent.Read More
HB 4465 87(R) - 2021 HB 4465 would require the creation of a grant program from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act and the American Rescue Plan to aid public schools in the recovery from COVID, which would include grants for extending instructional time, broadband grants to ensure that students have access to remote instruction, innovation in curriculum and instruction, improvements in quality of air and water at school facilities,...Read More
HB 854 87(R) - 2021 HB 854 would lower the category of offense for carrying a licensed handgun on the premises of a hospital, amusement park, or into a governmental entity meeting from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class C misdemeanor punishable of a fine up to $200. These offenses would become Class A misdemeanors if the person received notice that entry into the premises was forbidden and subsequently failed to depart.Read More
HB 2952 87(R) - 2021 HB 2952 would make certain changes to child support. It would require a person ordered to pay alimony and child support to send the alimony to the state disbursement unit. A court, when considering the intentional unemployment or underemployment of a child support obligor, would have to consider various background circumstances such as their assets, residence, job skills, education, record of seeking work, and whether there are employers...Read More
HB 574 87(R) - 2021 HB 574 would make it so that any person who knowingly or intentionally counts invalid votes, does not count valid votes, alters a report to include invalid votes, or intentionally excludes valid votes commits election fraud under Section 276.013, Election Code. It would also upgrade all offenses under this Section from Class A misdemeanors to second-degree felonies.Read More
HB 1810 87(R) - 2021 HB 1810 would require that electronic recordkeeping systems maintained by government entities not erode the public's right of access in the manner in which they are maintained. If a request for public information includes a request that any electronic material be in a searchable or sortable format, the government entity would be required provide it in a searchable or sortable format. If enacted, a government entity would also have to use...Read More
HB 1231 87(R) - 2021 HB 1231 would add Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the state-recognized optional holidays.Read More
HB 1699 87(R) - 2021 HB 1699 would allow the non-commercial collection or hunting of unbanded, pen-raised pheasants or quail on private property of at least 5 contiguous acres. It is also noted that nothing in the bill will authorize a person to exceed a bag limit for pheasant or quail.Read More
HB 1905 87(R) - 2021 HB 1905 would remove a number of obsolete duties from regional water planning groups.Read More
HB 764 87(R) - 2021 Among other things, HB 764 would revise high school graduation requirements by phasing out certain end of course assessments and replacing those assessments with certain nationally recognized assessments such as SAT, ACT, PSAT, and others. The bill would also require the commissioner to contract with a vendor to administer the new assessment instrument. Districts would be required to distribute the results to each district campus and...Read More
HB 2633 87(R) - 2021 HB 2633 would require the Department of State Health Services to establish a Trafficked Persons Grant Program as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. This program would be designed to provide money to: substantiate the state's interest in publicly operated and funded shelter and treatment for sex trafficking victims prevent the recruitment of human trafficking victims within mixed-status child and youth shelters;provide...Read More
HB 3626 87(R) - 2021 HB 3626 would reduce requirements for marriage and family therapists, professional counselors and their associates to transfer or move to the state of Texas and still work. HB3626 would allow therapists from other states, who are in good standing, to come to Texas and count their experience toward the Texas experience requirements and exempt professional counselors or therapists from other states from the supervisory hour requirements...Read More
HB 416 87(R) - 2021 HB 416 requires that an application for a permit for a concrete plant must include: a distance scale; a north arrow; all property lines, emission points, buildings, tanks, and process vessels and other process equipment in the area in which the facility will be located; at least two benchmark locations in the area in which the facility will be located; and if the permit requires a distance, setback, or buffer...Read More
HB 546 87(R) - 2021 Texas currently offers occupation-related student loan repayment assistance for participants of a handful of programs who attended qualified institutions of higher education. HB 546 would expand access to these student loan repayment programs by revising the eligibility requirements to now include students of Western Governors University-Texas. Read More
HB 4612 87(R) - 2021 HB 4612 would establish the Brazoria County Management Districts No.2 (BCMD2) to promote, develop, encourage, and maintain employment, commerce, transportation, housing, tourism, recreation, the arts, entertainment, economic development, safety, and the public welfare in the district. All or part of the district is eligible to be including in a tax increment or abatement reinvestment zone, and enterprise zone, or an industrial...Read More
HB 2723 87(R) - 2021 HB 2723 requires public notices for budget and tax rate meetings to include a statement with a link to find each individual's local property tax database with easily accessible information regarding property taxes and public hearings of each entity that taxes an individual's property. Local property tax databases are required to be updated regularly during August and September as local elected officials propose and adopt property tax rates.HB...Read More