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HB 3240 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3240 would require the Long-Term Care Facilities Council to now include at least one member who is a community-based provider at an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. In addition HB 3240 would limit the total amount of penalties for violations discovered during each on-site regulatory visit or complaint investigation. HB 3240 would also require the Executive Commissioner of...Read More
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HB 679 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 679 would make changes to the qualifications required for attorneys to be eligible for appointment to represent an indigent defendant in a death penalty case. Read More
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HB 237 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 237 would require that, on
request by a student, a postsecondary educational institution release the student’s transcript or the student’s certificate of
completion of training. The bill stipulates that under certain conditions, an institution must release academic records for students who still have not fulfilled their financial obligation to the institution. A fee would be authorized to cover the cost of releasing the transcript...Read More
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HB 2595 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2595 would require the Commissioner of Insurance to develop and maintain a parity complaint portal that allows an enrollee of a health benefit plan to submit complaints of suspected violations of existing law regarding health benefit coverage for serious mental health illness and substance use disorders. The commissioner would be required to conduct an assessment of complaint portals and similar systems used by...Read More
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HB 1407 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1407 would allow a licensed individual to have a visible holstered handgun in a vehicle, regardless of whether or not the holstered firearm is on the individual's person. Read More
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HB 1082 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1082 would extend the home address and personal contact information confidentiality protections already granted to statewide office holders and legislators, to all publicly elected officials. Read More
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HB 2619 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2619 would require the State Soil and Water Conservation
Board to develop and administer a program to maximize public benefits by
facilitating priority conservation measures and other soil and water
conservation land improvement measures of landowners and operators.Priority
conservation measures include improving soil health characteristics, conserving
and managing water resources, preventing and managing flooding, controlling
invasive...Read More
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HB 867 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 867 would permit a court to issue and enforce qualified domestic relations orders, which would require someone who has not fulfilled their obligations under an alimony or child support order to pay their employee benefits to the other party. All employee benefits would be eligible, regardless of whether they are public or private, and the order would be enforceable by the court until the full obligations under the alimony or child support...Read More
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HB 567 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 567 is designed to place a higher burden on the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) for taking children away from their families. This bill would limit DFPS's ability to take kids erroneously while also protecting parents’ rights. HB 567 places value on keeping children with their families while focusing on the individuals who are either committing the abuse or enabling it. It would allow more parents or family members...Read More
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HB 2535 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2535 would require a chief appraiser to exclude from real property the value of chicken coops or rabbit pens that are used for noncommercial production of food for personal consumption.Read More
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HB 3713 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3713 only applies to a district that controls a ship channel or waterway that is the subject of a project that has been authorized or modified by the U.S. Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 or 2020 and entered into a lease before the effective date of this Act.HB 3713 would allow a district which has entered into a surface lease of at least 20 years to sell the land, improvements, easements, and any other...Read More
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HB 3084 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3084 would require that the Texas Water Development Board to submit a report to the legislature by December, 1 2024 that proposes a framework for adding a new state planning component to the regional water
planning process that would identify and evaluate multiregional
water supply projects or provide strategic water reserves for the
state’s long-term water needs. The Texas Water Development board must consider the current...Read More
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HB 2577 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2577 would expand the light duty motor vehicles purchase or lease incentive program to make qualified electric motorcycles eligible for the $2,500 incentive offered by the program. This bill excludes motor-assisted scooters, pocket bikes, and minimotorbikes from the program. This bill requires that a person receiving this incentive remit $750 to the comptroller to deposit in the state highway fund and that funds deposited in the...Read More
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HB 2375 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2375 would replace the limit of $3 per meal when a district court provides jurors in a civil case with meals during their deliberation with any reasonable amount decided upon by the judge.Read More
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HB 2586 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2586 would require an annual independent audit of each independent organization certified for the ERCOT power region. The audit must examine the independent organization’s financial
condition, including the organization’s budget and expenses, and
the salaries of the organization’s employees and board members; and compliance of the independent organization’s
assets with all applicable commission standards.The...Read More
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HB 1348 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1348 would require a political subdivision to consider an open-enrollment
charter school a school district for purposes of zoning, permitting, code compliance, and
development. HB 1348 would prohibit a political subdivision from taking any action that
prohibits an open-enrollment charter school from operating a public
school campus, educational support facility, athletic facility, or
administrative office within the political subdivision’s
jurisdiction...Read More
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HB 2327 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2327 would increase the classification of boating while intoxicated from a Class B misdemeanor to a state jail felony if there is at least one passenger younger than 15 years of age. Individuals convicted of this offense would become ineligible for deferred adjudication community supervision.Read More
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SB 1699 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1699 would require any institution of higher education to permit a
student organization formed for the purpose of exercising
expressive rights (enshrined in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Section 8, Article I of the Texas Constitution) to establish and maintain membership and
leadership qualifications for the organization that further the
organization’s purpose, including requiring the organization’s
leaders...Read More
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HB 1728 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1728 would allow veterans to hunt or fish for a day without a license if they are accompanied by a representative of a select nonprofit organization (if that representative possesses the required license).Read More
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HB 2743 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2743 would allow a state employee's annual salary rate to be set immediately at any rate in the salary group for that position if the employee transfers within a state agency between two positions that are allocated to the same salary group and have the same position title as listed in the General Appropriations Act, transfers to a position for which the employment opening is publicly listed, voluntarily applies for the position to which...Read More
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