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SB 1132 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1132 would allow the Public Safety Commissioner, or their representative, to examine each place of business of a crafted metal dealer, also known as a metal recycling entity, and to investigate the dealer’s transactions and records, including books, accounts, papers, and correspondence, to the extent the transactions and records pertain to the business regulated under existing law, whenever the commissioner considers...Read More
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SB 1208 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1208 would designate the State Highway 276 bridge over Lake Tawakoni in Hunt and Rains County as the Staff Sergeant Shawn Henry McNabb Memorial Bridge.Read More
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SB 730 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 730 would designate a portion of State Highway 66 in Rockwell county as Commissioner David Magness Memorial Highway. Read More
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SB 659 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 659 would allow certain areas that were exempt from municipal taxation for 20 years and do not receive full municipal services, or were annexed for limited purposes and have never received full municipal services, to apply a formal process to disannex from their respective municipalities. Read More
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SB 629 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 629 is a bracketed bill to allow the City of Mission, TX to develop a new cemetery. Read More
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SB 2016 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 2016 would exempt qualified health plans and non-qualified health plans, offered in the marketplace, from compliance with the state-mandated benefits, if the state must defray the cost. Currently, this bill would do nothing as state-mandated benefits do not exceed federally-mandated essential health benefits, it would only take effect in the event state-mandated benefits did exceed federally-mandated benefits.Read More
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SB 1340 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1340 would require the secretary of state and the Department of Public Safety to
jointly develop a program to allow a person who is a citizen of the United
States with an unexpired Texas driver’s license to complete a voter
registration application simultaneously with an online application for an
original, renewal, or duplicate driver’s license. The bill would require courts to provide in writing to convicted
felons...Read More
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SB 1212 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1212 would amend current law relating to the board of directors of the Booker Hospital District by reducing the number of members from seven to five and requiring staggered term limits. Read More
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SB 876 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 876 would modify existing law to allow the seller or purchaser of a motor vehicle to apply for the registration and title of the vehicle with any county assessor-collector willing to accept the application. Read More
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HB 1916 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1916 would prohibit a credit access business, or a representative thereof, from making telemarketing calls to a consumer who appears on the no-call list unless the credit access business is party to a contract with the consumer or was party to a contract with the consumer within the previous year.Read More
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HB 789 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 789 would downgrade the tampering or destroying of evidence for a criminal offense that is a misdemeanor from a third-degree felony to a Class A misdemeanor.Read More
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HB 1116 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1116 would give privately owned toll entities the same powers and duties as the Texas Department of Transportation with regard to toll collection and enforcement, except that private entities would be able to set their own prices for tolls. Read More
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HB 187 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 187 would permit a court to review a second application for a writ of habeas corpus from a felony convict whose first application was denied if a state attorney in the relevant jurisdiction agrees to the court reviewing it.Read More
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HB 682 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 682 requires the Department of Family and Protective
Services to verbally notify an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect they may request an administrative review of the department’s findings
under its review of department investigations. This notification must be documented in the case file
the department provided. The right to such a review already exists in current law, but the notice requirement does not. Read More
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SB 792 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 792 would allow qualified disabled veterans to elect to receive license plates that include the symbol adopted by Rehabilitation International in 1969, also known as the International Symbol of Access. This initial application must include a written statement from a physician and any other information required by this application. Organizations that regularly transport veterans who are eligible for this license plate would also be eligible...Read More
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HB 1445 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1445 would amend tax code to clarify that "Insurance Service" does not include a medical or dental billing service performed prior to a health or dental insurance coverage claim is submitted. It also provides a definition of medical or dental billing service to mean, "assigning codes
for the preparation of medical or dental claims, verifying medical or dental insurance
eligibility, preparing medical or dental claim forms for filing,...Read More
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SB 1278 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1278 would require intermittent power generators, i.e. solar and wind generators, to pay for ancillary services from dispatchable generators when directed to do so by the PUC, for the purpose of increasing power generation liability.Read More
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SB 1025 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1025 would clarify that the power to suspend criminal, election, or penal codes or restrict occupancy limits of businesses or places of worship during a state of emergency is reserved to the legislature of Texas. SB 1025 would not prevent the governor from issuing directives following a state of emergency. This bill would restrict the governor's ability to suspend or limit the
sale, use, and transportation of alcoholic beverages,...Read More
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SB 646 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 646 would prohibit a municipality from purchasing or converting a property to housing for homeless individuals unless the local county commissioners court in which the property is located
approves a plan.The bill would require the plan to include provisions for local healthcare, reasonably affordable public transit, mental health services, local law enforcement, the plan to coordinate with the local mental health authority, and...Read More
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SB 346 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 346 would allow an open-enrollment charter school to participate in the Jobs and Education for Texans program.Read More
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