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SB 2206 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2206 would require each school district to post on its website the name, email address, and term of office of each member of the district's board of trustees. If a school district does not maintain a website, it would be required to submit the information to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) which will then publish the information on its website. Junior college districts would be held to the same requirements. Read More
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SB 1453 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1453 would require schools to allow students to use a calculator application on a computing device (e.g., a personal, laptop, or tablet computer) in place of a graphing calculator if the app has the same functions as the calculator. Schools would be exempt if they provide graphing calculators at no cost to the student.Read More
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SB 706 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 706 would direct the executive commission of the Health and Human Services Commission to maintain a unit within the child-care licensing division of the commission consisting of investigators whose primary responsibility is to (1) identify child-care facilities that are operating without a license, certification, registration, or listing; and (2) initiate appropriate enforcement actions against those facilities.Read More
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SB 1649 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1649 would specify that grants distributed by the Texas Indigent Defense Commission to assist a county in providing indigent defense services may be used for improving the provision of such services in the county. Nonprofits that provide indigent defense services or indigent defense support services in the county would be eligible to receive such grants. This bill would also require the Commission to determine for each county the...Read More
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SB 10 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 10 would establish the Texas Mental Health Care Consortium to coordinate the delivery of mental health care services. The consortium would consist of health-related institutions of higher education (HRIs), the Health and Human Services Commission, and nonprofit organizations. The consortium would establish a network of child psychiatry access centers at the member HRIs. A center would collaborate with community health providers by...Read More
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SB 1120 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1120 would require the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to provide certain health care professionals with continuing education designed to reduce the incidence of communicable or other diseases in counties adjacent to the international border with Mexico. Such continuing education would address the diagnosis and treatment of certain communicable and other diseases; methods for increasing pediatric and adult immunization rates;...Read More
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SB 2231 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Currently, firefighters are exempt from paying tuition fees if they are enrolled in courses offered as part of a fire science curriculum at public higher education institutions. Some paramedics have benefited from this exemption because they are also firefighters, but an estimated 3,000 non-firefighter paramedics are excluded from this benefit.SB 2231 would require public higher education institutions to exempt from tuition and laboratory...Read More
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SB 345 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 345 would allow the Texas A&M Forest Service to use land in the Jones State Forest to demonstrate reforestation and forest management work. It would also require the forest to remain "natural, scenic, undeveloped, and open" in a manner that maintains the tree canopy cover.Read More
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SB 511 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 511 would create a civil penalty if an owner or operator of a business that installs tires on motor vehicles, or an employee of the person, who "knowingly" installs an unsafe tire on a motor vehicle to be used on a public street or highway. This includes tread less than one-sixteenth of an inch deep; a localized worn spot that exposes the ply or cord; a tread or sidewall crack, cut, or snag as measured on the outside of...Read More
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SB 71 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 71 would allow the attorney general to establish a statewide telehealth center for sexual assault forensic medical examination. It would expand access to sexual assault nurse examiners for underserved populations, as well as facilitate training and technical assistance to sexual assault examiners.Read More
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SB 662 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 662 would provide that certain personal information related to statewide elected officials or members of the legislature is excepted from public information requirements. Such personal information includes the home address, home telephone number, emergency contact information, or social security number.Read More
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SB 1779 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1779 would make procedural changes, establish training, and change reporting requirements in regards to security of the state's information technology. This includes authorizing the Department of Information Resources (DIR) to establish information sharing and analysis organization to provide a forum for state agencies, local governments, higher education institutions, and the private sector to share information regarding cybersecurity...Read More
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SB 1193 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1193 would allow purchasers of a vehicle from a dealer who cannot apply for a title because the dealer has gone out of business to apply for a title themselves, as well as a 30-day permit to replace the buyer's tag. The fees for application for the title would be waived if the purchaser can prove that they have already paid the fees to the dealer. If fees are waived, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) could recover the amount...Read More
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SB 1040 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1040 would allow the Texas Transportation Commission's revolving loan fund to be used to finance qualified projects of municipalities and boards of trustees to improve harbors and ports. Specifically, it would ensure that all Texas ports are eligible for these funds, regardless of whether they are a navigation district operating under the Water Code (as the Port of Galveston is) or a port governed by the Transportation Code.Read More
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SB 1941 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1941 would provide guidance regarding the ownership and deployment of battery storage devices in the ERCOT market. This bill would allow a transmission and distribution utility, with PUC approval, to contract with a power generation company to provide electric energy from an electric energy storage facility to ensure reliable service to distribution customers, contingent on use of such facility being more cost-effective than construction...Read More
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SB 1675 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1675 would create a new expedited administrative procedure for Title IV-D cases for when a noncustodial parent will be incarcerated for more than 180 days. The bill will also remove the $25 annual service fee for Title IV cases and states that the maximum fee can not exceed the fee required by federal law. This provision is to bring the state in compliance with federal law. Finally, the bill gives judges more time to review Child Support...Read More
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SB 1637 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1637 would require courts to only consider a defendant's present ability to pay when determining whether a defendant is able to pay fines and costs (rather than their ability to pay at the time of the offense). The bill would also allow magistrates to require a bond to release defendants charged with misdemeanors only punishable by fine, but would prevent a judge from issuing an arrest warrant for failure to attend a court hearing for...Read More
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SB 335 |
86(R) - 2019 |
A Community Land Trust (CLT) is an affordable housing program that is used to supply permanently affordable homeownership units through resale restrictions recorded in a 99-year ground lease. CLT also refers to the nonprofit organization that runs the CLT program and that retains legal title to the land that is part of the CLT program, and is then leased to the homeowner. The CLT resale formula restricts the resale price of the CLT home...Read More
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SB 1404 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Under current labor and delivery procedures, medical professionals are required to test newborns after birth in order to ensure neurological components are functioning normally. For example, an APGAR (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration) test checks for certain hearing and tracking abilities. Parental consent for these tests is required.SB 1404 would direct the Health and Human Service Commission
to...Read More
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SB 237 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 237 would require the Sunset Advisory Commission to determine whether the governing body of an agency has evaluated the type of personal information of licensees that the agency should make available on its website based on certain prescribed criteria including what information the public needs to know, balanced by whether making the information available online could subject a license holder to
harassment, solicitation, or other nuisance.Read More
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