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SB 113 |
87(R) - 2021 |
Under current law, community land trusts are organized as nonprofit organizations to provide affordable housing for low-income and moderate-income residents in the community. SB 113 would expand the types of ways a community land trust can be organized; expand the number of tax exemptions related to community land trusts; require the chief appraiser to use the income method of appraisal for taxes charged to a low-income family that receives...Read More
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SB 1522 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1522 would allow the Commissioner of Education, in addition to adjusting the average daily
attendance of a school district in certain cases where disaster or extreme weather has occurred, to also make an
adjustment to the number of required instructional days during a semester in which a calamity first occurred to be equivalent to an additional one school year, which may be divided between two consecutive school years.Read More
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SB 2089 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 2089 would allow the city of Brownsville to use funds from a hotel occupancy and mixed beverage tax imposed in a project financing zone for the payment of bonds to acquire, lease, construct, improve, enlarge, equip,
operate, maintain, and repair spaceports and spacecraft observation facilities or other qualified projects. The municipal government must notify the Comptroller of the designation of a project financing zone and the Comptroller...Read More
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SB 1888 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1888 would require the Texas Education Agency, in coordination with the Higher Education Coordinating Board, to establish the Texas First Early High School Completion
Program to allow public high school students who demonstrate early
readiness for college to graduate early from high school. The
purpose of the program, in conjunction with the Texas First
Scholarship Program is to promote efficiency in the state public education system...Read More
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SB 1008 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1008 would prohibit irrigation districts in bracketed counties from imposing on a retail public utility unduly burdensome requirements for constructing a water or sewer pipeline or assessing fees or deposits that are greater than the actual costs to review and
approve the construction proposal. This bill only applies to counties located on or near the Gulf of Mexico or an international border.Read More
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SB 1232 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1232 would allow the State Board of Education to create the Texas Permanent School Fund Corporation (TPSFC) and establish its board of directors to operate under the delegated authority of the State Board of Education. The TPSFC would manage and invest the Permanent School Fund and the Charter District Bond Guarantee Reserve Fund for the purpose of growing those funds to improve long term school financing. The bill lays out detailed requirements...Read More
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SB 1261 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1261 would make it so that the state of Texas has
exclusive jurisdiction over the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions within the state except as preempted by federal law. Additionally, the
bill would forbid a municipality or other political subdivision from enacting or enforcing a regulation that directly regulates greenhouse gas emissions. Read More
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HB 3571 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3571 would prohibit a property owner's association from adopting or enforcing a restrictive covenant that prevents a property owner from building or installing security measures, including but not limited to a security camera, motion detector, or perimeter fence.The bill specifies that while a property owner's association cannot prevent a property owner from installing a fence, it can regulate what kind of fences are allowed.Read More
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HB 2610 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2610 would permit a county with more than 3.3 million people (Harris County) to begin a fire code inspection on a building within 10 days of the building owner’s request, rather than 5 days.Read More
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HB 2483 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2483 would permit transmission and distribution utilities to lease or own and operate
facilities that provide temporary, emergency electric energy to aid
in the restoration of service during an outage. The transmission and distribution utilities would be required to ensure that retail customer usage is adjusted out of reports on usage for billing and use a competitive bidding process when leasing a facility. Additionally, the bill would...Read More
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HB 2708 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2708 is a bracketed bill to allow money from the Hazardous and Solid Waste Remediation Fee Account to be used for
reimbursement of environmental remediation at the site of a former
battery recycling facility located in the City of Frisco.Read More
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HB 2757 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2757 would increase from two to four the number of raffles a nonprofit wildlife conservation entity may hold each year. The bill would increase raffle prize limits from $50,000 to $75,000. Read More
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HB 2209 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2209 would allow municipalities that serve as a county seat in a county that has a population of at least 8500 people and contains part of the Chaparral Wildlife
Management Area to use the revenue from the municipal hotel occupancy tax for the construction or maintenance of a sports facility or field. This bill is bracketed to Carrizo Springs in Dimmit County.Read More
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HB 2116 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2116 would prohibit covenants in certain construction
contracts that require a licensed engineer or architect to defend a party
against a claim based on the negligence, fault, or breach of contract of the
property owner. Such a contract could provide for the reimbursement of the
property owner's attorney's fees in proportion to the engineer or architect's
liability. If enacted, the owner could require the engineer or architect name
the...Read More
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HB 2091 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2091 would rename the Harris County Board of Protective Servies for Children and Adults to the "Harris County Board of Resources for Children and Adults" to more accurately reflect the mission of the board. The bill would give this board the ability to disburse available funds to care for eligible adults and elderly persons and to collaborate with state agencies to provide such services.Read More
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HB 2030 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2030 would require that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board establish
and administer a competitive grant program under which the board
awards grants to eligible regional postsecondary education
collaboratives to improve postsecondary educational outcomes for
low-income students in the state.The Texas Board of Education would only be required to implement the grant program outlined in this legislation if the state receives...Read More
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HB 1919 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1919 would prohibit a health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager from requiring a patient to use an affiliated pharmacy in order for the patient to receive the maximum benefit for the service, offering or implementing a health benefit plan that requires or induces a patient to use an affiliated pharmacy, soliciting a patient or prescriber to transfer a patient prescription to an affiliated...Read More
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HB 792 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 792 would allow a municipality to adopt an alternate work schedule for the department’s dispatchers if a
majority of police dispatchers for a municipal police department
vote in favor of an alternate work schedule. The bill also allows a dispatcher working under an alternate work schedule adopted under
this bill to earn overtime pay if they work more hours during a calendar month than the number of hours in the
normal...Read More
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HJR 140 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HJR 140 proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit the enactment of any law after January 1, 2022 that imposes an occupation tax upon a Registered Securities Market Operator or a tax upon a securities transaction of a Registered Securities Market Operator.The resolution does not prohibit the imposition of a general business tax measured by business activity; a tax on the production of minerals; a tax on insurance premiums; a general...Read More
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HB 1664 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1664 would require the health and human services commission to reinstate the eligibility for medical assistance for a child who is in a juvenile facility and is hospitalized or becomes an inpatient at another facility for the duration of that stay. The implementation of this legislation may be delayed if it is determined that a memorandum of understanding between the commission and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department or a waiver or...Read More
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