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SB 827 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 827 would prohibit the judicial panel on multi-district litigation (MDL) from transferring a case into the MDL if the action is brought under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act or the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act. This would allow the Office of the Attorney General to seek injunctive relief against defendants for continuing violations of these acts, without the interference of a MDL.Read More
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HB 155 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 155 would amend the Code of Criminal Procedure by adding a subsection which would require a state jail facility to notify the sentencing court via electronic communication of the date on which the defendant will have served 75 days in the facility. According to the author's background & purpose statement, this bill is designed to notify the courts "when a defendant in a state jail felony facility will have served enough...Read More
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SB 1852 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1852 would remove the requirement that each policyholder on renewal of coverage of a standard health benefit plan, and each contract holder on renewal of enrollment in such plan, sign the required written disclosure concerning coverage that is provided by a health carrier or health maintenance organization (HMO) and return the statement to the health carrier or HMO.Read More
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SB 1784 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Current law provides up to $175 per person per month for indigent guardianship services through Medicaid Applied Income. SB 1784 would provide up to $250 per person per month for guardianship services.Read More
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SB 1497 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1497 would require energy brokers in the state to register with the Public Utilities Commission, and would hold them to the standards of consumer protection provisions, disclosure requirements, and marketing guidelines established by the commission. Read More
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SB 1511 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1511 would authorize the Parks and Wildlife Department to contract with a non-profit organization for the operation and maintenance of the Battleship Texas.Read More
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SB 781 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 781 would require the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to establish a strategy to develop trauma-informed protocols to reduce the number of children who run away from residential treatment centers (RTCs) and comply with federal and state requirements related to normalcy. DFPS would monitor and coordinate with general residential operations (GROs) to provide treatment services and maintain and...Read More
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SB 1468 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1468 would limit the circumstances and terms under which certain municipalities which operate a municipally owned water utility and are party to a strategic partnership agreement may exercise their powers of annexation. Read More
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SB 1531 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1531 would prevent the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation (TCLR) or the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) from using a person's conviction of a felony or a crime
that involves moral turpitude as grounds to refuse to admit a person to an examination or to issue a license to practice podiatry. The bill would also prohibit the TCLR or TDLR from disciplining a midwife, or refusing to renew or issue a license...Read More
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HB 51 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 51 would amend Subchapter C, Ch. 72, of the Government Code by adding Section 72.0245 which would create a standard form for courts to use for actions in criminal proceedings. This bill would create standard forms for waiver of jury trial, appearance, confrontation and cross examination of witnesses, the defendant's consent to a jury trial, the introduction of documentary evidence, the waiver of a jury trial and pleading of...Read More
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SB 2200 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2200 would clarify that the Health and Human Services Commission will continue to be able to obtain criminal history record information. This codification of current policy would comply with federal law which requires explicit statutory authority to a specific state agency to allow that agency access to an individual's background or criminal history record information.Read More
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SB 2119 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2119 would transfer the regulation of motor fuel metering and motor fuel quality to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) from the Department of Agriculture (TDA). This bill would also authorize TDLR to contract with holders of a service technician license or service company license to perform TDLR's duties, among other things.Read More
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HB 4165 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 4165 would allow a public junior college that offers a baccalaureate degree program and that is located in a county with a population of more than 1,700,000 and located within 180 miles of the Texas-Mexico border (Bexar County) to offer a maximum of six baccalaureate degree programs at any time. Additionally, South Texas College would be prohibited from offering more than six baccalaureate programs at a time. Read More
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HB 3652 |
86(R) - 2019 |
During the 85th Legislature, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) was directed to undertake a study to determine the feasibility of creating a state repository of open education resources (OER). The Texas Education Code defines OER as "a teaching, learning, or research resource that is in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual property license that permits the free use, adaptation, and redistribution...Read More
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HB 3124 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3124 would allow the Texas A&M University system to give in-state tuition to an employee, or the dependent of an employee, who is employed by a national laboratory with which the A&M board has entered into a management and operation agreement or academic affiliation agreement. The purpose of this bill is to allow A&M to offer in-state tuition to employees or dependents of employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory. According...Read More
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HB 3011 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3011 would require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THEC) to provide school districts a copy of all source data as submitted to the THEC by a higher education institution that the THEC provides to the Texas Education Agency to consider in determining the district's accreditation status or assigning performance ratings.Read More
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HB 284 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Under current law, convalescent or nursing facilities, as well as assisted living facilities, are required to disclose whether they are licensed to provide care to patients with Alzheimer's and similar diseases. This legislation makes changes to the existing disclosure requirements to make them more clear and to specify that such notices must be given to each resident of the facility and their next of kin or guardian.
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SB 1189 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1189 would prevent an advertisement for legal services from presenting itself as a "medical alert," "health alert," "consumer alert" or "public service announcement." It would also prohibit the display of the logo of a federal or state government agency in a manner that suggests affiliation with or sponsorship by that agency, or use of the term "recall" when referring to a product that has not been recalled by a government agency....Read More
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SB 1823 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1823 would add to the definition of "third-party service provider" under the Texas Banking Act and the Texas Trust Company Act a person who regularly engages in the practice of assembling or evaluation, and maintaining, public record information and credit account information from persons who furnish that information regularly for the purpose of furnishing to third parties reports indicating a person's creditworthiness, credit standing,...Read More
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SB 1783 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1783 would require a court, on hearing an application or motion for transfer of guardianship to another county, if it appears that transfer of the guardianship is in the best interests of the ward, and either the ward has resided in the county to which the guardianship is to be transferred for at least six months or good cause is not otherwise shown to deny the transfer, to enter an order to transfer. In making the determination that...Read More
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