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HB 2945 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2945 requires merchants that have unattended payment terminals for fuel dispensers (gas stations) to follow certain rules and procedures for preventing the installation of credit card skimmers, finding and removing skimmers, reporting discovery of a skimmer, and cooperating with law enforcement in a related investigation.The bill establishes civil penalties and fines for certain violations of relevant rules. It would be a third degree...Read More
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HB 3171 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3171 would make a variety of changes to laws regarding mopeds. The bill would repeal the moped license and remove mopeds from the Class M driver's license classification, allowing anybody with a driver's license to operate a moped without the need for any special classification. Additionally, the bill would make statutory changes in order to align certain regulations for mopeds with those of motorcycles 250cc or less. The...Read More
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HB 3582 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3582 would change the offenses for which a judge may not grant deferred adjudication community supervision. Judges would be able to grant deferred adjudication community supervision for boating while intoxicated. Judges would be required to make defendants have an ignition interlock device as a condition of deferred adjudication community supervision for the offenses of driving or boating while intoxicated. The defendant would not...Read More
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HB 468 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 468 would allow the board of directors of the Collingsworth County Hospital District to determine the necessary equipment to use in the district's hospital system. It would also give the board authority to acquire, purchase or lease to purchase facilities or equipment, and mortgage or pledge the property as security for the purchase price. Finally, it would authorize the district to contract with any person to manage or operate a district facility.Read More
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HB 440 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 440 would make a number of changes to the general obligation bond process. The bill would stipulate that a school district may use the unspent proceeds of bonds only for the specific purposes for which the bond was authorized or to retire the bonds, unless the specific purposes of the bond(s) are accomplished or abandoned and the board of trustees in an open meeting approves in separate votes the use of proceeds for a purpose...Read More
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HB 886 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 886 would amend the Special District Local Laws Code in order to allow for an administrative change for the Muenster Hospital District board. This bill would change the number of directors to seven to nine. In addition, the bill would require the board to appoint a CEO, and also defines the duties of the newly appointed CEO. Lastly, this bill outlines duties for other staff that would be hired or appointed to Muenster County Hospital District.Read More
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HB 3655 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Under current law, individuals can prepay undergraduate resident tuition and required fees at Texas public colleges and universities at the current price rather than at prices in effect when a student may enroll.
HB 3655 would make several administrative changes to the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board. This bill would add certain requirements to the board in regards to the Higher Education Savings Fund, Prepaid...Read More
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HB 294 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 294 would exempt incumbents from filing a petition with the board secretary to have their name printed on the ballot as a candidate for director of the Muleshoe Area Hospital District. It would no longer require a petition signed by at least 25 registered voters of the district.Read More
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HB 293 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 293 would remove a requirement that the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, or Investment Officer of a school district to participate in investment training. The bill would exempt individuals in these positions from going to investment training if the school district or municipality does not invest district or municipal funds, or only deposits these funds in interest-bearing deposit accounts or certificates of...Read More
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HB 4638 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 4638 seeks to create a municipal utility district (MUD) focusing on road construction, drainage, wastewater, and other fundamental needs and may issue bonds and may hold an election to vote on issuing bonds from ad valorem taxes and operation and maintenance taxes. The first 5 members of the board of directors are appointed and temporary. The district would be granted limited power of eminent domain.Read More
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HB 1856 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1856 would rename a portion of U.S. Highway 287 as "The Honorable Teel Bivins Memorial Highway." Read More
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SB 13 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 13 would prohibit a former member of the legislature from lobbying before the end of the legislative cycle following the legislative cycle in which the former member last served as a member of the legislature. However, this would not apply to a former member who does not receive compensation other than reimbursement for actual expenses for communicating directly with a member of the legislature or executive branch to influence legislation...Read More
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HB 3300 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3300 would make it optional, rather than mandatory, to award attorney's fees in a civil proceeding on a trial
court’s granting or denial of a motion to dismiss. Read More
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SB 1281 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1281 proposes to administer the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program as a statewide program, establishing oversight by the State Energy Conservation Office;s designated third-party administrator. The PACE program is currently authorized under Local Government Code and incentivizes Texas property owners to upgrade facility infrastructure with private, affordable, long-term financing. The bill eliminates the burdens of local programs...Read More
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SB 1010 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1010 would prohibit a district that
overlies a common aquifer with another district from making or enforcing a rule unless
it is similar to a rule made or enforced by the other district or districts that overlie the aquifer. The
district would be able to make or enforce a rule that is not similar to another district's rule only if it is authorized by law or provides in the district’s management plan an explanation of the reasoning.
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SB 1422 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1422 would amend the Special District Local Laws Code to create
the Maxwell Municipal Utility District and establish it's powers and duties, including the authority to charge a fee for water. This bill would prohibit the district from exercising the power of eminent domain.Read More
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HB 2502 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2502 would require a judge
granting community supervision to a defendant convicted leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident causing the death of a person to serve at least 120 days in confinement as a condition of community supervision.Read More
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HB 427 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 427 would enhance the penalty for fraudulent destruction,
removal, or concealment of writing attached to tangible property. If the
writing was attached to the item to indicate a price was destroyed, removed, or
concealed for the purpose of obtaining the property for a lesser price then the
penalty would be enhanced from a Class A misdemeanor to a felony
of the first degree based on the price difference between the true price and
the...Read More
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HB 2559 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2559 would require (rather than allow) the Pardons and Paroles division to issue a summons rather than an arrest warrant to a person charged with violating a condition of parole or mandatory supervision in certain circumstances. The bill would prevent the court from issuing a warrant for the return of a releasee covered by this bill unless they have previously failed to appear for a hearing in response to a summons issued. Read More
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HB 4671 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 4671 would authorize the Ranch at Cypress Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1 to undertake certain road projects and to appoint architectural committees.Read More
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