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HB 1301 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1301 would expand the scope and purpose of colonia self-help centers to now include assistance in securing employment and professional skills development. The bill would also establish an interim committee to study colonias in this state and provide a report to the legislature no later than September 1, 2022.The statutory purpose of colonia self-help centers is to "assist individuals and families of low income and very low income to finance,...Read More
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HB 3973 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3973 would create a 10 member joint interim committee to study matters related to abandoned oil and gas wells and the use of the oil and gas regulation and cleanup
fund. The bill outlines the specific areas to be studied and requires a report to the legislature be submitted by December 1, 2022.Read More
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HB 4074 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4074 would require the Statewide Behavioral Health Coordinating
Council to include statewide suicide prevention efforts in its five-year statewide behavioral health strategic plan. HB 4074 would require the statewide behavioral health coordinating council to create a suicide prevention subcommittee to focus on a statewide suicide prevention efforts using information collected by the council from available sources of suicide...Read More
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HB 4294 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4294 would make certain changes and updates to laws regarding joint entities operated by the Legislature, such as joint committees and legislative agencies. Per diem and travel expenses paid to a member of a joint committee would have to be paid by the chamber to which the member belongs. Expenses paid to a member of the public working with a joint committee would have to be paid by the office of whoever appointed the member. HB...Read More
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HB 4580 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4580 would create the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 202. The district may exercise eminent domain within district boundaries to acquire a site for a road project only if this bill receives two-thirds of the votes in the legislature from both houses. The district would have the power to issue bonds without an election funded by nontax revenue or contract payments. The district would be required to hold...Read More
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HB 619 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 619 would charge the Texas Workforce Commission to create a strategic plan to improve the quality of child-care workforce in Texas. Such a plan would have to include: recommendations for local workforce development boards; recommendations for increasing compensation and reducing turnover of child-care workers; recommendations to eliminate racial and gender pay disparity for child-care workforce; recommendations to...Read More
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HB 4663 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4663 would give the Hidalgo County Drainage District
Number 1 authority to issue bonds and secure them with all or part of the district’s gross revenue, other
than taxation, minus the amount necessary to pay the cost of
maintaining and operating the district and its property, the net revenue of a contract made at any time; or other revenue specified by board resolution. This bill would authorize the district to sell reclaimed water...Read More
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HB 4667 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4667 would transfer a property belonging to the Texas Department of Public Safety to the city of Eagle Pass to be used for a purpose that benefits the public interest. This bill would require the City of Eagle Pass to enter into an agreement with Maverick County for mutual use of the land for 25 years. If the City of Eagle Pass fails to use the property for a purpose that benefits the public interest, ownership of the property...Read More
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HCR 86 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HCR 86 would resolve to support the equitable access to transformative therapies for sickle cell disease. Read More
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SB 424 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 424 would prevent those state agencies which regulate small businesses from imposing administrative penalties or collecting civil penalties against a small business for a first violation of a statute or a rule administered by the agency unless the agency first provides the small business written notice of the violation and an opportunity to remedy the violation within a reasonable time of receipt of the notice. ...Read More
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HJR 99 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HJR 99 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow counties to authorize the issuance of bonds or notes "to finance the
development or redevelopment of an unproductive, underdeveloped,
or blighted area within the county" and to pledge for repayment of those bonds or notes increases in property tax revenues imposed on property in the area by the county.Read More
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HB 3777 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3777 would define expenditures by non-profit organizations to rehabilitate historical structures in order to clarify which types of organizations are eligible for a franchise tax credit.Read More
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HB 3629 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3629 would extend the deferral or abatement on the collection of property tax on qualified property owned by an elderly person, disabled person, or disabled veteran until the 181st day after the collector delivers notice of the tax delinquency rather than 181 days from the date the owner no longer owns and occupies the property. In effect, this would provide additional time for family members to either pay the taxes or sell the property.Read More
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HB 3610 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3610 would classify an open-enrollment charter school as a political subdivision for purposes of exempting property leased or owned by charter schools from property taxes.The owner of the tax exemption shall transfer the amount of savings from the exemption to the tenant or reduce the common area maintenance fee in a proportionate amount based upon square footage of the property.Read More
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HB 3012 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3012 would allow a nonprofit organization sanctioned by the
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association or the Women’s Professional
Rodeo Association to conduct charitable raffles at certain rodeo events. Read More
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HCR 71 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HCR 71 would resolve the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas to urge the United States Congress to support the
nomination of Marcelino Serna for the Congressional Medal of Honor.Read More
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HCR 54 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HCR 54 would declare that the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas resolves to approve the settlement agreement between the State of Texas and the Department of Justice based on HHSC's distribution of certain SNAP benefits.Read More
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HB 3821 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3821 would require mental health programs for veterans to employ and train mental health professionals to assist the Health and Human Services Commission in the administration of the program. Read More
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HB 3720 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3720 would require the health and human services commission to develop, with the Intellectual and Development Disability System Redesign Advisory Committee, a questionnaire for individuals who are on an interest list for any Medicaid waiver program. This questionnaire would be required to include general demographic information; contact information; current caregiver supports and circumstances; types of assistance needed; the individual's...Read More
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HB 3121 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3121 would require the Health and Human Services Commission to develop and implement a voluntary quality standards certification process to certify that a psychiatric residential youth treatment facility meets certain standards. In order to obtain this certification an applicant would have to submit an application with a fee. Such a certification would expire the second anniversary of the date it was issued. The commission would...Read More
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