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HB 4256 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 4256 would require food service establishments to display a poster relating to food allergen awareness in areas primarily accessible to employees. The Department of State Health Services would be required to determine the form and content of the poster and post a sample of the poster on the agency's Internet website.Read More
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HB 464 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 464 would allow a court to grant a convicted person relief on an application for a writ of habeas corpus if the court makes findings that had scientific evidence been available at the time of the trail the person would have received a different punishment. Under current law, it only allows for a writ to be granted under the condition that the applicant has not been convicted.Read More
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HB 4570 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 4570 would establish the Surface Water and Groundwater Interaction Advisory Board and require it to study: (1) the extent to which surface water and groundwater interact in the state; (2) challenges arising in Texas from the interaction of surface water and groundwater; and (3) approaches to mitigating challenges arising in Texas from the interaction of surface water and groundwater. The board would submit a report by December 1, 2020,...Read More
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HB 1681 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1681 would allow for a local law enforcement agency to create a peer assistance program (including a chaplain program) to provide peer counseling to agency employees. The bill lays out the parameters of the program, provides for employees to report other employees they know or suspect to have been affected by difficulty or tragedy to report the employee's name and relevant information to the peer assistance program. The bill provides...Read More
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HB 1938 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1938 would increase the fee for a commercial driver's license from $60 to $96 and increase the renewal period from 5 years to 8 for most applicants. The fee for commercial driver's licenses with a hazardous materials endorsement would be $60 and the renewal period would be 5 years after person's next birthday. The bill also prescribes the renewal period for expired commercial drivers licenses depending on the length of time they have been expired. Read More
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HB 744 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 744 would expand Medicaid coverage by continuing to provide medical assistance for enrolled women for not less than 12 months after they deliver or experience an involuntary miscarriage.Read More
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SB 1613 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1613 would require elections not held on the November uniform election date to have more than 15 percent voter turnout to authorize the issuance of bonds or increase taxes. Read More
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SB 1463 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Currently, non-profit organizations are required to keep records, books, and annual reports of the organization's financial activity and make those documents available to the public for inspection and copying.SB 1463 would define "records, books, and annual reports" of a non-profit organization's financial activity. This bill would also allow organizations to: (1) require that a person requesting more than $100 worth of copies of such documents...Read More
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HB 2987 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Current law requires open-enrollment charter schools to list the names of the members of their governing body on their respective websites.HB 2987 would further require open-enrollment charter schools to include on their websites the following additional information about the members of their governing body: relevant biographical information, disclosure of a substantial interest in certain business entities, and whether those business entities...Read More
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HB 3266 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3266 would increase the maximum fee for student medical services that could be levied
against students who are enrolled in the Texas A&M University System from $75 to $200 for each regular semester and from $25 to $100 for each term of the summer session. This bill would also allow the funds that are collected to go towards the financing,
construction, operation, renovation, maintenance, or other improvements...Read More
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HB 1880 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1880 would require physicians and health care providers to maintain a directory of health care providers and their specialties. These directors would be updated by deadlines specified in the bill. In addition, the bill would also require providers to make the directory public and conspicuous while also logging reported mistakes in the directory. Health benefit plan issuers would be required to update their directory to...Read More
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HB 3738 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3738 would require the Health and Humans Services Commission (HHSC) to create and maintain a statewide website of day-care providers, including day-care centers, group day-care homes, listed and registered family homes, and prekindergarten programs, that complies with the design and content requirements within the bill's provisions. The website information must include information to assist families in understanding the importance of...Read More
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HB 3088 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3088 would exempt Texas Department of Transportation purchasing personnel from certain comptroller-mandated training, continuing education, and certification requirements if their duties relate primarily to highway construction or engineering contracts. The purpose of this bill is to exempt a specific group of TxDOT employees from being subject to mandatory training and continuing education requirements that may not are not relevant...Read More
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HB 2250 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2250 would repeal provisions of the Occupations Code which limit a physician's ability to delegate to advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants authority for prescribing and ordering of a controlled substance listed in Schedule II under the Texas Controlled Substances Act. Read More
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HB 303 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 303 would authorize certain municipalities with a population of two million or more to create a spaceport development corporation without having to partner with a county. This corporation would fund infrastructure and promote business and educational programs related to the spaceport.Read More
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HB 3755 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3755 would allow the Department of Public Safety to contract with a third party to study how to improve the process of issuing driver's licenses. A report based on the results of the study would be required to be submitted by May 1, 2020. Read More
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SB 2558 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2558 would create the Lone Oak Farm Municipal Utility District. The district would be created to accomplish purposes that
relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation,
or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or
improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.Read More
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SB 1090 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1090 would require at least three-fifths voter approval of the voters in an election held by a political subdivision to authorize the issuance of a bond.Read More
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HB 3657 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3657 would create the Texas Competency-Based Education Grant Program to provide financial assistance to eligible students who enroll in competency-based baccalaureate degree programs at eligible institutions.Read More
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HB 3578 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3578 would require the convicting court, in the trial of a felony offense, to make an affirmative finding that the defendant has been found guilty of a felony, enter the finding in the judgment of the case, issue an order that the defendant's voter registration be canceled, and send that order to the secretary of state. The secretary of state would then determine if the person named in the order is a registered voter in Texas and, if...Read More
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