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SB 634 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX), public community, and technical colleges are required to submit a report to the Texas Workforce Commission about the use of state funds for training programs they provide with money from the Skills Development Fund. SB 634 would stipulate that failure to provide the report required in statute would mean the entity must refund all money received from the fund for the...Read More
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SB 2282 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 2282 would dissolve the Angelina County Water Control and Improvement District No. 3 and transfer all territory, assets, and liabilities to Angelina County Fresh Water Supply District No. 1.Read More
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SB 1395 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 1395 would would update and revise procedures related to navigation districts entering into negotiations for sale, lease, or easements of real property. Procedures for implementing a lease, providing notice of entering into a lease, the bidding process on real property are outlined in this bill. Read More
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SB 873 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 873 would amend the Water Code to add that if an owner or manager of an apartment house, condominium, or other multiple use facility violates a rule of the Public Utility Commission regarding utility costs, the claimant may file a complaint with the commission. If the commission determines the owner or manager overcharged the claimant for water or wastewater service from the public utility, the commission can require repayment.Read More
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SB 1248 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a county or municipality is authorized to create regulations and zoning rules for manufactured and mobile home communities. SB 1248 would prohibit a county or municipality from requiring a change of use of nonconforming land if the nonconformity is authorized by law and at least 50% of the manufactured homes in the community are physically occupied as a residence. In addition, this bill would prohibit a county or municipality...Read More
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SB 2076 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2462 would make a multitude of changes to the Transportation Code including redefining the terms "travel trailer" and and "nonrepairable motor vehicle" and updating various title and registration requirements for various trailers, semitrailers, and motor vehicles. Most significantly, knowingly providing false or incorrect information or without legal authority signing the name of another person on certain title applications would be a...Read More
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SB 2227 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, fees for permits issued for the transportation of oversized and overweight vehicles in Hidalgo County may not exceed $80. SB 2227 would set the maximum fee amount to $200.A percentage of fees collected would be required to be used to leverage funding from other sources to construct or improve certain road and bridge projects.Read More
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SB 1220 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require the Texas Education Agency to develop procedures for new schools regarding placement in courses of a student who is homeless or in substitute care and places the student in comparable courses at the new school. The Department of Family and Protective Services would be required to create a career development and education program to assist foster care and former foster care youth in getting a high school diploma or...Read More
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SB 1129 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a navigation and canal district may grant franchises to people or corporations on certain property owned or controlled by the district for no longer than 30 years. SB 1129 would change the term from 30 years to 50 years.Read More
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SB 497 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, there is no designated office to monitor the workforce of the Department of Family and Protective Services. SB 497 would create the Office of Workforce Development and Analytics to collect and review data about workers in the department, create a system for handling employee complaints outside of an employee’s direct chain of command, and manage workforce recruitment.Read More
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SB 47 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require that The Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System conduct a study on how counties across the state maintain their records regarding misdemeanors punishable by fine only. The study must investigate the public availability of conviction records for adult and juvenile misdemeanors, and the records relating to suspension of sentence and deferral of final disposition. The study will also review if records...Read More
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SB 81 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 81 would amend the Government Code to expand the term of “appointed officer of a major state agency” to include a member of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The CPRIT oversight committee would be permitted to conduct closed meetings to discuss issues related to managing, acquiring, or selling securities or other revenue-sharing obligations.The oversight committee would be allowed to transfer its management...Read More
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SB 2006 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, certain regulations exist for outdoor advertising and off-premise signs. SB 2006 would expand the application of these regulations under the more broadly defined term of “commercial signs.” In addition, current regulatory exemptions related to education and private property would be eliminated and a new right-of-way spacing regulation would be created.Read More
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SB 1849 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would make numerous procedural and substantive changes to help prevent unnecessary arrests for minor traffic stops, prevent minor stops from escalating into tragic encounters between civilians and law enforcement, and improve the way that jails are administered so that the health and safety of inmates is better protected. Among other things, this bill would strengthen pretrial diversion programs, modify grants for the establishment...Read More
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HB 1779 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the Department of Public Safety is authorized to conduct background checks on the applicants or holders of certain permits (including those related to chemical handling, controlled substances, and car inspections). HB 1779 would add to this list individuals who hold or apply for a Capitol pass, a handgun license (including qualified instructors), a dispensing organization license (including employees), and a private security license.Read More
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SB 8 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 8 would prohibit partial-birth abortions. This ban would relate to abortions in which the physician performing the service has the intention of killing a partially delivered living baby, unless necessary to save the mother’s life. The penalty for performing a partial-birth abortion would be a state jail felony. The bill explicitly prohibits prosecution of a woman on whom a partial birth abortion was performed.This bill would allow the...Read More
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HB 21 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 21 is a complex bill that would change our state's public school finance system in a number of ways. To keep this a plain language summary we will note a few highlights rather than list all of the bill's provisions. The bill would change transportation funding from being formula based to being part of the school's base allotment. The bill would repeal certain other dedicated funding streams. These costs would be made up for by increasing...Read More
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HB 367 |
85(R) - 2017 |
If enacted, this bill would allow schools to efficiently donate excess food to non-profit organizations, for redistribution on campus.This also requires that school districts establish a grace period determined by the board of trustees of the district for a student whose meal account becomes exhausted,and to make at least one attempt each week of the grace period to obtain overdue payment from parents or guardians of the student. After expiration...Read More
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HB 3903 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would repeal certain restrictions on political contributions by judges and judicial candidates, making their allowable political contributions more in line with what is allowable for other office holders and candidates. Read More
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HB 3859 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would protect child welfare services providers from adverse action on the basis that the provider has declined to provide or facilitate services that conflict with the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs, provides or intends to provide children with a religious education, has declined or will decline to provide, facilitate, or refer a person for abortions or contraceptives, or refuses to enter into a contract that would...Read More
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