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SB 12 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require the criminal justice division within the Governor's office to establish and administer a grant program for law enforcement agencies seeking to equip their peace officers with bulletproof vests. SB 12 also specifies that the vests must meet specific classifications by the National Institute of Justice, including being able to stop rifle ammunition. The bill would establish guidelines for reporting by local agencies...Read More
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HB 256 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Current law allows the county attorney or district attorney in a county where a common nuisance exists to sue in the name of the state to abate the nuisance. The attorney general may also sue on behalf of the state to achieve these same ends.HB 256 would allow the city attorney in the city where a common nuisance exists to sue in the name of the city for an injunction to abate it.Read More
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SB 319 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners will be abolished in September, 2017. SB 319 is a sunset bill that would continue the board in existence until 2021 and make several procedural changes with regard to board member composition, training programs, training manuals, inspections, controlled substances, complaints, confidentiality, licensing, background checks, reporting, prescription drugs, and disciplinary action.Read More
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SB 511 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would modify the rules surrounding the declaration of guardianship, and it would change the form requirements. Under current law, a declaration for guardianship must be written in the declarant’s handwriting or attested to in the declarant’s presence by at least two credible witnesses who meet certain qualifications. If this bill passes, and if the declaration for guardianship does not expressly disqualify an individual from...Read More
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SB 74 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would allow a provider in a managed care provider network that provides behavioral health services to also contract with the managed care organization to provide targeted case management and psychiatric rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their families. Read More
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SB 1367 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would allow institutes of higher education to adopt and implement policies regarding the use of epinephrine auto-injectors on the institution's campus including training and allowing personnel that are trained and authorized to administer epinephrine auto-injectors to administer the drug to persons reasonably believed to be experiencing anaphylactic shock. Physicians would be allowed to prescribe auto-injectors in the name of a...Read More
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HB 3226 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 3226 would amend the Insurance Code to allow the Commissioner of Insurance to use dollars from the Healthy Texas Small Employer Premium Stabilization Fund to apply for federal funds and establish and administer a temporary health insurance risk pool to assist in the care of high risk, expensive patients and reduce premiums for health plan issuers.Read More
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SB 2087 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 2087 would amend the Insurance Code to allow the Commissioner of Insurance to use dollars from the Healthy Texas Small Employer Premium Stabilization Fund to apply for federal funds and establish and administer a temporary health insurance risk pool to assist in the care of high risk, expensive patients and reduce premiums for health plan issuers.Read More
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SB 2127 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 2127 would prohibit a consumer reporting agency from furnishing a consumer report containing information related to a collection account when a consumer had health insurance at the time of an event giving rise to the collection and the collection relates to billing for an outstanding balance owed to an emergency care provider or a facility-based provider for an out-of-network benefit claim.Read More
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SB 533 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 533 would include the comptroller among the governmental officials who conduct quality assurance for state contracts and would shift the vendor pricing request requirements to higher amounts for one, three, and six vendor quotes. This bill would also require the provision of training for contract management staff on best practices and methodologies for information technology contracts.Finally, SB 533 would establish a position in the...Read More
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SB 1739 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 1739 would amend the Business & Commerce Code to add that a military service member who receives a cable service, health spa services, internet services, telecommunications services, or video service from a provider and who is called to active duty service may suspend or terminate the services by providing a written notice. The military member would not be liable for the payment of any service suspended or terminated and the provider...Read More
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SB 1500 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 1500 would make it a deceptive act for a warrantor of a vehicle protection product warranty to use a name that includes “casualty,” “surety,” “insurance,” “mutual,” or any other word descriptive of insurance. Also, a retailer would be prohibited from requiring as a condition of a retail installment transaction or the cash sale of a motor vehicle, including commercial, that the buyer purchase a vehicle protection product...Read More
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SB 628 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, for property purchased through eminent domain to not be eligible for re-purchase from the previous owner the completion of two of the following actions must be completed: a performance of a significant amount of labor to develop the property; the provision of a significant amount of materials to develop the property; the hiring of and performance of a significant amount by an architect, engineer, or surveyor; application...Read More
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HB 998 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would clarify that electronic data related to campaign finance reports that is saved in temporary storage at the authority with whom the report was filed for later retrieval is confidential and not subject to public information requests until after the report is filed with the authority.Read More
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HB 1543 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would entitle a client of a person licensed to fit and dispense hearing instruments to obtain a copy of the client's records that pertain to hearing instruments by written request. The bill would also entitle the licensed person or practice to charge a reasonable processing fee for providing the records to the client, and allow them to provide the records in summary form unless the client specifically requests otherwise. Read More
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HB 249 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, sections dealing with the accountability of professionals in facilities dealing with children have different definitions of abuse and neglect. This bill would get rid of the separate definitions of abuse and neglect in the section dealing with investigations of abuse in certain facilities, and use the more expansive definitions of abuse and neglect in preceding sections of the Family code. The bill would also define exploitation...Read More
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SB 636 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a municipality must hold a hearing before the adoption of a new national model building code if five or more persons submit a written request. SB 636 would require these hearings to occur regardless of written requests and would also require the governing body to publish a cost-benefit analysis that analyzes impact on the local economy, tax revenue, other development, and provides evidence that this proposal will solve cited problems.Read More
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HB 2223 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under this bill, each institution of higher education shall develop and
implement, for developmental education, a corequisite model under which a student
concurrently enrolls in a developmental education course and a
freshman-level course in the same subject area for each subject
area for which the student is referred to developmental coursework. If the student fails, the university will offer to the student a range of competency-based
education...Read More
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HB 961 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would add a provision that the governing board of a junior college may provide a resolution that a candidate in a district trustee election must receive a plurality of the vote not later than the 180th day before the date of an election. Read More
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HB 385 |
85(R) - 2017 |
In HB 385, accelerated and afforded baccalaureate degree programs will not be subject to drop limits. Additionally, the bill requires the coordinating board, in the funding formulas used to
make appropriations recommendations to the legislature, to include without consideration of
certain statutory restrictions funding for semester credit hours earned by a student who is
enrolled in such a program. Read More
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