|
SB 1166 |
85(R) - 2017 |
SB 1166 is a bracketed bill that would require the Sunset Commission to review (without the authority to abolish) the Harris County Department of Education as if it were a state agency. This review would be conducted by September, 2019.Read More
|
|
HB 2433 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under
current law, an individual may permanently register a token trailer for as long
as the registration is renewed by paying an annual fee or until the token trailer
is removed from service or sold.
HB 2433 would amend the Transportation Code to create the option of a permanent
semitrailer registration fee and permanent license plates. The bill would allow
the Department of Public Safety the authority to cancel, suspend,...Read More
|
|
HB 2089 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2089 would allow judges to grant deferred adjudication community supervision to certain offenders who, currently, are prohibited from receiving that sentence. Driving, boating, flying, and setting up/running amusement park rides while intoxicated would be ineligible for deferred adjudication community supervision only under certain circumstances. A judge who grants deferred adjudication community supervision under the provisions of this...Read More
|
|
HB 142 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would create a new offence called "indecent assault" and defined as a nonconsensual action that is intended to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of any person. This bill would specifically prohibit inappropriate touching including through clothing, or attempting to remove any clothing covering another person’s genitals, pubic area, anus, buttocks, or female areola. An offense under this bill would be considered a Class A misdemeanor....Read More
|
|
HB 2462 |
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...Read More
|
|
HB 3309 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 3309 would amend the Labor Code to allow a person meeting certain conditions to operate as a temporary common worker employer without needing to first obtain a state-issued license. Read More
|
|
HB 2072 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2072 would require that an applicant for a new or renewed massage therapy license submit as a part of their application a complete and legible set of fingerprints for the purposes of obtaining criminal history record information from the DPS and the FBI.Read More
|
|
HB 2085 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law a commissioners court may provide up to 10 hours of psychological counseling to a juror who served on a criminal trial involving graphic evidence or
testimony and who requests the counseling within 180 days after the jury is dismissed. This legislation would allow a commissioners court to provide the same counseling for grand jurors under the same circumstances. Read More
|
|
HB 1820 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would allow self-authenticating documents that relate to a prior conviction to be entered into evidence and therefore establish a presumption for the existence of a prior conviction for the person named in the document. Procedures would be established for submitting and disputing such a document.Read More
|
|
HB 2683 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2683 amends Transportation Code relating
to the use of public school buses on tolling projects. The bill would remove
requirements for registration and toll fees for public school buses using toll
projects. However, the bill clarifies that tolling projects would still maintain
the authority to establish rules regarding vehicles unable to maintain minimum speed
requirements.
Read More
|
|
HB 1968 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require the department of family protective services the department has provided a 16 year old foster care child with their birth certificate, social security card, personal ID certificate or driver's license, information contained in their health passport, proof of enrollment in Medicaid, if applicable, and written information on the child’s higher education benefits and opportunities available. Read More
|
|
HB 1591 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 1591 would amend the Tax Code to give a total property tax exemption to Purple Heart recipients and surviving spouses if the spouse meet certain conditions. Read More
|
|
HB 2538 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Current law states that a municipality may dedicate the revenue derived
from the hotel occupancy tax for the payment of principal of or interest on
bonds or other obligations that were issued to pay the cost to build a
convention center hotel or historic hotel. Additionally, certain qualified
hotel projects may receive rebates of sales, use, and all hotel occupancy taxes
paid.
HB 2538 amends Tax Code relating to funds...Read More
|
|
HB 574 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement to consult with law enforcement agencies to create a policy
regarding the issuance of citations for misdemeanor offenses, including traffic
offenses, that are punishable by a fine only. This bill would require law
enforcement agencies to maintain a record of warrantless arrests for misdemeanor
offenses for at least one year. In addition, officers would be prohibited from
arresting...Read More
|
|
HB 679 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would prevent a mechanical or physical restraint from being used on children in a proceeding before a juvenile court, except for very select circumstances. If a court finds it necessary to restrain a child it must be to prevent physical injury to the child or another, and because the child has a history of disruptive courtroom behavior that has placed others in potentially harmful situations. In the case that a restrain needs to...Read More
|
|
HB 944 |
85(R) - 2017 |
In statute it is prohibited for a county election officer to prevent a county chair or a county chair's designee from supervising the conduct of a primary election, including the tabulation of results, however there is no statutory enforcement mechanism in the event that a county election officer interferes with the duties of a county chair in supervision the conduct of a primary election. This legislation would place an enforcement mechanism...Read More
|
|
HB 387 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Currently in Texas, Home Rule cities are able
to establish “child safety zones” which limit areas registered sex offenders
are allowed to live, work in, or travel to, or through. This bill would, with
some conditions, allow general law municipalities to also set up child safety
zones restricting the movements of registered sex offenders. If passed, there would be a defense to prosecution if a registered sex offender was in, on or...Read More
|
|
HB 194 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would establish procedures and guidelines for students enrolled in special education programs to earn endorsements on their student transcript. Read More
|
|
HB 3244 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 3244 would allow districts the ability to pay teachers more if they are trained in autism education.Read More
|
|
HB 2440 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, theft is punishable as a state jail felony if the value of the property stolen in less than $2,500 and if the defendant has previously been convicted two or more times for any grade of theft. If this bill passes this crime could not be punishable as a state jail felony if the value of the property was less than $100. Instead a person would be charged with a Class A misdemeanor if the value of the property stolen is less...Read More
|
