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SB 345 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This is a local bill. Under current law certain municipalities may use collected tax revenue of hotels in its designated area to pay for bonds and other obligations to finance qualifying hotel projects. SB 345 would expand this authority to the City of Grand Prarie. Read More
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HB 1995 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 1995 would amend the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act to add that actual or threatened acquisition or disclosure of information with economic value can be enjoined if the order does not prohibit a person from using general knowledge, skill, and experience that person acquired during employment. It would also revise other definitions and misappropriation claims.Read More
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HB 3438 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would authorize the Texas Public Finance Authority to issue and sell an aggregate
amount of outstanding obligations not to exceed $100 million to finance: loans to eligible school for the costs associated with maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or renovation of
eligible school district facilities.These funds would establish the school district equipment and improvement fund outside the
treasury as a trust fund administered...Read More
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HB 890 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 890 would amend the Local Government Code to require a county and any municipality where a military instillation is located make the information from the most recent Air Installation Compatible Use Zone Study or Joint Land Use Study available on the local government entity’s website. Next, a person selling property would be required to disclose that the property may be located near a military installation and affected by high noise...Read More
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HB 543 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a presidential elector is not penalized for voting for someone other than the candidates who received the most votes in the general election. This bill would establish a method of selecting presidential electors and alternate electors and require electors and alternates to take a pledge to vote for the nominees of the party they are representing. The bill would also establish procedures for replacing electors in the event...Read More
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HB 2473 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would require a vendor that has or is seeking a contract with a local government entity and given one or more gifts during the preceding calendar quarter with an aggregate value of more than $100 to a local government officer or a member of their family to submit a disclosure form not later than the 15th day of the first month of each calendar quarter. The bill would make failure to submit the disclosure form with the appropriate...Read More
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HB 2988 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would facilitate the transfer of real property from the main campus of Texas Tech University to the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.Read More
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HB 1837 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 1837 would permit a county commissioner’s court to introduce a new regulation by requiring a person to notify a local governmental entity before starting an outdoor fire in the county. This would not apply to campfires, grill fires, pit fires, or certain enclosed fires. This bill would make it a Class C misdemeanor to knowingly or
intentionally violate an order requiring notice.Read More
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HB 661 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, only patients with terminal illnesses are eligible to access investigational drugs, devices, or biological products in clinical trials. This bill would make patients with severe chronic diseases also eligible to try experimental drugs with informed consent and without interference from the state. This bill clarifies that it would not create a cause of action, and that action against physician's licenses is prohibited as...Read More
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HB 2858 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 2858 would require abortion facilities to display sign
with information related to forced abortions, forced sexual acts, and human trafficking.
Next, a human trafficking offense that results in the death of an unborn child
of the person trafficked would be made a first-degree felony. An assault that
causes bodily harm to a pregnant person to force that person to have an
abortion would be made a third-degree felony. Finally, offenses...Read More
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HB 2855 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, breeder deer held in a permitted deer breeding facility must be identified with a tag or tattoo. HB 2855 would allow breeder deer to also be identified with a microchip implant.Read More
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SB 2190 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This is a local bill affecting only the Houston pension funds.General Provisions would:Amend multiple sections of Revised Statutes relating to the Houston Police, Firefighter, and Municipal Employee pension systems. Set requirements on the qualifications for the Municipal Fund actuary for all three funds. Require each pension to perform several reports and analyses, such as:an initial RSVS, and project the corridor midpoint (the median of...Read More
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HB 1032 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 1032 would amend the Government Code to establish the Legislative Council as the official electronic publisher or the Texas Constitution and the Secretary of State as the official electronic publisher of laws passed by the legislature and agency rules beginning on or after 2019. A process to verify the electronic documents would be required, as well as ensuring that material is made reasonably available for use by the public permanently....Read More
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HJR 52 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that would allow individuals with disabilities to have a portion of their property value be exempted from ad valorem taxation. Read More
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HB 1300 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, a municipality that imposes a hotel occupancy tax may permit the person required to collect and pay over the tax to keep up to one percent of the tax for the purposes of covering the costs of tax collection. In addition, the municipality may spend up to one percent of the tax to create, maintain, and operate an electronic tax administration system.HB 1300 would cap municipal spending on electronic tax administration to...Read More
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HB 1082 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Under current law, an interagency or intraagency memorandum or letter that would not be available by law to a party in litigation with the agency is excepted from public information requirements. HB 1082 would remove the exception for a draft grant application after the governmental body submits the application, determines not to submit the application, or the application deadline has passed.Read More
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HB 1616 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would give immunity to professionals from civil liability if they in good faith disclose confidential information about a person to a mental health personell after determining that there is a probability of imminent physical injury by the patient to the patient or others or there is a probability of immediate mental or emotional injury to the patient. Read More
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HB 2720 |
85(R) - 2017 |
This bill would add the provision that in a county with a population of less than 3.3 million people, a location would not be allowed to serve as a polling place if a candidate for elected office or a person related to them within the third degree of consanguinity or the second degree by affinity owns the location or is an owner or principal of a business operating at that location. Read More
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HB 3491 |
85(R) - 2017 |
Currently, there are no provisions in the Government Code limiting the ability of a governmental body to capture, possess, or require biometric information. HB 3491 would require specific, explicit statutory authority or voluntary, written consent before biometric information can be required as a prerequisite for providing a governmental service. Read More
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HB 3703 |
85(R) - 2017 |
HB 3703 would waive any continuing education requirements for an insurance adjusters who meet certain conditions. This includes an adjuster who receives a certificate of completion of a continuing education program issued by a professional organization of adjusters if the number of hours and program content meet Texas Department of Insurance's current continuing education requirements.Read More
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