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SB 873 |
87(R) - 2021 |
Under current law, a person purchasing an existing business may request from the Comptroller a certificate stating that no tax is due. This helps the purchaser know whether there is an existing tax liability associated with the business they are purchasing. However, confidentiality laws may prohibit the Comptroller from making such a disclosure. SB 873 would create an exemption to confidentiality laws in order to clearly allow the Comptroller...Read More
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SB 959 |
87(R) - 2021 |
A portion of public junior college formula funding by the state is based on student success measures. That success-based funding does not consider shorter continuing workforce education courses for which
credit toward a certificate or associate’s degree is not awarded certification.SB 959 would require the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to incorporate the consideration of student success measures, and include funding recommendations...Read More
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SB 1524 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1524 would create a limited sales, excise, and use tax refund pilot program for employers who employ between 1 and 6 apprentices. The bill would cap the number of employers able to seek a refund through the program at 100, during any given time.Read More
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SB 73 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 73 would require the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission to establish a separate provider type for a local public health entity, including health service regional offices acting in the capacity of a local health department, in order to enroll as a provider for and reimbursement under the Medicaid program. SB 73 would make a local public health entity, or a health service office acting in the capacity of...Read More
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SB 560 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 560 would require the Texas Education Agency, in collaboration with the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Workforce Commission,
to develop a strategic plan that sets tangible goals and
establishes timelines to increase the number of educators certified in bilingual education and other similar priorities to improve the quality bilingual instruction. This plan would be submitted to the legislature no later...Read More
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SB 220 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 220 would require the comptroller to notify a state agency purchasing a good or service through a contract listed on a multiple-award contract schedule of the percentage used to calculate the rebate authorized under existing law. If a rebate is given on a purchase made with federal funds, the bill would require the state purchasing agency to complete any necessary reporting, as opposed to the current law requiring...Read More
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SB 1356 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1356 would allow active or retired teachers who are members of nonprofit teacher organizations to participate in a tutoring program to provide supplemental instruction to
students in kindergarten through grade 12 on an individualized or
small-group basis. The bill would allow nonprofit organizations approved by the commissioner of education to access the online registry maintained by the TEA of persons not eligible for employment...Read More
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SB 1955 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1955 would exempt Learning Pods from certain local government ordinances, rules, building codes, regulations,
policies, guidelines, and any other local regulatory provisions that are relevant to schools or child-care facilities with designated buildings and staff. The bill would also prevent ISDs from requiring learning pods to register with the district or make regular reports to the local ISD, and prevents an employee of...Read More
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SB 1113 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1113 would allow the the secretary of state to withhold certain funds from a voter registrar who fails to timely perform the registrar's duty to cancel the registration of ineligible voters. If the register rectifies the requirement within 30 days, the secretary of state would be required to distribute any withheld funds. Read More
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SB 20 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 20 would prevent hotels from adopting a policy to prohibit the carrying or storing of a handgun or its ammunition in the hotel room, en route to or from the room, to or from the guest's vehicle, or in their vehicle. SB 20 would allow hotels to adopt a firearms policy requiring the guest to carry the handgun or ammunition concealed or in a case or bag. SB 20 would protect individuals who, in compliance with SB 20, violate hotel...Read More
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SB 1831 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1831 would increase the criminal punishment for different trafficking offenses involving schools. It would increase various human trafficking offenses from a second-degree felony to first-degree felony, punishable by life imprisonment or between 25 and 99 years, if they are committed on the premises or within 1,000 feet of a school or on the premises or within 1,000 feet of a place where an official school function or University Interscholastic...Read More
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SB 24 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 24 would create new pre-employment requirements for the
hiring of police officers, giving the hiring agency the ability to view the
contents of the officer's personnel file, providing written consent is given, including prior employment records,
any employment termination reports, and any criminal history information. The
hiring agency would have to submit confirmation to the Texas Commission on Law
Enforcement that they contacted...Read More
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SB 291 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 291 would require developers of commercial building projects to visibly post the name and contact information of the developer, and a brief description of the project at the entrance to the construction site. Read More
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SB 1421 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1421 would allow for the correction of business personal property tax appraisal rolls and related records for the current tax year and for either of the two preceding tax years to correct inaccuracies of the appraised value of the owner's business personal property that is the result of an error.Records would not be allowed to be changed if the property owner failed to timely file a rendition statement, the property was subject to a protest...Read More
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SB 1257 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 1257 would require the chief
appraiser of each appraisal district in which a property tax abatement agreement is in place to deliver to the
comptroller a report that lists the kind, number, and location of all proposed improvements of each property in a reinvestment zone granted a property tax abatement. Read More
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HB 2721 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2721 would require that any student enrolled in a school district in this
state or participating in a University Interscholastic League
competition be prohibited from participation in any future
extracurricular activity sponsored or sanctioned by the school
district or UIL if the student
engages in an assault against a person serving as referee, judge, or another official of an extracurricular activity and in retaliation for or as...Read More
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HB 2058 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2058 would require a court to review, at a permanency hearing following a court's final order, the Department of Family and Protective Services’ efforts to ensure that a child has regular opportunities to engage in age-appropriate normalcy activities while in Department custody.Read More
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HB 1012 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1012 would revise certain processes related to a person applying with a court to retrieve personal property from a residence or former residence, and add to the list of items for which an application is necessary. The bill would also stipulate that in a case involving the dissolution of a marriage, the court hearing the dissolution of marriage case would have exclusive jurisdiction over access to a residence or former residence to retrieve...Read More
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HB 872 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 872 would protect customer account information (such as billing, delinquency and utility usage) confidentiality for customers of a Government-operated utility unless the customer requests that the utility disclose the information. In cases related to a sole-source designated aquifer the utility would no longer be allowed to disclose billing and collection information related to usage. HB 872 also outlines how a customer...Read More
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SB 224 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 224 would implement a simplified certification and recertification of Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for people at least 60 years old or those with a
disability. This simplification would utilize a shortened application form, making the certification easier, and would allow individuals to remain eligible for
benefits for 36 months. Individuals would be required to submit a change reporting...Read More
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