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HB 3864 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3864 would allow school campuses to excuse a student from attending
school for a career investigation day to visit a professional at the
professional’s workplace during the student’s junior and senior
years of high school for the purpose of determining the student’s
interest in pursuing a career in the professional’s field.Read More
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HB 149 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 149 would task the Health and Human Services Commission with conducting a study on state and local regulations of group homes. This study would analyze state laws, complaint procedures, complaints, the enforcement authority,
and then determine whether additional state and local government enforcement
is needed. This study would also recommend processes to expedite the licensing and
regulatory procedures, whether new categories of group...Read More
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HB 368 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 368 would require the Department of Public Safety to allow peace officers and prosecutors to be issued IDs which do not list their actual residential address to protect their privacy.Read More
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HB 4604 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4604 would allow the board of the Barrett Management District impose and collect an
assessment. The bill would allow the board to finance an improvement project if the service or improvement is approved by 60% of votes cast in an election.Read More
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HB 2497 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2497 would establish the 1836 Project as an advisory committee to promote patriotic education
and increase awareness of the Texas values that continue to
stimulate boundless prosperity across this state. The committee would be composed of nine members. The bill also requires the Texas
Education Agency to provide funding and administrative support
for the 1836 Project and would have to submit a report to the legislature on the...Read More
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HB 2656 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2656 would revise requirements for the number and form of court interpreter license examinations. Instead of being offered at least twice a year in times and places designated by the director of the Office of Court Administration as current statute requires, the bill would require the examinations to be held in-person in each county with 800,000 people or more at least once a year or in person at times and places designated by the
director,...Read More
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HB 2352 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2352 would make changes to the Educational and Vocational Training Pilot Program for state jail felony defendants. Placement into the program would no longer require the defendant to be confined in jail for up to three months. Certain inmates convicted of drug offenses would become eligible to be released on parole early to participate in the pilot program. The Office of Court Administration would be required to provide a program to train...Read More
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HB 1753 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1753 would modify existing law regarding an informational report card about worker's compensation healthcare networks. Current law mandates that the report card be released annually. This bill would require the report card be filed not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year.Read More
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HB 3746 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3746 would require the attorney general to post on its website a comprehensive listing of the notifications reported to the AG's office regarding data breaches that affect at least 250 residents of Texas.The notifications reported to the AG would also be required to include the number of affected residents that have been sent a disclosure of the breach by direct communication. The AG would be required to update...Read More
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HB 2998 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2998 would stipulate that an LLC or an S corporation is not required to be licensed if the entity receives compensation on behalf of a licensed broker or sales agent that is earned by the license holder while engaged in real estate brokerage; performs no other acts of a broker; is registered with the TREC; and is at least 51 percent owned by the license holder on whose behalf the entity receives compensation. In effect, this bill would...Read More
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HB 3388 |
87(R) - 2021 |
Under current law, state agencies must file quarterly
reports regarding their vehicle fleets. HB 3388 would exempt a state agency
with a fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles from quarterly reporting and instead
require such an agency to establish and maintain an annual reporting system.
According to the Legislative Budget Board "Currently, there are four
agencies that maintain a vehicle fleet of more than 2,500 vehicles, including the
Department...Read More
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HB 4245 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4245 is a bracketed bill to allow the City of Lubbock and the City of Galveston to adopt an ordinance requiring owners of vacant buildings to register their
buildings by filing a registration form with a designated municipal
official.
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HB 3774 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3774 would make a significant number of changes to the
state judicial system and update various laws regarding the judicial system.
The major provisions, but not an exhaustive list, are listed below.HB 3774
would create new courts of various types. The jurisdiction of some of these courts over certain
matters would be expanded or limited. Counties would be permitted to create
regional specialty court programs to hear criminal cases,...Read More
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HB 4617 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4617 would allow members of the board of directors for the High Point Special Utility District of Kaufman and Rockwall Counties to be elected from single-member districts. If the board chooses to provide for the election of members from single-member districts, a candidate must be a resident of the district to qualify for the ballot or to serve as a director from that district. Read More
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HB 3691 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3691 would update the legislative intent and purpose for community-based care to also prevent entry into substitute care, reunify and preserve families, and develop goals for the reduction of the time that a child is in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and the preservation of families to avoid placing children in foster care. HB 3691 would define Community-Based care to mean the provision of...Read More
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HB 4638 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4638 would create the Leander Municipal Management District No. 1 to conduct improvement projects. The district would have the authority of a water and road district as well as the authority to impose taxes and issue bonds. The district would not have authority for eminent domain and procedures are included for the district’s dissolution.Read More
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HB 4525 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4525 would require the State
Board of Education to, in approving career and technology courses, consider relevant economic and market conditions affecting the workforce of this state in scheduling or initiating a course review to
provide updated and relevant course offerings.Read More
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HCR 51 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HCR 51 would resolve that the 87th Legislature respectfully urges the Congress of the United States to pass the I am Vanessa Guillén Act to ensure that necessary changes are made to prevent conflicts of interest and require independent investigations for sexual harassment complaints in the military.HCR 51 would resolve that the Texas Secretary of State forward official copies of this resolution to the President of the United States,...Read More
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HB 4492 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4492 would create the Texas Electric Securitization Corporation to assist those in the wholesale market to obtain securitization financing to recover extraordinary costs and expenses incurred because of the abnormal weather events of February 2021 and set up rules governing this ability. This financing would allow wholesale market
participants who are owed money to be paid in a more timely manner while allowing the balance...Read More
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HB 10 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 10 would restructure the Public Utilities Commission board increasing the number of commissioners to 5, replacing the unaffiliated members with members appointed by the Governor. Under this bill legislators and registered lobbyists would be prohibited from being appointed to the ERCOT board. HB 10 also restructures the ERCOT board requiring all board members to reside in the state of Texas and creates additional ERCOT board member slots...Read More
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