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HB 1530 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1530 would allow nine additional institutes of higher education to issue a total of $4.3 billion in revenue bonds to fund
capital projects.Read More
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HB 1633 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1633 proposes a compact with
an inter-state commission for audiologists and speech-language pathologists
based in Washington D.C. Texas would join the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Compact which currently exists in Wyoming, Utah, Oklahoma, Louisiana, North
Carolina, and West Virginia. There is legislation pending in Washington,
Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Kentucky,...Read More
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HB 3282 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3282 would allow a district engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation to temporarily lower a speed limit for a highway or part of a highway in a TxDOT district, without approval or permission from the Texas Transportation Commission, if that district engineer determines the speed limit is unreasonable or unsafe. The temporary speed limit would be valid for up to 45 days and may only be extended beyond that by the Texas Transportation...Read More
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HB 2095 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2095 would require the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology to make studies relating to surface water, groundwater, soil moisture, and atmospheric moisture. The bureau would also be directed to work
to enhance, advance, or integrate models characterizing the water
resources of the state.HB 2095 would also direct the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology to cooperate with the Texas Commission...Read More
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HB 2374 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2374 requires the Department of Family and Protective Services to conduct an efficiency audit during the state fiscal year ending August 31, 2022, and every fourth year after that date. This audit will satisfy the department's annual internal audit requirements. Money to cover this audit will be appropriated for administrative and internal audit operations in the state fiscal year the audit is conducted. HB 2374 requires that the...Read More
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HB 2802 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2802 would require the commissioner of education to apply to the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver from certain testing requirements in the event that a declared disaster significantly disrupts school district operations including in-person attendance, in a majority of school
districts in Texas. In the event a federal waiver is not granted, the testing would still take place but the commissioner would be prohibited from using...Read More
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HB 2093 |
87(R) - 2021 |
H.B. 2093 adds a physician assistant licensed to practice in
this state with expertise in psychiatry or currently working in a mental health facility to the list of non-physician mental health professionals in the
General Provisions of the Texas Mental Health Code. Read More
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HB 1434 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1434 would prohibit health care providers from performing or delegating to another individual to perform a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious patient unless the pelvic exam is within the standard scope of the procedure, the patient gives informed consent for the exam, the exam is immediately necessary, or a court orders the exam. Informed consent is gained by using a written or electronic form that is provided separately...Read More
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HB 1419 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1419 would require a justice of the peace investigating certain deaths to enter all available
identifying features of the unidentified body (fingerprints, dental records, any unusual
physical characteristics, and a description of the clothing found on the body) into the
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. The bill makes similar requirements on the entering of other incidents into the National Missing and Unidentified...Read More
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HB 1276 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1276 would allow qualified food service establishments to sell packaged foods, other than prepared foods, directly to consumers provided the food meets certain food safety requirements.Read More
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SB 700 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 700 would extend the life of the Parks and Wildlife
Department by twelve years and would require a more thorough training program on the roles, scope and rules of the department. The department would have to maintain a system to promptly and efficiently act on complaints
filed with the department. The agency would also be required to evaluate the progress on its land and water resources conservation
and recreation plan every 5...Read More
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HB 1467 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1467 would allow a property association's board to hold their annual meeting electronically, including voting electronically, provided certain member access requirements are met.Read More
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HB 2384 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2384 would require the Community Justice Assistance Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to allow community supervision and corrections departments to base supervision reporting intervals on risk, with higher-risk inmates reporting at more frequent intervals. Reporting intervals for low risk defendants would not be able to exceed one year. The division would not be able to reduce state aid to a county community supervision...Read More
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HB 2179 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2179 would revise the property code with respect to various types of trusts. The bill would make changes to the definition of a "qualifying trust" as it relates to express trusts for the purposes of certain homestead protections. The bill would also create new rules for the beneficiaries of spendthrift trusts and the appointment of an attorney to represent an interest in a trust proceeding. Read More
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HB 2183 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2183 would expand the powers of a person with durable power of attorney to allow such a person to make business operation transactions on behalf of their principal, including any transaction the principle could make for a business in which they have an ownership interest. Read More
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HB 740 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 740 would require the early voting clerk to provide to a voter stationed overseas who is eligible for early voting by mail via federal postcard, a runoff election ballot using a preferential voting in addition to their general election ballot. This preferential runoff ballot would only count if it was returned during the general election along with their general election ballot. If the election goes to a runoff, the voter's preferential...Read More
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HB 643 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 643 would require a life insurance company to disclose the beneficiary of the an insured's life insurance policy to the funeral director of an insured's funeral upon the funeral director's request if the funeral director has written consent from the decedent's heir, heir's representative or decedent's representative.This bill would only apply to certain types of life insurance policies with a maximum death benefit of $15,000...Read More
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HB 396 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 396 would create the rebuttable presumption that when a nurse contracts Covid-19 which results in their death or total or partial disability, they contracted the disease during the course and scope of their employment under certain circumstancesThe bill does allow for a rebuttal process through a showing by a preponderance of the evidence that a risk factor, accident, hazard, or other cause not associated with the individual’s...Read More
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HB 2534 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2534 would create a process for resolving disputed losses under a personal auto insurance policy.HB 2534 would allow an insured who disagrees with an automobile insurer over a loss estimate to demand an appraisal, not later than 90 days after a proof of loss is filed. Each party would be required to appoint an appraiser and inform the other party of their respective appraiser's identity within 15 days of the demand for appraisal. If the...Read More
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HB 1548 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1548 would prohibit a person with control over the premises of a business who allows entry on the premises by a license holder with a
concealed handgun from being held liable for damages arising from the lawful carrying of a concealed handgun on the premises based solely on that permission.Read More
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