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HB 1622 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1622 would allow a registered voter to file a complaint with the Secretary of State stating that the early voting clerk in their county is not compliant with certain of their statutorily required duties. This bill would also require the Secretary of State to create and maintain a system for receiving and recording complaints and to maintain a record of which counties and early voting clerks failed to comply.Read More
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HB 918 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 918 would allow certain individuals who are 18 years of age or older and protected by certain court orders to obtain a special license to carry a handgun even though they otherwise do not meet the age-based eligibility requirement for such a license.Read More
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HB 533 |
87(R) - 2021 |
Current law only allows counties with a population over 3 million to use someone other than a peace officer to advertise and conduct sales of personal property seized under tax warrant in person and by online auction. HB 533 would remove the bracketing language in order to allow all Texas counties to contract with someone other than a peace officer to conduct auction tax sales, including online auction tax sales. Read More
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HB 1676 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1676 would require an organization licensed by the Health and Human Services Commission (including a school, preschool, kindergarten, nursery school, or day camp or youth camp or any other facility providing licensed child-care services) that takes a child in its care or under its supervision to a body of water to: require the child's parent or legal guardian to affirm in writing the child's ability to swim or whether the child is...Read More
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HB 2281 |
87(R) - 2021 |
Current law prohibits people from possessing firearms or other weapons in certain prohibited places associated with schools or higher education institutions. The law is overly broad in that it applies not only to the property of those institutions but also to offsite locations where those institutions may be holding events. This could lead to a very broad interpretation criminalizing people for possessing weapons where they are otherwise...Read More
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SB 2011 |
87(R) - 2021 |
SB 2011 would make changes to the criminal offense of interfering with a child custody order. It would require a peace officer, upon receiving a report that someone has committed such an offense, to determine the whereabouts of the child. If the child is with the alleged offender, the officer would have to return the child to the person entitled to possession under the custody order. If the child's whereabouts are unknown, the officer would...Read More
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HB 775 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 775 is bracketed by population to Harris County and would
require the commissioners court of the county to prohibit sound from a
loudspeaker or amplifier that exceeds 85 decibels at a distance of 50 feet from
the property line on the property on which the loudspeaker or amplifier is
located. This regulation would only apply to unincorporated areas of Harris County. Sound produced by various facilities, including chemical manufacturing
facilities,...Read More
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HB 1510 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 1510 would create the Texas Electric Utility System Restoration
Corporation to provide a low cost
financing mechanism available to the Public Utility Commission for an electric
utility outside of the ERCOT power grid to attract capital to finance costs associated with system restoration. The Public Utility Commission would be required to insure securitization benefits consumers. It would prohibit providing any state money to the corporation.HB...Read More
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HB 3662 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3662 would require the Health and Human Service Commission to contract with a managed care organization (MCO) in healthcare regions in which it does not already have a contract with an MCO meeting certain requirements.Read More
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HB 4066 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4066 would require the Railroad Commission of Texas to create a permit for the beneficial recycling of treated domestic wastewater generated at oil and
gas drill sites and mobile drinking water treatment system
wastewater. The commission must require that discharges of treated wastewater meet the state’s applicable water quality
standards and that permits have certain notification and report requirements. The...Read More
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HB 4437 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 4437 applies to a county with a population of more
than 3.3 million that is awarding a contract for services for the construction of a structure, road, highway or other improvement or addition to real property. Under the provisions of this bill a county may award the contract to an entity with a permanent business presence in the county if the bid/proposed price submitted by the entity is within three percent of the lowest bid and...Read More
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HB 3351 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3351 would establish a commission on community college finance and outlines the composition of its membership.Read More
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HB 3418 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3418 would require the comptroller to review and revise its
procurement procedures and specifications for the purchase of goods
to require that any information regarding the
recycled, remanufactured, or environmentally sensitive nature of a
product that is used as the basis for receiving a preference be
certified as accurate by an entity approved by the comptroller. A state agency shall provide a notice of preferences...Read More
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HB 3669 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3669 would allow a public junior college
library to donate library materials to any person or organization
if the library materials as determined by library staff duplicate library materials that are a part
of the library's collection or are no longer appropriate for inclusion in
the library’s collection due to age, condition, or obsolete
content and have little or no monetary value. Currently public junior colleges do not have...Read More
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HB 211 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 211 would create an additional sales and use tax on e-cigarette vapor products and alternative nicotine products. HB 211 sets out provisions regarding the application of such taxes, reporting requirements, record keeping requirements, and the disposition of proceeds from the taxes.Read More
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HB 3627 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3627 would a prohibit a governmental body from claiming a catastrophe notice and suspending the Texas Public Information Act (TPIA) unless the incident significantly impacts a governmental body and directly causes the inability of a governmental body to comply with requirements of the act. A scenario wherein the employees of the governmental body are required to work remotely but can access relevant records and materials electronically...Read More
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HB 3073 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3073 would require each state agency to include on the agency's website a prominently displayed link to the guidance documents issued by the agency. Guidance documents would refer to a statement of general applicability issued by a state agency that describes the agency's policy on a statutory, regulatory, or technical issue relating to the agency's powers and duties or that interprets a statutory or regulatory issue. The agency would...Read More
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HB 2556 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 2556 would designate September 30 as Vanessa Guillén Day in memory of the life and tragic death of Vanessa Guillén and to increase awareness of the military's response to missing persons, sexual assault, and sexual harassment cases for service members. Read More
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HB 913 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 913 would permit a state court to award attorney's fees and damages to a party in a divorce or custody suit if they find that: the other party removed the suit from state to federal court and received a judgment against them; the federal court remanded the suit back to state court; and the removing party originally removed the suit to federal court for a frivolous purpose, to delay the state court suit or avoid an unfavorable decision...Read More
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HB 3482 |
87(R) - 2021 |
HB 3482 would revise the definition of "indigent defense compensation expenditures" for a tax year to include expenses associated with the operations of a public defender's office. This would affect a county's ability to adjust the no-new-revenue maintenance and operations rate in order to fund these expenses.The change in law made by HB 3482 applies to the calculation of the no-new-revenue maintenance and operations rate for a county only...Read More
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