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HB 3803 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3803 would revise an administrative penalty for certain care facilities that include persons with intellectual disabilities. This bill would cap the total amount of the penalty for a violation to $5,000 for a facility with fewer than 60 beds and $25,000 for a facility with 60 beds or more. This would prevent daily penalties from accruing beyond those caps. Current law does not cap the daily accrual of penalties. Read More
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HB 3703 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3703 would expand the Compassionate Use Act to make patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), autism, terminal cancer, epilepsy (rather than intractable epilepsy), a seizure disorder, multiple sclerosis, spasticity, and incurable neurodegenerative diseases eligible for a low-THC cannabis prescription. Only physicians qualified with respect to a patient's particular medical condition would be authorized to prescribe...Read More
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HB 3750 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3750 would prohibit a municipality from enforcing in its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) a municipal ordinance that imposes cut and fill depth requirements, or other water quality regulations, on a project that are more stringent that the applicable minimum state and federal water quality requirements (unless the project is in an aquifer recharge or contributing zone or in the drainage basin of a river designated by TCEQ as having...Read More
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HB 3704 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3704 would allow the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to enter into an agreement with a local public health entity for the purpose of providing the entity access to "identified public health data relating to the
entity’s jurisdiction and any public health data relating to a
jurisdiction contiguous to the entity; and deidentified public health data maintained by the
department relating to the jurisdiction of any other local...Read More
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HB 3490 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3490 would create an offense for an individual who "publishes on an Internet website, including a social media platform, repeated electronic communications in a manner reasonably likely to harass, abuse, or torment another person." This offense would be a Class B misdemeanor, except that under certain circumstances it would be elevated to a Class A misdemeanor. HB 3490 would create an offense for an individual who "publishes on an Internet...Read More
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HB 3316 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3316 would expand the types of tips that can be reported to campus crime stoppers programs, and involve public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools in the reporting process.More specifically, this bill would allow the Texas Crime Stoppers Council to accept tips submitted by any person regarding: (1) criminal activity; (2) conduct or threatened conduct that constitutes a danger to public safety or an individual; or (3)...Read More
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HB 3390 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3390 would require that a child in a conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) be asked, in a developmentally appropriate manner, to provide names of any adult in their community who could be a relative or designated caregiver for the child.Read More
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HB 3148 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3148 would require the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to establish and maintain an investigational stem cell registry that lists each physician who administers an investigational stem cell treatment, as well as adopt a form for informed consent. It would also require an institutional review board that oversees investigational stem cell treatments to meet certain conditions.Additionally, this bill would prohibit a governmental...Read More
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HB 3193 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 3193 would extend the expiration of the home and community support services agency license from two to three years. For the year in which a license expiration date is changed, the department shall prorate the license fee on a monthly basis. Additionally, this bill would raise the cap on the fee for a license to provide these services from $2,000 to $2,625.Lastly, the bill would raise the cap on another penalty from $1,000...Read More
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HB 2747 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2747 would require massage establishments and schools to display in a sign concerning services and assistance available to victims of human trafficking. The sign must:
(1) be in English, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, and any
other language required by commission rule;
(2) include a toll-free telephone number of a
nationally recognized information and referral hotline for victims
of human trafficking; and
(3) be displayed in a conspicuous...Read More
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HB 2764 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2764 would require the Department of the Family and Protective Services to simplify, streamline, and provide greater flexibility in the application of the minimum standards to licenced child-placing agencies, agency foster homes, and adoptive homes with the goal of increasing the number of foster and adoptive homes in the state. The bill would also cap the number of training hours required to become a foster or adoptive caregivers at 35 hours.Read More
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HB 2763 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2763 changes the composition of the pension board for local pension funds, qualifications and training for trustees, and the procedures for certain municipalities (City of Galveston). The bill would provide that the rate of contributions to the pension fund is prohibited from being reduced or eliminated, a new monetary benefit payable by the pension fund is prohibited from being established, and the amount of a monetary benefit from...Read More
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HB 2782 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2782 would make numerous changes to state law related to probate matters. Among other things, these changes include the following: (1) requiring a contracting third party to provide a personal representative all information that would have been provided to the deceased upon request; (2) voiding an otherwise valid transfer on death deed as to any real property conveyed during the transferor's lifetime after the deed is executed and recorded...Read More
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HB 2757 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2757 would provide that for any action governed by the laws of this state
concerning rights and obligations under the law, the American Law
Institute’s Restatements of the Law are not controlling.Read More
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HB 2784 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2784 would create the Texas Industrial Workforce
Apprenticeship grant program within the Texas Workforce Commission. The purpose of this program would be to encourage the private sector to
develop workforce apprentice training programs. In order to be eligible to receive
the grant, the employer would be required to guarantee the trainee a job afterwards and provide full-time
employee benefits.
The Texas Workforce Apprenticeship...Read More
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HB 1576 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1576 would amend multiple sections of the Government Code to allow for a regional contracted broker to subcontract with a
transportation network company (Uber, Lyft, etc.) to provide non medical transportation services for "curb-to-curb transportation to or from a
medically necessary, nonemergency covered health care services" on behalf of managed care organizations. Additionally, HB 1576 adds statutory provisions concerning the arrangement...Read More
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HB 2826 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2826 would make the contingent fee contracting process for political subdivisions similar to the process used by state governmental entities. In selecting an attorney or law firm for the purposes of a contingency fee contract, this bill would require that the political subdivision select a well-qualified attorney or law firm on the basis of demonstrated competence, qualifications, and experience in the requested services, and attempt...Read More
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HB 2536 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 2536 would create reporting requirements for pharmaceutical drug producers, managers, and insurers. Under the bill, drug manufacturers would be required to report data on the wholesale cost of drugs each year to the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). This would also include data regarding the entities sales and drug supply, and any changes in the price of a prescription...Read More
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HB 1550 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1550 is an omnibus sunset review bill for a multitude of state commissions, departments, agencies, and licensing boards including the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Veterans Commission and the Texas Medical Board. The bill would defer sunset of these entities until 2021 with no additional changes.Read More
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HB 1399 |
86(R) - 2019 |
HB 1399 would expand the the circumstances under which a defendant arrested for certain felony offenses must provide DNA to include a defendant arrested for the following offenses: murder, capital murder, kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, smuggling of persons, continuous sexual abuse of a young child or children, indecency with a child, assault, sexual assault, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault, prohibited sexual conduct, robbery,...Read More
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