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SB 65 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 65 would make several changes to aid state agencies in improving compliance with contracting requirements.This bill would change the qualifying information resources technology projects that are subject to oversight under the Information Resources Management Act by increasing the development costs from $1 million to $5 million.The state auditor would be required to assign one of the following ratings to each of the 25 largest agencies...Read More
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SB 175 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 175 would establish that a municipality or county with a population of less than 75,000, a public school district located in such a county, and certain special districts with a population of less than 75,000 are required to file an annual report with information to maintain the eminent domain database only if such a political subdivision's eminent domain authority has changed. Read More
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SB 46 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 46 would establish that an employer, defined as a person who employs one or more employees or acts directly in the interests of an employer in relation to an employee, commits an unlawful employment practice if sexual harassment of an employee occurs and the employer, employer's agents, or supervisors know or should have known that the conduct constituting sexual harassment was occurring and fail to take immediate and appropriate corrective...Read More
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SB 2047 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 2047 would include making grants to provide pro bono legal services to veterans, active duty members, and members of the state military forces among the approved uses of money from the fund for veterans' assistance that is appropriated to the Texas Veterans Commission. This bill would authorize the Texas Coordinating Council for Veterans Services to establish by majority vote a coordinating workgroup on pro bono legal services for veterans,...Read More
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SB 322 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 322 would amend the requirements for evaluation and reporting of investment practices of certain public retirement systems. The bill would require a public retirement system, with certain exceptions, to select an independent firm with substantial experience in evaluating institutional investment practices and performance to evaluate the appropriateness, adequacy, and effectiveness of the retirement system's investment practices and...Read More
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SB 1105 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1105 would make various reforms to the STAR Kids program, a Texas Medicaid managed care program that provides Medicaid benefits to children and adults ages 20 years and younger who have disabilities. These reforms include transitioning from state-issued provider identifier numbers to national provider identifier numbers, implementing a modernized claims processing system, standardizing Medicaid grievance data reporting and tracking, and...Read More
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SB 241 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 241 would update reporting requirements for state agencies and other governmental units by repealing obsolete reports, modifying certain reports, and removing recipients who no longer need to receive certain reports.Read More
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SB 132 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 132 would extend the Texas Leverage Fund commercial paper note program currently within the Texas Economic Development Bank (TEDB). This program is currently set to expire in 2022.The Texas Leverage Fund is an existing economic development program that would make loans to economic development corporations for eligible projects, pay the bank's necessary and reasonable costs of administering the program, pay the principal of and interest...Read More
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SB 64 |
86(R) - 2019 |
During the 85th Legislature, the State established a select committee for the purposes of studying cybersecurity and the impact it has on the State. SB 64 seeks to address the concerns of the cybersecurity committee.SB 64 would direct certain state agencies to implement cybersecurity measures including requiring the Higher Education Board to develop a way to incentivize higher education institutes to create cybersecurity degree programs, adding...Read More
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SB 54 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 54 would require the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to conduct a study regarding appropriate methods and standards to evaluate performance, separately from the performance of other students attending the district or campus in which the program is physically located, of a student who spends at least 50 percent of the instructional day in a regional day school program for the deaf, and whose parent does not reside in the school district providing...Read More
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SB 741 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 741 would prohibit a property owners' association from including or enforcing a provision in a dedicatory instrument that prohibits, restricts, or has the effect of prohibiting or restricting, any person who is otherwise authorized from lawfully possessing, transporting, or storing a firearm or ammunition.Read More
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SB 1754 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1754 would remove the element of "with the intention of harming the officer, investigator, employee, or official or third person" from the offense of Taking or Attempting to Take a weapon from a Peace Officer. Under the current law, a person taking or attempting to take a weapon from certain officers,
investigators, employees, or officials can be charged with a state jail felony or a third degree
felony. Read More
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SB 1083 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1083 would alter the calculation for compensation paid by a municipality to an emergency services district if the municipality removes territory from a district that the municipality has annexed. This would give a second method of calculation and the district would be entitled to the greater of the amount yielded by the existing statutory calculation or the amount yielded by the calculation created by this bill. Read More
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SB 1702 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1702 would allow ombudsman for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department to inspect: a facility operated by the department; a post-adjudication secure correctional
facility; a nonsecure correctional facility; and any other residential facility in which a
child adjudicated as having engaged in conduct indicating a need
for supervision or delinquent conduct is placed by court order. The ombudsman would also be authorized to investigate complaints...Read More
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SB 1311 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1311 would allow toll road authorities to deliver notice of nonpayment of a toll by electronic record, as opposed to by first-class mail, if the recipient agrees to it. Read More
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SB 1130 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1130 would create a task force on father engagement. The task force would evaluate services and supports available to fathers; study the impact of father engagement on children, families, and communities; and develop a statewide plan for expanding services and supports available to fathers and other strategies to strengthen father engagement in this state.Read More
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SB 1192 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1192 would create the Texas Working Off-Campus Reinforcing Knowledge and Skills Program that would allow the State to partially reimburse eligible entities in order to provide jobs for college students. In addition, this bill would change the requirements for institutions of higher education to provide work-study programs for students and require the participating programs to be listed online. Read More
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SB 372 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 372 would allow open-enrollment charter schools to employ security personnel or commission peace officers in the same manner as a board of trustees of a school district. The bill would also allow open-enrollment charter schools to reach a memorandum of understanding with local police departments for them to assign a school resource officer. Read More
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SB 1572 |
86(R) - 2019 |
SB 1572 would allow bracketed cities in a county with a population between 285,000 and 300,000 and which borders the Gulf of Mexico to adopt an ordinance that allows (but does not require) owners of vacant buildings to register their buildings by filing a registration form with the municipality. A municipality that adopts such an ordinance would not be allowed to place a lien on a property solely because the property is registered under...Read More
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SB 710 |
86(R) - 2019 |
Current law allows only certain bracketed counties to create a county ethics commission to set ethics guidelines for county officials, lobbyists, and vendors. SB 710 would repeal the limitation and allow all counties statewide to create an ethics commission. The creation of such a commission would have to be approved by a majority of eligible voters in an election. A county ethics commission would have authority to issue civil penalties...Read More
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