REGULAR ORDER OF BUSINESS |
Monday May 29, 2017 |
SENATE BILLS (Calendar Order) |
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS (Second Reading) |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to appropriations for the preservation and perpetuation of certain items of historical value; allowing the legislature and state agencies to accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of historical value and contributions to purchase such items. |
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS (Second Reading) |
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Directing the Texas Department of Transportation to adopt a Vision Zero strategy to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. |
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Designating Rockwall as the official Live Music Capital of North Texas. |
SENATE BILLS (Second Reading) |
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Relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program. |
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Relating to the persons authorized to conduct an inquest in certain counties. |
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Relating to the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle; creating a criminal offense; modifying existing criminal penalties. |
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Relating to the powers and election dates of the Hemphill County Underground Water Conservation District. |
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Relating to the creation of an offense for failing to secure certain children in a rear-facing child passenger safety seat system. |
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Relating to deadlines for performing various functions in connection with the ad valorem tax system. |
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Relating to the scheduling by an appraisal review board of a hearing on a protest. |
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Relating to liability of certain electric utilities that allow certain uses of land that the electric utility owns, occupies, or leases. |
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Relating to transportation network companies. |
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Relating to voter approval of local acceptance and use of federal funds for commuter rail projects. |
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Relating to performance-based tuition limitations for certain public institutions of higher education and a temporary tuition limitation for those institutions. |
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Relating to the development of and contracting for reclaimed water facilities in certain municipalities. |
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Relating to provisional permits for certain insurance agents. |
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Relating to establishing and funding a grant program for testing evidence collected in relation to sexual assaults or other sex offenses; authorizing voluntary contributions. |
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Relating to sources of funding for the Texas emissions reduction plan. |
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Relating to the inspection of certain commercial motor vehicles that are not domiciled in this state. |
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Relating to birth records of adopted persons. |
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Relating to notification and informational materials regarding mutual consent voluntary adoption registries. |
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Relating to the creation of the National Museum of the Pacific War museum fund. |
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Relating to the retention and use of sales tax revenue collected by certain retailers to provide job training and placement services to certain persons. |
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Relating to the provision of surplus lines insurance to certain commercial insureds. |
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Relating to the administration of and benefits payable under the Texas Public School Retired Employees Group Benefits Act. |
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Relating to the compatibility of a high-speed rail facility with multiple types of train technology. |
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Relating to the regulation of the practice of dental hygiene. |
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Relating to confidentiality of reports and related information for a solvency examination of an insurance carrier. |
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Relating to state money or credit or a state guarantee used or provided for high-speed rail owned by a private entity. |
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Relating to the right of certain appellants to supersede a judgment or order on appeal. |
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Relating to recording of minutes for a local canvassing authority. |
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Relating to education requirements for a notary public appointment; authorizing a fee. |
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Relating to service and filing requirements for a party seeking judicial review in certain workers' compensation cases. |
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Relating to certain workers' compensation reporting requirements. |
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Relating to access by the division of workers' compensation to certain designated doctor contracts under the workers' compensation system. |
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Relating to access to and benefits for mental health conditions and substance use disorders. |
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Relating to the deferral and reduction or waiver of certain surcharges assessed under the driver responsibility program. |
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Relating to the indigent status of a person for the purposes of the driver responsibility program. |
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Relating to the membership of the Texas Racing Commission. |
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Relating to the placement of certain substances in Penalty Groups 1 and 3 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act for the purposes of prosecution of criminal offenses involving those substances. |
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Relating to the repeal of certain laws regulating the sale or transfer of secondhand watches. |
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Relating to changing statutory references to hearing officer and hearings officer to administrative law judge under the workers' compensation system. |
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Relating to the eligibility requirements for employment as an ombudsman of the Office of Injured Employee Counsel under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act. |
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Relating to the status, regulation, and taxation of powdered alcohol as an alcoholic beverage; creating an offense. |
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Relating to the regulation of for-profit legal service contract companies. |
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Relating to the repeal of certain state procurement advisory and approval procedures. |
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Relating to the creation of the Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 69; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to the creation of the Trinity Lakes Municipal Utility District of Montgomery County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 154; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to providing road district powers to the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 130; providing authority to issue bonds. |
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Relating to providing road district powers to the Wood Trace Municipal Utility District No. 3 of Montgomery County, Texas; providing authority to issue bonds. |
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Relating to providing road district powers to the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 131; providing authority to issue bonds. |
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Relating to providing road powers to the Wood Trace Municipal Utility District No. 1, of Montgomery County, Texas; providing authority to issue bonds. |
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Relating to an alert for a missing senior citizen or person with Alzheimer's disease. |
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Relating to the allocation categories for state funding of public transportation. |
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Relating to the definition of eligible central municipality for purposes of the municipal hotel occupancy tax. |
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Relating to the use of connected braking systems to maintain distance between vehicles. |
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Relating to the ownership, control, or operation of a franchised or nonfranchised dealer or dealership by certain manufacturers. |
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Relating to certain disclosures of electronic toll collection customer account information by a toll project entity. |
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Relating to the automatic admission of students to general academic teaching institutions. |
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Relating to access to certain meetings and information of private or independent institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to actions on and liability associated with certain insurance claims. |
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Relating to the sale of lottery tickets by certain wine and beer retailers. |
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Relating to an expedited response by a governmental body to a request for public information. |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 50; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose a tax. |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 130; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose a tax. |
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Relating to the earliest day a public school teacher may be required to report for service. |
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Relating to allowing certain wholesalers and distributors to purchase beer, ale, and malt liquor from the holder of a brewpub license. |
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Relating to notice of health benefit plan provider network status provided by certain freestanding emergency medical care facilities. |
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Relating to the regulation of insurance holding company systems, including internationally active insurance groups; authorizing a fee. |
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Relating to the board of directors of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation District. |
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Relating to the Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act. |
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Relating to the prosecution for the offense of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual. |
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Relating to school district ad valorem tax rates. |
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Relating to durable powers of attorney. |
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Relating to the creation of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 554; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 224; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Dallas County Hospital District. |
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Relating to the conversion of the Grand Northwest Municipal Utility District to the Grand Northwest Municipal Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, or taxes. |
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Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Management District No. 2; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, or taxes. |
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Relating to the compensation provided to the governing body of certain special districts. |
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Relating to the powers of the TexAmericas Center. |
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Relating to the posting by the Railroad Commission of Texas on its Internet website of certain enforcement information. |
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Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain municipalities. |
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Relating to the mandatory spinal screening of public and private school students. |
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Relating to the evaluation of and improvements to the quality of the Texas Workforce Commission's subsidized child care program. |
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Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle dealership by certain manufacturers or distributors. |
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Relating to the persons authorized to make an anatomical gift. |
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Relating to authorizing current and former members of the state legislature to conduct a marriage ceremony. |
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Relating to a pilot program for assisting certain recipients of public benefits to gain permanent self-sufficiency. |
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Relating to the appointment of foster parents and other qualified persons to serve as educational decision-makers for certain children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. |
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Relating to the Texas Educational Opportunity Grant Program. |
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Relating to the maximum number of semester credit hours allowed for and funding sources used to supplement a TEXAS grant and to the removal of obsolete references related to the Teach for Texas grant program. |
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Relating to funding sources for the repayment of certain speech-language pathologist and audiologist education loans. |
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Relating to certain rental-purchase agreements. |
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Relating to the regulation of a service contract. |
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Relating to the Paris Junior College District. |
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Relating to broker agreements for the leasing of real property owned by a county. |
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Relating to the creation of the Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 70; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to low income housing tax credits awarded for certain developments. |
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Relating to the compensation of and reimbursement of expenses of the directors of the Aliana Management District. |
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Relating to the creation of the Beaumont Municipal Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds and impose assessments, fees, or taxes. |
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Relating to the creation of the Brazoria County Management District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to the powers of the Harris County Improvement District No. 17. |
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Relating to a documented member of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas hunting certain deer. |
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Relating to a deduction under the franchise tax for certain contracts with the federal government. |
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Relating to documentation regarding an arrest of a person without a warrant. |
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Relating to the participation of certain counties in the collection improvement program. |
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Relating to a database of employers penalized for failure to pay wages or convicted of certain offenses involving wage theft. |
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Relating to restrictions on the location and operation of concrete crushing facilities. |
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Relating to the operation of medical supply transport vehicles during a declared state of disaster. |
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Relating to school marshals for private schools. |
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Relating to excluding certain students from the computation of dropout and completion rates for purposes of public school accountability. |
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Relating to appraisal of public school teachers. |
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Relating to statewide goals for dual credit programs provided by school districts. |
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Relating to the creation of a nutrition education task force. |
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Relating to creation of the Bolivar Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. |
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Relating to the enforcement of conciliation agreements entered into under the Texas Fair Housing Act. |
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Relating to the establishment of the Communicable Disease and Public Health Center. |
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Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to alter prima facie speed limits. |
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Relating to complaints filed against certain law enforcement officers, peace officers, detention officers, county jailers, and fire fighters. |
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Relating to the child safety zone applicable to a person released on parole or to mandatory supervision. |
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Relating to the child protective service functions of the Department of Family and Protective Services. |
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Relating to the application of certain taxes imposed on certain tobacco products and to the allocation of certain revenue from those taxes to increase funding for certain health care education programs. |
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Relating to the transfer of jurisdiction over and management of the property known as the French Legation to the Texas Historical Commission and to certain historic sites under the commission's jurisdiction. |
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Relating to the adoption of the Compact for a Balanced Budget. |
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Relating to energy savings performance contracts. |
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Relating to reporting and disseminating information regarding public school disciplinary actions. |
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Relating to lead in drinking water at public schools. |
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Relating to groundwater conservation districts. |
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Relating to evaluating public school performance. |
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Relating to the public information law. |
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Relating to a minimum voter turnout requirement for an election authorizing the issuance of bonds issued by a political subdivision. |
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Relating to requirements for participants in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored or sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League, including a sudden cardiac arrest awareness form. |
HOUSE BILLS (Calendar Order) |
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS (Second Reading) |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment changing the eligibility requirements for certain judicial offices. |
HOUSE BILLS (Second Reading) |
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Relating to the release on personal bond of a person arrested for an out-of-county offense under certain circumstances. |
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Relating to the interest rate on a refund of ad valorem taxes made following the final determination of an appeal that decreases a property owner's tax liability. |
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Relating to the location of the Irma Rangel College of Pharmacy. |
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Relating to the creation of an open burn pit registry for certain service members and veterans. |
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Relating to the transference of certain territory from one groundwater conservation district to another. |
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Relating to the extension and modification of a public school district depository contract. |
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Relating to donation and distribution of surplus food at public schools and grace period policies for public school students with insufficient balances on prepaid meal cards. |
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Relating to the expiration of the dry cleaner environmental response program. |
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Relating to the investigation of fire fighters employed by certain municipalities. |
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Relating to the repeal of the driver responsibility program and the amount and allocation of state traffic fine funds; authorizing and increasing criminal fines. |
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Relating to standing in a roadway; amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty. |
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Relating to documentation for a motor vehicle title. |
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Relating to low-income vehicle repair assistance, retrofit, and accelerated vehicle retirement programs and local initiative projects. |
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Relating to authorizing certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax and to the purposes for which that tax revenue may be used. |
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Relating to the civil prosecution of offenses involving certain municipal parking ordinances; authorizing a civil fine. |
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Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders. |
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Relating to the carrying of handguns by license holders on the property of state hospitals; providing a civil penalty. |
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Relating to the regulation of firefighters and fire departments by the Texas Commission on Fire Protection. |
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Relating to sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking at public and private postsecondary educational institutions. |
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Relating to certain accounts established at financial institutions, including disclosures related to those accounts. |
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Relating to the eligibility of certain municipalities to establish homestead preservation districts and reinvestment zones and to certain regulatory prohibitions applicable in those districts and zones. |
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Relating to the regulation of groundwater. |
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Relating to political contributions by corporations and labor organizations to certain political committees. |
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Relating to restrictions on political contributions and political expenditures by general-purpose political committees. |
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Relating to the reporting of political contributions and political expenditures by out-of-state political committees. |
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Relating to prohibiting political contributions and political expenditures made by certain persons with public funds; creating a criminal offense. |
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Relating to the creation of the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees. |
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Relating to agriculture, including the regulation of seed by a political subdivision and the abolition of certain entities associated with the Department of Agriculture. |
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Relating to the terms of the board members of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission. |
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Relating to a reemployment program as a condition of community supervision for certain veterans who commit a misdemeanor offense. |
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Relating to the definition of abortion. |
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Relating to emergency health care services and trauma care systems. |
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Relating to the removal of an obsolete reference regarding open-enrollment charter schools and the State Board of Education. |
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Relating to documentation regarding an arrest of a person without a warrant. |
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Relating to the disclosure under the public information law of certain information related to parades, concerts, or other entertainment events open to the general public that are paid for with public funds. |
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Relating to enforcement of a lien on property in a self-service storage facility by a sale conducted through an Internet website. |
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Relating to the donation of sick leave by state employees. |
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Relating to the Economic Incentive Oversight Board. |
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Relating to the collection and use of certain hotel occupancy taxes. |
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Relating to certain contracting requirements for certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities. |
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Relating to the eligibility of certain persons to teach a driver education course. |
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Relating to certain disclosures and notices required for certain life insurance policies. |
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Relating to requiring a public employer to give notice to new employees of the ability of certain employees to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. |
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Relating to the method used in rating public school districts and campuses for accountability purposes. |
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Relating to school district discretion to administer college preparation assessment instruments to public school students at state cost. |
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Relating to vendor requirements under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). |
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Relating to the authority of the Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 3 to enter into certain agreements relating to the ad valorem taxation of certain property located in the district. |
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Relating to the creation of the North Celina Municipal Management District No. 3; providing authority to impose taxes, levy assessments, and issue bonds. |
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Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain professions, including the online publication of home addresses of certain occupational license holders. |
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Relating to the creation of the Alamo Management District; providing authority to issue bonds. |
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Relating to the regulation of certain long-term care facilities. |
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Relating to the relationship between public employers and fire and police employees. |
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Relating to county regulation of roadside vendors and solicitors. |
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Relating to the power of counties to enact park use rules. |
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Relating to the creation of regional transit authorities; granting the power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds and charge fees; creating a criminal offense. |
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS (Second Reading) |
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Urging Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act. |
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