SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Wednesday

May 3, 2023

The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a local option exemption from ad valorem taxation by a county or municipality of all or part of the appraised value of real property used to operate a child-care facility.

Relating to the provision of electricity service in the ERCOT power region.

Relating to the removal from office of an officer of a political subdivision for commission of certain criminal offenses.

Relating to the issuance or amendment of a certificate of public convenience and necessity that authorizes the construction of an electrical substation.

Relating to the transfer of students between public schools.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to requiring parental consent for psychological or psychiatric examination, testing, or treatment conducted by a school district employee.

2 Floor Amendments

Relating to requiring public schools to maintain physical copies of certain instructional materials.

Relating to the current debt rate and tax rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem tax purposes.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to an annual study by the Texas A&M University Texas Real Estate Research Center of the purchase and sale of single-family homes by certain institutional buyers.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the execution of a certificate of completion for the purchase of solar panels under a retail installment contract.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.

Relating to contracts with and investments in companies that boycott certain energy companies.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the creation of the Atascosa County Municipal Utility District No. 2; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 264; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Knob Creek Municipal Utility District of Bell County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

The Senate suspended the regular order, read third time and finally passed:

Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual during a benefit year under the state unemployment insurance program.

Relating to certain regulations adopted by governmental entities for the building products, materials, or methods used in the construction of residential or commercial buildings.

The Senate suspended the regular order, read second time and passed to engrossment:

Relating to the regulation of platting and subdivisions of land by a municipality or county.

1 Floor Amendment

The following bills were passed on the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar:

Designating December 8 as Special Hearts Day for a 10-year period beginning in 2023.

Authorizing the State Preservation Board to approve the placement of the Texas Game Warden Memorial at the State Capitol Complex.

Relating to information requested from the Texas Medical Board by a member, committee, or agency of the legislature.

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 19 as the Mildred McMillan Garrett Memorial Bridge.

Relating to the punishment for the offense of purchasing or selling human organs; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to a study on potential improvements to training provided to 9-1-1 emergency service call takers and dispatchers.

Relating to the consideration of standardized test scores as a factor in nonautomatic admissions decisions at certain public institutions of higher education.

Relating to the disclosure of certain health care cost information by certain health care facilities; authorizing an administrative penalty.

Relating to the punishment for the offense of trafficking of persons.

Relating to the authority of the TexAmericas Center to provide services to and make investments in certain business enterprises and to create certain business organizations for purposes of the center.

Relating to the unlawful disclosure of an autopsy image or other visual depiction; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain offenses committed in a disaster area or an evacuated area.

Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of operation of a stash house; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to authorizing a day-care center to employ an interim director.

Relating to creating the criminal offense of operating a premises for unlawful controlled substance consumption.

Relating to the composition, continuation, and duties of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force, compensation for task force members and certain other task force participants, and establishment of a mandatory training program for peace officers on responding to reports of child sexual abuse and adult sexual assault.

Relating to limitations on the use of public money under certain economic development agreements or programs adopted by certain political subdivisions.

Relating to access by the Texas Education Agency and private schools to certain criminal history records.

Relating to a seizure management and treatment plan for the care to be provided by a public school to a student with a seizure disorder.

Relating to electric utility weather emergency preparedness.

Relating to the confidentiality of certain home address information in property tax appraisal records.

Relating to property owners' associations, including condominium owners' associations.

Relating to term limits for certain contracts regarding airports and associated air navigation facilities operated by or on behalf of a local government.

Relating to indemnification and duties of real property appraisers under certain governmental contracts.

Relating to administrative procedures in the architectural barriers program at the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Relating to operating requirements for farm mutual insurance companies related to insurance in force on rural property.

Relating to the registration of and certain other requirements relating to data brokers; providing a civil penalty and authorizing a fee.

Relating to requiring the attorney general to establish a process to identify and report certain foreign-related transactions in this state to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

Relating to the disclosure by a pharmacy to a patient of certain price information for a drug or biological product.

Relating to the verification of health care practitioner continuing education compliance through the establishment of continuing education tracking systems.

Relating to the regulation of driver education courses and driving safety courses and the provision of information regarding the Texas Driving with Disability Program to certain public school students.

Relating to a membership interest in a limited liability company subject to a charging order.

Relating to security procedures for digital applications that pose a network security risk to state agencies.

Relating to required reporting regarding a school district's program for gifted and talented students.

Relating to procedures regarding certain persons who are or may be persons with a mental illness or intellectual disability.

Relating to the creation of the Guadalupe County Municipal Utility District No. 8; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to payment of costs related to the relocation of certain utility facilities for state highway projects.

Relating to public access to certain hospital investigation information and materials.

Relating to the terminology used in statute to refer to intellectual disability and certain references to abolished health and human services agencies.

Relating to prohibiting the suspension of a person's driver's license or extension of the period of a driver's license suspension for certain driving while license invalid convictions; authorizing a fee.

Relating to the disclosure of customer information by government-operated utilities.

Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 49 in Titus County as the Titus County WWI Veterans Memorial Highway.

Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm to Market Road 2348 in Titus County as the Army Staff Sergeant Clay Allen Craig Memorial Bridge.

The following bills were removed from the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar:

Relating to the licensing of certain veterans by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and the hiring of those veterans by political subdivisions.

Relating to allowing school districts to make available certain school safety training courses to employees of certain private schools, child-care facilities, or organizations providing out-of-school-time care.

Relating to certain indefinite quantity contracts entered into by the General Land Office in the event of a natural disaster.

Relating to the creation of the Martindale Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Caldwell County, Texas; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Committee re-referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the broadband infrastructure fund to assist in the financing of broadband and telecommunications services projects in the state.

Re-referred from Business & Commerce to Finance

Relating to the medical use of low-THC cannabis by patients with certain medical conditions.

Re-referred from Health & Human Services to Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the unlawful acquisition of certain weapons; creating a criminal offense.

Re-referred from State Affairs to Criminal Justice