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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3463 allows a written payment demand to be sent by email or text message for a particular theft-of-service offense: intentionally or knowingly obta…
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of theft of service.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3464 increases penalties for specified contraband offenses when the person committing them is employed by the correctional facility.
Official caption: Relating to increasing the criminal penalties for the offenses of providing or possessing with the intent to provide an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug to a person in the custody of a correctional facility, taking an alcoholic beverage, a controlled substance, or a dangerous drug into a correctional facility, and taking a controlled substance or dangerous drug on property owned, used, or controlled by a correctional facility.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3474 puts required independent reviews of public pension investment practices on a State Pension Review Board schedule, while retaining the basic t…
Official caption: Relating to the evaluation and reporting of investment practices and performance of certain public retirement systems.
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HB3479 renames the Carrizo Cane Eradication Program as the Rio Grande Vegetative Management Program and broadens its statutory task.
Official caption: Relating to the Rio Grande vegetative management program.
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HB3486 lets an owner of a qualifying food service establishment deduct $5 from taxable sales for every 100 Texas farm-raised oysters bought for prepa…
Official caption: Relating to a deduction from the amount of taxable sales used to calculate the amount of sales and use taxes that the owners of restaurants that purchase Texas farm-raised oysters are required to remit to the comptroller of public accounts.
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HB3487 allows owners of qualifying food service establishments to deduct $2 from taxable sales for each 50 pounds of oyster shells collected at the e…
Official caption: Relating to a deduction from the amount of taxable sales used to calculate the amount of sales and use taxes that the owners of restaurants that participate in an oyster shell recycling program are required to remit to the comptroller of public accounts.
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HB3505 gives a narrowly eligible, existing health care provider participation district a way to continue collecting hospital payments after its earli…
Official caption: Relating to the continuation and operation of a health care provider participation district created by certain local governments to administer a health care provider participation program.
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HB3510 designates the Brazos County portion of State Highway 6 between College Station's southern city limits and Navasota's northern city limits as …
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 6 in Brazos County as the Sergeant Mark Butler Memorial Highway.
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HB3512 adds certified artificial-intelligence training to the existing training framework for certain state and local government personnel.
Official caption: Relating to artificial intelligence training programs for certain employees and officials of state agencies and local governments.
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HB3513 changes who serves on the Moore County Juvenile Board and which statewide duties and staffing rules apply to it.
Official caption: Relating to the composition, duties, and personnel of the Moore County Juvenile Board.
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HB3516 extends an existing Public Information Act exception to administrative law judges and technical examiners at the Railroad Commission of Texas.
Official caption: Relating to the availability of certain working papers and electronic communications of certain administrative law judges and technical examiners under the public information law.
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HB3526 requires the Texas Bond Review Board to maintain a public, searchable online database of proposed and issued local-government bonds.
Official caption: Relating to fiscal transparency for bonds issued by local governmental entities.
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HB3546 gives independent school districts statewide the option to move their general elections for officers from another date to the November uniform…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of an independent school district to change the date of the general election for officers.
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HB3556 requires advance Texas Parks and Wildlife Department review of structures taller than 575 feet in a limited group of counties.
Official caption: Relating to the construction of structures exceeding a certain height in certain counties containing national wildlife refuges and in adjacent counties.
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HB3560 brings facilities licensed under Health and Safety Code Chapter 577, including private mental hospitals and other covered mental health facili…
Official caption: Relating to the licensing of mental hospitals and mental health facilities and the definition of facility for the purposes of the employee misconduct registry.
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HB3575 directs candidates for elected appraisal-district board positions to file their campaign treasurer appointments with the county clerk or, in a…
Official caption: Relating to the filing of a campaign treasurer appointment and an application for a place on the ballot by a candidate for the board of directors of an appraisal district.
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HB3594 updates the retiree health-care trust for San Antonio firefighters and police officers, rather than creating a statewide retirement benefit.
Official caption: Relating to the administration of a retirement health care plan for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.
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HB3595 requires assisted living facilities to adopt and implement an emergency preparedness and contingency plan by January 1, 2026.
Official caption: Relating to an emergency preparedness and contingency operations plan, including temperature regulation, for assisted living facility residents during an emergency; providing penalties.
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HB3597 extends an existing public-hearing and newspaper-notice requirement to certain residential child-care facilities in counties with fewer than 5…
Official caption: Relating to public hearing requirements for issuing a license for or expanding certain residential child-care facilities.
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HB3611 changes the civil penalties for unauthorized signs in a public road's right-of-way.
Official caption: Relating to the civil penalty for certain signs placed on the right-of-way of a public road.
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When the Railroad Commission plugs or replugs a well under Natural Resources Code 89.043, HB3619 requires it to restore the land's contours to the to…
Official caption: Relating to the rights and liabilities of the owner of the surface estate of the tract of land on which a well to be plugged or replugged by the Railroad Commission of Texas is located.
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HB3623 removes telegraph from the authorized ways the comptroller and state agencies solicit bids under the state's open-market purchasing procedures.
Official caption: Relating to the manner of solicitation of bids for certain purchases by the comptroller of public accounts and state agencies.
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HB3627 allows the State Board of Education chair to hire personnel to help all board members perform the board's duties.
Official caption: Relating to allowing the chair of the State Board of Education to employ personnel to assist in performing the board's duties.
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HB3629 makes a person ineligible to serve as an independent school district trustee while required to register as a sex offender under Texas Code of …
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting a person required to register as a sex offender from serving as a member of the board of trustees of an independent school district.
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HB3642 makes three memorial highway designations, updates motorcycle-collision memorial signs, and directs signs to two North Texas cultural district…
Official caption: Relating to the designation of portions of the state highway system as memorial highways, to certain memorial markers on certain highways, and to the installation of highway signs for certain cultural attractions.
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HB3680 creates a separate subdivision-platting framework for a county bordering both Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico—Cameron County.
Official caption: Relating to subdivision plat requirements in certain counties; authorizing a fee; authorizing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3686 requires certain retired officers' identification cards to show the position or rank they held when they retired.
Official caption: Relating to the information included on an identification card issued to certain retired peace and law enforcement officers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3687 sets certification requirements for county fire marshals in counties with at least 100,000 people and emergency-services-district fire marshal…
Official caption: Relating to certification requirements for a fire marshal and any related employee, officer, inspector, and investigator appointed by certain counties and emergency services districts.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3689 changes how the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) finances major storm losses, using state financing repaid through potentially sta…
Official caption: Relating to funding of excess losses and operating expenses of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; authorizing an assessment; authorizing a surcharge.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3697 requires the officially prescribed application for a ballot by mail to use at least 10-point type and black printed text.
Official caption: Relating to the text on an application for a ballot to be voted by mail.
